[All-postdocs] Biology Seminar this week: Joanie Van De Walle, WHOI Postdoc

[Margot McKlveen]

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*Biology Department Virtual Seminar*

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Thursday, July 22 at Noon

Zoom link: https://whoi-edu.zoom.us/j/98054967456 
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Dr. Joanie Van De Walle

Postdoctoral Fellow, WHOI


Maternal care in the Scandinavian brown bear (Ursus arctos) in a context 
of high hunting pressure

Abstract: Despite the benefits it offers to offspring, parental care is 
costly in terms of time and energy for the parents. In nature, the 
duration of maternal care often shows great variation between and within 
species, which suggests it can be adjusted in response to intrinsic or 
extrinsic factors. Since the duration of maternal care can influence 
reproductive rates at the individual and population levels, identifying 
the causes and the demographic consequences of variation in this life 
history trait is important to predict the responses of wild populations 
to potential changes in this trait. Here, I will present results from my 
doctoral project in which I investigated the compromises in resources 
allocation to reproduction, identified the determinants of the duration 
of maternal care and measured the consequences of variation in this 
trait at the individual and population levels in the Scandinavian brown 
bear (Usus arctos). Since this population lives in a human-dominated 
landscape and under high hunting pressure, it offered a very good 
opportunity to study how the natural balance between the costs and 
benefits associated with maternal care is affected by human activities.


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