RESEARCH & FACULTY
Albrecht Schulte-Hostedde
Albrecht Schulte-Hostedde
Full ProfessorBiology
Sciences and Engineering
705.675.1151 ext. 2356
S-614
Sudbury Campus
I am a behavioural and evolutionary ecologist working at the interface of behaviour, evolution, ecological genetics, life-history and physiology. My students and I integrate intense field research on marked populations with molecular markers and other lab-oriented techniques to examine issues related to a) the fitness consequences of phenotypic and genotypic variation, and b) factors influencing patterns of gene flow across populations. Our group collaborates extensively with the Ontario Ministry of Natural Resources and the Toronto Zoo. Taxonomically, my focus is mammals, but my students and I have worked on a diverse array of taxa including fish, amphibians, squamates, turtles, birds and insects. As Canada Research Chair in Applied Evolutionary Ecology, my research also encompasses areas of conservation interest, including the effects of domesticated populations on closely-related wild species, the effects of urbanization on selection in natural populations, and the evolutionary ecology of captive zoo populations.I serve as the Director of the Wildlife Research Station in Algonquin Park, Associate Editor for the journal Behavioral Ecology and Sociobiology, and as the representative for the Canadian Society for Ecology and Evolution on the Canadian Council for Animal Care. Students that have graduated from our research group have gone on to graduate studies at other institutions (e.g. Univ Alberta, Dalhousie Univ, Univ Windsor, McMaster Univ) or work in the public (Ontario Ministry of Natural Resources, Parks Canada) and private sector (environmental consultants).
Contact me via e-mail - aschultehostedde@laurentian.ca
- BSc - University of Western Ontario
- MSc - University of Guelph
- PhD - University of Western Ontario
Major areas of research interest include causes and consequences of sexual selection, host-parasite interactions, and patterns of gene flow in heterogeneous environments. From an applied perspective, we are interested in the effects of domestic populations on wild relatives, the effects of anthropogenic environments on selection in wildlife, and the consequences of captivity on zoo populations.
- Canada Research Chair (Tier II) - Applied Evolutionary Ecology
- Early Researcher Award - Ontario
- Schulte-Hostedde, A.I., J. Bowman, and K.R. Middell. 2011. Allometry of the baculum and sexual size dimorphism in American martens and fishers (Mammalia: Mustelidae). Biological Journal of the Linnean Society. 104: 955-963.
- Gooderham, K.L, and A.I. Schulte-Hostedde. 2011. Macroparasitism influences reproductive success in red squirrels (Tamiasciurus hudsonicus). Behavioral Ecology. 22:1195-1200.
- Patterson, L.D., and A.I. Schulte-Hostedde. 2011. Behavioural correlates of parasitism and reproductive success in male eastern chipmunks (Tamias striatus). Animal Behaviour 81: 1129-1137.
- Laurence, S., D.W. Coltman, J.C. Gorrell, and A.I. Schulte-Hostedde. 2011. Genetic structure of muskrat (Ondatra zibethicus) and its concordance with taxonomy in North America. Journal of Heredity.102: 688-696.
- Kidd, A.G., J. Bowman, D. Lesbarrères, A.I. Schulte-Hostedde. 2009. Hybridization between escaped domestic and wild American mink (Neovison vison). Molecular Ecology. 18: 1175-1186
