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Overview

Denis Réale is affiliated with the University of Quebec at Montreal in Canada. Their research primarily spans the fields of Environmental Science and Agricultural and Biological Sciences, with a focus on various subfields within ecology and behavior.

The main subfields of study associated with Réale include:

  • Ecology
  • Ecology, Evolution, Behavior and Systematics
  • Genetics
  • Nature and Landscape Conservation
  • Ecological Modeling

Réale's work covers several topics, prominently in the areas of animal and wildlife ecology and behavior:

  • Animal Behavior and Reproduction
  • Wildlife Ecology and Conservation
  • Plant and animal studies
  • Animal Ecology and Behavior Studies
  • Avian ecology and behavior
  • Marine animal studies overview
  • Species Distribution and Climate Change

Notable recent papers contributed by Réale include:

  • Robustness of linear mixed-effects models to violations of distributional assumptions (2020, Methods in Ecology and Evolution)
  • Phenotypic variation in urban environments: mechanisms and implications (2021, Trends in Ecology & Evolution)
  • Connecting the data landscape of long-term ecological studies: The SPI-Birds data hub (2020, Journal of Animal Ecology)
  • A global meta-analysis reveals higher variation in breeding phenology in urban birds than in their non-urban neighbours (2022, Ecology Letters)
  • Collision between biological process and statistical analysis revealed by mean centring (2020, Journal of Animal Ecology)

Réale frequently publishes in a range of scientific venues, with a concentration in:

  • Journal of Animal Ecology
  • Behavioral Ecology
  • bioRxiv (Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory)
  • Zenodo (CERN European Organization for Nuclear Research)
  • Oikos

Their frequent coauthors include:

  • Anne Charmantier
  • Patrick Bergeron
  • Hassen Allegue
  • M. J. Thompson
  • Dany Garant

Best Publications

  • Integrating animal temperament within ecology and evolution.

    Denis Réale;Simon M. Reader;Simon M. Reader;Daniel Sol;Daniel Sol;Peter T. McDougall

  • Behavioural reaction norms: animal personality meets individual plasticity

    Niels Jeroen Dingemanse;Anahita J. N. Kazem;Denis Réale;Jonathan Wright

  • Personality and the emergence of the pace-of-life syndrome concept at the population level

    Denis Réale;Dany Garant;Murray M. Humphries;Patrick Bergeron

  • Robustness of linear mixed-effects models to violations of distributional assumptions

    Holger Schielzeth;Niels J. Dingemanse;Shinichi Nakagawa;David F. Westneat

  • An ecologist's guide to the animal model

    Alastair J. Wilson;Denis Réale;Michelle N. Clements;Michael M. Morrissey

  • Natural selection and animal personality

    Niels Jeroen Dingemanse;Denis Réale

  • Energy metabolism and animal personality

    V. Careau;D. Thomas;M. M. Humphries;D. Réale

  • Evolutionary and ecological approaches to the study of personality

    Denis Réale;Niels Jeroen Dingemanse;Anahita J. N. Kazem;Jonathan Wright

  • Genetic and plastic responses of a northern mammal to climate change

    Denis Réale;Andrew G. McAdam;Stan Boutin;Dominique Berteaux

  • Consistency of temperament in bighorn ewes and correlates with behaviour and life history.

    Denis Réale;Bruno Y. Gallant;Mylène Leblanc;Marco Festa-Bianchet

  • Predator-induced natural selection on temperament in bighorn ewes

    Denis Réale;Denis Réale;Marco Festa-Bianchet

  • Temperament, risk assessment and habituation to novelty in eastern chipmunks, Tamias striatus

    Julien G.A. Martin;Denis Réale

  • Keeping Pace with Fast Climate Change: Can Arctic Life Count on Evolution?

    Dominique Berteaux;Denis Réale;Andrew G. McAdam;Stan Boutin

  • Wildlife conservation and animal temperament: causes and consequences of evolutionary change for captive, reintroduced, and wild populations

    P. T. McDougall;D. Réale;D. Sol;D. Sol;S. M. Reader;S. M. Reader

  • The interaction between personality, offspring fitness and food abundance in North American red squirrels

    Adrienne K. Boon;Denis Réale;Stan Boutin

  • Pace-of-life syndromes: a framework for the adaptive integration of behaviour, physiology and life history

    Melanie Dammhahn;Niels J. Dingemanse;Petri T. Niemelä;Denis Réale

  • Personality, habitat use, and their consequences for survival in North American red squirrels Tamiasciurus hudsonicus

    Adrienne K. Boon;Denis Réale;Stan Boutin

  • Measuring individual differences in reaction norms in field and experimental studies: a power analysis of random regression models

    Julien G. A. Martin;Julien G. A. Martin;Daniel H. Nussey;Alastair J. Wilson;Denis Réale

  • Personality, space use and tick load in an introduced population of Siberian chipmunks Tamias sibiricus.

    Nelly Boyer;Nelly Boyer;Denis Réale;Julie Marmet;Benoît Pisanu

  • Individual experience and evolutionary history of predation affect expression of heritable variation in fish personality and morphology

    Niels J Dingemanse;Fons Van der Plas;Jonathan Wright;Denis Réale

Frequent Co-Authors

Dany Garant
Dany Garant Université de Sherbrooke
Niels Jeroen Dingemanse
Niels Jeroen Dingemanse Ludwig-Maximilians-Universität München
Murray M. Humphries
Murray M. Humphries McGill University
Fanie Pelletier
Fanie Pelletier Université de Sherbrooke
Marco Festa-Bianchet
Marco Festa-Bianchet Université de Sherbrooke
Andrew G. McAdam
Andrew G. McAdam University of Colorado Boulder
David W. Coltman
David W. Coltman University of Western Ontario
Stan Boutin
Stan Boutin University of Alberta
Anne Charmantier
Anne Charmantier Centre national de la recherche scientifique, CNRS
Alastair J. Wilson
Alastair J. Wilson University of Exeter

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