Insight Database Design & Consulting offers data analysis, study design and related services in the areas of general ecology, wildlife and fisheries. These services, often initiated after completion of a database for the client, have led to the following peer-reviewed publications. Publication is not a requirement of these services.
Williams, C.. T.. K. Wilsterman, A. D. Kelley, A.R. Breton, H. Stark, M.M. Humphries, A..G. McAdam, B.. M. Barnes, S. Boutin, & C.. L. Buck. 2014. Biologging in small mammals: light loggers reveal weather-driven changes in the daily activity patterns of arboreal and semi-fossorial rodents. Journal of Mammalogy
Williams, C.. T.. K. Wilsterman, A. D. Kelley, A.R. Breton, H. Stark, M.M. Humphries, A..G. McAdam, B.. M. Barnes, S. Boutin, & C.. L. Buck. 2014. Biologging in small mammals: light loggers reveal weather-driven changes in the daily activity patterns of arboreal and semi-fossorial rodents. Journal of Mammalogy
Breton, A. R., I.C.T. Nisbet, C. S. Mostello, & J. J. Hatch. 2014. Age-dependent breeding dispersal and adult survival within a metapopulation of Common Terns Sterna hirundo. Ibis 156: 534–547
Esslinger, G. G., J. L. Bodkin, A. R. Breton, & D. H. Monson. 2014. Temporal Patterns in the Foraging Behavior of Sea Otters in Alaska. Journal of Wildlife Management 78: 689–700.
Breton, A. R. & A. W. Diamond. 2014. Annual survival of adult Atlantic Puffins Fratercula arctica is positively correlated with Herring Clupea harengus availability. Ibis 15 6:35-47.
Wolff, B. A., B. M. Johnson, A. R. Breton, P. J Martinez., & D. L. Winkelman. 2012. Origins of invasive piscivores determined from the strontium isotope ratio (87Sr/86Sr) of otoliths. Canadian Journal of Fisheries and Aquatic Sciences, 69: 724-739.
Oppel, S., A. Raine, J. J. Borg, H. Raine, E. Bonnaud, K. Bourgeois, & A.R. Breton. 2011. Is the Yelkouan shearwater Puffinus yelkouan threatened by low adult survival rates? Biological Conservation, 144: 2255-2263.
Allard, K. A., , H. G. Gilchrist, & A. R. Breton, C. D. Gilbert, & M. L. Mallory. 2010. Adult survival of Thayer’s and glaucous gulls nesting sympatrically in the Canadian High Arctic. Ardea, 98: 43-51.
Buck, C. L., A. R. Breton, O. Toien, & B. M. Barnes. 2008. Overwinter body temperature patterns of free-living arctic ground squirrels (Spermophilus parryii). Lovegrove, B.G. and McKechnie, A.E. (eds.). Hypometabolism in animals: torpor, hibernation and cryobiology. University of KwaZulu-Natal, Pietermaritzburg. pgs. 317-326.
Breton, A. R., G. A. Fox, & J. Chardine. 2008. Survival of adult Herring Gulls (Larus argentatus) from a Lake Ontario colony over two decades of environmental change. Waterbirds, 31: 15-23.
Keeler, R., A. R. Breton, D. Peterson, & R. Cunjak. 2007. Survival and movement of slimy sculpin (Cottus cognatus) in five New Brunswick streams. Transactions of the American Fisheries Society, 136: 281-292.
Allard, K. A., A. R. Breton, H. G. Gilchrist, & A. W. Diamond. 2006. Adult survival of herring gulls breeding in the Canadian Arctic. Waterbirds, 29: 163-168.
Esslinger, G. G., J. L. Bodkin, A. R. Breton, & D. H. Monson. 2014. Temporal Patterns in the Foraging Behavior of Sea Otters in Alaska. Journal of Wildlife Management 78: 689–700.
Breton, A. R. & A. W. Diamond. 2014. Annual survival of adult Atlantic Puffins Fratercula arctica is positively correlated with Herring Clupea harengus availability. Ibis 15 6:35-47.
Wolff, B. A., B. M. Johnson, A. R. Breton, P. J Martinez., & D. L. Winkelman. 2012. Origins of invasive piscivores determined from the strontium isotope ratio (87Sr/86Sr) of otoliths. Canadian Journal of Fisheries and Aquatic Sciences, 69: 724-739.
Oppel, S., A. Raine, J. J. Borg, H. Raine, E. Bonnaud, K. Bourgeois, & A.R. Breton. 2011. Is the Yelkouan shearwater Puffinus yelkouan threatened by low adult survival rates? Biological Conservation, 144: 2255-2263.
Allard, K. A., , H. G. Gilchrist, & A. R. Breton, C. D. Gilbert, & M. L. Mallory. 2010. Adult survival of Thayer’s and glaucous gulls nesting sympatrically in the Canadian High Arctic. Ardea, 98: 43-51.
Buck, C. L., A. R. Breton, O. Toien, & B. M. Barnes. 2008. Overwinter body temperature patterns of free-living arctic ground squirrels (Spermophilus parryii). Lovegrove, B.G. and McKechnie, A.E. (eds.). Hypometabolism in animals: torpor, hibernation and cryobiology. University of KwaZulu-Natal, Pietermaritzburg. pgs. 317-326.
Breton, A. R., G. A. Fox, & J. Chardine. 2008. Survival of adult Herring Gulls (Larus argentatus) from a Lake Ontario colony over two decades of environmental change. Waterbirds, 31: 15-23.
Keeler, R., A. R. Breton, D. Peterson, & R. Cunjak. 2007. Survival and movement of slimy sculpin (Cottus cognatus) in five New Brunswick streams. Transactions of the American Fisheries Society, 136: 281-292.
Allard, K. A., A. R. Breton, H. G. Gilchrist, & A. W. Diamond. 2006. Adult survival of herring gulls breeding in the Canadian Arctic. Waterbirds, 29: 163-168.