Macroecological constraints on species''movement profiles': Body mass does not explain it all

S Straus, C Forbes, CJ Little… - Global Ecology and …, 2024 - Wiley Online Library
Aim Animals couple habitats by three types of movement: dispersal, migration, and foraging,
which dynamically link populations, communities, and ecosystems. Across these types …

Scientific contributions and lessons learned from 30 years of ecological monitoring of the Bylot Island tundra ecosystem

G Gauthier, D Berteaux, J Bêty, P Legagneux… - Frontiers in Ecology …, 2024 - frontiersin.org
The Arctic tundra has a relatively low biodiversity but species living there have unique
adaptations and are exposed to unprecedented rates of climate warming. Monitoring …

Foraging rates from metabarcoding: Predators have reduced functional responses in wild, diverse prey communities

SF Uiterwaal, JP DeLong - Ecology letters, 2024 - Wiley Online Library
Functional responses describe foraging rates across prey densities and underlie many
fundamental ecological processes. Most functional response knowledge comes from …

Long-term study of the tundra food web at a hotspot of Arctic biodiversity, the Bylot Island Field Station

G Gauthier, MC Cadieux, D Berteaux, J Bêty… - Arctic …, 2023 - cdnsciencepub.com
We present the history of research activities at the Bylot Island Field Station of the Centre
d'études nordiques, a hotspot of biodiversity in the Canadian Arctic. Intensive wildlife studies …

Predator home range size mediates indirect interactions between prey species in an arctic vertebrate community

F Dulude‐de Broin, J Clermont… - Journal of Animal …, 2023 - Wiley Online Library
Indirect interactions are widespread among prey species that share a common predator, but
the underlying mechanisms driving these interactions are often unclear, and our ability to …

Additional data confirms the impact of the COVID19 lockdown on the behavior and fattening of migratory snow geese

F LeTourneux, F Dulude-de Broin, T Grandmont… - Biological …, 2023 - Elsevier
The COVID19 lockdown provided a unique opportunity to study the impact of human
activities and conservation measures on wildlife. However, most lockdown studies were …

[HTML][HTML] Linking geomorphological processes and wildlife microhabitat selection: nesting birds select refuges generated by permafrost degradation in the Arctic

MZ Corbeil-Robitaille, É Duchesne, D Fortier… - …, 2024 - bg.copernicus.org
To gain better insight into the cascading impact of warming-induced changes in the physical
landscape on biodiversity, it is crucial to better understand links between abiotic and …

Integrating predator energetic balance, risk-taking behavior and microhabitat in functional response: Untangling indirect interactions in a multispecies vertebrate …

A Beardsell, F Dulude-de Broin, G Gauthier, D Gravel… - bioRxiv, 2024 - biorxiv.org
1. Predator-prey interactions are universal, governing the flow of energy between trophic
levels and shaping ecological communities. Despite> 70 years of research, our knowledge …

Home range size of freshwater fishes: a meta-analysis through a new lens

J Lemay - 2024 - spectrum.library.concordia.ca
Measuring the home range size of freshwater fishes provides crucial information on
community structure, population dynamics, and conservation management. Earlier studies …

Effets des mouvements, des comportements alimentaires et de la témérité d'un prédateur territorial sur une communauté de proies

J Clermont-Beaudoin - 2023 - semaphore.uqar.ca
La prédation joue un rôle central dans les processus écologiques. En plus d'affecter la
croissance des populations de proies par mortalité directe, les mouvements des prédateurs …