Publications by authors named "Jerome Lemaitre"
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- Large soaring birds, like golden eagles, utilize different types of updrafts to aid their flight, with a focus on understanding their decision-making during migration.
- A study of 32 migrating golden eagles in eastern North America revealed they used subsidized flight 87% of the time during their journey, predominately relying on thermal soaring and gliding.
- The eagles adapted their flight behavior based on local weather conditions, highlighting their ability to switch between different flying techniques for more efficient migration, particularly during varying times of the day and season.
Ecosystem-based forest management strives to develop silvicultural practices that best emulate natural disturbances such as wildfire to conserve biodiversity representative of natural forest ecosystems. Yet, current logging practices alter forest structure and reduce the proportion of old-growth forest and, consequently, can exert long-term effects on the dynamics of forest biota. The stand- and landscape-scale factors driving bird community dynamics in post-disturbance environment remain poorly understood.
View Article and Find Full Text PDFParasites can play an important role in the dynamics of host populations, but empirical evidence remains sparse. We investigated the role of bot fly (Cuterebra spp.) parasitism in red-backed voles (Myodes gapperi) by first assessing the impacts of the parasite on the probability of vole survival under stressful conditions as well as on the reproductive activity of females.
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