Publications

White LM, Sainte-Marie B, Lawton P, Rochette R (2024). Using benthic recruitment densities to forecast fisheries recruitment of American lobster in Atlantic Canada. Canadian Journal of Fisheries and Aquatic Sciences: cjfas-2023-0277.

Hanley PH, Bjorkstedt EP, Morse BL, Rochette R (2024). Pop-up satellite archival tags and an individual-based model provide new insights on behavioural thermoregulation in migrating ovigerous American lobster. Ecological Modelling 489: 110607.

Haarr ML, Miller EH, Gaudette J, Rochette R (2023). An Assessment of the Biological Significance of a Visual Clutch Staging Scheme for Ovigerous Female American Lobster (Homarus americanus). Animals 13(24): 3856.

Mullowney D, O'Connell N, Kilada R, Lawton P, Rochette R (2023). Refining age at legal-size estimation in the Newfoundland & Labrador populations of the snow crab Chionoecetes opilio (Fabricius, 1788) (Decapoda: Brachyura: Oregoniidae). Journal of Crustacean Biology 43: 1-14.

McManus MC, Brady DC, Brown C, Carloni JC, Giffin M, Goode AG, Kleman K, Lawton P, Le Bris A, Olszewski S, Perry DN, Rochette R, Shank BV, Wilson CM, Wahle R (2023). The American lobster settlement index: history, lessons, and future of a long-term, transboundary monitoring collaborative. Frontiers in Marine Sciences 9.

Dorant Y, Laporte M, Rougemont Q, Cayuela H, Rochette R, Bernatchez L (2022). Landscape genomics of the American lobster (Homarus americanus). Molecular Ecology. 31: 5182-5200

Quinn BK, Chassé J, Rochette R (2022). Impact of the use of different temperature-dependent larval development functions on estimates of potential large-scale connectivity of American lobster. Fisheries Oceanography 31: 554-569

Fischer-Rush J, Rochette R, Paton E, Dickey A, Hayden B (2021).  An arithmetic correction for the effect of lipid on carbon stable isotope ratios in muscle and digestive glands of the American lobster (Homarus americanus). Rapid Communication in Mass Spectrometry 35: e9204.

Dorant Y, Cayuela H, Wellband K, Laporte M, Rougemont Q, Mérot C, Normandeau E, Rochette R, Bernatchez L (2020). Copy number variants outperform SNPs to reveal genotype-temperature association in a marine species. Molecular Ecology 29: 4765-4782. Featured article: Photo Cover and Perspective Article (by A. Tigano).

Haarr ML, Comeau M, Chassé J, Rochette R (2020).  Early spring egg hatching by the American lobster (Homarus americanus) linked to rising water temperature in autumn. ICES Journal of Marine Science 77: 1685-1697. 

Tang F, Sainte-Marie B, Gaudette J, Rochette R (2019). Role of gamete limitation in the occurrence of ‘abnormal early clutches’ on female American lobster, Homarus americanus, in eastern Canada. Marine Biology 166: 146. 

Dinning KM, Rochette R (2019). Evidence that mud seafloor serves as recruitment habitat for settling and early benthic phase of the American lobster (Homarus americanus) H. Milne Edwards, 1837 (Decapoda: Astacidea: Nephropidae). Journal of Crustacean Biology 39: 594–601. 

Dorant Y, Benestan L, Rougemont Q, Normandeau E, Boyle B, Rochette R, Bernatchez L (2019).  Comparing Pool-seq, Rapture and GBS genotyping for inferring weak population structure; the American lobster (Homarus americanus) as a case study. Ecology and Evolution 9: 6606–6623.

Morse BL, Comeau M, Rochette R (2018).  Ontogenetic changes in movement patterns and activity levels of American lobsters (Homarus americanus) in Anse-Bleue, southern Gulf of St. Lawrence. Journal of Experimental Marine Biology and Ecology 505: 12-23.

Tang F, Haarr ML, Sainte-Marie B, Comeau M, Tremblay MJ, Gaudette J, Rochette R (2018).  Spatio-temporal patterns and reproductive costs of abnormal clutches of female American lobster, Homarus americanus, in eastern Canada. ICES Journal of Marine Science 75: 2045-2059. 

Morse BL, Quinn BK, Comeau M, Rochette R (2018).  Stock structure and connectivity of the American lobster (Homarus americanus) in the southern Gulf of St. Lawrence: Do benthic movements matter? Canadian Journal of Fisheries and Aquatic Sciences 75: 2096-2108.

Rochette R, Sainte-Marie B, Allain M, Baker J, Bernatchez L, Boudreau V, Comeau M, Côté J, Miron G, Ramsay L, Squires K, Tremblay JM (2018). The Lobster Node of the CFRN: Co-constructed and collaborative research on productivity, stock structure and connectivity in the American lobster (Homarus americanus). Canadian Journal of Fisheries and Aquatic Sciences 75: 813-824.

Haarr ML, Comeau M, Sainte-Marie B, Tremblay J, Rochette R (2018). Female American lobster (Homarus americanus) size-at-maturity declined in Canada during the 20th and early 21st century. Canadian Journal of Fisheries and Aquatic Sciences 75: 908-924.

Hunt H, Wahle RA, Tremblay JM, Comeau M, Silva A, Rochette R (2017). Spatial patterns of richness and abundance of benthic decapod crustaceans and fishes in the North-west Atlantic as measured by cobble-filled bio-collectors. Marine Biology Research 13: 1-19.

Quinn B, Chassé J, Rochette R (2017). Potential connectivity among American lobster fisheries as a result of larval drift across the species’ range in eastern North America. Canadian Journal of Fisheries and Aquatic Sciences 74: 1549-1563.

Benestan L, Quinn BK, Maaroufi H, Laporte M, Clark FK, Greenwood SJ, Rochette R, Bernatchez L (2016). Seascape genomics provides evidence for thermal adaptation and current-mediated population structure in American lobster (Homarus americanus). Molecular Ecology 25: 5073-5092.

Morse B, Rochette R (2016). Movements and activity levels of juvenile American lobsters Homarus americanus in nature quantified using ultrasonic telemetry. Marine Ecology Progress Series 551: 155-170.

Benestan L, Gosselin T, Perrier C, Sainte-Marie B, Rochette R, Bernatchez L (2016). ERRATUM for: RAD-genotyping reveals fine-scale genetic structuring and provides powerful population assignment in a widely distributed marine species, the American lobster (Homarus americanus). Molecular Ecology 25: 1626-1629.

Miller E, Haarr M, Rochette R (2016). Using temperature-dependent embryonic growth models to predict time of hatch of American lobster, Homarus americanus, in nature.  Canadian Journal of Fisheries and Aquatic Sciences 73: 1483-1492.

Sigurdsson GM, Tremblay J, Rochette R (2015). Patchiness in American lobster benthic recruitment at a hierarchy of spatial scales. ICES Journal of Marine Science 73: 394-404.

Ellis L, Hunt H, Rochette R (2015). Effect of background substrate on recruitment of benthic marine invertebrates to subtidal cobble-filled collectors. Marine Biology 162: 1849-1863.

Benestan L, Gosselin T, Perrier C, Sainte-Marie B, Rochette R, Bernatchez L (2015). RAD-genotyping reveals fine-scale genetic structuring and provides powerful population assignment in a widely distributed marine species, the American lobster (Homarus americanus).  Molecular Ecology. 24: 3299-3315.

Quinn BK, Rochette R (2015). Potential effect of variation in water temperature on development time of American lobster larva.  ICES Journal of Marine Science. 77: 79-90. 

Wilcox M, Rochette R (2015). Does claw morphology of the green crab Carcinus maenas vary in relation to its diet on rocky versus fine-sediment shores of southwest Bay of Fundy, Canada.  Journal of Experimental Marine Biology and Ecology 465: 121-129. 

Houlahan J, McKinney ST, Rochette R (2015). On theory in Ecology: another perspective.  BioScience 65: 341-342. 

Tang F, Minch T, Dinning K, Martyniuk C, Kilada R, Rochette R (2015). Size-at-age and body condition of juvenile American lobsters (Homarus americanus) living on cobble and mud in a mixed bottom embayment in the Bay of Fundy.  Marine Biology 162: 69-79. 

Botta A, Rochette R, Saunders GW, Addison JA, Barbeau MA (2014). Evidence for genotypic differentiation between marine snails (Littorina sitkana) from the upper- and lower-intertidal zone in Bamfield Inlet (British Columbia, Canada).  Journal of Experimental Marine Biology and Ecology 461: 389-396.

Burdett-Coutts V, Wahle R, Snelgrove PVR, Rochette R (2014). Do settling lobsters seek conspecifics? Spatial linkages between young-of-year and older juveniles.  Marine Ecology Progress Series 499: 143-155. 

Sigurdsson G, Morse B, Rochette R (2014). Light traps as a tool to sample pelagic larvae of American lobster (Homarus americanus).  Journal of Crustacean Biology 34: 182-188. 

Quinn BK, Rochette R, Ouellet P, Sainte-Marie B (2013). Effect of Temperature on Development Rate of Larvae from Cold-Water American Lobster (Homarus americanus). Journal of Crustacean Biology. 33: 527-536. 

Sigurdsson GM, Rochette R (2013). Predation by green crab and sand shrimp on settling and recently settled American lobster postlarvae.  Journal of Crustacean Biology 33: 10-14.

Wahle RA, Bergeron C, Tremblay JT, Wilson C, Burdett-Coutts V, Comeau M, Rochette R, Lawton P, Glenn R, and Gibson M (2013). The geography and bathymetry of American lobster benthic recruitment as measured by diver-based suction sampling and passive collectors.  Marine Biology Research 9: 42-58. 

Kilada R, Sainte-Marie B, Rochette R, Davis N, Vanier C, Campana S (2012). Direct determination of age in shrimps, crabs, and lobsters.  Rapid Communication in Canadian Journal of Fisheries and Aquatic Sciences 69: 1728–1733.

Haarr ML, Rochette R (2012). The effect of geographic origin on interactions between adult invasive green crabs Carcinus maenas and juvenile American lobsters Homarus americanus in Atlantic Canada.  Journal of Experimental Marine Biology and Ecology 422-423: 88–100.

Doyle SP, Rochette R (2010). Is water temperature responsible for geographic variation in shell mass of Littorina obtusata (L.) snails in the Gulf of Maine? Journal of Experimental Marine Biology and Ecology 394: 98-104.

Edgell TC, Rochette R (2009). Prey-induced changes to a predator's behaviour and morphology: Implications for shell–claw covariance in the northwest Atlantic. Journal of Experimental Marine Biology and Ecology 382: 1-7.

Lynch BR, Rochette R (2009). Spatial overlap and biotic interactions between sub-adult American lobsters, Homarus americanus, and the invasive European green crab Carcinus maenas.  Journal of Experimental Marine Biology and Ecology 369: 127-135.

Edgell TC, Brazeau C, Grahame JW, Rochette R (2008). Simultaneous defense against shell crushing in a snail faced with the predatory shore crab, Carcinus maenas.  Marine Ecology Progress Series 371: 191-198.

Edgell TC, Rochette R (2008). Differential snail predation by an exotic crab and the geography of shell-claw covariance in the northwest Atlantic.  Evolution 62: 1216-1228.

Koch N, Lynch BR, Rochette R (2007). Trade off between mating and predation risk in the marine snail Littorina plena.  Invertebrate Biology 126: 257-267. 

Edgell TC, Rochette R (2007). Geographic correlation between reciprocally adaptive traits of an exotic decapod predator and native gastropod prey: evidence of an arms race? Evolutionary Ecology Research 9: 579-597.

Brookes JI, Rochette R (2007).  Mechanism of a plastic phenotypic response: predator‐induced shell thickening in the intertidal gastropod .  Journal of Evolutionary Biology 20: 1015-1027. 

Lynch B, Rochette R (2007).  Circatidal rhythm of free-roaming sub-tidal Carcinus maenas, revealed by ultrasonic telemetry. Crustaceana 80: 345-355. 

Rochette R, Doyle SP, Edgell TC (2007). Interaction between an invasive decapod and a native gastropod: predator foraging tactics and prey architectural defenses. Marine Ecology Progress Series 330: 179-188. 

Locke A, Hanson M, Ellis KM, Thompson J, Rochette R (2007). Invasion of southern Gulf of St. Lawrence by the clubbed tunicate (Styela clava Herdman): Potential mechanisms for invasions of Prince Edward Island estuaries. Journal of Experimental Marine Biology and Ecology 342: 69-77. 

Drolet D, Himmelman JH, Rochette R (2004). Effect of light and substratum complexity on microhabitat selection and activity of the ophiuroid  Ophiopholis aculeata.  Journal of Experimental Marine Biology and Ecology 313: 139-154.

Drolet D, Himmelman JH, Rochette R (2004). Use of refuges by the ophiuroid Ophiopholis aculeata: effects of substratum complexity and predation risk. Marine Ecology Progress Series 284: 173-183.

Rochette R, Grand TC (2004). Mechanisms of species coexistence: a field test of theoretical models using intertidal snails. Oikos 105: 512-524.

Rochette R, Dunmall K, Dill LM (2003). The effect of life-history variation on the population size structure of a rocky intertidal snail (Littorina sitkana). Journal of Sea Research 49: 119-132.

Rochette R, Tetreault F, Himmelman JH (2001).  Aggregation of whelks, Buccinum undatum, near feeding predators: the role of reproductive benefits. Animal Behaviour 61: 31-41.

Rochette R, Dill LM (2000). Mortality, behavior and the effects of predators on the intertidal distribution of littorinid gastropods. Journal of Experimental Marine Biology and Ecology 253: 165-191.

Rochette R, Maltais M-J, Dill LM, Himmelman JH (1999). Interpopulation and context-related differences in responses of a marine gastropod to predation risk. Animal Behaviour 57: 977-987.

Rochette R, Arsenault DJ, Justome B, Himmelman JH (1998). Chemically-mediated predator-recognition learning in a marine gastropod. Ecoscience 5: 353-360.

Justome B, Rochette R, Himmelman JH (1998). Investigation of the influence of exposure to predation risk on the development of defensive behaviours in a marine gastropod. The Veliger 41: 172-179.

Rochette R, Dill LM, Himmelman JH (1997). A field test of threat sensitivity in a marine gastropod. Animal Behaviour 54: 1053-1062.

Rochette R, McNeil JN, Himmelman JH (1996). Inter- and intra-population variations in the response of the whelk Buccinum undatum to the predatory asteroid Leptasterias polaris. Marine Ecology Progress Series 142: 193-201.

Rochette R, Himmelman JH (1996).  Does vulnerability influence trade-offs made by whelks between predation risk and feeding opportunities? Animal Behaviour 52: 783-794.

Rochette R, Morissette S, Himmelman JH (1995). A flexible response to a major predator provides the whelk Buccinum undatum with nutritional gains. Journal of Experimental Marine Biology and Ecology 185: 167-180.

Rochette R, Hamel J-F, Himmelman JH (1994). Foraging strategy of the asteroid Leptasterias polaris: role of prey odors, current and feeding status. Marine Ecology Progress Series 106: 93-100.