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Overview

Joël Bêty is affiliated with the Université du Québec à Rimouski in Canada, contributing extensively to the field of Environmental Science with a focus on Ecology. Their research spans multiple subfields including Ecology, Atmospheric Science, Ecology, Evolution, Behavior and Systematics, Ecological Modeling, and Global and Planetary Change.

Joël Bêty's work encompasses a variety of main topics such as:

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

Their recent research papers highlight contributions to ecology and environmental change, including:

  • Ecological insights from three decades of animal movement tracking across a changing Arctic, 2020, published in Science
  • Derivation of Predator Functional Responses Using a Mechanistic Approach in a Natural System, 2021, published in Frontiers in Ecology and Evolution
  • Parasitoids indicate major climate-induced shifts in arctic communities, 2020, published in Global Change Biology
  • Predator-mediated interactions through changes in predator home range size can lead to local prey exclusion, 2023, published in Proceedings of the Royal Society B Biological Sciences
  • Annual adult survival drives trends in Arctic-breeding shorebirds but knowledge gaps in other vital rates remain, 2020, published in Ornithological Applications

Joël Bêty frequently collaborates with other researchers in their field. Frequent co-authors include:

  • Gilles Gauthier
  • Pierre Legagneux
  • Dominique Berteaux
  • Nicolas Lecomte
  • Dominique Gravel

The primary venues for Joël Bêty's publications reflect a focus on ecological and environmental studies and include:

  • bioRxiv (Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory)
  • Frontiers in Ecology and Evolution
  • Global Change Biology
  • Ecology
  • Arctic Science

Best Publications

  • Body condition, migration, and timing of reproduction in snow geese: a test of the condition-dependent model of optimal clutch size.

    Joël Bêty;Gilles Gauthier;Jean‐François Giroux

  • Lower Predation Risk for Migratory Birds at High Latitudes

    L. McKinnon;P. A. Smith;E. Nol;J. L. Martin

  • ARE GREATER SNOW GEESE CAPITAL BREEDERS? NEW EVIDENCE FROM A STABLE‐ISOTOPE MODEL

    Gilles Gauthier;Joël Bêty;Keith A. Hobson

  • Shared predators and indirect trophic interactions: lemming cycles and arctic-nesting geese

    Joël Bêty;Gilles Gauthier;Erkki Korpimäki;Jean‐François Giroux

  • Individual variation in timing of migration: causes and reproductive consequences in greater snow geese (Anser caerulescens atlanticus)

    Joël Bêty;Joël Bêty;Jean-François Giroux;Gilles Gauthier

  • Are goose nesting success and lemming cycles linked? Interplay between nest density and predators

    Joël Bêty;Gilles Gauthier;Jean‐François Giroux;Erkki Korpimäki

  • Timing of breeding, peak food availability, and effects of mismatch on chick growth in birds nesting in the High Arctic

    L. McKinnon;M. Picotin;E. Bolduc;C. Juillet

  • Trophic Interactions in a High Arctic Snow Goose Colony

    Gilles Gauthier;Joël Bêty;Jean-François Giroux;Line Rochefort

  • Long-term monitoring at multiple trophic levels suggests heterogeneity in responses to climate change in the Canadian Arctic tundra

    Gilles Gauthier;Joël Bêty;Marie-Christine Cadieux;Pierre Legagneux

  • Our House Is Burning: Discrepancy in Climate Change vs. Biodiversity Coverage in the Media as Compared to Scientific Literature

    Pierre Legagneux;Nicolas Casajus;Kevin Cazelles;Clément Chevallier

  • Global COVID-19 lockdown highlights humans as both threats and custodians of the environment.

    Amanda E. Bates;Richard B. Primack;Brandy S. Biggar;Tomas J. Bird

  • Disentangling trophic relationships in a High Arctic tundra ecosystem through food web modeling

    P. Legagneux;G. Gauthier;D. Berteaux;J. Bêty

  • Unexpected diversity in socially synchronized rhythms of shorebirds

    Martin Bulla;Mihai Valcu;Adriaan M. Dokter;Alexei G. Dondua

  • Heavy rainfall increases nestling mortality of an arctic top predator: experimental evidence and long-term trend in peregrine falcons

    Alexandre Anctil;Alastair Franke;Joël Bêty

  • Individual optimization of reproduction in a long‐lived migratory bird: a test of the condition‐dependent model of laying date and clutch size

    Sébastien Descamps;Sébastien Descamps;Joël Bêty;Oliver P. Love;H. Grant Gilchrist

  • Arctic ecosystem structure and functioning shaped by climate and herbivore body size

    Pierre Legagneux;Pierre Legagneux;Gilles Gauthier;Nicolas Lecomte;Nicolas Lecomte;Nicolas Lecomte;Niels-Martin Schmidt

  • The Tundra Food Web of Bylot Island in a Changing Climate and the Role of Exchanges between Ecosystems

    Gilles Gauthier;Dominique Berteaux;Joël Bêty;Arnaud Tarroux

  • First evidence of bryophyte diaspores in the plumage of transequatorial migrant birds

    Lily R. Lewis;Emily Behling;Hannah Gousse;Emily Qian

  • Ecological insights from three decades of animal movement tracking across a changing Arctic

    Sarah C. Davidson;Sarah C. Davidson;Sarah C. Davidson;Gil Bohrer;Eliezer Gurarie;Eliezer Gurarie;Scott LaPoint;Scott LaPoint

  • Is pre-breeding prospecting behaviour affected by snow cover in the irruptive snowy owl? A test using state-space modelling and environmental data annotated via Movebank

    Jean-François Therrien;David Pinaud;Gilles Gauthier;Nicolas Lecomte

  • Supporting Information for 'Unexpected diversity in socially synchronized rhythms of shorebirds'

    Martin Bulla;Mihai Valcu;Adriaan M. Dokter;Alexei G. Dondua

Frequent Co-Authors

Gilles Gauthier
Gilles Gauthier Université Laval
Dominique Berteaux
Dominique Berteaux Université du Québec à Rimouski
H. Grant Gilchrist
H. Grant Gilchrist Carleton University
Oliver P. Love
Oliver P. Love University of Windsor
Sébastien Descamps
Sébastien Descamps Norwegian Polar Institute
Richard B. Lanctot
Richard B. Lanctot United States Fish and Wildlife Service
Erica Nol
Erica Nol Trent University
Loïc Bollache
Loïc Bollache University of Burgundy
David H. Ward
David H. Ward United States Geological Survey
Brett K. Sandercock
Brett K. Sandercock Kansas State University

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