David Bolduc; Dominique Fauteux; Pierre Legagneux - Résumé: L’écologie bénéficie énormément des développements technologiques et de leur accessibilité grandissante. Les caméras-trappes en sont un excellent exemple. Elles permettent de garder un œil ouvert sur les sujets d’études avec un effort et un dérangement minim...

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...

Melisande Chicoine; Pierre-Olivier Montiglio; Maikel Rosabal  - Résumé: Mining and motor vehicles traffic generated a large amount of trace metals in the atmosphere. These contaminants are hard to track in the trophic web, which make understanding their effects on animal communities hard to understand. Spider webs can be good indicators of aerosol trace metals percentage, which could make spiders a potentially good bioindicator for these contaminants...

Sarah Carpentier & Pierre-Olivier Montiglio - Abstract: Changing selective forces alter behavioral features like spiders' ability to build webs. We examine how diet-driven behavioral plasticity affects adaptive potential and how biotic and abiotic factors affect the direction and strength of selection on web...

Agnew, Stephanie; Blouin-Demers, Gabriel - Abstract: Understanding how anthropogenic land modification drives population changes is crucial to support conservation efforts. Animals interact with their environment through behaviour, therefore one way to uncover how populations manage changes in land use is to measure their behaviours. We recorded the antipredator behaviours of common garter s...

Hourcade Felipe; Turcotte M; Alfaro M; Vézina F; Clavijo-Baquet S - Abstract: Reproduction is considered one of the most energy demanding life history stages in birds, particularly during nestling provisioning in altricial species. At this stage birds are often working at their maximal sustainable rate to feed their offspring and are unable to further increase their parental effort. The heat...

Lefebvre, Louis; Sayol, Ferran; Ducatez, Simon; Sol, Daniel - Résumé: Le taux d'innovation alimentaire chez les oiseaux est associé à une augmentation des capacités cérébrales à plusieurs niveaux (taille du cerveau et du pallium associatif, nombre de neurones, récepteurs de neurotransmetteurs). Le taux d'innovation e...

Anand, Sachin; Le Pogam, Audrey; O'Connor, Ryan; Love, Oliver; Vézina, François - Abstract: The Arctic is warming nearly four times faster than the rest of the world, posing a serious threat for cold-adapted species living here. Species such as the snow buntings, a small Arctic breeding passerine, exhibit high cold endurance but poor tolerance to even moderately warm temperatures. Understand...

Campbell, Emily; Connolly, James; Brown, Grant - Abstract: In response to spatially and temporally variable predation pressure, prey species must make behavioural trade-offs between the predator avoidance and other fitness related activities such as foraging and courtship (Lima and Dill 1990; Brown et al. 2011). Publ...

De Bonville, Jérémy; Raby, Graham - Abstract: In freshwater ecosystems, increasingly frequent heatwaves threaten the physiological performance, behaviour, and survival of ectotherms such as fish. The ability of fish to acclimate to fluctuating temperatures and the metrics used to quantify it are central to predicting resilience and guiding conservation efforts. The critical thermal maximum (...