Peer-Reviewed PublicationsMerkx-Jacques, M, Despland, E and Bede, JC. Nutrient utilization by generalist caterpillars of the beet armyworm, Spodoptera exigua. Physiological Entomology in press. Babic, B, Poisson, A, Darwish, SA, Lacasse, J, Merkx-Jacques, M, Despland, E and Bede, JC. Influence of dietary nutritional composition on caterpillar salivary enzyme activity. Journal of Insect Physiology in press. Nemiroff, L and Despland, E. 2007. Consistent individual differences in the foraging behaviour of forest tent caterpillars ( Malacosoma disstria). Canadian Journal of Zoology in press. Etile, E and Despland, E. 2007. Developmental variation in the forest tent caterpillar: life history consequences of a threshold size for pupation. Oikos in press. Colasurdo, N, Dussutour, A & Despland, E. Do food protein and carbohydrate content influence the timing of caterpillar meals? Physiological Entomology in press. Dussutour, A, Simpson, S.J., Despland, E. & Colasurdo, N. 2007. When the group denies individual nutritional wisdom. Animal Behaviour in press. Despland, E. & Le Huu, A. 2007. Pros and cons of group-living in the forest tent caterpillar: separating the roles of silk and of grouping. Entomologia Experimentalis et Applicata 122: 181-189 Jones, B. C. and Despland, E. 2006. Effects of synchronization with host plant phenology occur early in the larval development of a spring folivore. Canadian Journal of Zoology 84: 628-633. Noseworthy, M. and Despland, E. 2006. How do primary nutrients affect the performance and preference of forest tent caterpillars on trembling aspen? The Canadian Entomologist 138: 367-375. Buhl, J., Sumpter, D.J., Couzin, I.D., Hale, J., Despland, E, Miller, E & Simpson, S.J. 2006. From disorder to order in marching locusts. Science 312: 1402-1406. Despland, E. 2006. Diet breadth and anti-predator strategies in desert locusts and other Orthoptera. Journal of Orthoptera Research 14: 227-233. Despland, E. and Simpson, S. J. 2006. Resource distribution mediates synchronization of physiological rhythms in locust groups. Proceedings of the Royal Society B 273: 1517-1522. Despland, E. and Noseworthy, M. 2006. How well do specialist feeders regulate nutrient intake? Evidence from a gregarious tree-feeding caterpillar. Journal of Experimental Biology 209: 1301-1309. Peters, M. I. and Despland, E. 2006. Plasticity in forest tent caterpillar self-organized collective foraging. Ethology 112: 521-528 Colasurdo, N and Despland, E. 2005. Social cues and following behavior in the forest tent caterpillar. Journal of Insect Behavior 18: 77-87. Despland, E. and Simpson, S.J. 2005. Surviving the change to warning colouration: density-dependent polyphenism suggests a route for the evolution of aposematism. Chemoecology 15: 69-75. Despland, E. and Simpson, S.J. 2005. Food choices of solitarious and gregarious locusts reflect cryptic and aposematic anti-predator strategies. Animal Behaviour 69:471-479.
Despland, E. and Hamzeh, S. 2004. Ontogenetic changes in social behaviour in the forest tent caterpillar Malacosoma disstria. Behavioral Ecology and Sociobiology 56: 177-184. Despland, E., Simpson, S.J., Rosenberg, J. 2004. Landscape structure and locust swarming: a satellite's eye view. Ecography 27: 381-391. Despland, E. 2004. Locust transformation: from solitarious Dr Jekyll to swarming Mr. Hyde. Biologist 51:18-22. Rogers, S.M., Despland, E., Dodgson, T., Burrows, M., Simpson, S.J. & Matheson, T. 2003. Mechanisms of mechanosensory induced behavioural gregarization in the Desert Locust Schistocerca gregaria. Journal of Experimental Biology 206: 3991-4002. Despland, E. 2003. Fractal index captures role of vegetation clumping in locust swarming. Functional Ecology 17:315-322. Simpson, S.J., Despland, E., Hägele, B., & Dodgson, T. 2001. Gregarious behavior in desert locusts is evoked by touching their back legs. Proceedings of the National Academy of Science 98:3895-3897. Despland, E. 2001. Role of olfactory and visual cues in the attraction/repulsion responses of crowd- and solitary-reared locusts. Journal of Insect Behaviour 14:35-46. Despland, E., Collett, M. & Simpson, S. J. 2000. Small-scale processes in Desert Locust swarm formation: how vegetation patterns influence gregarisation. Oikos, 88, 652-663. Despland, E. & Simpson, S. J. 2000a . The role of food distribution and nutritional quality in behavioural phase change in the desert locust. Animal Behaviour, 59: 643-652. Despland, E. & Simpson, S. J. 2000b. Small-scale vegetation patterns in the parental environment influence the phase state of hatchlings of the Desert Locust. Physiological Entomology, 25, 74-81. Fréchette, M. & Despland, E. 1999. Impaired shell gaping and food depletion as mechanisms of asymmetric competition in mussels. Ecoscience, 6, 1-11. Collett, M., Despland, E., Simpson, S. J. & Krakauer, D. C. 1998. The spatial scales of desert locust gregarisation. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, 95, 13052-13055. Despland, E. & Houle, G. 1997b. Aspect influences cone abundance within the crown of Pinus banksiana, Lamb. at the limit of the species distribution in northern Québec (Canada). Ecoscience 4, 521-525. Despland, E. & Houle, G. 1997a. Climate influences growth and reproduction of Pinus banksiana (Pinaceae) at the limit of the species distribution in eastern North America. American Journal of Botany 84:928-937. Conference Communications
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