The Canadian Field-Naturalist (E-Journal)
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"Great White Shark: Myth and Reality" by Alexandrine Civard-Racinais, 2017. [book review]
No full text"Naïades et exuvies des libellules du Quebec : clé de determination des genres" by Raymond Hutchinson et Benoit Ménard, 2016. [book review]
Get PDF"The Subjugation of Canadian Wildlife: Failures of Principle and Policy" by Max Foran, 2018. [book review]
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Psychrotolerant Microfungi Associated with Deer Mice (Peromyscus maniculatus) in a White-nose Syndrome Positive Bat Hibernaculum in Eastern Canada
Get PDFWith the exception of recent work on bats, no reports on the fungi present on live mammals in underground habitats have been published. We cultured psychrotolerant fungi from the external surface and faeces of live Deer Mice (Peromyscus maniculatus), and from the intestinal contents of a single freshly killed P. maniculatus, overwintering in a white-nose syndrome positive bat hibernaculum and from adjacent summer forest in eastern Canada. A low diversity of psychrotolerant fungi was cultured from P. maniculatus compared with that found in previous studies of the mycoflora of bats and arthropods occupying bat hibernacula in the region. Although the grooming habits of P. maniculatus may reduce the accumulation of a diverse psychrotolerant fungal assemblage on their external surface, we demonstrate that active euthermic mammals in underground habitats can carry viable spores of psychrotolerant fungi, both externally and internally. Small rodents using cave habitats may also play a role in dispersing psychrotolerant fungi between caves and suitable low-temperature habitats (i.e., burrows) in adjacent forest
First Report of Dealfish, Trachipterus arcticus (lampriformes: Trachipteridae), from Canadian Waters
Get PDFIn November 2014, a recently dead specimen of the meso-pelagic Dealfish, Trachipterus arcticus, was found on a fjord beach in northern Newfoundland. This represents the first record of the species in Canadian waters
Sex-biased seasonal capture rates in Painted Turtle (Chrysemys picta)
Get PDFWe examined captures of Painted Turtle (Chrysemys picta) in Algonquin Provincial Park, Ontario, Canada, during the understudied summer–autumn transition period (August–September). The proportion of captured male turtles increased relative to the proportion of females during the late summer and early autumn sampling period, leading to male-biased capture rates in a population with a strongly female-biased sex ratio. We consider explanations for the capture bias in relation to sex-specific activity patterns and briefly discuss the implications of sampling period on the outcome of population structure studies
