Sessions in which Alex Berger participates
Sunday 2 November, 2025
Berger, Alexandra; Reader, Simon M. - Abstract: Individual differences in exploratory tendencies influence how animals interact with their environment, affecting resource use. More exploratory individuals are often expected to encounter a greater variety of food sources, resulting in more diverse diets. Recent studies have shown a relationship between explorat...
Sessions in which Alex Berger attends
Friday 31 October, 2025
This plenary session will provide an overview of animal behavior research in Quebec from 1975 to the present day.We will begin with the three major traditions that have studied animal behavior: psychology, ecology, and zoology, to provide context for the Society's founding.We will then trace the legacy of these traditions and the evolution of the major topics that have occupied behavioral research in Quebec since the Society's founding to the present day.
Saturday 1 November, 2025
The first steps toward the creation of the SQEBC (Jean Ferron)Ethology began to be taught at the graduate level around 1970 at the UdeM. Then developed around Professor Georg Baron who supervised several graduate students in ethology from 1971. At the same time, an association between biology and psychology has begun around the study of animal behavior. Moreover, there was an effervescence of knowledge and publicatio...
Echoing the morning plenary sessions and as part of the SQÉBC's 50th anniversary celebrations, this round table offers a collective reflection on the evolution of behavioral studies in Quebec—from their origins to their futures. We will explore how society has helped to structure the scientific community around behavioral biology, through four main themes:Introduction to the study of behaviorHistory in Quebec and internationallyIssues and futures of the disciplin...
Blumberg Wyeth; Careau Vincent - Abstract: Home range is generally considered to be the area that an animal occupies regularly to fulfill its vital needs. It is therefore an important metric for understanding how organisms utilize space and the environment they live in. Although home range size is a relatively well-studied in spatial ecology, there are surprisingly few repeatability estimate...
Moderator: Lydia Yu
Lydia Yu; Michela Dumas; Julien Martin; Pierre Bize - Abstract: Nest defence behaviour is an aggressive response against predators or humans. It has been observed in many avian species that shows sex specific variation, changing through age and has potential effects on fitness. Using the long-term dataset of Alpine swifts with more than 20 years of behaviour measurements, I studied the following questions:1. within individual variation of nest defence ...
Agnani, Paul; Gilmour, Kathleen; Careau, Vincent* - Résume: Des études antérieures sur de petits rongeurs ont rapporté une corrélation négative contre-intuitive entre l'exploration et la performance locomotrice. Autrement dit, les individus plus exploratoires lors d'un test en environnement nouveau courent plus lentement sur une piste de course lors d'un test d'exercice forcé. Étant donné qu...
Raphaëlle Houtart; Patrick Bergeron; Denis Réale; Mathilde Tissier; Dany Garant - Résume: Les télomères sont des structures protectrices situées aux extrémités des chromosomes. Chez plusieurs vertébrés, la longueur des télomères raccourcie avec l’âge, ce qui serait généralement associé au processus de vieillissement et de sénescence cellulaire. Cependant, l’étude récente de la longueur des télomères chez un plus vaste éventail d’espèces a permis de constater ...
Moderator: Gabrielle Brochu
Nicolas Bonin; Vincent Careau - Abstract: Cognitive performances can influence how individuals react to their environment and consequently impact their fitness. As white-footed mice presumably need to thoroughly explore their environment for resources, we assumed that they can optimise their foraging efforts using sp...
Moderator: Luciano Camacho Calle
Affiches SQEBC 2025 - Samedi 1er novembre
Sunday 2 November, 2025
Laliberté, Jérôme; Leclerc, Martin; St-Laurent, Martin-Hugues - Résumé: Dans les paysages agroforestiers, l’alimentation opportuniste est une stratégie d’acquisition de nourriture qui peut engendrer des variations inter-individuelles marquées dans la composition du régime alimentaire, pouvant ultimement mener à des effets...
Krug-MacLeod, Alana; Hentati Sundberg, Jonas; Elliott, Kyle - Abstract: Seabirds are central place foragers during breeding season. Because they are observable on land, seabirds have been used to indicate distribution of marine prey. Forage species are key trophic links in wasp-waisted Arctic ecosystems, but are difficult...
Kack, Alexandra ; Bard, Brittany ; Gilmour, Kathleen M. ; Binning, Sandra A. - Résumé: Les animaux issus de populations naturelles sont souvent co‑infectés par plusieurs parasites. Bien que l’infection soit fréquemment associée à des modifications des réponses au stress et de l’état corporel de l’hôte, les interactio...
Gagnon, Thomas; Gazda, Malgorzata Anna; Binning, Sandra Ann - Abstract: Parasites are ubiquitous in natural systems yet remain understudied. Although parasitic infections have been linked to reduced reproductive success and altered reproductive behaviour, these relationships remain poorly understood. This stud...
Affiches SQEBC 2025 - Dimanche 2 novembre