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Advancing mate choice studies in salmonids by Auld, Heather L., Noakes, David L. G., Banks, Michael A.

“…Mate choice in most organisms is not random, but determined by a suite of interacting traits and environmental factors. While the selective pressures…”
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Do male Trinidadian guppies adjust their alternative mating tactics in the presence of a rival male audience? by Auld, Heather L, Jeswiet, Sarah B, Godin, Jean-Guy J

“…Males in polygamous mating systems may inadvertently transmit information regarding their mating preferences to bystanding sexual competitors, thereby…”
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Sexual voyeurs and copiers: social copying and the audience effect on male mate choice in the guppy by Auld, Heather L, Godin, Jean-Guy J

“…In most mating systems, males and females are commonly within signalling and receiving distance of conspecifics during courtship and mating activities…”
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On the relevance of animal behavior to the management and conservation of fishes and fisheries by Cooke, Steven J., Auld, Heather L., Birnie-Gauvin, Kim, Elvidge, Chris K., Piczak, Morgan L., Twardek, William M., Raby, Graham D., Brownscombe, Jacob W., Midwood, Jonathan D., Lennox, Robert J., Madliger, Christine, Wilson, Alexander D. M., Binder, Thomas R., Schreck, Carl B., McLaughlin, Robert L., Grant, James, Muir, Andrew M.

“…There are many syntheses on the role of animal behavior in understanding and mitigating conservation threats for wildlife. That body of work has inspired the…”
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Do Males Form Social Associations Based on Sexual Attractiveness in a Fission-Fusion Fish Society? by Auge, Anne-Christine, Auld, Heather L, Sherratt, Thomas N, Godin, Jean-Guy J

“…Recent theory predicts that males should choose social environments that maximize their relative attractiveness to females by preferentially associating with…”
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Independent Mating Preferences for Male Body Size and Coloration in Female Trinidadian Guppies by Auld, Heather L., Pusiak, Ryan J. P., Godin, Jean-Guy J.

“…Although females in numerous species generally prefer males with larger, brighter and more elaborate sexual traits, there is nonetheless considerable intra‐…”
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Covariation and repeatability of male mating effort and mating preferences in a promiscuous fish by Godin, Jean‐Guy J., Auld, Heather L.

“…Although mate choice by males does occur in nature, our understanding of its importance in driving evolutionary change remains limited compared with that for…”
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Do female fruit flies ( Drosophila serrata) copy the mate choice of others? by Auld, Heather L., Punzalan, David, Godin, Jean-Guy J., Rundle, Howard D.

“…Female mate-choice copying is a social learning phenomenon whereby a female's observation of a successful sexual interaction between a male and another female…”
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Male mate choice in the Trinidadian guppy is influenced by the phenotype of audience sexual rivals by Auld, Heather L., Ramnarine, Indar W., Godin, Jean-Guy J.

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Relative sexual attractiveness does not influence mate-choice copying in male Trinidadian guppies, Poecilia reticulata by Pusiak, Ryan J.P., Auld, Heather L., Godin, Jean-Guy J.

“…Copying the mate choice of another conspecific by a bystanding observer is a socially mediated alternative mating strategy to independent mate choice. Because…”
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A risk modeling framework to evaluate the impacts of climate change and adaptation on food and water safety by Smith, Ben A., Ruthman, Todd, Sparling, Erik, Auld, Heather, Comer, Neil, Young, Ian, Lammerding, Anna M., Fazil, Aamir

“…Climate change may be a factor leading to increased risks of food- and waterborne illnesses from consumption of existing and emerging biological hazards. It is…”
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An integrated approach for identifying homogeneous regions of extreme rainfall events and estimating IDF curves in Southern Ontario, Canada: Incorporating radar observations by Paixao, Edson, Mirza, M. Monirul Qader, Shephard, Mark W., Auld, Heather, Klaassen, Joan, Smith, Graham

“…•We show radar rainfall rate observations supplements sparse TBRG network observations.•We compare IDF values generated from radar data to in situ…”
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Possible impacts of climate change on extreme weather events at local scale in south–central Canada by Cheng, Chad Shouquan, Auld, Heather, Li, Qian, Li, Guilong

“…Synoptic weather typing and regression-based downscaling approaches have become popular in evaluating the impacts of climate change on a variety of…”
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The impacts of the PNA and NAO on annual maximum snowpack over southern Canada during 1979–2009 by Zhao, Hongxu, Higuchi, Kaz, Waller, James, Auld, Heather, Mote, Thomas

“…The Pacific/North American pattern (PNA) and North Atlantic Oscillation (NAO) are two of the most important atmospheric low‐frequency variability modes…”
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HEAVY RAINFALL AND WATERBORNE DISEASE OUTBREAKS: THE WALKERTON EXAMPLE by Auld, Heather, MacIver, D., Klaassen, J.

“…Recent research indicates that excessive rainfall has been a significant contributor to historical waterborne disease outbreaks. The Meteorological Service of…”
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Predicting the Climatology of Tornado Occurrences in North America with a Bayesian Hierarchical Modeling Framework by Cheng, Vincent Y. S., Arhonditsis, George B., Sills, David M. L., Gough, William A., Auld, Heather

“…Destruction and fatalities from recent tornado outbreaks in North America have raised considerable concerns regarding their climatic and geographic…”
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Possible Impacts of Climate Change on Freezing Rain Using Downscaled Future Climate Scenarios: Updated for Eastern Canada by Cheng, Chad Shouquan, Li, Guilong, Auld, Heather

“…The methods used in an earlier study focusing on the province of Ontario, Canada, were adapted for this current study to expand the study area over eastern…”
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Possible Impacts of Climate Change on Wind Gusts under Downscaled Future Climate Conditions over Ontario, Canada by Cheng, Chad Shouquan, Li, Guilong, Li, Qian, Auld, Heather, Fu, Chao

“…Hourly/daily wind gust simulation models and regression-based downscaling methods were developed to assess possible impacts of climate change on future…”
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Probability of Tornado Occurrence across Canada by Cheng, Vincent Y. S., Arhonditsis, George B., Sills, David M. L., Auld, Heather, Shephard, Mark W., Gough, William A., Klaassen, Joan

“…The number of tornado observations in Canada is believed to be significantly lower than the actual occurrences. To account for this bias, the authors propose a…”
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A Synoptic Weather-Typing Approach to Project Future Daily Rainfall and Extremes at Local Scale in Ontario, Canada by Cheng, Chad Shouquan, Li, Guilong, Li, Qian, Auld, Heather

“…This paper attempts to project possible changes in the frequency of daily rainfall events late in this century for four selected river basins (i.e., Grand,…”
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