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Louis Lefebvre

Louis Lefebvre

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Ecology and Evolution

D-Index
64
Citations
14005
World Ranking
1879
National Ranking
116

Overview

Louis Lefebvre is affiliated with McGill University in Canada and focuses their research primarily in the fields of Agricultural and Biological Sciences and Neuroscience. Their work spans several subfields, including Ecology, Evolution, Behavior and Systematics, Cellular and Molecular Neuroscience, Social Psychology, Paleontology, and Developmental Biology.

Their research topics cover a range of areas within animal behavior and neurobiology, with significant attention paid to Animal Behavior and Reproduction, Neurobiology and Insect Physiology Research, Primate Behavior and Ecology, Animal Vocal Communication and Behavior, Paleontology and Evolutionary Biology, Wildlife Ecology and Conservation, and Evolution and Paleontology Studies.

Lefebvre has published regularly in prominent academic venues. Their frequent publication outlets include Zenodo (CERN European Organization for Nuclear Research), Nature Ecology & Evolution, Current Biology, The Wilson Journal of Ornithology, and Frontiers in Ecology and Evolution.

Collaborations have involved several consistent co-authors, such as Mélanie Couture, Jean-Nicolas Audet, Erich D. Jarvis, Daniel Sol, and Ferran Sayol.

Recent papers by Lefebvre and associated researchers include:

  • Behavioural plasticity is associated with reduced extinction risk in birds, 2020, Nature Ecology & Evolution
  • Tempo and Pattern of Avian Brain Size Evolution, 2020, Current Biology
  • Neuron numbers link innovativeness with both absolute and relative brain size in birds, 2022, Nature Ecology & Evolution
  • A global database of feeding innovations in birds, 2020, The Wilson Journal of Ornithology
  • Problem-solving skills are predicted by technical innovations in the wild and brain size in passerines, 2024, Nature Ecology & Evolution

Best Publications

  • Big brains, enhanced cognition, and response of birds to novel environments.

    Daniel Sol;Richard P. Duncan;Tim M. Blackburn;Phillip Cassey

  • Behavioural flexibility and invasion success in birds

    Daniel Sol;Sarah Timmermans;Louis Lefebvre

  • Brains, innovations and evolution in birds and primates.

    Louis Lefebvre;Simon M. Reader;Daniel Sol

  • Feeding innovations and forebrain size in birds

    Louis Lefebvre;Patrick Whittle;Evan Lascaris;Adam Finkelstein

  • Brain Size Predicts the Success of Mammal Species Introduced into Novel Environments

    Daniel Sol;Sven Bacher;Simon M. Reader;Louis Lefebvre

  • Cetaceans Have Complex Brains for Complex Cognition

    Lori Marino;Richard C Connor;R. Ewan Fordyce;Louis M Herman

  • Tools and brains in birds

    Louis Lefebvre;Nektaria Nicolakakis;Denis Boire

  • Behavioural flexibility predicts invasion success in birds introduced to New Zealand

    Daniel Sol;Louis Lefebvre

  • Technical innovations drive the relationship between innovativeness and residual brain size in birds

    Sarah E. Overington;Julie Morand-Ferron;Neeltje J. Boogert;Louis Lefebvre

  • Brain size, innovative propensity and migratory behaviour in temperate Palaearctic birds

    Daniel Sol;Daniel Sol;Louis Lefebvre;J. Domingo Rodríguez-Teijeiro

  • Big-brained birds survive better in nature.

    Daniel Sol;Tamás Székely;Tamás Székely;András Liker;Louis Lefebvre

  • Problem solving and neophobia in a columbiform–passeriform assemblage in Barbados

    Sandra J. Webster;Louis Lefebvre

  • Song complexity correlates with learning ability in zebra finch males.

    Neeltje J. Boogert;Luc-Alain Giraldeau;Louis Lefebvre

  • Scrounging prevents cultural transmission of food-finding behaviour in pigeons

    Luc-Alain Giraldeau;Louis Lefebvre

  • Relative size of the hyperstriatum ventrale is the best predictor of feeding innovation rate in birds.

    Sarah Timmermans;Louis Lefebvre;Denis Boire;Paroma Basu

  • The social transmission of a food-finding technique in pigeons: what is learned

    Boris Palameta;Louis Lefebvre

  • Brains, lifestyles and cognition: are there general trends?

    Louis Lefebvre;Daniel Sol

  • Problem-solving performance is correlated with reproductive success in a wild bird population

    Laure Cauchard;Neeltje J. Boogert;Louis Lefebvre;Frédérique Dubois

  • Exchangeable producer and scrounger roles in a captive flock of feral pigeons: a case for the skill pool effect

    Luc-Alain Giraldeau;Louis Lefebvre

  • Social learning and innovation are positively correlated in pigeons ( Columba livia )

    Julie Bouchard;William Goodyer;Louis Lefebvre

  • Behavioural flexibility predicts species richness in birds, but not extinction risk

    Nektaria Nicolakakis;Daniel Sol;Louis Lefebvre

Frequent Co-Authors

Daniel Sol
Daniel Sol Spanish National Research Council
Luc-Alain Giraldeau
Luc-Alain Giraldeau University of Quebec at Montreal
Simon M. Reader
Simon M. Reader McGill University
Erich D. Jarvis
Erich D. Jarvis Rockefeller University
Colin A. Chapman
Colin A. Chapman Vancouver Island University
Larry J. Young
Larry J. Young Emory University
Andrey E. Ryabinin
Andrey E. Ryabinin Oregon Health & Science University
George Paxinos
George Paxinos Neuroscience Research Australia
Russell D. Fernald
Russell D. Fernald Stanford University
Giancarlo Carli
Giancarlo Carli University of Siena

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