Recent publications

Find below the last Tour du Valat publications (scientific articles, booklets and reports), or the whole list on the Tour du Valat documentary portal:

• A history of discoveries and disappearances of the rare annual plant Lythrum thesioides M.Bieb.: new insights into its ecology and biology
  de Antoine Gazaix, Mario Klesczewski, Michel-Ange Bouchet, Manuel Cartereau, James Molina, Henri Michaud, Serge D. Muller, Lionel Pirsoul, Perrine Gauthier, Patrick Grillas, et al. In Botany Letters, 167(2) (April, 2020), 201-211 En ligne : doi.org[...] Mediterranean temporary pools are threatened ecosystems that host a unique plant community, mostly ... read more
• Biological and statistical interpretation of size-at-age, mixed-effects models of growth
  de Simone Vincenzi, Dušan Jesenšek, Alain J. Crivelli In Royal Society Open Science, 7(4) (April, 2020), 192146 En ligne : royalsocietypublishing.org[...] The differences in life-history traits and processes between organisms living in the same or different populations contribute to their ecological and evolutionary dynamics. We developed mixed-effect model ... read more
• How effective are strategies to control the dissemination of antibiotic resistance in the environment? A systematic review
  de Anaïs Goulas, Drifa Belhadi, Alexandre Descamps, Antoine Andremont, Pierre Benoit, Sophie Courtois, Christophe Dagot, Nathalie Grall, David Makowski, Sylvie Nazaret, et al. In Environmental Evidence, 9(1) (February, 2020), 4 En ligne : doi.org[...] Antibiotic resistance is a major concern for public and environmental health. The role played ... read more
• Global patterns and determinants of lake macrophyte taxonomic, functional and phylogenetic beta diversity
  de Jorge García-Girón, Jani Heino, Lars Baastrup-Spohr, Claudia P. Bove, John Clayton, Mary de Winton, Tõnu Feldmann, Margarita Fernández-Aláez, Frauke Ecke, Patrick Grillas, et al. In Science of The Total Environment, Online (March 19, 2020), 138021 En ligne : www.sciencedirect.com[...] Documenting the patterns of biological diversity on Earth ... read more
• Lythrum netofa (Lythraceae) a new species from a temporary flooded plain of Israel
  de Antoine Gazaix, Shmuel Mazar, Shir Vered In Phytotaxa, 437(1) (March 2020), 47-50 En ligne : www.biotaxa.org[...] Species of the genus Lythrum Linnaeus (1753: 446) (Lythraceae) occur in temporary pools and wetlands (Morris, 2007) with about 35 species around the world (Graham, 2007). In the Mediterranean area, there ... read more
• Limonium mucronatum: plant communities and cytogenetic characterization of an endemic of the Moroccan Atlantic coast
  de Laïla Rhazi, Ana Rita Rebelo, Ana S. Róis, Sílvia Castro, João Loureiro, Mohammed El Madihi, Ana Paula Paes, Patrick Grillas, Mohammed Ibn Tattou, Ana D. Caperta In Plant Biosystems, Online (March 6, 2020), 1-22 En ligne : doi.org[...] Limonium mucronatum (L.f.) Chaz. (Plumbaginaceae), a strict endemic of ... read more
• Assessing the effectiveness of the Ramsar Convention in preserving wintering waterbirds in the Mediterranean
  de E. Gaget, I. Le Viol, D. Pavón-Jordán, V. Cazalis, C. Kerbiriou, F. Jiguet, N. Popoff, L. Dami, J. Y. Mondain-Monval, P. Defos Du Rau, et al. In Biological Conservation, 243 (March, 2020), 108485 En ligne : www.sciencedirect.com[...] Although biological conservation is based on international agreements, its effectiveness ... read more
• Within-individual trophic variability drives short-term intraspecific trait variation in natural populations
  de Camille Musseau, Simone Vincenzi, Frédéric Santoul, Stéphanie Boulêtreau, Dušan Jesenšek, Alain J. Crivelli In Journal of animal ecology, 0(0) (February, 2020) En ligne : besjournals.onlinelibrary.wiley.com[...] Intraspecific trait variability (ITV) maintains functional diversity in populations and communities, and plays a crucial role in ecological and evolutionary processes such ... read more
• Pond turtle carapaces, an alternative natural substrate for the use of a diatom-based water quality index
  de Véronique Vassal, Luc Ector, Bart Van de Vijver, Vincent Roubeix, Anthony Olivier, Samuel Pauvert, Cédric Roy, Stéphanie Fayolle In Botany Letters, Online (February, 2020) En ligne : www.tandfonline.com[...] Benthic diatoms are widely used as bio-indicators in water quality monitoring of rivers and streams, but less commonly in ... read more
• Foraging niche shift maintains breeding parameters of a colonial waterbird during range expansion
  de Charlotte Francesiaz, Elizabeth Yohannes, Aurélien Besnard, Nicolas Sadoul, Thomas Blanchon, Arnaud Béchet In Ecology and Evolution, Online (February, 2020), ece3.6030 En ligne : onlinelibrary.wiley.com[...] Relating the effects of foraging niche variation to reproductive dynamics is critical to understand species response to environmental change. We examined foraging niche ... read more