Laird, Robert - University of Lethbridge - Department of Biological Sciences

个人简介

Rob did his BSc and MSc at Queen's University, his PhD at the University of Calgary, and an NSERC PDF at Carleton University. Rob has been a faculty member at the University of Lethbridge since 2009.

研究领域

Ecology and evolution - Plant-insect interactions - Evolution of senescence - Evolution of cooperation - Non-transitive competition and species coexistence - Ecological modeling

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Wilches DM*, Laird RA, Floate KD, Fields PG (2016) A review of diapause and tolerance to extreme temperatures to dermestids (Coleoptera). Journal of Stored Products Research 68, 50-62. Barks PM*, Laird RA (2016) A multigenerational effect of parental age on offspring size but not fitness in common duckweed (Lemna minor). Journal of Evolutionary Biology 29, 748-756. [pdf] Hervet VAD*, Laird RA, Floate KD (2016) A review of the McMorran diet for rearing Lepidoptera species with addition of a further 39 species. Journal of Insect Science 16, 1-7. [pdf] [Commentary in EntomologyToday] Hargreaves AL, Bailey SF, Laird RA (2015) Local adaptation and poor-quality edge habitat affect dispersal evolution during range shifts induced by climate change. Journal of Evolutionary Biology 28, 1489-1501. [pdf] Barks PM*, Laird RA (2015) Senescence in duckweed: Age-related declines in survival, reproduction, and offspring quality. Functional Ecology 29, 540-548. [pdf] Laird RA, Schamp BS (2015) Competitive intransitivity, population interaction structure, and strategy coexistence. Journal of Theoretical Biology 365, 149-158. [pdf] Laird RA (2014) Population interaction structure and the coexistence of bacterial strains playing 'rock-paper-scissors'. Oikos 123, 472-480. [pdf] Hervet VA*, Murillo H, Fernández-Triana JL, Shaw MR, Laird RA, Floate KD (2014) First report of Cotesia vanessae (Hymenoptera: Braconidae) in North America. Canadian Entomologist 146, 560-566. [pdf] Laird RA (2013) Static cooperator-defector patterns in models of the snowdrift game played on cycle graphs. Physical Review E 88, 012105. [pdf] Laird RA, Goyal D*, Yazdani S (2013) Geometry of 'standoffs' in lattice models of the spatial Prisoner's Dilemma and Snowdrift games. Physica A 392, 3622-3633. [pdf] Laird RA (2012) Evolutionary strategy dynamics for tag-based cooperation and defection in the spatial and aspatial Snowdrift game. International Journal of Bifurcation and Chaos 22, 1230039. [pdf] Kwok KE*, Laird RA (2012) Plant age and the inducibility of extrafloral nectaries in Vicia faba. Plant Ecology 213, 1823-1832. [pdf] Laird RA (2011) Green beard effect predicts the evolution of traitorousness in the two-tag Prisoner's Dilemma. Journal of Theoretical Biology 288, 84-91. [pdf] Sherratt TN, Hassall C, Laird RA, Thompson DL, Cordero-Rivera A (2011) A comparative analysis of senescence in adult damselflies and dragonflies (Odonata). Journal of Evolutionary Biology 24, 810-822. [pdf] Sherratt TN, Laird RA, Hassall C, Lowe CD, Harvey IF, Watts PC, Cordero-Rivera A, Thompson DL (2010) Empirical evidence of senescence in adult damselflies (Odonata: Zygoptera). Journal of Animal Ecology 79, 1034-1044. [pdf] Laird RA, Sherratt TN (2010) The evolution of senescence in multi-component systems. BioSystems 99, 130-139. [pdf] Laird RA, Sherratt TN (2010) The economics of evolution: Henry Ford and the Model T. Oikos 119, 3-9. [pdf] [A Faculty of 1000 "Recommended Paper"] [Commentary in The Evolution & Medicine Review] Laird RA, Sherratt TN (2009) The evolution of senescence through decelerating selection for system reliability. Journal of Evolutionary Biology 22, 974-982. [pdf] Laird RA, Schamp BS (2009) Species coexistence, intransitivity, and topological variation in competitive tournaments. Journal of Theoretical Biology 256, 90-95. [pdf] Laird RA, Addicott JF (2009) Testing for mycorrhizal fungi-plant-ant indirect effects. Journal of Plant Interactions 4, 7-14. [pdf]