Ian Renner from the University of Newcastle in Australia, who visited us back in 2015, is with us again for a short 3-week visit.

Blaise defended his PhD I co-supervised with Pierre-Yves Quenette from ONCFS (manuscript here). Blaise studied the attitudes of the public toward brown bear presence and provided sound estimates of abundance and distribution for the species in the Pyrenees.

Frederic Gosselin, Etienne Rivot and I organised a 2-day workshop on issues in fitting hierarchical models in ecology. I gave a talk on “Local minima and multistate capture-recapture models”, slides and R code available on GitHub.

During the period 2013-2015, the NGO GIS3M led the GDEGeM project in which tons of data (on abundance and distribution among others) were collected on bottlenose dolphins.

We attended the conference organized by the French Ecological Society in Marseille. Our talk was ‘Conservation and management of large carnivores in France: A beneficial collaboration between ONCFS practitioners and CNRS researchers’.

Wow, another good news, our project “Climate and management effects on COMmunity dynamics – Developing multi-species DEMOgraphy” will be funded by ANR!

I decided to teach myself how to do proper reproducible research. Many reasons to that: save time on the mid/long term, make my analyses open and criticizable, share with others, …