Mikaël Jaffré's research while affiliated with Université du Québec à Rimouski UQAR and other places

... Effective communication and diffusion strategies are needed to raise awareness and commitment to achieving environmental sustainability [34,14]. Thus, finding effective means to engage human behavior change for conservation issues is one of the top priorities for modern conservation science [32,5]. ...

... As long-lived top predators holding large home ranges and preying on a wide variety of vertebrates and invertebrates, raptors are influenced by the effects of environmental change on lower trophic levels (Meserve et al. 2003, Schmidt et al. 2018) and can serve as biotic multipliers of climate change (Urban et al. 2017). Raptors have been the focus of multiple long-running studies on 1 The editorial processing and review of this paper were handled by Associate Editor James F. Dwyer. 2 Corresponding author: cheryldykstra@gmail.com migration (e.g., Sullivan et al. 2016, Therrien et al. 2017 and breeding rate (e.g., Fasce et al. 2011, Jiménez-Franco et al. 2020, Maciorowski et al. 2021, which provide valuable long-term data sets that allow assessment of change (e.g., Lee et al. 2020). Additionally, raptors with specialized habitat or feeding strategies are likely to be disproportionally affected by climate change because of their narrow ecological niche and lack of plasticity , Hof et al. 2012. ...

... Nesting data were gathered by different sources and search effort was not recorded in the database. Nest locations were therefore spatially clumped, with a disproportionately high density of nesting sites in some well-surveyed areas of Nunavut (e.g., the long-term monitoring program at Rankin Inlet, Nunavut; Jaffré et al. 2015). There are several ways to account for biased sampling effort including down-weighting records in areas that received more survey effort, adding more data by surveying areas that are under-represented, or sampling background or pseudo-absence data only from areas that were likely surveyed (Poole 2011;Peck et al. 2012). ...