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I am a behavioural ecologist and my research interests are centered around the general question of group living in animals and divided in the following themes: Social behaviour, Anti-predatory behaviour of group living prey, the group size effect, social information use, video playbacks and computer-generated animations.

My new challenge as a post-doc at the Institute of Marine Research is to explore this group size effect in a fish species, the Norwegian spring-spawning herring (Clupea harengus), that forms large schools up to several thousands of individuals.

Visit my personal web site for more information (collaborations, publications...):

http://sites.google.com/site/guillaumerieucau/

PUBLICATIONS

Book Chapter

Guillaume Rieucau & Luc-Alain Giraldeau. 2012. Exploring the costs and benefits of social information use: an appraisal of current experimental evidence. In Culture Evolves (Editors A. Whiten, R.A. Hinde, C.B. Stringer & K.N. Laland). Oxford University Press.

Scientific articles

14. Kevin L. Woo & Guillaume Rieucau. Aggressive signal design in the Jacky dragon (Amphibolurus muricatus): Display duration and frequency affect efficacy. Ethology. 118: 157-168.

13. Kevin L. Woo & Guillaume Rieucau. 2011. From dummies to computer-animated stimuli: a synthesis of techniques employed to stage animal interactions. Behavioral Ecology and Sociobiology. 65: 1671-1685.

12. Staffan Jacob, Guillaume Rieucau & Philipp Heeb. 2011. Multimodal begging signals reflect independent indices of nestling condition in European starlings. Behavioral Ecology. Online access.

11. Guillaume Rieucau & Luc-Alain Giraldeau. 2011. Exploring the costs and benefits of social information use: an appraisal of current experimental evidence. Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society B: Biological Sciences. 366: 949-957. Top 10 most cited articles publised in Phi. Trans. B in 2011.

10. William L. Vickery, Guillaume Rieucau & G. Jean Doucet. 2011. Comparing habitat quality within and between environments using giving-up densities: an example based on the winter habitat of white-tailed deer (Odocoileus virginianus). Oikos. 120: 99-1004.

9. Guillaume Rieucau, Julie Morand-Ferron & Luc-Alain Giraldeau. 2010. Group size effect in nutmeg mannikin: between-individuals behavioral differences but same plasticity. Behavioral Ecology. 21: 684-689.

8. Steven Hamblin, Kimberley J. Mathot, Julie Morand-Ferron, Joseph J. Nocera, Guillaume Rieucau & Luc-Alain Giraldeau. 2010. Predator inadvertent social information use favours reduced clumping of its prey. Oikos. 119: 286-291.

7. Guillaume Rieucau & Luc-Alain Giraldeau. 2009. Persuasive companions can be wrong: the use of misleading social information in nutmeg mannikin. Behavioral Ecology. 20: 1217-1222.

6. Guillaume Rieucau & Luc-Alain Giraldeau. 2009. Video playback and social foraging: simulated companions produce the group size effect in nutmeg mannikins. Animal Behaviour. 78: 961-966.

5. Guillaume Rieucau, William L. Vickery & G. Jean Doucet. 2009. A patch use model to separate effects of foraging costs on giving-up densities: an experiment with white-tailed deer (Odocoileus virginianus). Behavioral Ecology and Sociobiology. 63: 891-897.

4. Guillaume Rieucau & Luc-Alain Giraldeau. 2009. Group size effect caused by food competition in nutmeg mannikins (Lonchura punctulata). Behavioral Ecology. 20: 421-425. Nominated for the Pitelka Award of the International Society for Behavioral Ecology.

3. Kevin L. Woo & Guillaume Rieucau. 2008. Considerations in video playback design: using optic flow analysis to examine motion characteristics of live and computer-generated animation sequences. Behavioural Processes. 78: 455-463.

2. Guillaume Rieucau & Julien G. A. Martin. 2008. Many eyes or many ewes: vigilance tactics in female bighorn sheep (Ovis canadensis) vary according to reproductive status. Oikos. 117: 501-506.

1. Guillaume Rieucau, William L. Vickery, G. Jean Doucet & Brigitte Laquerre. 2007. An innovative use of white-tailed deer (Odocoileus virginianus) foraging behaviour in impact studies. Canadian Journal of Zoology. 85: 839-846.