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Since 2017 : Researcher in Ecology and Wildlife Management at the French Wildlife Agency (OFB) -Since January 2019 : Team leader (team : Waders and protected birds)
2013- 16: PhD in Ecology and Evolution at the University of Montpellier, CEFE, France -“Habitat selection and spatio-temporal dynamics of two species of larids : the Black-headed gull and the Slender-billed gull” 2012-13: MSc 2nd year in Ecosystem Functioning and Conservation - University of Montpellier, CEFE, France. Master thesis : “The role of the environment in spatial and temporal dynamics of black-headed gull colonies” 2011-12: MSc 1st year in Ecology and Environmental Management” -University of York, England, (Erasmus exchange program) Master thesis : “Global trends in the distribution of endangered amphibian species” |
Scientific communications:
Publications:
- Aubry, P., Quaintenne, G., Dupuy, J., Francesiaz, C., Guillemain, M., & Caizergues, A. (2023). On using stratified two-stage sampling for large-scale multispecies surveys. Ecological Informatics, 102229.
- Jiguet, F., Bocher, P., Bourgeois, A., Chaigne, A., Chartier, A., Düttmann, H., ... & Kruckenberg, H. (2023). Multi-sensor data loggers identify the location and timing in four poaching cases of the endangered Eurasian Curlew Numenius arquata. Forensic Science International: Animals and Environments, 100069.
- Joyeux, E., Haie, S., Le Rest, K., Quaintenne, G., & Francesiaz, C. (2023) Meadow-breeding waders in France: Population sizes, distribution and conservation challenges. Wader Study Group
- Couturier, T., Bauduin, S., Astruc, G., Blanck, A., Canonne, C., Chambert, T., ... & Gimenez, O. (2023). Building spaces of interactions between researchers and managers: Case studies with wildlife monitoring and conservation in France. Ecological Solutions and Evidence, 4(2), e12245.
- Aubry, P., & Francesiaz, C. (2022). On comparing design-based estimation versus model-based prediction to assess the abundance of biological populations. Ecological Indicators, 144, 109394.
- Grzegorczyk, E., Bézier, L., Le‐Rest, K., Caizergues, A., Francesiaz, C., Champagnon, J., Guillemain, M. & Eraud, C. (2022). Is hunting nonintentionally selective? A test using game bird capture‐dead recoveries. Ecology and Evolution, 12(9), e9285.
- Eraud, C., Devaux, T., Villers, A., Johnson, F. A., & Francesiaz, C. 2021. popharvest: An R package to assess the sustainability of harvesting regimes of bird populations. Ecology and evolution, 11(23), 16562-16571.
- Hogg, C. J., Lea, M. A., Soler, M. G., Vasquez, V. N., Payo-Payo, A., Parrott, M. L., ... & Brooks, C. M. (2020). Protect the Antarctic Peninsula—before it’s too late. Nature
- Francesiaz, C., Yohannes, E., Besnard, A., Sadoul, N., Blanchon, T. and Béchet, A. 2020. Foraging niche shift maintains breeding parameters of a colonial waterbird during range expansion. - Ecology and Evolution: 1–10.
- Acker, P.* & Francesiaz C.*, Béchet, A., Sadould, N., Lessels, K., Mateman, C., Besnard, A. 2018. Insights on dispersal and recruitment paradigms: sex- and age-dependent variations in a nomadic breeder. Oecologia 186 : 85-97 *equal contributions
- Francesiaz, C., Guilbault, E., Lebreton, J-D., Trouvilliez, J., Besnard A. 2017. Colony persistence in waterbirds is constrained by pond quality and land use. Freshwater Biology 62 :119-132
- Francesiaz, C. Farine, D., Laforge, C., Béchet, A., Sadoul, N., Besnard, A. 2017. Familiarity drives philopatry in an obligate colonial breeder with weak inter-annual breeding site fidelity. Animal Behaviour 124 :125-133
Posters and oral communications:
- Birds Carribbean " Hunting pressure on shorebirds during post-breeding migration in Guadeloupe" , Guadeloupe, France July 2018
- International Wader Study Group Conference « How to estimate a population size at a national scale ? The case of wintering Lapwing’s population in France », Workum, Netherlands September 2018
- Société Française d’Ecologie ’’Evidence of group tenacity in a colonial breeder with weak site philopatry’’ Oral communication, Marseille, France October 2016
- Conservation sciences in the Mediterranean region’’New insights on the dispersal dynamics of the Slender-billed gull along the French Mediterranean coastline’’. Oral communication., Tour du Valat, Arles, France April 2016
- International Congress of Conservation Biology ’’Surrounding agriculture practices may impact pond biodiversity: the example of Black-headed gull colonies’’. Poster presentation. Montpellier, France August 2015
Scientific committees and working groups
Student supervision (see below for more details) 1 PhD student 2019 -2022 & 12 master students & 4 bachelors students |
Presentation of some previous and current students
Killian Grégory
Master thesis: “An integrative framework to combine migratory connectivity and demographic data” Killian was naturally drawn to the field of animal ecology. His studies at the ENS de Lyon led him to make his first research experiences on spatial navigation and social resilience in bird populations, orienting his interests on how animals find and make their place in their environment. He still had a bent for applied questions though. Looking for ways to bridge the gap between individual behaviour and population-level processes, he did his master thesis on migratory connectivity with Charlotte, Aurélien Besnard and Frédéric Jiguet, setting a foot in conservation biology. He is currently on his way to acquire more experience on spatial and collective ecology, working at the CEFE and UZH, to tie all his interests together. He aims to build a research project around the importance of information use for conservation issues, by looking at its effects on the spatio-temporal dynamics of groups and (meta-)populations |
Léa Bariod (February to September 2020)
Master thesis: "Population dynamics of the Eurasian curlew in the context of adaptive harvest management at the European scale" Passionate about nature and hiking from the outset, Léa has developed a great interest in the conservation of biodiversity. She naturally chose to study in this field at the University of Bourgogne-Franche-Comté (France). Since September 2018 she started a master degree in "Dynamics and Conservation of Biodiversity". In spring 2019, she joined the “brown bear team” for an internship on the influence of weather on predation behaviour of brown bears on domestic livestock. Currently, she is doing her final internship at the French Biodiversity Office on the population dynamics of the Eurasian curlew, supervised by Charlotte. These two research experiences allowed her to confirm her wish to actively conduct research in ecology. |
Manon Maupomé (Spring 2020)
Stage de M1: "Elaboration d'un programme de recherche sur le Courlis cendré nicheur dans le Val de Saône" Manon est passionnée par la biodiversité et l’ornithologie depuis toujours. Elle étudie également l’entomofaune, notamment les Rhopalocères et les Odonates, et consacre le reste de son temps à la photographie et au dessin. Après avoir effectué une licence professionnelle en expertise naturaliste en 2018, elle poursuit un master en Ecologie et gestion de la biodiversité à Montpellier. En 2020, elle rejoint l’équipe Limicoles de l’OFB pour élaborer un programme de recherche sur le Courlis Cendré nicheur dans l’Est de la France. Malheureusement le terrain initialement prévu est annulé à cause de la crise sanitaire de ce printemps... mais Manon sait rebondir et organise avec soin un programme de recherche complet pour l'an prochain ! Cette nouvelle expérience lui permet d’aborder l’aspect recherche et mise en place de protocole. Manon recherche une alternance pour son M2 à partir de septembre 2020. |
Lucie Aulus-Giacosa (January to July 2016)
Research project (Gap year): Implementation of an Individual based-model (IBM) on habitat selectivity strategy in larids (Black headed gull). Lucie has a mixed background: engineering degree in Agronomy (Supagro) and a master in Ecology (Montpellier). She joined Charlotte and Paul Acker for a project on the development of an IBM testing for four strategy of habitat selection of larids. She also had the opportunity to take part to two fieldworks bird banding campaign in the Forez region (canon net trapping of adults and long-term monitoring of the Black headed gull population). She has always been interested in ecology and conservation. She participated to the project of development of the Caledonian littoral (SMVL) by implementing geographic information system tools. She is deeply interested into life history strategies, worked on mortality of trees in Southern Finland and did her master thesis (2017) on dispersal and migration problematics of Brown trout introduce in sub-Antarctic Kerguelen Islands. Afterwards, she got the opportunity to carry on her research on the evolution of the Brown trout migration traits as a PhD (INRAE-E2S-UPPA). Currently, she creates statistical models on the evolution of fish freshwater growth and reaction norm at migration, on the fish sampled from 1960 until now, last campaign in which she took part. |
Nicolas Giraud (March to August 2015 )
Master thesis “Food availability: the influence on reproductive and demographic parameters of avifauna” Nicolas has always been fascinated by travelling and biodiversity. He naturally followed and studied in this field. He graduated in 2015 with an Ecology Masters degree from the University Jospeh Fourrier, Grenoble, France. Following this, he worked within research on seabirds for the National Center for Scientific Research (CNRS) and the French Polar Institute (IPEV). In 2015, for these organizations, he moved into the French Southern and Antarctic territories, in charge of the fieldwork for a research program on Yellow nosed Albatrosses. In 2017, still with these organizations, he has realized a fieldwork campaign into the Norwegian arctic, on Hornoya Island in order to study nesting seabirds from this Island. All these different experiences, gave him a love for studying isolated and Polar scenes. And still today he has the same passion for these places and the will to share his knowledge of the wildlife there. |
Emy Guilbault (April to August 2014)
Research project (Gap year): Modelisation of the environmental drivers of the Black headed gull reproductive success. Emy has a mixed background: engineering degree in Agronomy (Supagro) and master in Ecology (Montpellier). She joined Charlotte for a research project in 2014 and fell in love with birds! She enjoyed the fieldwork counting and observing them so she later joined the banding world. She did a voluntary work as an assistant bander for Trunvel banding station in 2016 and helped other banders in France and in Australia since then. She is eager to understand the complex link between animals and their environment. Thus, she studied Shark and turtles abundances in Ningaloo park at Perth CSIRO. She studied the European barn owl clinal colour variation at the University of Lausanne (Switzerland) for her master thesis (2016). During the last couple of years, she came down under to do her PhD at the University of Newcastle (NSW) to develop statistical models for practical ecology using point process models. https://www.researchgate.net/profile/Emy_Guilbault |