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Jean-François Rail
Researcher at Canadian Wildlife Service
Publications - 28
Citations - 818
Jean-François Rail is an academic researcher from Canadian Wildlife Service. The author has contributed to research in topics: Population & Seabird. The author has an hindex of 14, co-authored 23 publications receiving 694 citations.
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Trophic structure and mercury distribution in a Gulf of St. Lawrence (Canada) food web using stable isotope analysis
Raphael A. Lavoie,Craig E. Hebert,Jean-François Rail,Birgit M. Braune,Emmanuel Yumvihoze,Laura G. Hill,David R. S. Lean +6 more
TL;DR: Values of biomagnification power were greater for pelagic and benthopelagic species compared to benthic species whereas the opposite trend was observed for levels at the base of the food chain.
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Contrasting foraging tactics by northern gannets ( Sula bassana ) breeding in different oceanographic domains with different prey fields
TL;DR: Differences between the colonies reflect oceanographic and colony-size influences on prey fields that shape individual foraging tactics and in turn generate higher level colony-specific foraging “strategies”.
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Changes in Canadian seabird populations and ecology since 1970 in relation to changes in oceanography and food webs
Anthony J. Gaston,Douglas F. Bertram,Andrew W. BoyneA.W. Boyne,John W. Chardine,Gail DavorenG. Davoren,Antony W. Diamond,April Hedd,William A. Montevecchi,J. Mark Hipfner,Moira J. F. Lemon,Mark L. Mallory,Jean-François Rail,Gregory J. Robertson +12 more
TL;DR: Systematic monitoring of seabird populations in Canada has been ongoing since the 1920s and the monitoring of diets and other biological indicators of ecosystem change started in the 1970s.
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Prevalence and composition of fishing gear debris in the nests of northern gannets (Morus bassanus) are related to fishing effort.
Alexander L. Bond,William A. Montevecchi,Nils Guse,Paul M. Regular,Stefan Garthe,Jean-François Rail +5 more
TL;DR: Assessing the composition of gannet nests could provide a useful index of the prevalence of fishing debris and could be used to assess entanglement risk of other animals in the marine environment over decadal scales.
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Organochlorines, brominated flame retardants and mercury levels in six seabird species from the Gulf of St. Lawrence (Canada): relationships with feeding ecology, migration and molt.
TL;DR: Seabird species resident to the Great Lakes-St.