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Gabriel Blouin-Demers

Gabriel Blouin-Demers

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Ecology and Evolution

D-Index
39
Citations
6379
World Ranking
6361
National Ranking
395

Overview

Gabriel Blouin-Demers is affiliated with the University of Ottawa in Canada and specializes in Environmental Science. Their research focuses on a range of subfields including Nature and Landscape Conservation, Ecology, Global and Planetary Change, Ecology, Evolution, Behavior and Systematics, and Ecological Modeling.

Their work extensively covers topics such as Amphibian and Reptile Biology, Turtle Biology and Conservation, Wildlife Ecology and Conservation, Animal Behavior and Reproduction, Wildlife-Road Interactions and Conservation, Species Distribution and Climate Change, and Fish Ecology and Management Studies.

Blouin-Demers has published in several academic venues, with multiple contributions to Ethology, Zenodo (CERN European Organization for Nuclear Research), Canadian Journal of Zoology, Animal Conservation, and Journal of Zoology.

Notable recent papers include:

  • "Historical, contemporary, and future perspectives on a coupled social-ecological system in a changing world: Canada's historic Rideau Canal" (2021, Environmental Reviews)
  • "Response of farmland reptiles to agricultural intensification: Collapse of the common adder Vipera berus and the western green lizard Lacerta bilineata in a hedgerow landscape" (2022, Animal Conservation)
  • "Developing a classification system to assign activity states to two species of freshwater turtles" (2022, PLoS ONE)
  • "Pesticide concentrations in a threatened freshwater turtle (Emys orbicularis): Seasonal and annual variation in the Camargue wetland, France" (2023, Environmental Pollution)
  • "High tolerance of two parasites in ornate tree lizards reduces the fitness costs of parasitism" (2020, Journal of Zoology)

Gabriel Blouin-Demers frequently collaborates with several coauthors, including Audrey Turcotte, Dany Garant, Steven J. Cooke, Grégory Bulté, and Olivier Lourdais.

Best Publications

  • Kernels Are Not Accurate Estimators of Home-range Size for Herpetofauna

    Jeffrey R. Row;Gabriel I. Blouin-Demers

  • THERMAL ECOLOGY OF BLACK RAT SNAKES (ELAPHE OBSOLETA) IN A THERMALLY CHALLENGING ENVIRONMENT

    Gabriel Blouin-Demers

  • HABITAT USE BY BLACK RAT SNAKES (ELAPHE OBSOLETA OBSOLETA) IN FRAGMENTED FORESTS

    Gabriel Blouin-Demers

  • Understanding avian nest predation: why ornithologists should study snakes

    Gabriel Blouin-Demers

  • Demographic effects of road mortality in black ratsnakes (Elaphe obsoleta)

    Jeffrey R. Row;Gabriel Blouin-Demers

  • An experimental test of the link between foraging, habitat selection and thermoregulation in black rat snakes Elaphe obsoleta obsoleta

    Gabriel Blouin-Demers

  • THE COST–BENEFIT MODEL OF THERMOREGULATION DOES NOT PREDICT LIZARD THERMOREGULATORY BEHAVIOR

    Gabriel Blouin-Demers;Patrick Nadeau

  • Habitat-specific behavioural thermoregulation by black rat snakes (Elaphe obsoleta obsoleta)

    Gabriel Blouin-Demers;Gabriel Blouin-Demers

  • Thermal quality influences effectiveness of thermoregulation, habitat use, and behaviour in milk snakes

    Jeffrey R. Row;Gabriel Blouin-Demers

  • Thermoregulation and habitat selection in wood turtles Glyptemys insculpta: chasing the sun slowly

    Y. Dubois;G. Blouin-Demers;B. Shipley;D. Thomas

  • Thermal quality influences habitat selection at multiple spatial scales in milksnakes

    Jeffrey R. Row;Gabriel Blouin-Demers

  • Freshwater Commercial Bycatch: An Understated Conservation Problem

    Graham D. Raby;Alison Ha Colotelo;Gabriel Blouin-Demers;Steven J. Cooke

  • Anthropogenic noise affects song structure in red-winged blackbirds (Agelaius phoeniceus)

    Dalal Hanna;Gabriel Blouin-Demers;David R. Wilson;Daniel J. Mennill

  • Comparative demography of black rat snakes (Elaphe obsoleta) in Ontario and Maryland

    Gabriel Blouin-Demers;Kent A. Prior

  • Habitat distribution influences dispersal and fine-scale genetic population structure of eastern foxsnakes (Mintonius gloydi) across a fragmented landscape.

    Jeffrey R. Row;Gabriel Blouin-Demers;Stephen C. Lougheed

  • Conservation of herpetofauna in northern landscapes: Threats and challenges from a Canadian perspective

    David Lesbarrères;Sara L. Ashpole;Christine A. Bishop;Gabriel Blouin-Demers

  • Latitudinal variation in thermal ecology of North American ratsnakes and its implications for the effect of climate warming on snakes

    Jinelle H. Sperry;Gerardo L.F. Carfagno;Gabriel Blouin-Demers

  • Genetic evidence for sexual selection in black ratsnakes, Elaphe obsoleta

    Gabriel Blouin-Demers;H. Lisle Gibbs

  • Phenotypic consequences of nest-site selection in black rat snakes (Elaphe obsoleta)

    Gabriel Blouin-Demers;Jeffrey R Row

  • Spatial Ecology and Seasonal Activity of Blanding's Turtles (Emydoidea blandingii) in Ontario, Canada

    Catherine S. Millar;Gabriel Blouin-Demers

  • Implications of movement patterns for gene flow in black rat snakes (Elaphe obsoleta)

    Gabriel Blouin-Demers;Gabriel Blouin-Demers

Frequent Co-Authors

Steven J. Cooke
Steven J. Cooke Carleton University
Olivier Lourdais
Olivier Lourdais Centre national de la recherche scientifique, CNRS
Xavier Bonnet
Xavier Bonnet Centre national de la recherche scientifique, CNRS
Stephen C. Lougheed
Stephen C. Lougheed Queen's University
H. Lisle Gibbs
H. Lisle Gibbs The Ohio State University
Daniel J. Mennill
Daniel J. Mennill University of Windsor
Donald W. Thomas
Donald W. Thomas Université de Sherbrooke
Alexandre J. Poulain
Alexandre J. Poulain University of Ottawa
Linda M. Campbell
Linda M. Campbell Saint Mary's University
Bill Shipley
Bill Shipley Université de Sherbrooke

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