Publications

  1. Cooke, S.J., Thaker, M., Kendall-Bar, J, Choy, ES, Bennitt, E., Birnie-Gauvin, K., Piczak, M., Trondrud, L.M., LaRochelle, L., Maloney, S.K., Fuller, A. 2026. Biologging and biotelemtry tools bridge behaviour and physiology to advance the conservation and management of wildlife. Conservation Physiology 14 (1): coag061: https://doi.org/10.1093/conphys/coag061
  1. Tremblay, F., Choy, ES, Fifield, D, Tattersall, GJ, Vezina, F., O’Connor, R, Love, OP, Gilchrist, GH, Elliott, KH. 2025. Dealing with the heat: assessing heat stress in an Arctic seabird using 3D-printed thermal models. Comparative Biochemistry and Physiology Part A. 306: 111880.  https://doi.org/10.1016/j.cbpa.2025.111880
  1. Gould, E., Fraser, H.S., Parker, T.H., Nakagawa, S., Griffith, S.C., Vesk, P.A., Fidler, F., Abbey-lee, R.N., Abbott, J.K., Aguirre, L.A., Altschul, D., Arekar, K., Atkins, J.W., Atkinson, J., Barrett, M., Bell, K., Bello, S K, Berauer, B J, Bertram, MG, Billman, PD, Bonisoli-alquati, A, Nina, C, Bordes, M, Botterill-James, T, Boyle, SA, Bradfer-Lawrence, T, Brengdahl, MI, Campbell, S.E., Carroll, C.J.W., Catanach, T.A., Choy, E.S, Chunco, AJ, Cressman, KA, Amelio, P.B.D, Doherty, T.S., Grace, A, Dunn, R.P., Eberhart-hertel, L, Ensminger, DC, Ferguson, SM, Fiorenza, EA, Frank, GS, Freund, CA, Gandy, SL, Gilles, M, Goslee, SC, Gosnell, JS, Gri, DM, Hagan, J G, Heaton, A J, Jung, M, Ke, A, Kelly, CD, Killion, AK, Larson, CL, Lauck, KS, Lauterbur, ME, Lindsay, S, Mair, MM, Malm, LE, Marchand, P, Martin, CA, Mccallum, ES, Mcnew, SM, Meiners, SJ, Nooten, S.S., Organ, C L, Payo-Payo, A, Perry, KI, Román-palacios, C, Rosenberg, MS, Russell, AL, Sánchez-tójar, A, Schilling, HT, Schneider, AC, Schultz, NL, Scott, DA, Stuber, EF… 2025. Same data, different analysts: variation in effect sizes due to analytical decisions in ecology and evolutionary biology. BMC Biology 23: 35.  https://bmcbiol.biomedcentral.com/articles/10.1186/s12915-024-02101-x
  1. Tremblay F*, Choy ES, Whelan S, Hatch S, Elliott, KH 2024. Time-energy budgets outperform dynamic body acceleration in predicting daily energy expenditure in kittiwakes, and estimate a very low cost of gliding flight relative to flapping flight. Journal of Experimental Biology 24716. https://doi.org/10.1242/jeb.247176
  1. Brisson-Curadeau, E., Lacombe, R., Gousy-Leblanc, M., Poirier, V., Jackson, LM., Petalas, C., Miranda, E., Eby, A., Baak, J., Léandri-Breton, DJ., Choy, ES., Legros, J., Tranze-Drabinia, E., Elliott, KH. 2024. A metaanalysis of the impact of drones on birds. Frontiers in Ecology and the Environment. e2809.  https://doi.org/10.1002/fee.2809
  1. Van Oordt F., Cuba, A., Choy E.S., Elliott J.E., Elliott K.H. 2024. Amino acid-specific isotopes reveal changing niche segregation in Pacific seabirds over 50 years. Scientific Reports 14 (1): 7899.  https://doi.org/10.1038/s41598-024-57339-w
  1. Moreno-Ibáñez , M., Casado , M., Gwenaëlle, G., Rabanal,V., Adojoh, O., Anoruo, C., Arshad, A., Faten, A B., Bello, C., Bergstedt, H., Caccavo, JA., Champollion, N., Choy, E.S., De Los Ríos, MF., Detlef, H., Dey, R., Gamal, G., Guímaro, H., Hancock, S., Hansen, C., Hare, V., Höfer, J., Jabir, Y., Jain, S., Jawak, S., Latonin, M., Martin, J. , Jhon Mojica- Moncada , Ryan O’Hara , Olumide Onafeso , R. Arun Prasath , Eduardo Queiroz Alves , Sergio Raez-Villanueva , Paul Rosenbaum , Sebastián Ruiz Pereira , Valentina Savaglia , M. van Soest and D. Vural. (2024). Engagement of Early Career Researchers in Collaborative Assessments of IPCC Reports: Achievements and Insights. Frontiers in Climate 6: 1395040. https://doi.org/10.3389/fclim.2024.1395040
  1. Choy, ES. 2023. 2023 Early Career Researcher Award Research Synopsis. PICOIDES 36(3): 4-6.  
  1. O’Connor RS, Le Pogam A, Young K, Love O.P,  Cox, C.J., Robitaille F, Elliott, KH, Hargreaves, A.L.,  Choy ES, Berteaux D, Tam A, Vezina F. 2022. Warming in the land of the midnight sun: breeding birds may suffer greater heat stress at high vs low Arctic sites. Proceedings of the Royal Society B 289 (1981): 20220300. https://doi.org/10.1098/rspb.2022.0300 
  1. Choy ES, Blight L, Elliott JE, Hobson K, Elliott KH. 2022. Changing diet alters mercury trends in Salish Sea gulls over the last century. Environmental Science and Technology 56 (17): 12097-12105.  https://pubs.acs.org/doi/10.1021/acs.est.1c03760
  1. Choy ES, Elliott KH, Esparza I, Patterson A, Letcher RJ, Fernie K. 2022. Potential disruption of thyroid hormones by perfluoroalkyl acids in an Arctic seabird with associations to fitness during reproduction. Environmental Pollution 305: 119181.  https://doi.org/10.1016/j.envpol.2022.119181
  1. Esparza I, Elliott, KH, Choy ES, Braune B, Letcher R, Patterson A, Fernie, K. 2022. Mercury, legacy and emerging POPs, and endocrine-behavioural linkages: implications of Arctic change in a diving seabird. Environmental Research  212. (A):113190.  https://doi.org/10.1016/j.envres.2022.113190
  1. Falardeau M, Bennett EM, Else B, Fisk A, Mundy CJ, Choy ES, Ahmed, M.M.M., Harris LN, Moore JS. 2022. Biophysical indicators with Indigenous and Local Knowledge reveal climatic and ecological shifts with implications for Arctic Char fisheries. Global Environmental Change 74: 102469.  https://doi.org/10.1016/j.gloenvcha.2022.102469
  1. Tremblay F*, Whelan S, Choy ES, Hatch S, Elliott, KH. 2022. Resting costs too: the relative importance of active and resting energy expenditure in a sub-arctic seabird. Journal of Experimental Biology  225 (4): jeb243548.  https://doi.org/10.1242/jeb.243548
  1. Choy ES, O’Connor R, Gilchrist, HG, Hargreaves A, Love O, Vezina F, Elliott KH. 2021. Limited heat tolerance in a cold-adapted seabird: implications of a warming Arctic. Journal of Experimental Biology 224 (13): jeb242168. https://doi.org/10.1242/jeb.242168
  1. O’Connor RS, Le Pogam A, Young K, Robitaille F, Choy ES, Love OP, Elliott KH, Hargreaves AL, Berteaux D, Tam A, Vezina F. 2021. Limited heat tolerance in an Arctic passerine: thermoregulatory implications for cold-specialized birds in a rapidly warming world. Ecology and Evolution 11: 1609-1619.  https://doi.org/10.1002/ece3.7141
  1. Choy ES, Giraldo, C, Rosenberg, B, Roth JD, Ehrman, AD, Majewski A, Swanson H, Power M, Reist, JD, Loseto LL. 2020. Variation in the diet of beluga whales in response to changes in prey availability: insights on changes in the Beaufort Sea ecosystem. Marine Ecology Progress Series 647:195-210.  https://doi.org/10.3354/meps13413
  1. Choy ES, Campbell KL, Berenbrink M, Roth JD, Loseto LL. 2019. Body condition impacts blood and muscle oxygen storage capacity of free-living beluga whales (Delphinapterus leucas). Journal of Experimental Biology 222 (11): jeb191916.  https://doi.org/10.1242/jeb.191916
  1. Choy ES, Sheehan B, Haulena M, Rosenberg B, Roth JD, Loseto LL. 2019. A comparison of fatty acid signatures of captive beluga whales and their diets with potential applications to wild populations. Journal of Experimental Marine Biology and Ecology 516:132-139. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jembe.2019.05.005
  1. Loseto LL, Brewster J, Ostertag S, Snow K, MacPhee S, McNicholl D, Choy ES, Giraldo C, Hornby C. 2018. Diet and feeding observations from an unusual beluga harvest in Ulukhaktok, Northwest Territories, Canada. Arctic Science: 4 (3): 421-431.  https://doi.org/10.1139/as-2017-004
  1. Brewster J, Giraldo G, Choy ES, Macphee S, Hoover C, Lynn B, McNicholl DG, Majewski AR, Rosenberg B, Power M, Reist J, Loseto LL. 2018. A comparison of the trophic ecology of Beaufort Sea Gadidae using fatty acids and stable isotopes. Polar Biology: 41 (1): 149-162.  https://doi.org/10.1007/s00300-017-2178-0
  1. Choy ES, Rosenberg B, Roth JD, Loseto LL. 2017. Inter-annual variation in environmental factors affect the prey and body condition of beluga whales in the eastern Beaufort Sea. Marine Ecology Progress Series 579: 213-225.  https://www.int-res.com/abstracts/meps/v579/meps12256
  1. Choy ES, Roth JD, Loseto LL. 2016. Lipid removal and acidification affect nitrogen and carbon stable isotope ratios of beluga whales and their potential prey species in the Beaufort Sea ecosystem. Marine Biology 163 (10): 1-13.  https://doi.org/10.1007/s00227-016-2992-x
  1. Yurkowski DJ, Ferguson SH, Choy ES, Loseto LL, Brown TM, Muir DCG, Semeniuk CAD, Fisk AT. 2016. Latitudinal variation in ecological opportunity and intra-specific competition indicates differences in niche variability and diet specialization of Arctic marine predators. Ecology and Evolution 6(6): 1666-78.  https://doi.org/10.1002/ece3.1980
  1. Giraldo C, Stasko A, Choy ES, Rosenberg B, Majewski A, Power M, Swanson H, Loseto L, Reist JD. 2016. Trophic variability of Arctic fishes in the Canadian Beaufort Sea: a fatty acids and stable isotopes approach. Polar Biology 39 (7): 1267-1282.  https://doi.org/10.1007/s00300-015-1851-4
  1. Kędra M, Moritz C, Choy ES, David C, Degen R, Duerksen S, Ellingsen I, Górska B, Grebmeier JM, Kirievskaya D, van Oevelen D, Piwosz K, Samuelsen A, Węsławski JM, 2015. Status and trends in the structure of Arctic benthic food webs. Polar Research 34 (23775).  https://doi.org/10.3402/polar.v34.23775
  1. Choy, ES. 2014. Examining the Health and Energetic Impacts of Climate-Induced Prey Shifts on Beluga Whales using Community-Based Monitoring. ARCTIC  67(4): 570-573.  https://www.jstor.org/stable/24363826
  1. Gillis PL, Gagné F, McInnis R, Hooey TM, Choy ES, André C, Hoque Md E, Metcalfe CD. 2014. The impact of municipal wastewater effluents on field-deployed freshwater mussels in the Grand River (ON). Journal of Environmental Toxicology and Chemistry 33(1): 134-143. https://doi.org/10.1002/etc.2401 
  1. Ridal JJ, Yanch YE, Fowlie AR, Razavi NR, Delongchamp TM, Choy ES, Fathi M, Hodson PV, Campbell LM, Blais JM, Hickey MBC, Yumvihoze E, Lean DRS. 2010. Potential causes of enhanced transfer of mercury to St. Lawrence River Biota: implications for sediment management strategies at Cornwall, ON, Canada. Hydrobiologia  647 (1):81-98.  https://link.springer.com/article/10.1007/s10750-009-9951-1
  1. Choy ES, Kimpe LK, Mallory ML, Smol JP, Blais JM. 2010. Contamination of an Arctic terrestrial food web with marine-derived persistent organic pollutants transported by breeding seabirds. Environmental Pollution 158: 3431-3438. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.envpol.2010.07.014
  1. Choy ES, Gauthier M, Mallory ML, Smol JP, Douglas MSV, Lean DRS, Blais JM. 2010. An isotopic investigation of mercury accumulation in terrestrial food webs adjacent to an Arctic seabird colony. The Science of the Total Environment 408: 1858-1867.  https://doi.org/10.1016/j.scitotenv.2010.01.014
  1. Choy ES, Hodson PV, Campbell LM, Fowlie AR, Ridal J. 2008. Spatial and temporal trends of mercury concentrations in young-of-the-year spottail shiners (Notropis hudsonius) in the St. Lawrence River at Cornwall, ON. Archives of Environmental Contamination and Toxicology 54 (3): 473-481. https://link.springer.com/article/10.1007/s00244-007-9040-2