Giraldeau, Luc-Alain 1955-

PERSONAL:

Born September 21, 1955, in Montreal, Quebec, Canada; son of Aimé Giraldeau (a machinist). Ethnicity: "French Canadian." Education: McGill University, B.Sc., 1978, M.Sc., 1981, Ph.D., 1985.

ADDRESSES:

Office—Department of Biology, University of Quebec at Montreal, Montreal, Quebec, Canada. E-mail—giraldeau.luc-alain@uqam.ca.

CAREER:

Concordia University, Montreal, Quebec, Canada, assistant professor, 1986-93, associate professor, 1993-2000, professor of biology, 2000; University of Quebec at Montreal, professor of biology, 2000—. Canadian Council on Animal Care, chair.

MEMBER:

International Society for Behavioral Ecology, Animal Behavior Society.

WRITINGS:

(With Thomas Caraco) Social Foraging Theory, Princeton University Press (Princeton, NJ), 2000.

(Guest editor) Ecology and the Central Nervous System, Karger (Basel, Switzerland), 2004.

(Editor, with Johan J. Bolhuis) The Behavior of Animals: Mechanisms, Function, and Evolution, Blackwell Publishing (Malden, MA), 2005.

(Editor, with É. Danchin and F. Cézilly) L'écologie comportemantale, Dunod (Paris, France), 2005.

(With Christian Messier and Beatrix Beisner) L'écologie en ville: 25 leçons d'écologie de terrain, Fides (Montreal, Quebec, Canada), 2006.

(Editor, with É. Danchin and F. Cézilly) Behavioural Ecology: An Evolutionary Perspective, Oxford University Press (New York, NY), 2007.

BIOGRAPHICAL AND CRITICAL SOURCES:

ONLINE

Luc-Alain Giraldeau Home Page,http://www.er.uqam.ca/nobel/r16341 (December 27, 2006).