Laura Schillé

From bird communities to trophic interactions: successive ecological filters decouple potential and realized insectivory in urban environments.

The paper investigates how urbanization affects insectivory in birds by analyzing community composition, prey availability, and foraging behavior across urban gradients.

Montreal Urban Observatory: research platform to monitor urban forest ecosystems for global change adaptation and health

The paper describes the Montreal Urban Observatory, which monitors urban forest ecosystems to study biodiversity, ecosystem function, and human health, revealing disparities in tree diversity between public and private spaces.

Camera traps unable to determine whether plasticine models of caterpillars reliably measure bird predation

This study evaluates whether plasticine caterpillar models reliably measure bird predation using camera traps and finds they may underestimate foraging activity due to limitations in capturing predation events.

Urban tree diversity fosters bird insectivory despite a loss in bird diversity with urbanization

The paper examines how urban tree diversity affects bird predation on insect herbivores despite declining bird diversity with urbanization.