Dr. Shannon Mccauley

Associate Professor

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Biography

Shannon McCauley is an Associate Professor in the Department of Ecology and Evolutionary Biology at the University of Toronto. She holds a Bachelor's degree from Bowdoin College, a Master's from the University of Florida, and a Ph.D. from the University of Michigan. Her research focuses on freshwater ecology, particularly the processes at various spatial scales that affect community structure and species distributions. At the local scale, she is particularly interested in predator-prey interactions and how these interactions shape community structure. Regionally, her work investigates the role of dispersal in shaping communities and species distributions. McCauley's recent research examines how these processes interact across scales, employing a broad set of approaches including extensive surveys of aquatic communities and a range of experiments from mesocosm-level to landscape-level manipulations.

Research Interests

Requirements for University of Toronto

Master Program
Requirements
GPA Requirement
Required:3.3
IELTS
Listening
Required:6.5
Reading
Required:6.5
Writing
Required:6.5
Speaking
Required:6.5
Overall
Required:7
TOEFL
Listening
Required:22
Reading
Required:22
Writing
Required:22
Speaking
Required:22
Total
Required:93
Prerequisites
Appropriate four-year bachelor's degree Background in sociological theory and statistics preferred
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Specialization Notes

Department of Sociology