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• • • Study species & sites

    • Disciplines

    • Non-invasive population sampling

    • Species coexistence

    • Behavioural variations, adaptation & evolution

    • Genetic diversity

    • Responses to landscape changes

    • Ecological role

Approaches

Combination of field work, lab work and data analyses

My research usually combines molecular ecology tools with field ecological data as well as spatial and statistical analyses in wild long-term monitored populations of large mammals to test theories and answer questions in ecology and to provide scientific-based knowledge useful to implement conservation and management decisions.

Multi- and inter-disciplinarity approach

I am more and more interested in applying multi- and inter-disciplinary approaches (e.g., ecology combined with human and social sciences such as geography, sociology and ethology) to provide scientific-based knowledge to help the conservation and management of large mammal populations.

Integrative approach

Many ecological phenomena are inherently complex because they are due to nonlinear processes, they are hierarchically structured at various levels, and have manifestations at different spatial and temporal scales. I therefore try to use as much as possible an integrative approach to study patterns and processes in ecology across spatial scale, temporal scale and scale of biological organization (from genes to ecosystems). 

Research INTERESTS

My research has covered various aspects of the ecology, behaviour, genetics, dynamics and evolution of vertebrates:

• Non-invasive population sampling (e.g., non-invasive genetic sampling, camera trapping).

• Species coexistence (e.g., foraging ecology, competitive exclusion, niche partitioning, community structure).

• Behavioural variations, adaptation and evolution (e.g., sexual selection, mating systems, territoriality, mate choice, multiple paternity, dispersal, social structure, vigilance, personality, determinants of reproductive success).

• Genetic diversity (e.g., genetic structure and diversity at different spatial scales from the social group to the entire species; natural and anthropogenic, ancient and comtempory factors affecting genetic diversity; heterozygosity-fitness correlation; persistence of small populations, effective population size).

• Responses to landscape changes (e.g., habitat loss and fragmentation, linear features, movements, gene flows, dispersal, functional connectivity, spatial structure, landscape, habitat use and selection, corridors).

• Ecological role (e.g., ecosystem functions, mobile-link species, mobile agents, active subsidies, keystone species, ecosystem engineer species, umbrella species, nutrient fluxes, seed dispersal, predator-prey relationships, herbivory, cascading effects, ecosystem functioning, ecosystem services).