vincent careau - Functional Ecology Lab

VINCENT CAREAU
Centre for Integrative Ecology
Deakin University
Waurn Ponds, Victoria 3216
Australia
http://vincentcareau.weebly.com/
Cell: (61) 0429 693 543
Work: (61) 0352 273 248
[email protected]
PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE
2013-
Alfred Deakin Postdoctoral Research fellow (Alfred Deakin University):
 Projects: - Heritability of individual differences in thermal sensitivity
- Covariance among physiological and behavioural reaction norms
2011-2012
NSERC Postdoctoral Research fellow (University of California, Riverside):
 Director: Theodore Garland, Jr.
 Projects: - Quantitative genetics and artificial selection experiments
- Constraints on intense physical activity: heat dissipation
- Exploratory behaviour in mice bred for high activity
2007-2010
Ph.D. in biology (Université de Sherbrooke):
 Directors: Murray Humphries, Denis Réale, Fanie Pelletier
 Thesis: Energetics, life-history, and animal personality
2004-2006
M.Sc. in biology (Université du Québec à Montréal) :
 Directors: Jean-François Giroux and Dominique Berteaux
 Thesis: Arctic fox foraging behaviour in an arctic snow goose colony
2000-2003
B. Sc. in biology (Université de Sherbrooke):
 Projects: - Raptor migration in temperate versus tropical sites
- Climate effect on basal metabolic rate in Canids
2013-2014
2012
Alfred Deakin Postdoctoral Research Fellowship (150 000$, 2 years)
Cameron Award, author of an outstanding Ph.D. Thesis in Zoology submitted
to a Canadian University, Canadian Society of Zoologists
Best Ph.D. dissertation of the year, Faculty of Sciences, Université de
Sherbrooke (1500$)
Young investigator travel award, SICB (1000$)
Postdoctoral fellowship, NSERC (80 000$; 2 years)
Postdoctoral fellowship, FQRNT (60 000$; declined)
PhD fellowship, NSERC (63 000$; 3 years)
Travel grant for conference in Dijon, France (180$)
PhD fellowship, FQRNT (60 000$; declined)
Winner of the science popularization contest organized by ACFAS
Travel grant for field work in Nunavut, Canada (2000$)
Excellence grant, UQAM foundation (2000$)
Travel grant for field work in Costa Rica (3000$)
EDUCATION
GRANTS AND HONORS
2011
2011
2011-2012
2010
2007-2010
2008
2007
2007
2005
2005
2002
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PUBLICATIONS
35. Careau V, Montiglio PO, Garant D, Pelletier F, Speakman JR, Humphries MM & Réale
D. (2015) Energy expenditure and personality in wild chipmunks. Behavioral Ecology
and Sociobiology.
34. Careau V, Buttemer WA & KL Buchanan. 2014 Developmental stress can uncouple
relationships between physiology and behaviour. Biology Letters 10: 20140834.
33. Careau V, Hoye, BJ, O’Dwyer TW & WA Buttemer. 2014. Among- and within-individual
correlations between basal and maximal metabolic rates in birds. Journal of
Experimental Biology 217: 3593-3596.
32. Careau V, Buttemer WA & KL Buchanan. 2014. Early developmental stress,
repeatability, and canalization in a suite of physiological and behavioral traits in female
zebra finches. Integrative and Comparative Biology 54:539–554.
31. Careau V, Biro P, Bonneaud C, Fokam EB & A Herrel. 2014. Individual variation in
thermal performance curves: swimming burst speed and jumping endurance in wildcaught tropical clawed frogs. Oecologia 175: 471-480.
30. Careau V, Gifford ME & P Biro. 2014. Individual (co)variation in thermal reaction norms
of standard and maximal metabolic rates in wild-caught slimy salamanders. Functional
Ecology 28: 1175-1186.
29. Gifford ME, Clay TA & V Careau. 2014. Individual (co)variation in standard metabolic
rate, feeding rate, and exploratory behavior in wild-caught semi-aquatic salamanders.
Physiological and Biochemical Zoology 87: 384-96
28. Jacobs C, van Overveld T, Careau V, Matthysen E, Adriaensen F & H Slabbekoorn. 2014.
Personality-dependent playback response in territorial great tits. Animal Behaviour 90:
65-71.
27. van Overveld T, Careau V, Adriaensen F & E Matthysen. 2014. Seasonal- and sexspecific correlations between dispersal and exploratory behaviour in the great tit.
Oecologia 174: 109-120.
26. Dlugosz EM, Chappell MA, Meek TH, Szafrańska P, Zub K, Konarzewski M, Jones JH,
Bicudo JEPW, Nespolo RF, Careau V & T Garland, Jr. 2013. Phylogenetic analysis of
mammalian maximal oxygen consumption during exercise. Journal of Experimental
Biology 216:4712-4721.
25. Careau V, Wolak ME, Carter PA & T Garland Jr. 2013. Limits to behavioral evolution:
the quantitative genetics of a complex trait under directional selection. Evolution 67:
3102-3119.
24. Boyles JG, Thompson AB, McKechnie AE, Malan E, Humphries MM & V Careau. 2013.
A global heterothermic continuum in mammals. Global Ecology and Biogeography
22:1029-1039.
23. Careau V. 2013. Basal metabolic rate, maximum thermogenic capacity, and aerobic scope
in rodents: interaction between environmental temperature and torpor use. Biology
Letters 9: 20121104.
22. Careau V, Réale D, Garant D, Pelletier F, Speakman JR, & MM Humphries. 2013.
Context-dependent correlation between resting metabolic rate and daily energy
expenditure in wild chipmunks. Journal of Experimental Biology 216: 416-426.
21. Careau V, Bergeron P, Garant D, Réale D, Speakman JR & MM Humphries. 2013. The
energetic and survival costs of growth in free-ranging chipmunks. Oecologia 171:11-23.
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20. Careau V & T Garland Jr. 2012. Performance, personality and energetics: correlation,
causation and mechanism? Physiological and Biochemical Zoology 85: 543-571.
19. Careau V, Bininda-Emonds ORP, Ordonez G, & T Garland Jr. 2012. Are voluntary wheel
running and open-field behavior correlated in mice? Different answers from comparative
and artificial selection approaches. Behavior Genetics 42:830-844.
18. Careau V, Réale D, Garant D & MM Humphries. 2012. Free-ranging eastern chipmunks
infected with bot fly larvae have higher resting but lower maximum metabolism.
Canadian Journal of Zoology 90: 413-421.
17. Careau V, Réale D, Garant D, Speakman, JR & Humphries. 2012. Stress-induced rise in
body temperature is repeatable in free-ranging Eastern chipmunks (Tamias striatus).
Journal of Comparative Physiology B 182: 403-414.
16. Bergeron P, Careau V, Humphries MM, Réale D, Speakman J & D Garant. 2011. The
energetic and oxidative costs of reproduction in a free-ranging rodent. Functional
Ecology 25: 1063-1071.
15. Careau V, Thomas D, Pelletier F, Turki L, Landry F, Garant D & D Réale. 2011. Genetic
correlation between resting metabolic rate and exploratory behaviour in deer mice
(Peromyscus maniculatus). Journal of Evolutionary Biology 24: 2153-2163.
14. Humphries MM & V Careau. 2011. Heat for nothing or activity for free? Evidence and
implications of activity-thermoregulatory heat substitution. Integrative and
Comparative Biology 51: 419-431.
13. Réale D, Garant D, Humphries MM, Bergeron P, Careau V & PO Montiglio. 2010.
Personality and the emergence of the pace-of-life syndrome concept at the population
level. Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society of London B 365: 4051-4063.
12. Careau V, Réale D, Humphries MM & D Thomas. 2010. The pace of life under artificial
selection: personality, energy expenditure and longevity are correlated in domestic dogs.
American Naturalist 175: 753-758.
11. Careau V, Thomas D, & MM Humphries. 2010. Energetic cost of bot fly parasitism in
free-ranging eastern chipmunks. Oecologia 162: 303-312.
10. Mathot KJ, Godde S, Careau V, Thomas D & LA Giraldeau. 2009. Testing dynamic
variance-sensitive foraging using individual differences in basal metabolic rates of zebra
finches. Oikos 118: 545-552.
9. Careau V, Bininda-Emonds ORP, Thomas D, Humphries MM & D Réale. 2009.
Exploration strategies map along fast-slow metabolic and life-history continua in muroid
rodents. Functional Ecology 23: 150-156.
8. Careau V, Thomas D, Humphries, MM & D Réale. 2008. Energy metabolism and animal
personality. Oikos 117: 641-653.
7. Careau V, Giroux JF, Gauthier G & D Berteaux. 2008. Surviving on cached foods – the
energetics of egg-caching by arctic foxes. Canadian Journal of Zoology 86: 1217-1223.
6. Careau V, Lecomte N, Bêty J, Giroux JF, Gauthier G & D Berteaux. 2008. Hoarding of
pulsed resources: temporal variations in egg-caching by arctic fox. Écoscience 15: 268276.
5. Lecomte N, Careau V, Gauthier G & JF Giroux. 2008. Predator behaviour and predation
risk in the heterogeneous Arctic environment. Journal of Animal Ecology 77: 439-447.
4. Careau V, Giroux JF & D Berteaux. 2007. Cache and carry: hoarding behaviour of arctic
fox. Behavioral Ecology and Sociobiology 62: 87-96.
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3. Careau V, Lecomte N, Giroux, JF & D Berteaux. 2007. Common ravens raid Arctic fox
food caches. Journal of Ethology 25: 79-82.
2. Careau V, Morand-Ferron J & D Thomas. 2007. Basal metabolic rate of Canidae from hot
deserts to cold arctic climates. Journal of Mammalogy 88: 394-400.
1. Careau V, Therrien JF, Porras P, Thomas D & KL Bildstein. 2006. Soaring and gliding
flight of migrating broad-winged hawks: behavior in the nearctic and neotropics
compared. The Wilson Journal of Ornithology 118: 471-477.
BOOK CHAPTERS
1.Careau V, Killen SS & Metcalfe NB. (2014) Adding fuel to the “fire of life”: energy
budgets across levels of variation in ectotherms and endotherms. Pages 219-234 in
“Integrative Organismal Biology”, eds LB Martin, HA Woods & C Ghalambor. (Wiley,
publisher).
SUBMITTED MANUSCRIPTS, OR TO BE RE-SUBMITTED
1. Careau V, Wolak ME, Carter PA & T Garland Jr. (first revision) Selection on behaviour
changes its genetic architecture and constrains further evolution. Proceedings of the
Royal Society of London B.
2. Mariette MM, Buchanan KL, Buttemer WA & V Careau. (first revision) Tough decisions:
reproductive timing and output vary with individuals’ physiology, behavior and past
success in a social opportunistic breeder. Hormones and Behavior.
3. White CR, Careau V, Wilson RS & D Ortiz-Barrientos (submitted) The ghost of climate
past: palaeoclimate influences the life histories of living mammals. American
Naturalist.
4. Sherman CDH, ab Rahim ES, Olsson M, & V Careau (submitted) Fertilization
environment mediates gamete compatibility. American Naturalist.
INVITED SEMINARS
2014 University of Ottawa, Ottawa, Canada.
2014 University of Queensland, Brisbane, Queensland, Australia.
2014 Australian National University, Canberra, Australia.
2014 Queen’s University, Kingston, Ontario, Canada.
2013 University of Sydney, Australia.
2013 University of Groningen, Groningen, Netherlands.
2013 Deakin University, Waurn Ponds, Victoria, Australia.
2013 University of Toronto, Mississauga, Ontario, Canada.
2012 Society for Experimental Biology Annual Conference, Salzburg, Austria.
2012 Université de Montréal, Montréal, Québec, Canada.
2012 51st meeting of the Canadian Society of Zoologists, Mount Allison University,
Sackville, NB, Canada. (Cameron award lecture).
2012 California State University, San Bernardino, USA.
2011 University of California, Riverside, USA.
2011 8th International Congress of Comparative Physiology and Biochemistry, Nagoya,
Japan.
2010 Université du Québec à Rimouski, Rimouski, Canada.
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2008 European Conference on Behavioural Biology, Université de Bourgogne, Dijon,
France
ORAL PRESENTATIONS
2014 Australian Society of Herpetologists conference, Canberra, Australia.
2013 Australian and New Zealand Society for Comparative Physiology and
Biochemistry meeting, Melbourne, Australia.
2013 International Conference on Individual Differences, Groningen, The Netherlands.
2013 Australasian Evolution Society conference, Geelong, Australia.
2012 Evolution, Ottawa, Canada.
2012 Experimental Biology, San Diego, California.
2011 Société Québécoise pour l’Étude Biologique du Comportement, Université de
Sherbrooke, Canada.
2011 Society for Integrative and Comparative Biology, Salt Lake City, USA.
2010 Société Québécoise pour l’Étude Biologique du Comportement, McGill University,
Ste-Ane-de-Bellevue, Canada.
2010 Canadian society for Ecology and Evolution, Université Laval, Québec, Canada.
2010 Society for Integrative and Comparative Biology, Seattle, USA.
2009 Edward Grey Ornithology Institute, Oxford, England.
2009 Société Québécoise pour l’Étude Biologique du Comportement, UQTR, TroisRivière, Canada.
2009 Canadian society for Ecology and Evolution, Dalhousie University, Halifax, Canada.
2006 Société Québécoise pour l’Étude Biologique du Comportement, UQÀM, Montréal,
Canada.
2005 Société Québécoise pour l’Étude Biologique du Comportement, Université
Concordia, Montréal, Canada.
2005 Northeast Ecology and Evolution Conference, Penn State University, State College,
USA.
2004 Société Québécoise pour l’Étude Biologique du Comportement, Université de
Sherbrooke, Canada.
2003 Société Québécoise pour l’Étude Biologique du Comportement, Université McGill,
Montréal, Canada.
OTHER PUBLICATIONS
12. Careau V. 2011. Book review: The Flexible Phenotype. Écoscience 18.
11. Wojciechowski MS, Humphries MM, Careau V & B Pinshow. 2011. Environment,
energetics and fitness: a symposium honoring Donald W. Thomas. Introduction to the
symposium. Integrative and Comparative Biology 51: 333-336.
10. Careau V. 2010. Déterminants écologiques, biodémographiques et comportementaux des
dépenses énergétiques chez les mammifères. Ph.D. dissertation in biology, Université de
Sherbrooke.
9. Careau V. 2010. View from the winter conference 2009. ASAB E-Newsletter, Jan 2010.
8. Careau V & Fenton B. 2009. Obituary: Donald W. Thomas (1953-2009) Écoscience 16(4):
iii-iv.
7. Careau V. 2007. Le renard arctique, l'oie et le corbeau. Découvrir, 29(3): p33.
6. Careau V. 2007. Book review: Analysis of phylogenetics and evolution with R. Écoscience
14: 399-400.
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5. Careau V. 2008. Le renard carbure aux oeufs. Le soleil. 10 janvier 2008.
4. Careau V. 2007. Prêt pas prêt j’y vais… ou j’y vais pas? La prise de risque sous le regard
d’un écologiste du comportement. L’Organe. November edition.
3. Careau V. 2006. Le retour du loup dans le sud du Québec serait une bonne nouvelle. La
Grande Époque. Section Environnement, December 12-18.
2. Careau V. 2006. Comportement de mise en réserve du renard arctique dans une colonie
d’oies des neiges à l’île Bylot, Nunavut. Master in biology, UQÀM.
1. Careau V. 2006. La Société Québécoise pour l’Étude Biologique du Comportement. La
Grande Époque. Section Sciences, November 7-13.
PEER-REVIEWING SERVICES FOR
SCIENTIFIC JOURNALS:
 Acta Ethologica
 American Naturalist (2x)
 Animal Behaviour (6x)
 Behaviour (2x)
 Behavioral Ecology (2x)
 Behavioral Ecology and Sociobiology (4x)
 Biology Letters (3x)
 Canadian Journal of Zoology
 Comprehensive Physiology (2x)
 Ecography
 Ecology Letters
 Evolution
 Evolutionary Ecology
 Functional Ecology (5x)
 Ibis
 Journal of Animal Ecology (4x)
 Journal of Animal Science
 Journal of Biogeography
 Journal of Experimental Biology (3x)
 Journal of Experimental Zoology
 Journal of Field Ornithology
 Oecologia (3x)
 Oikos (3x)
 PLoS ONE
 Mammalian Biology
 Physiological and Biochemical Zoology
(5x)
 Physiology and Behavior
 Proceedings of the Royal Society of
London B (2x)
 Trends in Ecology and Evolution
FUNDING AGENCIES:
 National Science Foundation
 Research Foundation - Flanders (Fonds Wetenschappelijk Onderzoek - Vlaanderen, FWO)
TEACHING EXPERIENCE
2010
Guest lecture on energetics, undergrad course on ecophysiology given by P.
Bourgault, Université de Sherbrooke.
2010
Guest lecture on personality, undergrad course on behavioural ecology given by
F. Pelletier, Université de Sherbrooke.
2007-2008 Guest lecture on the role of phylogeny in evolutionary ecology, undergrad course
on taxonomy given by P. Bourgault, Université de Sherbrooke.
2005
Hours of teaching assistant in the laboratory section of the animal ecology
course, given by C. Gouraud, UQÀM.
Naturalist at the La Mauricie National Park.
2001
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MEDIA ATTENTION
Paper #12: ScienceNOW, SciencePODCAST, New Scientist, New York Times, and many
newspapers, radio stations, and television appearance at “Le code Chastenay”.
UNDERGRADUATE MENTORSHIP
2011
G. Ordonez and P. Chan, Riverside, CA
2007-2008 R. Morisset, J.-P. Boyer, and M. Descôteaux, Mansonville, QC
2004-2005 A. Lycke and G. Darou, Île Bylot, Nunavut
ACADEMIC INVOLVMENT
2004-2006 Graduate Student Representative to Biology Department (UQÀM)
FIELDWORK EXPERIENCES
Autumn 2006,
Summers 2007-2009
Ruiter valley, Québec.
Summer 2006
Mackenzie valley, N.W.T. (67°N)
April 2006
Corsica, France
Summers 2004-05
Bylot Island, Nunavut (73°N)
Summer 2003
Grand Paradis National Park, Italy
Autumn 2002
Hawk Mountain Sanctuary (USA)
ANAI Association (Costa Rica)
Winter 2002
La Mauricie National Park
Fieldwork for my Ph.D.
Capture and marking of chipmunks, metabolic
measurements (respirometry, doubly labelled water).
Research technician (DUCKS UNLIMITED)
Capture and marking of ducks (scoters and scaups),
telemetry (by boat and plane), nest searching.
Research technician
Monitoring of the blue tit reproduction, behavioural
observations.
Fieldwork for my M.Sc.
Telemetry by helicopter, behavioural observations, capture
and marking of arctic foxes, maintenance of field camp.
Research Assistant
Behavioural observations on Alpine ibex, feces collection
and analysis of parasites level.
Fieldwork for B.Sc. honours project
Raptor identification and counting, behavioural
observations
Research Assistant
Backtracking two wolf packs using ski-doo and snowshoes,
maintenance of capture sites, radio-tracking by plane or
from the ground, localisation and visit of black bear dens.
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REFERENCES
PROF. THEODORE GARLAND JR, PHD
University of California, Riverside
 [email protected]
 (951) 827-3524
PROF. DOMINIQUE BERTEAUX, PHD
Université du Québec à Rimouski,
 [email protected]
 (418) 723-1986 ext. 1701
PROF. MURRAY HUMPHRIES, PHD
McDonald campus, McGill University,
 [email protected]
 (514) 398-7885
PROF. JEAN-FRANÇOIS GIROUX, PHD
Université du Québec à Montréal,
 [email protected]
 (514) 987-3000 ext. 3353
PROF. DENIS RÉALE, PHD
Université du Québec à Montréal,
 [email protected]
 (514) 987-3000 ext 2265
PROF. PETER BIRO, PHD
Deakin University,
 [email protected]
 +61 3 52272426
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