Jason Peterson (PhD Candidate)
Contact Info
Email: jhpeters@sfu.ca
Phone: +1.778.782.4512
Fax: +1.778.782.3496
Location: B 7250 (currently off-campus)
Current Research
I am currently in the final semester of my PhD studying Behavioural Ecology in Bernard Roitberg's Lab at Simon Fraser University. I am researching resource and sex allocation decisions in a solitary leafcutter bee, Megachile rotundata. My focus is on how numerous ecological conditions impact sex allocation decisions and more specifically how responsive these decisions are to changes in conditions. This work is being done in the field in Southern Alberta and also through the development of a Dynamic State Variable Model. I am also addressing questions of how nest defence and bee flight distance impact allocation decisions.
If you have any questions or want to talk leafcutter bees feel free to email me at jhpeters@sfu.ca
Curriculum Vitae
Available as PDF here.
Publications
- Peterson JH and BD Roitberg. 2010. Variation in Maternal Nest Defense Related to Nest State. Behav. Ecol. Submitted.
- Peterson JH and BD Roitberg. 2010. Egg maturation, nest state, and sex ratios: a dynamic state variable model. Evol. Ecol. Res. 12:347-361.
- Peterson JH, BD Roitberg and RC Ydenberg. 2007. When nesting involves two sequential, mutually exclusive activities: what’s a mother to do? Evol. Ecol. Res. 9:1187-1197.
- Peterson JH and BD Roitberg. 2006. Impact of resource levels on sex ratio and resource allocation in the solitary bee, Megachile rotundata. Environ. Entomol. 35:1404-1410.
- Peterson JH and BD Roitberg. 2006. Impacts of flight distance on sex ratio and resource allocation to offspring in the leafcutter bee, Megachile rotundata. Behav. Ecol. Sociobiol. 59:589-596.
- Roitberg BD, DR Gillespie, DMJ Quiring, CR Alma, WH Jenner, J Perry, JH Peterson, M Salomon and S VanLaerhoven. 2005. The cost of being an omnivore: mandible wear from plant feeding in a true bug. Naturwissenschaften 92:431-434.