Solange Brault

Department of Biology University of Massachusetts-Boston 100 Morrissey Blvd. Boston, MA 02125 Phone: (617) 287-6683 Fax: (617) 287-6650 E-mail: solange.brault@umb.edu

Education

B.Sc. Biology University of Montreal (1978)
M.Sc. Laval University (1983)
Ph.D. Imperial College (Univ. of London) (1990)

Current Position

Assistant Professor
Department of Biology
University of Massachusetts Boston

Research Interests

My research addresses, often in a conservation ecology context, the processes occuring within the life cycle and the ways that these can influence survival and reproduction at the population level . The main current topics are: Demography of pilot whales and other marine mammals, and the effect of human exploitation; metapopulation dynamics of migratory bird populations; effects of the forms of density-dependence on population dynamics.

Selected Publications

Brault, S., S. Boyd, F. Cooke and J. Takekawa. 1994. Population models as tools for research cooperation and management: The Wrangel Island snow geese. Trans. 59th N. Amer. Wildl. Nat. Res. Conf. (in press).

Gaudie, R.I., S. Brault, B. Conant, A.V. Kondratyev, M.R. Peterson and K. Vermeer. 1994. The status of sea ducks in the North Pacific Rim: Toward their conservation and management. Trans. 59th N. Amer. Wildl. & Nat. Res. Conf., pp. 27-39.

Caswell, H., S. Brault, A. Read, T. Smith. 1994. Rate of increase of Harbor Porpoise populations: Estimation and uncertainty. WP 10B, Harbor Porpoise Workshop 1994, February 23-25 1994, Woods Hole, MA.

Caswell, H. and S. Brault. 1993. Nonparametric estimates of age-specific mortality in pilot whales. WP-5, Report of the International Council for the Exploration of the Seas (ICES) Study Group on Long-finned Pilot Whales, Copenhagen, 30 August-3 September 1993.

Brault, S., G. Desportes and H. Caswell. 1993. Estimates of foetal mortality in Long-finned Pilot Whales. WP-8, Report of the International Council for the Exploration of the Seas (ICES) Study Group on Long-finned Pilot Whales, Copenhagen, 30 August-3 September 1993.

Brault, S. and H. Caswell. 1993. Pod-specific demography of killer whales (Orcinus orca). Ecology 74: 1444-1454.

Rosenberg, A.A. and S. Brault. 1993. Chosing a management strategy for stock rebuilding when control is uncertain. p. 1-7. In S.J. Smith, J.J.Hunt and D. Rivard [ed.]. Risk evaluation and biological reference points for fisheries management. Can. Spec. Pub. Fish. Aquat. Sci. 120.

Brault, S. 1991. Host choice and offspring sex allocation in a solitary parasitic wasp. Behav. Ecol. Sociobiol. 29: 353-360.

Rosenberg, A.A. and S. Brault. 1991. Stock rebuilding strategies over different time scales. NAFO Sci. Coun. Studies 16: 171-181