About this opportunity

The Kluane Red Squirrel Project is an interdisciplinary, large-scale field study designed to test the importance of food abundance to the ecology and evolution of red squirrels. Individual squirrels are tagged as pups and monitored for the duration of their lives. For over 30 years we have measured life-history traits and lifetime fitness of these individually marked squirrels. This project takes place in the remote Yukon, where this population of squirrels primarily depend on white spruce trees for food. Our work also involves quantifying the variability in the production of white spruce cones, and measuring resources available to the squirrels.Research Goal: We aim to understand how individual differences in resources affect life history trade-offs and their evolution in a natural popula