Dominique Berteaux

@dominiqueberteaux.bsky.social

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PhD, Prof. UQAR Québec
Mammal & Bird Ecology, Climate Change, Biodiversity, Arctic, Birding. To my 3 kids: Joy & Hope!
Écologie des mammifères & des oiseaux, changements climatiques, biodiversité, Arctique, ornitho. À mes 3 enfants : Joie & Espoir .. more

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Dominique Berteaux @dominiqueberteaux.bsky.social · 4d

Tu es allé au Japon?

Dominique Berteaux @dominiqueberteaux.bsky.social · 5d

Les castors débarquent en Arctique. J'en ai parlé avec le journaliste scientifique Joël Leblanc @zapiens.bsky.social pour le magazine L'actualité. À lire à lactualite.com/environnemen.... #uqar #wildlife #changementclimatique #faune

Dominique Berteaux @dominiqueberteaux.bsky.social · 8d

J'ai fait plusieurs entrevues ces derniers jours à la radio de Radio-Canada pour parler de nos recherches à l' #uqar sur les ours polaires. Merci à @emiliedesjardins.bsky.social qui y a BEAUCOUP contribué. Lien vers une entrevue représentative: urls.fr/AC3B_N

L’ours polaire de plus en plus présent au sud de son territoire | OHdio | Radio-Canada

Écoutez l’extrait de l’émission L'après-midi est à nous : L’ours polaire de plus en plus présent au sud de son territoire

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Dominique Berteaux @dominiqueberteaux.bsky.social · 8d

Thanks. Here is the full link: besjournals.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/...

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Dominique Berteaux @dominiqueberteaux.bsky.social · 8d

Some had difficulties with the link of my previous post. Here is the full link: besjournals.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/...
🧪🌿🌎🦊 #wildlife #MovementEcology #uqar

Integrating predator energetic balance, risk‐taking behaviour and microhabitat in functional response to untangle indirect interactions in a multispecies vertebrate community

Read the free Plain Language Summary for this article on the Journal blog.

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Dominique Berteaux @dominiqueberteaux.bsky.social · 8d

In Functional Ecology, we integrate predator energy balance into functional responses to better understand tundra species interactions. This paper reflects major field and modelling efforts by our #UQAR team and colleagues. Read: bit.ly/49p6brL 🧪🌿🌎🦊 #wildlife #movementecology #arctic #fox #ecology

An Arctic fox carries a goose egg on Bylot Island, Nunavut. Picture Louis-Pierre Ouellet.

Dominique Berteaux @dominiqueberteaux.bsky.social · 10d

Cette semaine, j’ai cosigné dans La Presse un texte avec d’autres universitaires et chercheurs pour demander au gouvernement du Québec de renoncer à affaiblir la gouvernance climatique de la province. #uqar. À lire ici : bit.ly/4ilGWJz

Fumée ou vapeur qui se dégage d'une cheminée. PHOTO ALAIN ROBERGE, ARCHIVES LA PRESSE

Dominique Berteaux @dominiqueberteaux.bsky.social · 10d

In Molecular Ecology, we trace the origins of domestic Arctic fox lineages by comparing genomes of farmed and wild foxes. Congrats to Christopher Cockerill for leading the study; I contributed modestly with samples from Bylot Island. Read: bit.ly/4nRagIJ. 🧪🌿🌎🦊 #wildlife

Arctic fox on Bylot Island. Winter fur. Picture taken in May by Dominique Berteaux.

Reposted by Marco Festa‐Bianchet, Dominique Berteaux, Ryan K. Brook , and 1 more Marco Festa‐Bianchet, Dominique Berteaux, Ryan K. Brook, Benjamin Larue

Aerin Jacob, PhD @aerinj.bsky.social · 16d

[8 Nov 2025] Another roundup of #ConservationJobs, mostly in 🇨🇦.

All postings include salary. I am not involved in these positions.

Please share to help others — working to conserve nature is rewarding and needed!

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Dominique Berteaux @dominiqueberteaux.bsky.social · 23d

Ma fille Rose est sur place pour ses études. Qu’est-ce que ça doit être impressionnant.

Nahel Belgherze @wxnb.bsky.social · 24d

NOAA aerial imagery is coming in. Hurricane Melissa literally turned western Jamaica from green to brown. Vegetation damage is immense — recovery will take years.

Dominique Berteaux @dominiqueberteaux.bsky.social · 24d

Stunning illustration of mimicry! Common cuckoo eggs (top row) imitate the eggs of their host species (bottom row). The 30 October issue of Science explains this dazzling coevolution with genomic data — though I admit, it’s complex enough that I’d struggle to teach it! 🧪🌿🌎🦉

The common cuckoo (Cuculus canorus) has evolved egg features (top row) to mimic eggs of different host species (bottom row). PHOTO: SWETLANA MESHCHERYAGINA0

Reposted by Peter Thorne, Dominique Berteaux, Suzanne de Cheveigné , and 1 more Peter Thorne, Dominique Berteaux, Suzanne de Cheveigné, Sheila R. Foster

Nahel Belgherze @wxnb.bsky.social · 24d

NOAA aerial imagery is coming in. Hurricane Melissa literally turned western Jamaica from green to brown. Vegetation damage is immense — recovery will take years.

Dominique Berteaux @dominiqueberteaux.bsky.social · 24d

Les risques de désinformation climatique liés à l’IA. J’en ai parlé hier à la radio de Radio-Canada avec Patrick Lavoie, animateur de l’émission L’après-midi à nous. #climat #désinformation #IA #IntelligenceArtificielle #uqar #radio-canada À écouter ici 👉 urls.fr/d6RA_D

Source de la photo: https://dailygeekshow.com/lia-une-arme-contre-le-chaos-climatique-elle-peut-anticiper-les-catastrophes-mais-son-cout-environnemental-inquiete-les-scientifiques/

Dominique Berteaux @dominiqueberteaux.bsky.social · 25d

Un renard arctique à Paris ! Merci à @audelalis.bsky.social de m’avoir fait découvrir l’exposition Désert au Muséum national d’histoire naturelle. Je visitais les lieux pour préparer une rencontre scientifique internationale qui, je l’espère, aura lieu au Muséum dans quelques années. 🧪🌿🌎🦊

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daveganicca.bsky.social @daveganicca.bsky.social · Oct 26

Reminds me of this…

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Dominique Berteaux @dominiqueberteaux.bsky.social · Oct 24

Camera traps in the polar desert: intriguing head movements of a male Snowy Owl perched on a bed of purple saxifrage. From our biodiversity monitoring study area at CFS Alert, Nunavut, Canada. 🌿🌎🦉 #wildlife

Reposted by Thilina D. Surasinghe

Dominique Berteaux @dominiqueberteaux.bsky.social · Oct 24

'What makes PhD students happy? Good supervision. Supervisors who invest in positive mentoring relationships with their PhD candidates also reap the benefits for their own research.' Nature, 23 Oct 2025. I’m amazed this is framed as a revelation — it’s pure common sense. 🧪🌎🌐

Reposted by Marco Festa‐Bianchet, Julie L. Lockwood, Benjamin Larue

Dominique Berteaux @dominiqueberteaux.bsky.social · Oct 17

Camera traps in the polar desert: At 82°30′ North, this Peary caribou grazes atop a hill — and atop the world. From our biodiversity monitoring study area at CFS Alert, Nunavut, Canada (2 July 2025). 🧪🌿🌎🦊 #wildlife

Reposted by Benjamin Larue

Dominique Berteaux @dominiqueberteaux.bsky.social · Oct 16

Amazing. From: The global biomass of wild mammals, PNAS (2023), 120 (10) e2204892120
doi.org/10.1073/pnas...

A graph showing how the global biomass of wild mammals is small compared to that of humans and domesticated mammals.

Dominique Berteaux @dominiqueberteaux.bsky.social · Oct 16

Studying Arctic foxes on Bylot Island (Nunavut, Canada), or being studied by them? The collared fox in this photo is a male named Ram, captured this summer. Great shot by my excellent MSc student Laurianne Dumont. 🧪🌿🌎🦊 #MovementEcology #wildlife

Two Arctic foxes examine a tent on Bylot Island (Nunavut, Canada). Picture: Laurianne Dumont, 2025.

Dominique Berteaux @dominiqueberteaux.bsky.social · Oct 16

Camera traps in the polar desert: A polar bear grazing on vegetation beside one of our arthropod traps — a rare sight in our biodiversity monitoring study area at CFS Alert, Nunavut, Canada. Not sure why they do this, but it’s not unheard of. 🧪🌿🌎🦊🐻‍❄️ #wildlife

Dominique Berteaux @dominiqueberteaux.bsky.social · Oct 15

Animals don’t know they’ll soon be released when we trap them for tagging. I couldn’t help but wonder what went through the mind of this Arctic fox as I held her (Bylot Island, Nunavut, Canada, summer 2025).🧪🌿🌎🦊

Zooming on the eye of an Arctic fox as she is held firmly for tagging. Photo: Dominique Berteaux, Bylot Island, summer 2025.

Dominique Berteaux @dominiqueberteaux.bsky.social · Oct 13

Last year I set up four polar bear sampling stations in our study area at Alert (Nunavut, Canada). Goal: collect pictures and hairs to document the understudied Arctic Basin population. This one, from 8 August 2025, is our first good photo ! 🧪🌿🌎🌐🦑🦊 (barbed wire for genetic hair collection visible)

A polar bear visiting one of our sampling stations in our study area at Alert (Nunavut, Canada). The picture shows a polar bear and the barbed wire collecting hairs for genetic analyses.

Dominique Berteaux @dominiqueberteaux.bsky.social · Oct 13

You don’t need to love birding to enjoy Northern Gannets gliding at sunset over a calm sea. Picture taken during a boat trip off Prince Edward Island, Canada on August 4th, 2025.🌿🌎🦉🦑

Two Northern Gannets (one far away and the other very close by) glide at sunset over a calm sea. Picture taken by Dominique Berteaux during a boat trip off Prince Edward Island, Canada on August 4th, 2025.

Dominique Berteaux @dominiqueberteaux.bsky.social · Oct 12

You know you love birding when… you double-check that this young Great Black-backed Gull has all 12 retrices (tail feathers) as expected. Picture taken during a boat trip off Prince Edward Island, Canada on August 4th, 2025.🌿🌎🦉🦑

Young Great Black-backed Gull flying away from the boat. Picture taken by Dominique Berteaux during a boat trip off Prince Edward Island, Canada on August 4th, 2025.

Dominique Berteaux @dominiqueberteaux.bsky.social · Oct 12

You know you love birding when… you find the molting pattern in the primaries of this adult American Herring Gull both 'very interesting' and 'aesthetic.' Picture taken during a boat trip off Prince Edward Island, Canada on August 4th, 2025.🌿🌎🦉🦑

Flying adult American Herring Gull with molting primaries. Picture : Dominique Berteaux, Prince Edward Island, Canada, August 4th, 2025.

Dominique Berteaux @dominiqueberteaux.bsky.social · Oct 12

Took hundreds of pictures this summer on Bylot Island (Nunavut, Canada), but only now had time to go through them. This molting Arctic fox giving a cute nose-lick while staring at me in the tundra is one of my favorites. 🌿🦊

Molting Arctic fox in the tundra, giving a cute nose-lick. Photo: Dominique Berteaux."

Dominique Berteaux @dominiqueberteaux.bsky.social · Oct 10

Short visit last week at the Churchill Wildlife Management Area (Manitoba, Canada). A bit early for polar bears 🐻‍❄️, but a few were already around! 🌿🦑🦊Learn more about the place: environmentalchange.hsieteachers.com/churchill---...

Dominique Berteaux visiting the the Churchill Wildlife Management Area (Manitoba, Canada).

Dominique Berteaux @dominiqueberteaux.bsky.social · Oct 10

Very interesting week at the 7th International Arctic Fox Conference, held last week at the Churchill Northern Studies Centre (Manitoba, Canada). Little time to explore, but spotted many beluga whales and one polar bear! 🧪🌿🌎🦑🦊🐻‍❄️https://churchillscience.ca/international-fox-conference/

International Arctic Fox Conference - Churchill Northern Studies Centre

seventh international conference in arctic fox biology 2025 churchill, Manitoba We’re excited to announce that the 7th International Arctic Fox Conference will be held September 26 – 29, 2025 in Churc...

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