About the Authors

Martin Patenaude-Monette

Affiliation Groupe de recherche en écologie comportementale et animale, Département des sciences biologiques, Université du Québec à Montréal, Montréal, Québec, Canada

Marc Bélisle

Affiliation Département de biologie, Université de Sherbrooke, Sherbrooke, Québec, Canada

Jean-François Giroux

giroux.jean-francois@uqam.ca

Affiliation Groupe de recherche en écologie comportementale et animale, Département des sciences biologiques, Université du Québec à Montréal, Montréal, Québec, Canada

Competing Interests

ICI Environnement, Falcon Environmental Services, Chamard et Associés, Waste Management, and BFI Canada provided funding towards this study. There are no patents, products in development or marketed products to declare. This does not alter the authors’ adherence to all the PLOS ONE policies on sharing data and materials.

Author Contributions

Conceived and designed the experiments: MPM JFG MB. Performed the experiments: MPM JFG. Analyzed the data: MPM MB. Contributed reagents/materials/analysis tools: JFG MB. Wrote the paper: MPM. Provided methodological and editorial comments: JFG MB. Supervised the overall field study: JFG.