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Luc-Alain Giraldeau is affiliated with the University of Quebec at Montreal in Canada. Their research spans several interconnected fields, primarily focusing on social sciences and agricultural and biological sciences. Within these domains, their subfields of study include sociology and political science, ecology, evolution, behavior and systematics, developmental biology, cultural studies, and insect science.

Their work covers a wide range of topics that intersect biological and social perspectives. Key topics of their research include animal behavior and reproduction, animal vocal communication and behavior, language and cultural evolution, insect utilization and effects, French urban and social studies, education, sociology, and vocational training, as well as psychoanalysis and psychopathology research.

Among recent publications, Luc-Alain Giraldeau has contributed to these papers:

  • "Competitive advantage of rare behaviours induces adaptive diversity rather than social conformity in skill learning" (2020) published in Proceedings of the Royal Society B Biological Sciences
  • "Julie Morand-Ferron retrospective (1977-2022) for FACETS" (2024) published in FACETS

They have collaborated frequently with several co-authors, including Étienne Danchin, Frank Cézilly, Na'ama Aljadeff, Arnon Lotem, and A. P. Møller.

Luc-Alain Giraldeau's contributions have appeared mostly in Proceedings of the Royal Society B Biological Sciences and FACETS, reflecting a focus on biological and ecological research contexts combined with social sciences perspectives.

Best Publications

  • Public information: from nosy neighbors to cultural evolution.

    Étienne Danchin;Luc-Alain Giraldeau;Thomas J. Valone;Richard H. Wagner

  • Information and its use by animals in evolutionary ecology

    Sasha R.X. Dall;Luc Alain Giraldeau;Ola Olsson;John M. McNamara

  • Social Foraging Theory

    Luc-Alain Giraldeau;Thomas Caraco

  • Social influences on foraging in vertebrates: causal mechanisms and adaptive functions.

    Bennett G. Galef;Luc-Alain Giraldeau

  • Potential disadvantages of using socially acquired information

    Luc–Alain Giraldeau;Thomas J. Valone;Jennifer J. Templeton

  • Producers, Scroungers, and Group Foraging.

    William L. Vickery;Luc-Alain Giraldeau;Jennifer J. Templeton;Donald L. Kramer

  • Neighbours, strangers, and the asymmetric war of attrition

    R.C. Ydenberg;L.A. Giraldeau;J.B. Falls

  • Exposing the behavioral gambit: the evolution of learning and decision rules

    Tim W. Fawcett;Tim W. Fawcett;Tim W. Fawcett;Steven Hamblin;Luc-Alain Giraldeau

  • Food exploitation: searching for the optimal joining policy

    Luc-Alain Giraldeau;Guy Beauchamp

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

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

  • Inadvertent social information in breeding site selection of natal dispersing birds.

    Joseph J. Nocera;Graham J. Forbes;Luc Alain Giraldeau

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

    Luc-Alain Giraldeau;Louis Lefebvre

  • Vicarious sampling: the use of personal and public information by starlings foraging in a simple patchy environment

    Jennifer J. Templeton;Luc-Alain Giraldeau

  • The evolution of social learning rules: Payoff-biased and frequency-dependent biased transmission

    Jeremy Kendal;Luc-Alain Giraldeau;Kevin Laland

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

    Luc-Alain Giraldeau;Louis Lefebvre

  • GROUP FORAGING: THE SKILL POOL EFFECT AND FREQUENCY-DEPENDENT LEARNING

    Luc-Alain Giraldeau

  • Patch assessment in foraging flocks of European starlings: evidence for the use of public information

    Jennifer J. Templeton;Luc-Alain Giraldeau

  • The effect of dominance hierarchy on the use of alternative foraging tactics: a phenotype-limited producing-scrounging game

    Zoltán Barta;Luc-Alain Giraldeau

  • Influence of Conspecific Attraction on the Spatial Distribution of Learning Foragers in a Patchy Habitat.

    Guy Beauchamp;Marc Belisle;Luc-Alain Giraldeau

  • Experimental evidence that group foragers can converge on predicted producer–scrounger equilibria

    Kieron Mottley;Luc-Alain Giraldeau

Frequent Co-Authors

Thomas Caraco
Thomas Caraco University at Albany, State University of New York
Louis Lefebvre
Louis Lefebvre McGill University
Thomas J. Valone
Thomas J. Valone Saint Louis University
Frank Cézilly
Frank Cézilly University of Burgundy
Johan J. Bolhuis
Johan J. Bolhuis University of Cambridge
Etienne G. J. Danchin
Etienne G. J. Danchin INRAE : Institut national de recherche pour l'agriculture, l'alimentation et l'environnement
James W. A. Grant
James W. A. Grant Concordia University
Donald L. Kramer
Donald L. Kramer McGill University
Ronald C. Ydenberg
Ronald C. Ydenberg Simon Fraser University
Guy Beauchamp
Guy Beauchamp University of Montreal

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