Research Laboratories
UQAT
Boreal forest communities; forest management; biodiversity
University of Ottawa
Evolutionary ecology; habitat selection; sexual dimorphism; conservation
Energy budget, ecophysiology, performance, animal personnality, quantitative genetics, metabolic cost
Julien Martin
Quantitative genetic; Evolution in natural environment; Life-history strategies
Concordia University
Chemical ecology; antipredator behaviour; fish
Plant-insect interactions; foraging behaviour
Aggression; behaviour; fish
Aquatic ecology; quantitative ecology; modeling; landscape ecology
Behavioural ecology, population ecology, biodiversity conservation, welfare of wild animals in captivity
University of Montréal
Host behaviour manipulation; host-parasite relationships; biological control
Behavioural ecology; frequency-dependant selection; interindividual differences
Ecology of zoonotic diseases
McGill University
Ecological evolutionary developmental biology, ant societies
Arctic ecology; ecophysiology; energy and animal movement
Ecophysiology and energetics; mammals
Animal cognition; cognitive evolution; social learning; phenotypic plasticity
Colin Chapman
Primate behaviour and ecology; parasites; long-term field data; demography; conservation
Behavioural ecology, neuroecology, ecotoxicology
Learning; innovation; cultural transmission; birds
Jon Sakata
Neural mechanisms; song learning; social behaviour; social learning; neurophysiology
Ecophysiology; evolutionary ecology; aquatic conservation; freshwater ecology
Ecological speciation; natural selection; adaptation; eco-evolutionary dynamics; mate choice
Small mammals; climate change; habitat fragmentation; Lyme disease; genetic structure
Animal welfare; dairy cattle; environment and society
Animal cognition; vocal communication; song perception; song production
UQAM
Forest ecosystems
Eric Lucas
Intraguild predation; furtive predation; ecological interactions; biological control; entomology
Ecology and management of bird populations; snow geese; Canada geese
Ecology and evolution of biological interactions, aggressiveness, mating behaviour, anti-predator behaviour
Clint Kelly
Sperm competition; mating behaviour; ecological immunology; mate choice; sexual selection
Behavioural and evolutionary ecology; personality; quantitative genetics; natural selection
UQTR
Structure and dynamics of aquatic communities; behavioural ecology; habitat selection and movement; quantitative ecology
Aquatic ecosystems; behaviour and ecology of fish; population dynamics; habitat selection; trophic polymorphism
University of Sherbrooke
Landscape ecology, birds
Ecology and management of large herbivores
Molecular and evolutionary ecology of animal populations; birds; mammals; salmonids
Fanie Pelletier
Vertebrates; behavioural ecology; evolutionary demography and conservation
Agriculture and Agri-Food Canada
Animal welfare; housing and management effects; sows; piglets; human-animal relationship; social behaviour; maternal behaviour
Laval University
Molecular and hormonal causes of variation in behaviour in vertebrates; personality; stress response; ecological genomics
Animal welfare; emotions and motivation; animals in captivity; effects of play on development; environmental enrichment
Ecology; physiology and behaviour of marine mammals; life-history strategies; evolutionary ecology and conservation biology
Behavioural ecology; foraging ecology; trophic interactions; wildlife conservation and management; caribou; bison; wolf
Behavioural ecology of large ungulates
Bioenergetics; predator prey interactions; reproductive strategies
Conservation biology, animal ecology, estimation of demographic parameters, herpetology, statistical modelling
Animal ecology; plant-herbivore interactions; wildlife-forest interactions; wildlife management and conservation
Sandra Hamel
Quantification of ecological processes; biodemographic components; population dynamics; management and conservation
UQAC
Predator-prey interactions; Black-backed woodpeckers
UQAR
Arctic tundra ecology; northern biodiversity; climate change; local knowledge; vertebrates; conservation
Joel Bety
Arctic tundra ecology; migration and reproduction of birds
Ecophysiology; avian energetics; winter ecology; reproduction; migration; adaptations to cold; energetic constraints
Wildlife-habitat interactions; spatial ecology; large mammal ecology; cumulative effect of human disturbance
University of Moncton
Animal welfare in laboratory rodents; timing of fish behaviour; response of marine invertebrates to environmental contaminants
Polar and boreal ecology, climate change, ecosystem management, migration
Mount Allison University
Habitat fragmentation; forest songbirds; staging ecology of shorebirds