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Murray M. Humphries

Murray M. Humphries

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Ecology and Evolution

D-Index
55
Citations
12258
World Ranking
2962
National Ranking
202

Overview

Murray M. Humphries is affiliated with McGill University in Canada and has a primary research focus within Environmental Science.

Their work spans several subfields, including ecology, evolutionary behavior and systematics, general health professions, oceanography, and global and planetary change. Their research covers a range of topics, particularly in wildlife ecology and conservation, Indigenous studies and ecology, species distribution and climate change, bat biology and ecology studies, animal ecology and behavior studies, marine animal studies, and marine and coastal plant biology.

Humphries has frequently published in the following venues:

  • Ecology and Society
  • Mountain Research and Development
  • Arctic Science
  • Ecology
  • ARCTIC

Some of their recent papers include:

  • Climate change increases predation risk for a keystone species of the boreal forest (2020, Nature Climate Change)
  • Nine Maxims for the Ecology of Cold-Climate Winters (2021, BioScience)
  • The Purr-fect Catch: Using accelerometers and audio recorders to document kill rates and hunting behaviour of a small prey specialist (2021, Methods in Ecology and Evolution)
  • Decoupling the effects of food and density on life-history plasticity of wild animals using field experiments: Insights from the steward who sits in the shadow of its tail, the North American red squirrel (2020, Journal of Animal Ecology)
  • Interweaving local, expert, and Indigenous knowledge into quantitative wildlife analyses: A systematic review (2022, Biological Conservation)

Humphries has collaborated frequently with several co-authors:

  • Allyson K. Menzies
  • Emily K. Studd
  • Stan Boutin
  • Mélanie-Louise Leblanc
  • Michael J. L. Peers

The scientist has contributed to book publications, including works published by the University of Calgary Press. Titles include "Canadian Mountain Assessment" released in 2023.

Best Publications

  • Personality and the emergence of the pace-of-life syndrome concept at the population level

    Denis Réale;Dany Garant;Murray M. Humphries;Patrick Bergeron

  • Energy metabolism and animal personality

    V. Careau;D. Thomas;M. M. Humphries;D. Réale

  • The Role of Energy Availability in Mammalian Hibernation: A Cost‐Benefit Approach

    Murray M. Humphries;Donald W. Thomas;Donald L. Kramer

  • Climate-mediated energetic constraints on the distribution of hibernating mammals

    Murray M. Humphries;Murray M. Humphries;Donald W. Thomas;John R. Speakman;John R. Speakman

  • Seasonal, spatial, and maternal effects on gut microbiome in wild red squirrels.

    Tiantian Ren;Stan Boutin;Murray M. Humphries;Ben Dantzer

  • Density triggers maternal hormones that increase adaptive offspring growth in a wild mammal.

    Ben Dantzer;Amy E. M. Newman;Rudy Boonstra;Rupert Palme

  • Anticipatory reproduction and population growth in seed predators

    Stan Boutin;Lucas A. Wauters;Andrew G. McAdam;Murray M. Humphries

  • Food Web Structure in Temporally-Forced Ecosystems

    Bailey C. McMeans;Kevin S. McCann;Murray Humphries;Neil Rooney

  • Exploration strategies map along fast–slow metabolic and life-history continua in muroid rodents

    V. Careau;O. R. P. Bininda-Emonds;D. W. Thomas;D. Réale

  • Geographic disparities and moral hazards in the predicted impacts of climate change on human populations

    J. Samson;D. Berteaux;B. J. McGill;M. M. Humphries

  • The pace of life under artificial selection: personality, energy expenditure, and longevity are correlated in domestic dogs.

    Vincent Careau;Denis Réale;Murray M. Humphries;Donald W. Thomas

  • Bioenergetic prediction of climate change impacts on northern mammals.

    Murray M. Humphries;James Umbanhowar;Kevin S. McCann

  • Life histories of female red squirrels and their contributions to population growth and lifetime fitness

    Andrew G. McADAM;Stan Boutin;Ainsley K. Sykes;Murray M. Humphries

  • Understanding Evolutionary Impacts of Seasonality: An Introduction to the Symposium.

    Caroline M Williams;Gregory J Ragland;Gustavo Betini;Lauren B Buckley

  • The role of energy availability in Mammalian hibernation: an experimental test in free-ranging eastern chipmunks.

    Murray M. Humphries;Donald L. Kramer;Donald W. Thomas

  • The functional response of a hoarding seed predator to mast seeding

    Quinn E. Fletcher;Stan Boutin;Jeffrey E. Lane;Jalene M. LaMontagne

  • Fecal cortisol metabolite levels in free-ranging North American red squirrels: Assay validation and the effects of reproductive condition

    Ben Dantzer;Andrew G. McAdam;Andrew G. McAdam;Rupert Palme;Quinn E. Fletcher

  • THE DETERMINANTS OF OPTIMAL LITTER SIZE IN FREE-RANGING RED SQUIRRELS

    Murray M. Humphries;Stan Boutin

  • Torpor patterns of hibernating eastern chipmunks Tamias striatus vary in response to the size and fatty acid composition of food hoards

    Daniel Munro;Donald W. Thomas;Murray M. Humphries

  • Associations between over-winter survival and resting metabolic rate in juvenile North American red squirrels

    Meghan L. Larivee;Stan Boutin;John Roger Speakman;Andrew G. McAdam

Frequent Co-Authors

Stan Boutin
Stan Boutin University of Alberta
Andrew G. McAdam
Andrew G. McAdam University of Colorado Boulder
John R. Speakman
John R. Speakman University of Aberdeen
Denis Réale
Denis Réale University of Quebec at Montreal
David W. Coltman
David W. Coltman University of Western Ontario
Dany Garant
Dany Garant Université de Sherbrooke
Donald W. Thomas
Donald W. Thomas Université de Sherbrooke
Dominique Berteaux
Dominique Berteaux Université du Québec à Rimouski
Rudy Boonstra
Rudy Boonstra University of Toronto
Kevin S. McCann
Kevin S. McCann University of Guelph

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