Stefanie E. LaZerte
University of Northern British Columbia
20 Papers
41 Citations
Stefanie E. LaZerte is an academic researcher from University of Northern British Columbia. The author has contributed to research in topics: Poecile & Chickadee. The author has an hindex of 10, co-authored 18 publications. Previous affiliations of Stefanie E. LaZerte include McGill University & Brandon University.
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Papers
Learning to cope: vocal adjustment to urban noise is correlated with prior experience in black-capped chickadees
TL;DR: The results suggest that chickadees may require prior experience with fluctuating noise to adjust vocalizations in such a way as to minimize masking, and learning to cope may be an important part of adjusting to acoustic life in the city.
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weathercan: Download and format weather data from Environment and Climate Change Canada
Stefanie E. LaZerte,Sam Albers +1 more
TL;DR: The LaZerte package as mentioned in this paper is an R (R Core Team 2017) package that automates and simplifies the downloading and formating of this data and can be used for analysis.
Continent-wide Shifts in Song Dialects of White-Throated Sparrows
TL;DR: From recordings collected over two decades across North America, it is shown that doublet-ending song has now spread at a continental scale and confirmed that birds from western Canada, where the song originated, overwinter with birds from central Canada, Where the new song variant has spread, it rose from a rare variant to the sole, regional song type, as predicted by the indirect biased transmission hypothesis.
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Functional ecology of congeneric variation in the leaf economics spectrum
TL;DR: Plasticity in LMA is at the hub of the functional role of the LES as an integrated and resilient complex system that balances the relationships among area- and mass-based aspects of gas exchange and foliar nutrient traits to sustain at least some level of plant growth under differing availabilities of above- and below-ground resources.
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The influence of weather on the population dynamics of common mosquito vector species in the Canadian Prairies
TL;DR: In this paper , the authors performed weekly mosquito surveillance throughout the active season over a 2-year period in Manitoba, Canada and used Generalized Linear Mixed Models (GLMMs) to explore the relationships between weather variables over the preceding two weeks and mosquito trap counts for four of the most prevalent vector species in this region: Oc. dorsalis, Cx. tarsalis, and Cq. perturbans .
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