Research Interests

My research interests center on two areas; marine invertebrates and marine benthic ecology. I am particularly interested in the interactions between an organism and its environment and much of my doctoral research has focused on the role that behaviour plays in modifying these interactions. My doctoral thesis uses the green sea urchin (Strongylocentrotus droebachiensis), an abundant and influential marine invertebrate in the Saint Lawrence, as a model system to address how changes in individual movement behaviour (due to environmental influences such as the movement of water, the composition of the bottom, and the presence of food) translate into alterations of population-level parameters such as the speed of migration into an area. My three areas of expertise are:

  • Marine ecology
  • Marine invertebrates
  • Interactions between behaviour and environment
Kathleen MacGregor

Département de biologie
Pavillon Alexandre-Vachon, local 2060A
Université Laval 1045, av. de la Médecine
Québec (PQ) G1V 0A6
kathleen.macgregor.1@gmail.ca