Dylan Fraser, PhD
- Professor, Biology
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Sign in to editResearch areas: Evolutionary applications to conservation biology; climate change adaptation; fisheries and wildlife management; population, conservation and quantitative genetics; fish ecology; interweaving Indigenous knowledge and western science.
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Biography
Education
PhD, NSERC Scholar (Université Laval) (2000-2005)
Postdoc, NSERC Scholar (Dalhousie University) (2005-2009)
Research interests
Our lab integrates ‘eco-evo-gen’ (ecology, evolution and genetics/genomics) towards more effective conservation and management of natural populations, species and ecosystems, with an emphasis on fishes. By bridging these disciplines, we investigate how eco-evo-gen mediates population diversification, productivity, persistence and responses to environmental change, including climate change, fishing and habitat fragmentation.
One of our field research sites, Mistassini Lake, Eeyou Istchee, Quebec
Teaching activities
Courses
BIOL 330 Vertebrate Biology
BIOL 457 Conservation Biology
BIOL 670 Scientific Communication
Selected publications
Full list of publications: www.dylanfraser.com/publications/
*Recent publications; supervised students or postdocs are underlined
Gibelli J (Postdoc), S Michailides (Postdoc), H-B Jeon (Postdoc), H Won (Postdoc), P Giroux, Q Gray, C Bampylde, B McLean, DJ Fraser(2026) Intraspecific complexity in mercury contamination of two harvested fishes revealed by genetics: food security and conservation implications. Science of the Total Environment, accepted.
Grimm J, BE Soares, LV Zanjani, RS Andrade, C Artuso, M Ballard, S Chiblow, A Duncan, E Bowles, DJ Fraser, NE Mandrak, TA Bernos (Postdoc) (2026) Species at risk assessments need greater inclusion of Indigenous knowledge and sciences to fulfill the intent of endangered species laws. Conservation Biology,accepted.
GibelliJ (MSc), S Michaelides (Postdoc), H Won (Postdoc), H-B Jeon (Postdoc), DJ Fraser (2025) Genomics-enabled mixed-stock analysis undercovers intraspecific migratory complexity and detects unsampled populations in a harvested fish. Molecular Ecology, 34: e17707.
Jeon, H-B (Postdoc), MC Yates (Postdoc), B Gallagher (PhD), DJ Fraser (2024)Life’s a ditch: demographic history and environmental factors shape fine-scalelocal adaptation within small populations of brook trout. Canadian Journal of Fisheries and Aquatic Sciences, 82: 1-13.
Clarke S (MSc), J-M Matte (PhD), B Gallagher (PhD),S Michaelides (Postdoc), E Lawrence (PhD), R Koumrouyan (BSc), S Salisbury, JWA Grant, DE Ruzzante, DJ Fraser (2024) Global assessment of effective population sizes across taxa reveals major challenges in meeting50/500 criteria. Molecular Ecology, 33: e17353.
Gallagher B (PhD), DJ Fraser (2024) Microgeographic variation in demography and thermal regimes stabilize regional abundance of a widespread freshwater fish. Ecological Applications 34: e2936.
Matte JM (Postdoc), D Glaser (MSc), JR Post, DJ Fraser (2023) Contrasting demographic responses to experimental size-selective harvesting in neighboring populations of a wild fish. Journal of Applied Ecology 60:1302-1313.
Barker M, DJ Fraser (2023) Misrelating values and empirical matters in conservation: a problem and solutions. Biological Conservation, 281: 109966.
Gallagher B (PhD), S Geargeoura (BSc) DJ Fraser (2022) Effects of climate on salmonid productivity: a global meta-analysis of freshwater ecosystems. Global Change Biology 28: 7250-7269.