Maître de Conférences à l'Université Montpellier

CEFE/CNRS

Campus du CNRS

1919, route de Mende
34293 Montpellier cedex 5

Tél : +33/0 4 67 61 33 17

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Associate Professor in spatial ecology at the Muséum national d'Histoire naturelle                                                                                                                                                        

My research focuses on movement ecology: I study the factors influencing animal movements (especially dispersal) and gene flow, with a particular emphasis on landscape composition and structure. I also study how human-triggered landscape modifications like fragmentation affect animal movements; and the consequences on population functioning and structure. My research is hence tightly linked to the management/conservation of populations, and to landscape management (e.g. connectivity restoration, french Trame Verte et Bleue policy).

Senior Lecturer / Directeur d'Etudes de l'EPHE

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CEFE/CNRS
Campus du CNRS
1919, route de Mende
34293 Montpellier 5
France 

Tél. :     +33 (0)4 67 61 32 94
Fax      :+33 (0)4 67 41 21 38

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Keywords:Biostatistics; Conservation biology; Amphibians; Birds, Reptiles, Quantitative ecology; Population Dynamics and Demography, Sampling designs.

PhD Student EPHE-PSL / SPYGEN

PhD advisors : Stéphanie Manel (CEFE, EPHE - PSL)
Co-supervisor : Erwan Delrieu-Trottin (CEFE, EPHE - PSL)
Co-supervisor: Alice Valentini (SPYGEN)

ORCID – ResearchGate – Google Scholar 

Contact: bastien.mace[a]cefe.cnrs.fr

Maitre de Conférences (EPHE)

CEFE/CNRS
Campus du CNRS
1919, route de Mende
34293 Montpellier 5

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 THEMES DE RECHERCHE

Mes thèmes de recherche concernent la phylogénie, la phylogéographie et l'évolution moléculaire à partir de l'analyse des séquences de gènes mitochondriaux et nucléaires. L’objectif est de répondre, à l’aide de l’outil moléculaire, à des questions de biodiversité et systématique évolutive à l’échelle des vertébrés (mammifères, amphibiens et reptiles). Je m’intéresse aussi à l’échelle temporelle (datations moléculaires) des différents niveaux de diversifications ce qui permet de confronter les inférences moléculaires avec les données morphologiques, paléontologiques et biogéographiques.

Doctorant EPHE-PSL

Etage 1, aile C, bureau 114

ResearchGate

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Directeur de thèse : Claude Miaud (CEFE, EPHE - PSL)

Projet de thèse: Etude de la mobilité de la mégafaune marine grâce au développement d’un capteur passif à ADN environnemental

Mots clés : ADN environnemental, capteur passif, mégafaune marine, parc éolien en mer.

Cette thèse vise à améliorer les connaissances sur la mobilité de la mégafaune marine rare et parfois discrète (mammifères marins, tortues marines, grands poissons…) grâce au développement d’un capteur passif à ADN environnemental (ADNe). L’ADNe correspond à l’ADN naturellement relâché dans l’environnement par les organismes vivants. L’objectif est de capter cet ADN dans le temps afin de détecter les passages de la mégafaune marine et de mieux comprendre ses déplacements.

Cette nouvelle méthode peut permettre de répondre à certains obstacles méthodologiques des inventaires de biodiversité marine (difficultés et coûts d’accès, saisonnalité de la fréquentation, discrétion des taxons…). 

Enfin, ces capteurs serviront également à l’étude des interactions de cette faune avec les activités anthropiques. La fréquentation des parcs éoliens en mer par la mégafaune marine sera ainsi évaluée.

Les objectifs de cette thèse sont donc :

• De développer et de tester en laboratoire et sur le terrain un capteur passif à ADNe répondant aux contraintes physico-chimiques du milieu marin (salinité, variations de température, courants…)
• Mettre en place ces capteurs dans le milieu naturel pour obtenir une meilleure compréhension des déplacements de la mégafaune marine dans des contextes variés (aire marine protégée, parc éolien en mer…).

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Thesis project: Study of marine megafauna mobility thanks to the development of an environmental eDNA passive sampler.

Key words: environmental DNA, passive sampler, marine megafauna, offshore wind farm.

This thesis aims to improve knowledge on rare marine megafauna (marine mammals, sea turtles, large fishes…) thanks to the development of a passive environmental DNA (eDNA) sampler. eDNA is the DNA naturally released in the environment by living organisms. The objective is to capture the DNA over time to detect marine megafauna and to better understand its movements.

This new method can address methodological obstacles of  marine biodiversity inventories (difficulties and costs of access, seasonality, taxa discretion…).

Finally, these sensors will be used to study anthropogenic impacts on megafauna. The frequentation of offshore windfarms by marine megafauna will be evaluated. 

The objectives are:

• To develop and test in the laboratory and in the field an eDNA passive sampler according to the physio-chemical properties of marine environment (salinity, temperature, streams…).
• Implement these samplers in the natural environment to better understand the marine megafauna movements in diverse contexts (marine protected area, offshore windfarm…). 

PhD candidate - Migratory landbirds conservation

I am a PhD candidate using tracking data to inform conservation of African-Eurasion migratory landbirds, storks and  raptors.
The persistent decline observed in migratory bird populations over recent decades highlights the urgent need to improve our scientific understanding of the drivers behind this trend. This comprehension is crucial to support international policies impacting the conservation of these birds across national, European, and inter-continental levels.
The project results from collaboration between the CEFE, the CIBIO and BirdLife International.

Project: Mobilising tracking data on African-Eurasian migratory birds to support conservation at the flyway scale.
Supervisors: Ana Rodrigues (CEFE - CNRS, Montpellier) & Inês Catry (CIBIO - University of Porto).
Project in collaboration with BirdLife International.

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CEFE UMR5175 - Campus du CNRS - 1919, route de Mende - 34293 Montpellier 5 - France
ORCID: 0009-0004-1802-0197
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 Directeur de Recherche Emerite au CNRS / Emeritus Senior Scientist at CNRS

J’étudie les réponses des communautés animales et végétales aux changements d’origine humaine (espèces introduites, usage des sols), en milieu tempéré et méditerranéen.

I study plant and animal community response to human induced change (introduced  species, land use) in temperate and méditerranean systems.

Courriel: jean-louis.martin [at] cefe.cnrs.fr

CEFE- 2ème étage, Aile A, bureau 217b

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RESEARCH

My research focuses on the geographic distribution of animal behaviours and traits. By combining ecoinformatics approaches with naturalist expertise, my projects explore an interface between functional ecology, biogeography and behavioural ecology

Main active projects :  

- SONGMAP - acoustic biogeography of the world's passerines. Vocalizations ensure informational connectivity among the individuals of a soniferous species assemblages. In this project, we explore the global diversity of strategies for information coding in Passeriform birds and its community-level consequences. See also the ACOUCENEproject on acoustic connectivity in bird communities (2022 - 2025, FRB/CESAB)

- C-BIRDS - functional biogeography of seabirds in the Southern ocean. Antarctic seabirds exhibit a fascinating range of behavioral and functional strategies to cope with extreme climates and the distribution of resources over the ocean. We adopt a spatial modeling framework to understand the abiotic and biotic factors organizing these strategies across the austral ocean. See the C-BIRDS project and thesis.

- COCPITT - assessing the spatial impacts of the roadkill risk on wildlife. We test the potential of citizen-generated opportunistic wildlife records to assist spatial planning policies through regional-scale biodiversity models, currently using the roadkill risk as a study model with options of extensions to other biodiversity monitoring questions. See the results of the initial COCPITTproject within the ITTECOP program

COLLABORATIONS

I am involved in a range of research projects on various aspects of population, community and ecosystem ecology with both basic and applied outcomes. See for instance : 

- QWERTY project : how fire dynamics impact the distribution of functional strategies in Mediterranean forests

- ECOPHY-ANTAVIA : population ecology of antarctic seabirds

- CISSTAT network : fostering interactions between academic and non scientific stakeholders on data-based ecological monitoring and expertise

TEACHING

Certificat en analyse de données pour l'écologie(français uniquement - french only) : trois semaines de formation pratique aux analyses statistiques de données pour les experts de la biodiversité et les gestionnaires d'espaces naturels

Master Biodiversité - Environnement : I coordinate a master program at the Ecole Pratique des Hautes Etudes - Paris Sciences Lettres for students willing to engage into carreers in academic research, biodiversity expertise and management of protected areas. 

Within this program, I teach courses on general ecology, methods for ecological data analysis and interactions between public decision and science. 

Bioacoustic Winter School: Within this international, world-class school on bioacoustics, led by Saint Etienne University, I teach principles of statistical analysis applied to acoustic data

Phd student - Doctorant

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Research : Climatic and biotic drivers of species distributions in alpine landscapes -- Distribution des oiseaux dans les socio-écosystèmes montagnards

Project : A long-term bird survey for mountain landscape birds -- Un suivi participatif national à long terme des oiseaux de montagne (!)

PhD student – University of Montpellier

I’m a PhD student interested in animal behaviour and cognition, and how they translate into the spatial and demographic dynamics of populations. During my PhD, I focus on the interplay between individual movements and the dynamics of population networks through two case studies: 1) migratory connectivity and its relationship with the demography of migratory populations; 2) informed dispersal and its implications for the structuring and the stability of larid colonies. Linking individual and population-level processes leads me to draw on methods from both behavioural ecology and population biology.

Supervisors: Pierre-André CROCHET (DR, CNRS), Aurélien BESNARD (DE, EPHE).

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Orcid: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-0316-5041
CEFE, 2ème étage aile C, bureau 202A

Laurine Mathieu - PhD Student 2023/2026

Supervised by Anne Charmantier (CEFE-CNRS) and Samuel Caro (CEFE-CNRS)

Contact

CNRS - CEFE UMR5175, 1919 Route de Mende, 34283 Montpellier

Aile B Etage 2 Office 206

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Project

Urbanisation is one of the most rapid and profound environmental transformations, reshaping habitats and generating novel selective pressures on wildlife. Our research investigates how birds adjust physiologically and evolutionarily to urban environments, focusing on great tits (Parus major) and blue tits (Cyanistes caeruleus) from Montpellier and nearby forests.

Using a combination of long-term field monitoring (CEFE TIT PROJECT), capture-based physiological assessments, and common garden experiments on hand-reared birds, I aim to disentangle the effects of phenotypic plasticity and genetic differentiation in responses to urbanisation.

The first part of this work examines reproductive physiology, focusing on how urban conditions influence hormone dynamics and reproductive traits such as laying date, clutch size, egg size, and fertilisation success. The second part investigates stress physiology through the activity of the hypothalamic-pituitary-adrenal (HPA) axis, assessing both baseline and stress-induced glucocorticoid levels. Finally, the third part explores metabolic adaptations to the urban heat island effect using respirometry, measuring thermal physiology and heat tolerance in both wild and experimental settings.

Overall, this thesis integrates field and experimental approaches to provide a comprehensive assessment of how tits adjust to urban environments through endocrine, reproductive, stressrelated, and metabolic pathways. This work will offer novel insights into the physiological bases of urban adaptation and, more broadly, into the capacity of wild vertebrates to cope with rapid anthropogenic environmental change.

More information: ACACIA Project

Bio

• 2021-2023 Master in Biodiversity, Ecology and Evolution, Ecology, Evolution and Genomics (Lyon 1)
  • 2^nd year Master thesis: Genetic architecture and gene expression underlying sexual antagonistics traits in Gerromorpha - IGFL (Lyon) - supervised by Abderrahman Khila
  • 1^st year Master thesis: Cognitive abilities in relation to the reproductive success of great tits and ringed flycatchers - LBBE (Lyon)/ Gotland (Sweden) - supervised by Blandine Doligez & Laure Cauchard
• 2020-2021 Licence in Biodiversity (Lyon 1)
• 2018-2020 CPGE BCPST (Lyon)

Conferences

• Novembre 2024          Parus Net - Présentation - Paris
• August 2025          Ecology & Behaviour - Organisation - Montpellier
  • https://ecobhvr2025.sciencesconf.org/
• August 2025          Congress of European Society for Evolutionary Biology - Presentation - Barcelona

Directeur de recherche au CNRS

CEFE/CNRS
Campus du CNRS
1919, route de Mende
34293 Montpellier cedex 5

Tél : +33/0 4 67 61 33 10
Fax : +33/0 4 67 61 33 36
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Mots clés

Discipline : Ecologie évolutive, Ecologie comportementale, Ecophysiologie
Thématiques : Biologie des populations, Traits d’histoire de vie, Changements environnementaux, Hétérogénéité de l’habitat
Organismes biologiques : Aves, Parus (Mésanges)
Milieux : Région méditerranéenne, Milieux forestiers
Techniques :  Suivi d’individus marqués dans le cadre d’un programme à long terme
Autres mots clés : Interactions entre espèces, Ressources, Climat

PhD candidate – Université de Montpellier

I’m a PhD student interested in evolutionary demography and population dynamics of wild populations. I’m currently working on the demography of Svalbard polar bears. I’m relying on 30+ years of data including mark-recapture data, tracking data, and more. I’m mainly using linear models, mark-recapture models and path analysis models in a Bayesian framework to study the determinants of reproductive output, trade-offs between traits, and such.

Supervisors: Sarah Cubaynes (EPHE, CEFE-CNRS), Jon Aars (Norwegian Polar Institute)

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Orcid: 0000-0003-1489-9363
GitHub: MarwanNaciri

Chercheur postdoctoral / Postdoctoral researcher

J'étudie les mécanismes de la répartition spatiale des grands herbivores, des grands carnivores et des oiseaux marins dans le but d'approfondir nos connaissances sur les interactions prédateur-proies (jeu spatial prédateur-proie, stratégie d'alimentation, stratégie de recherche des prédateurs, stratégie anti-prédatrice des proies) et d'améliorer les mesures de gestion et de conservation de la faune.

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Directeur d'Etude Emerite (EPHE)

CEFE/CNRS
Campus du CNRS
1919, route de Mende
34293 Montpellier 5

tél : +33 4 67 61 33 43

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Thématiques : Incendies ou brûlages,  dynamique du paysage, et faune : écologie des perturbations et conservation.

CNRS Researcher

Head of the Behavioural Ecology team

CEFE/CNRS
Campus du CNRS
1919, route de Mende
34293 Montpellier cedex 5

Bureau 208

Chargée de Recherche Grands Carnivores –
Office Français de la Biodiversité

I use my modeling and data analysis skills to study the spatiotemporal dynamics of wolf and lynx populations in France to improve their conservation and management. Examples of projects on these species are: reduction of lynx-vehicles collisions, landscape management impacts, modeling of wolf demography, occupancy analysis, population and individual monitoring (e.g., camera traps, genetic analyses), impact of wolf legal killings on the population, prey-predator interactions. I also have strong skills in individual-based modeling.

Contact information

Orcid: 0000-0002-3252-5894
Web page: https://www.sarahbauduin.fr/

CNRS Researcher

Current Research

I work to reveal how animals perceive and adjust to their environment, and why this matters for populations and ecosystems. My model of choice: large herbivores. Because you can (relatively) easily monitor their behaviour in natura, and they have important ecosystem effects. Some have high societal and economical values, so my research sometimes matter beyond basic science. We (as humans) are making the world's climate different. How this affects organisms in the hottest applied ecological question. I do my share to bring an answer to it

Contact:
CEFE/CNRS
Campus du CNRS
1919, route de Mende
34293 Montpellier 5

tél : +33 (0) 467 61 33 02
fax: +33 (0) 467 61 33 36

simon.chamaille -[at]- cefe.cnrs.fr

Postdoctoral Researcher

My research interests lie at the interface between population dynamics, quantitative ecology, conservation and life history evolution. I mostly focus on empirical work, on wild animal populations, but I also do some methodological development and a bit of theoretical work.