Christina Davy
Assistant Professor
| Degrees: | B.Sc. (Guelph), M.Sc. (Western), Ph.D. (Toronto, Royal Ontario Museum) |
| Email: | Christina.Davy@carleton.ca |
| Office: | CTTC4631 **Office Hours by appointment: please email me to arrange a convenient meeting time** |
| Website: | Visit my lab website |
Current Research
Habitat loss, climate change, and biodiversity declines represent some of the major challenges facing humanity today. Through our research, we seek to understand the factors that determine the extinction or persistence of threatened species at local and landscape scales, and the synergistic effects of environmental changes including habitat modification, invasive species, disease, and pollution. We are particularly interested in the increasing importance of wildlife pathogens in biodiversity conservation, and in developing the emerging study of aeroconservation.
Selected Publications
Korpach, A.M., C.J. Garroway, A.M. Mills, V. Von Zuben, C.M. Davy, and K.C. Fraser. (2022) Urbanization and artificial light at night reduce the functional connectivity of migratory aerial habitat. Ecography 2022: e05581.
Paterson, J.E., T. Pulfer, E. Horrigan, S. Sukumar, B. Vezina, R. Zimmerling, and C.M. Davy. (2021) Individual and synergistic effects of habitat loss and roads on reptile occupancy. Global Ecology and Conservation: e01865.
Hjort, A.,* L. Browning*, S.Y.J. Angoh, J.E. Paterson, and C.M. Davy. (2021) Night moves: Nocturnal movements of endangered spotted turtles and Blanding’s turtles. Journal of Zoology, 316: 40-48.
Davy, C.M., K.A. Squires, and J.R. Zimmerling. (2020) Estimation of spatio-temporal trends in bat abundance from mortality data collected at wind turbines. Conservation Biology, 35(1): 227–238.
Davy, C.M.*, M.E. Donaldson*, H. Bandouchova, A.M. Breit, N.A.S. Dorville, Y.A. Dzal, V. Kovacova, E.L. Kunkel, N. Martínková, K.J.O. Norquay, J.E. Paterson, J. Zukal, J. Pikula, C.K.R. Willis, and C.J. Kyle. (2020) Transcriptional host-pathogen responses of Pseudogymnoascus destructans and three species of bats during white-nose syndrome. Virulence, 11:1,781-794.