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Robert McLaughlin

Robert McLaughlin

Professor Emeritus

College of Biological Science, Department of Integrative Biology

rlmclaug@uoguelph.ca

Research Areas

  • Ecology

Select Publications

Addressing Fish Behaviour and Sea Lamprey Control

  • Vélez-Espino, L. A., R. L. McLaughlin, and T. C. Pratt. 2008. Management inferences from a demographic analysis of sea lamprey (Petromyzon marinus) in the Laurentian Great Lakes. Canadian Journal of Fisheries and Aquatic Sciences 65:227-244.
  • McLaughlin, R. L, A. Hallett, T. C. Pratt, L. M. O’Connor, and D. G. McDonald. 2007. Research to guide use of barriers, traps, and fishways to control sea lamprey. Journal of Great Lakes Research 33(Special Issue 2):7-19.

Addressing Individual Behaviour and Resource Polymorphism

  • Wilson, A and R. L. McLaughlin. 2007. Behavioural syndromes in brook charr, Salvelinus fontinalis: prey search in the field corresponds with space use in novel laboratory situations. Animal Behavior 74:689-698.
  • DeKerckhove, D., R. L. McLaughlin, and D. L. G. Noakes. 2006. Ecological mechanisms favouring behavioural diversification in the absence of morphological diversification: a theoretical examination using brook charr (Salvelinus fontinalis). Journal of Animal Ecology 75:506-517.
  • Imre, I., R. L. McLaughlin, and D. L. G. Noakes. 2002. Phenotypic plasticity in brook charr: changes in caudal fin induced by water flow. Journal of Fish Biology 61:1171-1181.

Addressing Conservation of Fishes In Agricultural Systems

  • Stammler, K., R. L. McLaughlin, N. E. Mandrak. 2008. Streams modified for drainage provide fish habitat in agricultural areas. Canadian Journal of Fisheries and Aquatic Sciences 65:509-522.
  • Poos, M., N. B. Mandrak, and R. L. McLaughlin. 2007. The effectiveness of two common sampling methods for assessing imperilled freshwater fishes. Journal of Fish Biology 70:691-708.

Addressing Unsteady Locomotion

  • Kramer, D. L. and R. L. McLaughlin. 2001. The behavioural ecology of intermittent locomotion. American Zoologist 41:137-153.
  • McLaughlin, R. L. and J. W. A. Grant. 2001. A field test of perceptual and energetic bases for intermittent locomotion in young brook charr. Behaviour 138:559-574.
  • McLaughlin, R. L. and D. L. G. Noakes. 1998. Going against the flow: an examination of the propulsive movements made by young brook trout in streams. Canadian Journal of Fisheries and Aquatic Sciences 55:853-860.

Other Links

  • Great Lakes Fishery Commission
  • Canadian Conference for Fisheries Research
  • American Fisheries Society
  • Animal Behavior Society
  • International Society of Behavioural Ecology