Communications
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Publications
David M & Dall SRX. (2016) Unravelling the philosophies underlying 'animal personality' studies: a brief re-appraisal of the
field. Ethology 122:1-9
(doi:10.1111/eth.12445) [pdf]
Debeffe L, Lemaître JF, Bergvall UA, Hewison AJM, Gaillard JM, Morellet N, Goulard M, Monestier C, David M, Verheyden-
Tixier H, Jäderberg L, Vanpé C & Kjellander P. (2015) Short- and long-term repeatability of docility in the roe deer:
sex and age matter. Animal Behaviour 109:53-63
(doi:10.1016/j.anbehav.2015.08.003) [pdf]
Fisher DN, David M, Tregenza T & Rodriguez-Muñoz R. (2015) Dynamics of among-individual behavioral variation over
adult lifespan in a wild insect. Behavioral Ecology 26:975-985
(doi:10.1093/beheco/arv048) [pdf]
David M, Pinxten R, Martens T & Eens M. (2015) Exploration behavior and parental effort in wild great tits: partners matter
Behavioral Ecology & Sociobiology 69:1085-1095
(doi:10.1007/s00265-015-1921-1) [pdf]
Galipaud M, Gillingham MAF, David M & Dechaume-Moncharmont FX. (2014) Ecologists overestimate the importance
of predictor variables in model averaging: a plea for cautious interpretations. Methods in Ecology & Evolution
5:983-991
(doi:10.1111/2041-210X.12251) [pdf]
David M, Salignon M & Perrot-Minnot MJ. (2014) Shaping the antipredator strategy: flexibility, consistency, and
behavioral correlations under varying predation threat. Behavioral Ecology 25:1148-1156
(doi:10.1093/beheco/aru101) [pdf]
David M, Le Hô M, Laskowski KL, Salignon M, Gillingham MAF & Giraldeau LA. (2014) Individual differences in
behavioral consistency are related to sequential access to resources and body condition in a producer-
scrounger game. Frontiers in Ecology & Evolution 2:19
(doi:10.3389/fevo.2014.00019) [pdf]
David M, Gillingham MAF, Salignon M, Laskowski KL & Giraldeau LA. (2014) Speed-accuracy trade-off and its
consequences in a scramble competition context. Animal Behaviour 90:255-262
(doi:10.1016/j.anbehav.2014.02.009) [pdf]
David M. (2013) Unequal opportunities in science: expanding our perspectives. Ideas in Ecology & Evolution
6:52-55
(doi:10.4033/iee.2013.6.13.f) [pdf]
Kight CR, David M & Dall SRX. (2013) The Evolution of Animal Personality Variation. In Encyclopedia in Life
Sciences, Kehrer-Sawatzki H (ed), John Wiley & Sons Ltd.
(doi:10.1002/9780470015902.a0024662) [pdf]
David M, Auclair Y, Dall SRX & Cézilly F. (2013) Pairing context determines condition-dependence of song rate
in a monogamous passerine bird. Proceedings of the Royal Society of London B 280:20122177
(doi:10.1098/rspb.2012.2177) [pdf]
media coverage: Before It's News; LabSpaces; The Conversation; The Epoch Times; ScienceNewsline; Sciences et Avenir; WissenschaftAktuell, MaxiSciences; Nature World News; Red Orbit; RTS;
TV5 Monde; AuFaitMaroc; RTL Info; MarocPress; BMaroc; Le Midi Libre; This is Devon; The Royal Society;
Radio Francophone Iranienne; The Conversation (should you read only one, read this one); La Recherche
Science Update Radio Podcast
David M, Auclair Y & Cézilly F. (2012) Assessing short- and long-term repeatability and stability of personality in
captive zebra finches using longitudinal data. Ethology 118:932-942
(doi:10.1111/j.1439-0310.2012.02085.x) [pdf]
David M, Auclair Y, Giraldeau LA & Cézilly F. (2012) Personality and body condition have additive effects on
motivation to feed in Zebra finches Taeniopygia guttata. Ibis 154:372-378.
(doi:10.1111/j.1474-919X.2012.01216.x) [pdf]
David M, Auclair Y, Dechaume-Moncharmont FX & Cézilly F. (2012) Handling stress does not reflect
personality in female zebra finches (Taeniopygia guttata). Journal of Comparative Psychology 126:10-14.
(doi:10.1037/a0024636) [pdf]
David M & Giraldeau LA. (2012) Zebra finches in poor condition produce more and consume more food in a
producer-scrounger game. Behavioral Ecology 23:174-180.
(doi:10.1093/beheco/arr171) [pdf]
David M & Cézilly F. (2011) Personality may confound common measures of mate-choice. PLoS One 6(9):
e24778.
(doi:10.1371/journal.pone.0024778) [pdf]
David M, Cézilly F & Giraldeau LA. (2011) Personality affects zebra finch feeding success in a producer-
scrounger game. Animal Behaviour 82:61-67.
(doi:10.1016/j.anbehav.2010.03.025) [pdf]
David M, Auclair Y & Cézilly F. (2011) Personality predicts social dominance in female zebra finches
(Taeniopygia guttata), in a feeding context. Animal Behaviour 81:219-224.
(doi:10.1016/j.anbehav.2010.10.008) [pdf]
Invited talks & seminars
2014, University of West Paris , France
"Unravelling the philosophies underlying 'animal personality' studies: a brief re-appraisal of the field"
Keynote speaker of the symposium "Individual differences - Personality" at the SFECA congress
2014, University of Antwerp, Belgium
"Reproduction-related activities in the light of the pace-of-life syndrome hypothesis in wild great tits"
2014, Catholic University of Leuven, Belgium
"The adaptive bases of social learning and cultural transmission in animals and humans"
2013, University of Antwerp, Belgium
"Foraging competition and the evolution of personality differences."
2011, Universität Zürich-Irchel, Switzerland
"Foraging competition and personality in animals."
2010, University of Québec at Montreal, Canada, Workshop "Adaptationism & Selectionism"
"The evolution of animal personalities through natural & sexual selection."
2009, Universität Zürich-Irchel, Switzerland
"Personality and sexual selection: hypotheses, evidence & perspectives."
Congresses
2014
New York, NY (USA) - 15th congress of the International Society for Behavioral Ecology (ISBE)
David, Pinxten & Eens - Experimental test of an association between exploration and parental effort
in wild great tits: partners matter! (oral com.)
Bristol (England) - annual congress of the European Human Behaviour & Evolution Association David & Giraldeau - Adaptive decisions rules underlie mate-choice copying in humans (oral com.)
2013
Dijon (France) - annual congress of the french society for the study of animal behaviour (SFECA)
David, Pinxten & Eens - Experimental evidence for a link between personality and parental
investment in wild great tits (oral com.)
Montreal (Canada) - annual congress of the quebecoise society for the biological study of behaviour
(SQEBC)
David, Pinxten & Eens - Experimental evidence for a link between personality and parental
investment in wild great tits (oral com.)
Valencia (Spain) - annual congress of the Society for Experimental Biology (SEB)
David - The evolution of personalities in frequency-dependent games: an experimental approach (oral com.)
2012
Lund (Sweden) - 14th congress of the International Society for Behavioral Ecology (ISBE)
David, Salignon & Perrot-Minnot - Adaptivity, constraints and correlations between anti-predator
behaviours across and within different contexts (oral com.)
Lund (Sweden) - 14th congress of the International Society for Behavioral Ecology (ISBE)
David, Gillingham, Salignon & Giraldeau - Speed-accuracy trade-off when competing for food in a
vertebrate species (poster)
2011 ____
Bloomington, IN (USA) - 48th annual congress of the Animal Behavior Society (ABS)
David, Auclair & Cézilly - Personality predicts social dominance in female zebra finches (oral com.)
Montpellier (France) - 23rd annual congress of the Human Behavior and Evolution Society (HBES)
David & Giraldeau - The role of personal information in human mate-choice copying (poster)
Dijon (France) - University of Burgundy's postgraduates' meeting
David, Auclair & Cézilly - Personality predicts social dominance in female zebra finches
(Taeniopygia guttata), in a feeding context (poster)
Best poster prize ex-aequo
Tours (France) - Annual meeting of the French Society for the Study of Animal Behaviour (SFECA)
David, Cézilly & Giraldeau - Personality affects zebra finch feeding success in a producer-scrounger
game (oral com.)
Cambridge (England) - ASAB easter meeting
David & Cézilly - Personality affects the measurement of mate choice in female zebra finches
(Taeniopygia guttata) (oral com.)
2010
Williamsburg, VA (USA) - 47th annual meeting of the Animal Behavior Society
David & Giraldeau - Personality influences zebra finch feeding success in a producer-scrounger
game (oral com.)
Quebec (Canada) - 5th annual meeting of the Canadian Society for Ecology & Evolution
David & Giraldeau - Personality influences zebra finch feeding success in a producer-scrounger
game (oral com.)
2009
Oxford (England) - Workshop "Personality"
David - Personality influences pairing strategies in female zebra finches (oral com.)
Trois-Rivières (Canada) - SQEBC 2009 (Quebecoise Society for the Biological Study of Behaviour)
David, Giraldeau & Cézilly - What can personality teach us about mate choice? ...and vice versa
(oral com.)
Oxford (England) - ASAB summer meeting "The descent of man and selection in relation to sex /
bicentenary of Darwin's birth"
David & Cézilly - Personality influences mate choice behaviour in female zebra finches (oral com.)
Zürich (Switzerland) - EOU 2009 (European Ornithologist's Union)
David & Cézilly - Personality influences mate choice behaviour in female zebra finches (oral com.)
2008
Rimouski (Canada) - SQEBC 2008 (Quebecoise Society for the Biological Study of Behaviour)
David, Auclair & Cézilly - Does personality influence the use of public information during mate choice?
(oral com.)
Dijon (France) - ECBB 2008 (European Conference on Behavioural Biology)
David, Auclair, Giraldeau & Cézilly - Does personality influence the use of public information during
mate choice? (poster)
Edinburgh (Scotland) - ASAB easter meeting
David, Auclair & Cézilly - Choosiness, but not preference, is repeatable in female zebra finches mate
choice (poster)
2007
Québec (Canada) - SQEBC 2007 Quebecoise Society for the Biological Study of Behaviour (SQEBC)
David & Cézilly - No repeatability of female mate choice in zebra finches (Taeniopygia guttata)
(poster)
Dijon (France) - Colloque Buffon "The Buffon legacy, natural history in the 21st century"
David & Cézilly - No repeatability of female mate choice in zebra finches (Taeniopygia guttata)
(poster)
