Charlotte Francesiaz, ex-doctoral student at the Tour du Valat, the University of Montpellier and the Centre d’Écologie Fonctionnelle et Évoltutive (CEFE), defended her PhD Thesis in Montpellier on December 2nd, 2016, on the subject “Sélection d’habitat et dynamique spatio-temporelle des colonies chez deux espèces de laridés, la Mouette rieuse et le Goéland railleur”.
You can access her thesis, as well as its abstract, through the opposite link.
Photo: Slender-Billed Gull colony at the Grand Bastit pond (Hérault, France)