Publications

 

Aubin, J., Mennill, D. J., Michaud, R., Vergara, V. in press. Beluga societies: the social and cultural lives of an enigmatic odontocete. Behavioral Ecology & Sociobiology.

 

Cotillard, T., Sécheresse, X., Aubin, J. A., Mikus, M.-A., Vergara, V., Gambs, S., Michaud, R., Martins, C. C. A., Turgeon, S., Chion, C., Roca, I. (2024). Automatic detection and classification of beluga whale calls in the St. Lawrence Estuary. The Journal of the Acoustical Society of America, 156, 3723-3740.

 

Aubin J. A., Dobney, S. L., Foreman, S. A. M., Doucet, S. M., Norris, D. R., Williams, H., Mennill, D. J. (2024) Birds respond more strongly to locally-common versus locally-rare songs: a playback experiment with Savannah sparrows. Animal Behaviour, 212, 127-135.

 

Prokopenko, C. M., Ellington, E. H., Robitaille, A., Aubin, J. A., Baluffi-Fry, J., Laforge, M., Webber, Q. M. R., Zabihi-Seissan, S., Vander Wal, E. (2024). Friends because of foes: synchronous movement within predator-prey domains. Proceedings of the Royal Society B: Biological Sciences, 379(1912), 20230374.

 

Aubin, J., Mikus, M.-A., Michaud, R., Mennill, D., Vergara, V. 2023. Fly with care: Belugas show evasive responses to low altitude drone flights. Marine Mammal Science, 1-22, https://doi.org/10.1111/mms.12997 [PDF]

 

Aubin, J., Michaud, R., Vander Wal, E. 2022. Protection, energetic assistance, or social perks? How do beluga offspring benefit from allocare? Marine Mammal Science,  1-21, https://doi.org/10.1111/mms.12957 [PDF]

 

Aubin, J., Michaud, R., Vander Wal, E. 2021. Prospective evolutionary drivers of allocare in wild belugas. Behaviour, 158, https://doi.org-10.1163/1568539X-bja10094 [PDF]

 

Newudiuk, L., Boyle, S. P., Ethier, J. P., Aubinj, J. A., Ballufi-Fry, J., Dedeban, E., Laforge, M. P., Prokopenko, C. M., Turner, J., Webber, Q. M. R., Vander Wal, E. 2021. Sociopolitical factors driver conservation planning timelines: a Canadian case study with global implications. Biological Conservation, 257(1), https://doi.org/10.1016/j.biocon.2021.109091 [PDF]