PhD project on interactions between wild and captive Asian elephant populations

Great news! Gilles Maurer will soon start his PhD on the links between wild and captive populations of Asian elephants using an interdisciplinary approach. This is a joint venture with the Beauval zoo and B.
Apr 23, 2015

Pamela Lagrange's PhD defense

Paméla Lagrange successfully defended her PhD co-supervised with M. Bélisle from the University of Sherbrooke on the ‘Drivers of survival and breeding dispersal using a capture-recapture framework in Tree Swallows - Québec’.
Apr 9, 2015

Nina Santostasi's visit

I had the visit of Nina Santostasi from Italy to work for a few days on the estimation of striped dolphin abundance in the gulf of Corinth (in Greece). Nina is working with Giovanni Bearzi and Silvia Bonizzoni from the NGO Dolphin Biology and Conservation.
Apr 7, 2015

Working group in demography

As part of the GdR EcoStat and our evolutionary demography group, we had a stimulating workshop on the quantification of individual heterogeneity in survival of wild populations using an approach recently developed by Hal Caswell.
Apr 2, 2015

GDR EcoStat first conference

We organised the first conference of the GdR EcoStat. We spent two lovely days in Lyon talking about ecological statistics with the hundred people who attended. The talks are available here.
Mar 12, 2015

Laetitia Blanc defended her PhD

Laetitia Blanc succesfully defended her PhD on the conservation of lynx in France. Congrats Laeti! She had very nice feedbacks by the members of committee (X. Lambin, E. Marboutin, J. Linnell, M.
Feb 6, 2015

Welcome

Welcome to our new master students Iago Bonnici and Julie Louvrier and Tamar Lok our new post-doc.
Feb 1, 2015

Moving upstairs

Our team has recently joined the department Biodiversity & Conservation at CEFE, a department that I have the pleasure to head now. We have moved offices and are now on the second floor.
Jan 10, 2015

Statistical ecology comes of age

Our meeting report on ISEC2014 has appeared in Biology Letters just before Christmas eve, nice gift! Check it out, it’s in open access.
Dec 24, 2014

Jim Sedinger's sabbatical

Jim Sedinger, professor at the University of Nevada (Reno), said goodbye to the team after 3 months with us on a sabbatical. It’s been great to have Jim here analyzing data collected as part of the amazing Black Brant monitoring initiated in the 40s.
Dec 16, 2014