Hargreaves lab



Anna Hargreaves
(she/her but they is fine too)

Current students
all McGill student email addresses have the form firstname.lastname@mail.mcgill.ca


Olivia Rahn
MSc.
Does habitat availability decline toward species range edges?
(she/they - either is fine)

Kristin Olson
PhD.
Understanding white trillium's current range and predicting it's future under climate warming
(she/her)

Simon Petley
MSc.
The role of soil in limiting the northern distribution of an at-risk legume

James Connolly
MSc.
How often and far to plants disperse seeds beyond their current range?

Sophie Krouse
BSc Honours thesis.
Does predation become more specialized at lower latitudes?
(she/ her or they - either is fine)

Leia Swayze
BSc Honours thesis.
Erasing female leads: how accurately do kids movies portray female power in animal societies?
Lab alumni (sniff. we miss you!)
thesis/project title and where they went next...

Rajapandian Kanagaraj Post doc.
Where will cold-adapted arctic birds breed in a warmer future?
now postdoc in Germany

Jory Griffith MSc 2023.
Urbanization flattens latitudinal diversity gradients in birds
now data analyst at GEO Bon Canada

Nora Bartram-Forbes BSc honours thesis 2024.
Community indicators of white trillium population health

Shannon Meadley Dunphy. PhD.
Neighbour shifts from hosts to competitors across the ranges of hemi-parasitic plants
working for the Nature Conservancy, Manitoba

Maggie Blondeau MSc. 2023
Reproduction and biotic interactions toward the northern range edge of an at-risk lupine
(thesis)

Antonio Rodriguez-Campbell MSc. 2023
What drives the intensity of species interactions? A distributed experiment from the Arctic to Patagonia
(he/him). (thesis, paper on why clay models are not great for biogeographic studies)
working as biological consultant, Montreal

Ella Martin MSc. 2022
Testing biogeographic theories with syntheses of plant traits
pursuing PhD at University of Toronto

Marie Hardouin. BSc Honours thesis 2021.
Identifying hotspots of Canada's at-risk flora and fauna
working at Ecomuseum Zoo on west island

Vida Javidi BSc Honours thesis 2021.
Experimental manipulations of seed defenses
(thesis)
research technician at Mass Eye and Ear clinic

Cole Larsen MSc. 2020.
Use and production of miniature landscapes to study species distributions
science teacher in California

Josh Persi MSc. 2020.
Elevational patterns in seed fates: experimental tests in the Rocky Mountains
(thesis)
working at Canadian Food Inspection Agency

Emma Dawson-Glass. BSc Honours thesis 2020.
Does pollen limitation increase toward plant species range edges? (published paper)
research technician at Holden arboretum, now pursuing PhD at U Michigan

Alexandra Paquette.BSc Honours thesis 2020.
Review: what determines species' high elevation and latitude range limits?
doing a PhD in Biology at McGill

Clara Kitt (they/them). BSc 2020.
Chemical seed defenses to deter ant predation: a lab experiment. (thesis)
lab manager at Center for Global Infectious Disease Research, Seattle Children's Hospital

Pascale Caissy. BSc Honours thesis 2019.
Range position vs conservation status & protection of Canadian plants at risk. (published paper)
did MSc at Laval, now working at Department of Fisheries and Oceans

Victor Cameron. BSc Honours thesis 2019.
Range position vs conservation risk of Canadian mammals. (published paper)
did MSc at U Sherbrooke, data analyst at Biodiversité Quebec

Mikayla Salmon-Beitel. BSc Independent Study 2018.
Small mammal abundance vs. seed predation along elevation gradients in Alberta
doing Masters of Social Work at Universite de Montreal

Noemie Sheppard. BSc Independent Study 2018.
Elevational changes in seed predators, Alaska to Ecuador..
went on to MSc at Redpath Museum, McGill

Sandra Klemet-N'Guessan. BSc Independent Study 2017.
Dispersal evolution during bacterial range expansion.
finished PhD in Biology at Trent University, now working as NSERC post-doc