Băncilă, R. I., Plăiaşu, R., Stănescu, F., Schmidt, B. R., Nae, I., & Denoël, M. (2021). Food level and light conditions affect the antipredator behavior in larvae of a stream-breeding amphibian. Behavioral Ecology and Sociobiology, 75 (2), 36. doi:10.1007/s00265-021-02966-w
Understanding how long-term changes in environmental conditions influence the way that individuals cope with threats is essential in the context of behavioral adaptation to a rapidly changing world...
Peer Reviewed verified by ORBi
Székely, D., Cogălniceanu, D., Székely, P., & Denoël, M. (September 2020). Adult—Juvenile interactions and temporal niche partitioning between life-stages in a tropical amphibian. PLoS ONE, 15 (9), 0238949. doi:10.1371/journal.pone.0238949
Divergence in ecological niche offers organisms the opportunity of exploiting different food and habitat resources, scaling down competition and predation both among species, and within different a...
Peer Reviewed verified by ORBi
Székely, D., Cogalniceanu, D., Székely, P., & Denoël, M. (April 2017). Out of the ground: two coexisting fossorial toad species differ in their emergence and movement patterns. Zoology, 121, 49-55. doi:10.1016/j.zool.2016.12.003
Understanding the way species with similar niches can coexist is a challenge in ecology.The niche partitioning hypothesis has received much support, positing that species can exploit available reso...
Peer Reviewed verified by ORBi
Manenti, R., Melotto, A., Denoël, M., & Ficetola, G. F. (August 2016). Amphibians breeding in refuge habitats have larvae with stronger antipredator responses. Animal Behaviour, 118, 115-121. doi:10.1016/j.anbehav.2016.06.006
Antipredator responses are a key determinant of the successful persistence of prey, and behavioural modifications are a frequent antipredator strategy. However, conspecific populations often inhabi...
Peer Reviewed verified by ORBi
Delcourt, J., Denoël, M., Ylieff, M., & Poncin, P. (2013). Video multitracking of fish behaviour: a synthesis and future perspectives. Fish and Fisheries, 14 (2), 186-204. doi:10.1111/j.1467-2979.2012.00462.x
With the development of digital imaging techniques over the last decade, there are now new opportunities to study complex behavioural patterns in fish (e.g. schooling behaviour) and to track a very...
Peer Reviewed verified by ORBi
Denoël, M., Libon, S., Kestemont, P., Brasseur, C., Focant, J.-F., & De Pauw, E. (2013). Effects of a sublethal pesticide exposure on locomotor behavior: A video-tracking analysis in larval amphibians. Chemosphere, 90 (3), 945-951. doi:10.1016/j.chemosphere.2012.06.037
Organochlorine pesticides such as endosulfan have been shown to have both lethal and sublethal effects on amphibians. In this context, behavioral endpoints have proved their usefulness in evidencin...
Peer Reviewed verified by ORBi
Lavorato, M., Bernabo, I., Crescente, A., Denoël, M., Tripepi, S., & Brunelli, E. (2013). Endosulfan effects on Rana dalmatina tadpoles: Quantitative developmental and behavioural analysis. Archives of Environmental Contamination and Toxicology, 64 (2), 253-262. doi:10.1007/s00244-012-9819-7
Endosulfan is an organochlorine pesticide that was recently labeled as a persistent organic pollutant, but it is still widely employed, particularly in developing countries. The goal of this study ...
Peer Reviewed verified by ORBi
Manenti, R., Denoël, M., & Ficetola, G. F. (2013). Foraging plasticity favours adaptation to new habitats in fire salamanders. Animal Behaviour, 86 (2), 375-382. doi:10.1016/j.anbehav.2013.05.028
Predators often show strong plasticity of optimal foraging strategies. A major difference in foraging strategies occurs between sit-and-wait and active predators. Models predict that the efficiency...
Peer Reviewed verified by ORBi
Denoël, M., D'hooghe, B., Ficetola, G. F., Brasseur, C., De Pauw, E., Thomé, J.-P., & Kestemont, P. (2012). Using sets of behavioral biomarkers to assess short-term effects of pesticide: a study case with endosulfan on frog tadpoles. Ecotoxicology, 21 (4), 1240-1250. doi:10.1007/s10646-012-0878-3
Pesticides and other chemicals often have detrimental effects at environmental concentrations. Many amphibian species are particularly threatened because of their susceptibility but also because we...
Peer Reviewed verified by ORBi
Winandy, L., & Denoël, M. (2011). The use of visual and automatized behavioral markers to assess methodologies: a study case on PIT-tagging in the Alpine newt. Behavior Research Methods, 43 (2), 568-576. doi:10.3758/s13428-011-0058-z
Biomarkers are now widely used as tools in various research fields to assess individual integrity. The recent advances in quantification methods of behavioral patterns, such as computerized video-t...
Peer Reviewed verified by ORBi
Denoël, M., Bichot, M., Ficetola, G. F., Delcourt, J., Ylieff, M., Kestemont, P., & Poncin, P. (2010). Cumulative effects of road de-icing salt on amphibian behavior. Aquatic Toxicology, 99 (2), 275-280. doi:10.1016/j.aquatox.2010.05.007
Despite growing evidence of the detrimental effect of chemical substances on organisms, limited research has focused on changes in behavioral patterns, in part due to the difficulties to obtain det...
Peer Reviewed verified by ORBi