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List of works by Marco Festa-Bianchet

A capture technique for free-ranging eastern grey kangaroos (Macropus giganteus) habituated to humans

article by W. J. King et al published 2011 in Australian Mammalogy

A quantitative trait locus analysis of personality in wild bighorn sheep

scientific article published on 18 January 2013

Adoption in eastern grey kangaroos: a consequence of misdirected care?

scientific article published on 13 May 2015

Age-dependent genetic effects on a secondary sexual trait in male Alpine ibex, Capra ibex

scientific article published in 2007

Age-dependent sexual selection in bighorn rams

scientific article published on 01 January 2002

Age-independent and age-dependent decreases in reproduction of females.

scientific article published on 25 April 2011

Age-specific reproductive success and cost in female Alpine ibex

scientific article published on 28 December 2014

Another one bites the dust: Does incisor-arcade size affect mass gain and survival in grazing ungulates?

scientific article published in 2003

Applying evolutionary concepts to wildlife disease ecology and management

scientific article

Archiving Primary Data: Solutions for Long-Term Studies

scientific article

Biases in legal listing under Canadian endangered species legislation.

scientific article

Bighorn ewes transfer the costs of reproduction to their lambs.

scientific article published in October 2010

Birthdate, mass and survival in mountain goat kids: effects of maternal characteristics and forage quality

scientific article published on 19 January 2001

Can ground counts reliably monitor ibex Capra ibex populations

Can phenotypic rescue from harvest refuges buffer wild sheep from selective hunting?

scientific article

Cohort variation in individual body mass dissipates with age in large herbivores

article by S. Hamel et al published November 2016 in Ecological Monographs

Comparing measures of breeding inequality and opportunity for selection with sexual selection on a quantitative character in bighorn rams.

scientific article

Compensatory Growth Limits Opportunities for Artificial Selection in Alpine Chamois

scientific article published in 2010

Conservation of caribou (Rangifer tarandus) in Canada: an uncertain future1This review is part of the virtual symposium “Flagship Species – Flagship Problems” that deals with ecology, biodiversity and management issues, and climate impacts

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Conservative maternal care in an iteroparous mammal: a resource allocation experiment

scientific article published in 2007

Consistency of temperament in bighorn ewes and correlates with behaviour and life history

Correlates of copulatory success in a fallow deer lek

scientific article published in 1989

Data from selective harvests underestimate temporal trends in quantitative traits

scientific article

Decomposing the variation in population growth into contributions from multiple demographic rates

scientific article published in 2005

Decrease in horn size and increase in age of trophy sheep in Alberta over 37 years

scientific article published in 2013

Demographic Processes: Lessons from Long-Term, Individual-Based Studies

Density-dependent mother-yearling association in bighorn sheep

article published in 1995

Despite catch-up, prolonged growth has detrimental fitness consequences in a long-lived vertebrate

scientific article published on 16 October 2013

Determinants and consequences of age of primiparity in bighorn ewes

scientific article published in 2011

Determinants and life-history consequences of social dominance in bighorn ewes

Determinants of lifetime reproduction in female brown bears: early body mass, longevity, and hunting regulations

scientific article published in January 2013

Determinants of reproductive success in female Columbian ground squirrels

scientific article published on May 1991

Diet of Punjab urial (Ovis vignei punjabiensis) in the Salt Range, Pakistan, and potential competition with domestic sheep and goats / Régime alimentaire de l'urial du Penjab (Ovis vignei punjabiensis) dans le Salt Range (Pakistan): compétition int

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Does mass change of primiparous bighorn ewes reflect reproductive effort?

scientific article published in 2001

Drivers and demographic consequences of seasonal mass changes in an alpine ungulate

scientific article published on 16 January 2018

Dynamics of a small population of endangered huemul deer (Hippocamelus bisulcus) in Chilean Patagonia

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Early onset of vegetation growth vs. rapid green-up: impacts on juvenile mountain ungulates

scientific article published in February 2007

Early survival of Punjab urial

scientific article published in 2008

Early weaning in bighorn sheep, Ovis canadensis affects growth of males but not of females

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Effect of chemical immobilization on social status of bighorn rams

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Effects of an exceptionally snowy winter on chamois survival

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Effects of body mass, age, dominance and parasite load on foraging time of bighorn rams, Ovis canadensis

scientific article published in 2004

Effects of density and weather on survival of bighorn sheep lambs (Ovis canadensis)

Effects of early horn growth on reproduction and hunting mortality in female chamois

scientific article

Effects of selective harvest of non-lactating females on chamois population dynamics

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Effects of spring-summer temperature on body mass of chamois

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Estimating genome-wide heterozygosity: effects of demographic history and marker type

scientific article published on 23 October 2013

Estimating the effect of temporally autocorrelated environments on the demography of density-independent age-structured populations

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Evolutionary rescue in vertebrates: evidence, applications and uncertainty

scientific article

Experimental manipulation of female reproduction demonstrates its fitness costs in kangaroos

scientific article published on 22 July 2014

Father-offspring phenotypic correlations suggest intralocus sexual conflict for a fitness-linked trait in a wild sexually dimorphic mammal.

scientific article published on 9 September 2009

Fecal counts of lungworm larvae and reproductive effort in bighorn sheep,Ovis canadensis

scholarly article by Fanie Pelletier et al published September 2005 in Oikos

Fecal testosterone in bighorn sheep (Ovis canadensis): behavioural and endocrine correlates

scholarly article by Fanie Pelletier et al published October 2003 in Canadian Journal of Zoology

Fluctuating effects of genetic and plastic changes in body mass on population dynamics in a large herbivore

scientific article

Fluctuating optimum and temporally variable selection on breeding date in birds and mammals

scientific article published on 30 November 2020

Genetic rescue from protected areas is modulated by migration, hunting rate, and timing of harvest

scientific article published in 2023

Group Choice by Subadult Bighorn Rams: Trade-offs between Foraging Efficiency and Predator Avoidance

article published in 2001

Group leaving in Mountain goats: are young males ousted by adult females?

scientific article published on 01 September 1997

Guns, Sheep, and Genes: When and Why Trophy Hunting May Be a Selective Pressure

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Harvest regulations and artificial selection on horn size in male bighorn sheep

scientific article published in 2011

Herbivore management for biodiversity conservation: A case study of kangaroos in the Australian Capital Territory (ACT)

scientific article published on 03 November 2021

Heterogeneity in male horn growth and longevity in a highly sexually dimorphic ungulate

scientific article published in 2008

How life history influences population dynamics in fluctuating environments

scientific article

Human‐induced reversal of fortunes for migratory ungulates?1

scientific article published on June 1, 2013

Individual heterogeneity and offspring sex affect the growth–reproduction trade-off in a mammal with indeterminate growth

scientific article published in 2015

Individual quality, early-life conditions, and reproductive success in contrasted populations of large herbivores

scientific article published in July 2009

Individual variation in reproductive costs of reproduction: high-quality females always do better

scientific article published on 12 August 2008

Intense selective hunting leads to artificial evolution in horn size

scientific article

Is mother condition related to offspring condition in migratory caribou (Rangifer tarandus) at calving and weaning?

scientific article published in 2012

Litter reductions reveal a trade-off between offspring size and number in brown bears

article by Ofelia Gonzalez et al published 25 April 2012 in Behavioral Ecology and Sociobiology

Long-term studies of bighorn sheep and mountain goats reveal fitness costs of reproduction

scientific article published on 10 June 2019

Male mating competitiveness and age-dependent relationship between testosterone and social rank in bighorn sheep

scientific article published in 2013

Male mating effort in a polygynous ungulate

scientific article published in 2006

Male mating effort in a polygynous ungulate

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Male personality, life-history strategies and reproductive success in a promiscuous mammal.

scientific article published on 23 June 2009

Maternal age is not a predominant determinant of progeny sex ratio variation in ungulates

scientific article published in 2002

Maternal care in white-tailed deer: trade-off between maintenance and reproduction under food restriction

article by Jean-François Therrien et al published January 2008 in Animal Behaviour

Maternal characteristics and environment affect the costs of reproduction in female mountain goats

scientific article

Maternal condition and offspring sex ratio in polygynous ungulates: a case study of bighorn sheep

Maternal effects on post-weaning physical and social development in juvenile mountain goats (Oreamnos americanus)

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Measuring senescence in wild animal populations: towards a longitudinal approach

scientific article published in 2008

Mother-offspring distances reflect sex differences in fine-scale genetic structure of eastern grey kangaroos

scientific article

Mountain sheep management using data versus opinions: A comment on Boyce and Krausman (2018)

scientific article published in 2018

Never too late? Consequences of late birthdate for mass and survival of bighorn lambs.

scientific article published on 29 April 2008

No inbreeding avoidance in an isolated population of bighorn sheep

Not surprisingly, no inheritance of a trait results in no evolution

scientific article published on 3 November 2014

Nursing behaviour of bighorn sheep: correlates of ewe age, parasitism, lamb age, birthdate and sex

Offspring sex in mountain goat varies with adult sex ratio but only for mothers in good condition

scientific article published in 2015

Offspring sex ratio in relation to maternal age and social rank in mountain goats (Oreamnos americanus)

article published in 2000

Offspring sex, current and previous reproduction affect feeding behaviour in wild eastern grey kangaroos

article by Uriel Gélin et al published November 2013 in Animal Behaviour

Past bottlenecks and current population fragmentation of endangered huemul deer (Hippocamelus bisulcus): implications for preservation of genetic diversity

Paternal reproductive success drives sex allocation in a wild mammal

scientific article published on 21 January 2016

Paternity in eastern grey kangaroos: moderate skew despite strong sexual dimorphism

article by Elise Rioux-Paquette et al published 2015 in Behavioral Ecology

Patterns of body mass senescence and selective disappearance differ among three species of free-living ungulates

scientific article published in October 2011

Poaching, recruitment and conservation of Punjab urial Ovis vignei punjabiensis

Population Dynamics and Harvest Potential of Mountain Goat Herds in Alberta

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Population dynamics of large herbivores: variable recruitment with constant adult survival

scientific article published on February 1, 1998

Population ecology. Not all sheep are equal

scientific article published in May 2001

Precision, accuracy and bias of walked line-transect distance sampling to estimate eastern grey kangaroo population size

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Predator-driven component Allee effects in a wild ungulate

scientific article published in 2011

Predator-induced natural selection on temperament in bighorn ewes

Quantitative genetics and sex-specific selection on sexually dimorphic traits in bighorn sheep

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Quantitative genetics of life-history traits in a long-lived wild mammal

scientific article published in December 2000

REVIEW: The management of wild large herbivores to meet economic, conservation and environmental objectives

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Rarity, willingness to pay and conservation

Record books do not capture population trends in horn length of bighorn sheep

scientific article published in 2015

Reduced horn size in two wild trophy-hunted species of Caprinae

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Relative allocation to horn and body growth in bighorn rams varies with resource availability

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Reproductive rate, not dominance status, affects fecal glucocorticoid levels in breeding female meerkats

scientific article (publication date: April 2012)

Reproductive success in female mountain goats: the influence of age and social rank

SELECTION ON HERITABLE SEASONAL PHENOTYPIC PLASTICITY OF BODY MASS

scientific article published on 01 August 2007

Seasonal changes in sexual size dimorphism in northern chamois

Seasonal range selection in bighorn sheep: conflicts between forage quality, forage quantity, and predator avoidance

scientific article

Secondary sexual characters signal fighting ability and determine social rank in Alpine ibex (Capra ibex)

scientific article published in 2010

Senescence rates are determined by ranking on the fast-slow life-history continuum

scientific article published on 28 April 2008

Sex ratio bias and reproductive strategies: what sex to produce when?

scientific article published in February 2011

Sex- and age-specific survival of the highly dimorphic Alpine ibex: evidence for a conservative life-history tactic

scientific article published in July 2007

Sex-based differences in the adaptive value of social behavior contrasted against morphology and environment.

scientific article published in March 2015

Sex-differential effects of inbreeding on overwinter survival, birth date and mass of bighorn lambs.

scientific article published on 2 November 2010

Sexual selection and social rank in bighorn rams

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Sexual size dimorphism in bighorn sheep ( Ovis canadensis ): effects of population density

article published in 2001

Sexually antagonistic association between paternal phenotype and offspring viability reinforces total selection on a sexually selected trait

scientific article published on 26 February 2014

Shifting targets in the tundra: Protection of migratory caribou calving grounds must account for spatial changes over time

Site-specific asymmetries in male copulatory success in a fallow deer lek

Social dominance in adult female mountain goats

Social integration and acclimation of translocated bighorn sheep ( Ovis canadensis )

article published in 2018

Solutions for Archiving Data in Long-Term Studies: A Reply to Whitlock et al.

scientific article published on 6 January 2016

Sons accelerate maternal aging in a wild mammal

scientific article published on 18 February 2020

Species inflation and taxonomic artefacts—A critical comment on recent trends in mammalian classification

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Spring Normalized Difference Vegetation Index (NDVI) predicts annual variation in timing of peak faecal crude protein in mountain ungulates

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Spring-loaded reproduction: effects of body condition and population size on fertility in migratory caribou (Rangifer tarandus)

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Stochastic predation events and population persistence in bighorn sheep

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Supersize me: heavy eastern grey kangaroo mothers have more sons

article by Camille Le Gall-Payne et al published 11 March 2015 in Behavioral Ecology and Sociobiology

Temperature constraints on foraging behaviour of male Alpine ibex (Capra ibex) in summer

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Temporal Variation in Fitness Components and Population Dynamics of Large Herbivores

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Temporal dynamics of genetic variability in a mountain goat (Oreamnos americanus) population

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Testing the match–mismatch hypothesis in bighorn sheep in the context of climate change

scientific article published in 2021

The Walia ibex is a valuable and distinct conservation unit

The cost of trying: weak interspecific correlations among life-history components in male ungulates

article published in 2012

The effect of radio-collar weight on survival of migratory caribou

scientific article published in 2014

The social system of bighorn sheep: grouping patterns, kinship and female dominance rank

The status of the world's land and marine mammals: diversity, threat, and knowledge

scientific article

To lek or not to lek: mating strategies of male fallow deer

scientific article published in 1992

Towards robust evolutionary inference with integral projection models

Tradeoff between offspring mass and subsequent reproduction in a highly iteroparous mammal

article published in 2011

Undesirable evolutionary consequences of trophy hunting

scientific article published in Nature

Using reproductive value to estimate key parameters in density-independent age-structured populations

scientific article published on 14 August 2006

Variable age structure and apparent density dependence in survival of adult ungulates.

scientific article

Variable social organization is ubiquitous in Artiodactyla and probably evolved from pair-living ancestors

scientific article published on 06 May 2020

Variation in body condition of migratory caribou at calving and weaning: Which measures should we use?

scientific article published in 2011

Vigilance as a measure of fear in dairy cattle

article by T Welp et al published July 2004 in Applied Animal Behaviour Science