Скачать или смотреть Dr. Julie Marentette - "An Unnatural Challenge: Animal Behaviour in Contaminated Environments"

Discover Psychology
February 28th, 2014

The world around us is changing. One of the biggest challenges facing us in the coming decades is understanding, predicting, and mitigating negative impacts of human activities on the environment, such as those caused by pollution, climate change and habitat loss. These factors can affect the behaviour and thus survival of animals in some remarkable and unexpected ways. Using examples from research conducted around the world, I will discuss how human-mediated environmental changes, especially those associated with pollution, might affect behaviour; how behavioural changes can be used as tools or indicators of toxic exposure; and what this means for ecology and toxicology moving forward.

Julie Marentette (PhD, McMaster University) is a behavioural ecologist and ecotoxicologist, exploring a few of the many ways aquatic contaminants might be affecting fish in Canadian environments. She is currently holds a Visiting Postdoctoral Fellowship with Environment Canada.