Communications
Publications
David M & Dall SRX. (2016) Unravelling the philosophies underlying 'animal personality' studies: a brief re-appraisal of the
field. Ethology 122:1-9
(doi:10.1111/eth.12445) [pdf]
Debeffe L, Lemaître JF, Bergvall UA, Hewison AJM, Gaillard JM, Morellet N, Goulard M, Monestier C, David M, Verheyden-
Tixier H, Jäderberg L, Vanpé C & Kjellander P. (2015) Short- and long-term repeatability of docility in the roe deer:
sex and age matter. Animal Behaviour 109:53-63
(doi:10.1016/j.anbehav.2015.08.003) [pdf]
Fisher DN, David M, Tregenza T & Rodriguez-Muñoz R. (2015) Dynamics of among-individual behavioral variation over
adult lifespan in a wild insect. Behavioral Ecology 26:975-985
(doi:10.1093/beheco/arv048) [pdf]
David M, Pinxten R, Martens T & Eens M. (2015) Exploration behavior and parental effort in wild great tits: partners
matter. Behavioral Ecology & Sociobiology 69:1085-1095
(doi:10.1007/s00265-015-1921-1) [pdf]
Galipaud M, Gillingham MAF, David M, Dechaume-Moncharmont FX. (2014) Ecologists overestimate the importance
of predictor variables in model averaging: a plea for cautious interpretations. Methods in Ecology & Evolution
5:983-991
(doi:10.1111/2041-210X.12251) [pdf]
David M, Salignon M & Perrot-Minnot MJ. (2014) Shaping the antipredator strategy: flexibility, consistency,
and behavioral correlations under varying predation threat. Behavioral Ecology 25:1148-1156
(doi:10.1093/beheco/aru101) [pdf]
David M, Le Hô M, Laskowski KL, Salignon M, Gillingham MAF & Giraldeau LA. (2014) Individual differences in
behavioral consistency are related to sequential access to resources and body condition in a producer-
scrounger game. Frontiers in Ecology & Evolution 2:19
(doi:10.3389/fevo.2014.00019) [pdf]
David M, Gillingham MAF, Salignon M, Laskowski KL & Giraldeau LA. (2014) Speed-accuracy trade-off and its
consequences in a scramble competition context. Animal Behaviour 90:255-262
(doi:10.1016/j.anbehav.2014.02.009) [pdf]
David M. (2013) Unequal opportunities in science: expanding our perspectives. Ideas in Ecology & Evolution
6:52-55
(doi:10.4033/iee.2013.6.13.f) [pdf]
Kight CR, David M & Dall SRX. (2013) The Evolution of Animal Personality Variation. In Encyclopedia in Life
Sciences, Kehrer-Sawatzki H (ed), John Wiley & Sons Ltd.
(doi:10.1002/9780470015902.a0024662) [pdf]
David M, Auclair Y, Dall SRX & Cézilly F. (2013) Pairing context determines condition-dependence of song rate
in a monogamous passerine bird. Proceedings of the Royal Society of London B 280:20122177
(doi:10.1098/rspb.2012.2177) [pdf]
David M, Auclair Y & Cézilly F. (2012) Assessing short- and long-term repeatability and stability of personality in
captive zebra finches using longitudinal data. Ethology 118:932-942
(doi:10.1111/j.1439-0310.2012.02085.x) [pdf]
David M, Auclair Y, Giraldeau LA & Cézilly F. (2012) Personality and body condition have additive effects on
motivation to feed in Zebra finches Taeniopygia guttata. Ibis 154:372-378
(doi:10.1111/j.1474-919X.2012.01216.x) [pdf]
David M, Auclair Y, Dechaume-Moncharmont FX & Cézilly F. (2012) Handling stress does not reflect
personality in female zebra finches (Taeniopygia guttata). Journal of Comparative Psychology 126:10-14.
(doi:10.1037/a0024636) [pdf]
David M & Giraldeau LA. (2012) Zebra finches in poor condition produce more and consume more food in a
producer-scrounger game. Behavioral Ecology 23:174-180.
(doi:10.1093/beheco/arr171) [pdf]
David M & Cézilly F. (2011) Personality may confound common measures of mate-choice. PLoS One 6(9):
e24778.
(doi:10.1371/journal.pone.0024778) [pdf]
David M, Cézilly F & Giraldeau LA. (2011) Personality affects zebra finch feeding success in a producer-
scrounger game. Animal Behaviour 82:61-67.
(doi:10.1016/j.anbehav.2010.03.025) [pdf]
David M, Auclair Y & Cézilly F. (2011) Personality predicts social dominance in female zebra finches
(Taeniopygia guttata), in a feeding context. Animal Behaviour 81:219-224.
(doi:10.1016/j.anbehav.2010.10.008) [pdf]
Conférences invitées
2014, Université de Paris Ouest, France
"Bilan, critiques et perspectives de 15 ans d'étude de la "personnalité animale"
Keynote speaker du symposium "Différences individuelles - Personnalité" du congrès de la SFECA
2014, Université d'Anvers, Belgique
"Reproduction-related activities in the light of the pace-of-life syndrome hypothesis in wild great tits"
2014, Université Catholique de Louvain, Belgique
"The adaptive bases of social learning and cultural transmission in animals and humans"
2013, Université d'Anvers, Belgique
"Foraging competition and the evolution of personality differences"
2011, Universität Zürich-Irchel, Suisse
"Foraging competition and personality in animals"
2010, Université du Québec à Montréal, Canada, Workshop "Adaptationism & Selectionism"
"The evolution of animal personalities through natural & sexual selection."
2009, Universität Zürich-Irchel, Suisse
"Personality and sexual selection: hypotheses, evidence & perspectives."
Congrès
2014
New York, NY (USA) - 15ème congrès de la Société Internationale d'Ecologie Comportementale (ISBE)
David, Pinxten & Eens - Experimental test of an association between exploration and parental effort
in wild great tits: partners matter! (com. orale)
Bristol (Angleterre) - congrès annuel de la Société Européenne pour l'Evolution et le Comportement
Humain
David & Giraldeau - Adaptive decisions rules underlie mate-choice copying in humans (com. orale)
2013
Dijon (France) - congrès annuel de la Société Française pour l'Etude du Comportement Animal (SFECA)
David, Pinxten & Eens - Experimental evidence for a link between personality and parental
investment in wild great tits (com. orale)
Montréal (Canada) - congrès annuel de la Société Québecoise pour l'Etude Biologique du Comportement
(SQEBC)
David, Pinxten & Eens - Experimental evidence for a link between personality and parental
investment in wild great tits (com. orale)
Valence (Espagne) - congrès annuel de la Society for Experimental Biology (SEB)
David - The evolution of personalities in frequency-dependent games: an experimental approach (com. orale)
2012
Lund (Suède) - 14ème congrès de la Société Internationale d'Ecologie Comportementale (ISBE)
David, Salignon & Perrot-Minnot - Adaptivity, constraints and correlations between anti-predator
behaviours across and within different contexts (com. orale)
Lund (Suède) - 14ème congrès de la Société Internationale d'Ecologie Comportementale (ISBE)
David, Gillingham, Salignon & Giraldeau - Speed-accuracy trade-off when competing for food in a
vertebrate species (poster)
2011
Bloomington, IN (USA) - 48ème congrès de l'Animal Behavior Society (ABS)
David, Auclair & Cézilly - Personality predicts social dominance in female zebra finches (com. orale)
Montpellier (France) - 23ème congrès annuel de la Société d'Evolution et Comportement Humain (HBES)
David & Giraldeau - The role of personal information in human mate-choice copying (poster)
Dijon (France) - Forum des jeunes chercheurs des Universités de Bourgogne et de Franche-Comté
David, Auclair & Cézilly - Personality predicts social dominance in female zebra finches
(Taeniopygia guttata), in a feeding context (poster)
Prix du meilleur poster ex-aequo
Tours (France) - Colloque annuel de la Société Française de l'Etude du Comportement Animal (SFECA)
David, Cézilly & Giraldeau - Personality affects zebra finch feeding success in a producer-scrounger
game (com. orale)
Cambridge (Angleterre) - ASAB easter meeting
David & Cézilly - Personality affects the measurement of mate choice in female zebra finches
(Taeniopygia guttata) (com. orale)
2010
Williamsburg, VA (USA) - 47ème congrès de l'Animal Behavior Society (ABS)
David & Giraldeau - Personality influences zebra finch feeding success in a producer-scrounger
game (com. orale)
Québec (Canada) - 5ème congrès de la Société Canadienne d'Ecologie et d'Evolution
David & Giraldeau - Personality influences zebra finch feeding success in a producer-scrounger
game (com. orale)
2009
Oxford (Angleterre) - Workshop "Personality"
David - Personality influences pairing strategies in female zebra finches (com. orale)
Trois-Rivières (Canada) - SQEBC 2009 (Société Québecoise pour l'Etude Biologique du Comportement)
David, Giraldeau & Cézilly - What can personality teach us about mate choice? ...and vice versa
(com. orale)
Oxford (Angleterre) - ASAB summer meeting "The descent of man and selection in relation to
sex / bicentenary of Darwin's birth"
David & Cézilly - Personality influences mate choice behaviour in female zebra finches (com. orale)
Zürich (Suisse) - EOU 2009 (European Ornithologist's Union)
David & Cézilly - Personality influences mate choice behaviour in female zebra finches (com. orale)
2008
Rimouski (Canada) - SQEBC 2008 (Société Québecoise pour l'Etude Biologique du Comportement)
David, Auclair & Cézilly - Does personality influence the use of public information during mate choice?
(com. orale)
Dijon (France) - ECBB 2008 (European Conference on Behavioural Biology)
David, Auclair, Giraldeau & Cézilly - Does personality influence the use of public information during
mate choice? (poster)
Edimbourg (Ecosse) - ASAB easter meeting
David, Auclair & Cézilly - Choosiness, but not preference, is repeatable in female zebra finches mate
choice (poster)
2007
Québec (Canada) - SQEBC 2007 (Société Québecoise pour l'Etude Biologique du Comportement)
David & Cézilly - No repeatability of female mate choice in zebra finches (Taeniopygia guttata) (poster)
Dijon (France) - Colloque Buffon "The Buffon legacy, natural history in the 21st century".
David & Cézilly - No repeatability of female mate choice in zebra finches (Taeniopygia guttata) (poster)
