Publications & Presentations
2024
10. Sauve, D., Charmantier, A., A, Hatch, S.A., Friesen, V.L. The magnitude of selection on growth varies among years and increases under warming conditions in a subarctic seabird In press for Evolution Letters
2023
9. Sauve, D., Friesen, V. L., Hatch, S. A., Elliott, K. H., Charmantier, A. Shifting environmental predictors of phenotypes under climate change: a case study of growth in high latitude seabirds. Journal of Avian Biology.
2022
8. Kerr, K. C., Sauve, D., Winton, S. Thorne, T. J., Chabot, A. A. Examining the representation of locally threatened species North American zoos. In press for Animal Conservation.
7. Sauve, D., Hudecki, J., Steiner, J., Lynch, C., Chabot A. A. Improving species conservation plans under IUCN's One Plan Approach using quantitative genetic methods. In recommendation process for Peer Community In Zoology.
6. Sauve, D., Charmantier, A., Hatch, S.A., Friesen, V.L. 2022. Effects of the environment on growth vary across the breeding season in a subarctic seabird. Oecologia. 198, 307-318.
2021
5. Friesen, V.L., Brunt, R., Morris-Pocock, J.A., Sauve, D., Baker, A.J., Birt, T.P., Davidson, W.S., Elliott, K.H., Montevecchi, W.A. 2021. A test of mechanisms of population differentiation in gannets (genus Morus) using comparative phylogeography and morphometrics. Marine Ornithology. 49, 275-291.
4. Sauve, D., Friesen, V.L., Charmantier, A. 2021. The effects of weather on avian growth and implications for adaptation to climate change. Frontiers in Ecology and Evolution.
2020
3. Sauve, D., Dale, C., Tigano, A., Ratcliffe, L., and Friesen, V.L. 2021. Do candidate genes for migration and behaviour explain migratory variation in bluebirds (Sialia spp.)? The Wilson Journal of Ornithology. 132, 820-829.
2019
2. Sauve D., Divoky, G., Friesen, V.L. Phenotypic plasticity or evolutionary change? An examination of the phenological response of an Arctic seabird to climate change. Functional Ecology 33, 2180-2190. Made the cover of the journal and featured in a National Geographic Article and spotlight feature in Functional Ecology.
Sauve D., Patirana A., Chardine J.W. , Friesen, V.L. Mitochondrial DNA reveals genetic structure within the Atlantic but not Pacific populations of a holarctic seabird, the Black-legged Kittiwake Rissa tridactyla. Marine Ornithology 47, 199-208.
Presentations
Sauve, D., Friesen, V.L., Teplitsky, C., Hatch, S.A., Charmantier, A. 2021. Impacts of fluctuating environmental conditions and experimental feeding on selection of growth in black-legged kittiwakes. Presentation. Virtual Evolution 2021.
Sauve, D., Friesen, V. L., Divoky, G. J., Hatch, S. A., Elliott, K. H., Gaston, A.J., Charamantier, A. 2020. Ecological and evolutionary impacts of climate change on the phenology and growth of seabirds. Presentation. Seminars in Ecology and Evolution. Centre d'Ecologie Fonctionelle & Evolutive,Montpellier, France.
Sauve, D., Chabot, A. A. The value of quantitative genetics for managing captive breeding populations. 2019. Presentation. African Lion Safari, Cambridge, Ontario.
Sauve, D., Charmantier, A., Divoky G., Hatch, S., Elliott, K., Gaston, T., Friesen V. 2019. Evolution. Variation in chick growth in response to climate change in three high latitude seabird species. Poster. Providence, Rhode Island.
Sauve, D., Divoky, G., and Friesen V. 2018. Queen’s University. Biology Graduate Student Day. Phenological change in Mandt’s Black Guillemot is driven by phenotypic plasticity. Presentation. Kingston, Ontario.
Sauve, D., Divoky, G., and Friesen V. 2018. Queen’s University. American Genetics Associations: Quantitative Genetics in the Wild. Phenological change in Mandt’s Black Guillemot is driven by phenotypic plasticity. Poster. Toronto, Ontario.
Sauve, D., Divoky, G., and Friesen V. 2017. Disentangling evolutionary and plastic change in the laying date of an Arctic seabird. Wild Animal Modelling Biennial Meeting. Presentation. Saint-Michel-Des-Saints, Quebec.
Sauve, D., Divoky, G., and Friesen V.2017. Phenotypic plasticity drives phenological change in Mandt’s Black Guillemot. ArcticNet. Poster. Quebec City, Quebec.