Laura DAMI

Theme: Science-Society Interfaces

Contact: e-mail ^[1] | +33 (0)4 90 97 29 84

Joined our team: April 2015

Research interests and expertise

The Tour du Valat has been working with the National Hunting and Wildlife Office (ONCFS ^[2]) to co-manage the Mediterranean Waterbird Network (MWN ^[3]) since 2012. Stemming from the need to improve the database that covers waterbirds wintering in North Africa, the network contributes to the updating of international conventions such as the AEWA, and in that capacity it works with the AEWA’s Technical Support Unit ^[4].

As the MWN Project Leader I am responsible for the general management of the network in collaboration with Wetlands International, which manages the international census programme at the global level, as well as with other international networks that focus on waterbirds (CMS/AEWA) and wetlands (Mediterranean Wetlands Observatory). I work with the entire team to synthesise the data for scientific publications and to create documents for the general public, as well as oral and written communications jointly produced by all of the members in the network. I also organise and lead the annual regional meeting that brings together our members, and help to draft the applications for the funding needed to support MWN activities. I organise and help teach the annual training session on waterbird censuses at pan-Mediterranean level.

In collaboration with other research teams, I make use of waterbird census data to study the impacts of conservation measures on waterbird populations.

See Laura Dami’s CV ^[5]

Current and past projects carried out at the Tour du Valat

Links

• Facebook page of the MWN ^[6]
• Research Gate profile ^[7]

Download Laura Dami’s CV ^[5]

Publications

Find below the most recent publications of Laura Dami, or see the full list ^[8] on the Tour du Valat’s documentary web portal:

• Censo de las aves acuáticas en invierno Mediterranean Waterbirds Network ^[9]
  de Blas Molina, Laura Dami 26-31 En ligne : mega.nz[...] ^[10] SEO/BirdLife has been working on censuses of wintering waterbirds since the early years of the organisation. It is one of the main activities in which many of the amateurs and ornithologists who developed their interest in birds and their ... read more ^[9]
• Anticipating the effects of climate warming and natural habitat conversion on waterbird communities to address protection gaps ^[11]
  de Fabien Verniest, Isabelle Le Viol, Romain Julliard, Laura Dami, Anis Guelmami, Marie Suet, Wed Abdou, Hichem Azafzaf, Nadjiba Bendjedda, Taulant Bino, et al. In Biological Conservation, 279 (March, 2023), 10 En ligne : www.sciencedirect.com[...] ^[12] Thermal adjustment of waterbird communities to climate warming is ... read more ^[11]
• Rapport semestriel n°5 –janvier – juin 2022, projet FFEM « gestion durable des zones humides en méditerranée » (2022) ^[13]
  de Christian Perennou, Laura Dami 2022, 48 En ligne : drive.google.com[...] ^[14] ... read more ^[13]
• Rapport d’execution final multipays – projet AFD « OSC et zones humides », phase 1 (2022) ^[15]
  de Laura Dami, Christian Perennou 2022, 70 En ligne : drive.google.com[...] ^[16] Dans un contexte fragile de désengagement des Etats ou de décentralisation des compétences, la société civile a connu un fort développement dans de nombreux pays, et devient un acteur de plus en plus indispensable. L’enjeu de ce projet ... read more ^[15]
• Wintering waterbirds in North Africa 1990-2017 (2022) ^[17]
  de Mohamed Dakki, Geneviève Robin, Marie Suet, Abdeljebbar Qninba, Mohammed A. El Agbani, Asmaâ Ouassou, Rhimou El Hamoumi, Hichem Azafzaf, Wed A. L. Ibrahim, Khaled Etayeb, et al. Wadden Sea Flyway Initiative p/a CWSS. 2022, 63-67 In North Africa, waterbird counts have been carried out since the 1960s but ... read more ^[17]
• Gap analysis of the Ramsar site network at 50: over 150 important Mediterranean sites for wintering waterbirds omitted ^[18]
  de Nadège Popoff, Elie Gaget, Arnaud Béchet, Laura Dami, Pierre Defos Du Rau, Ilse Geijzendorffer, Anis Guelmami, Jean-Yves Mondain-Monval, Christian Perennou, Marie Suet, et al. In Biodiversity and conservation, Online (July, 2021), 19 En ligne : link.springer.com[...] ^[19] The Mediterranean Basin is a biodiversity hotspot. Wetlands make a key ... read more ^[18]
• International Waterbird Census. A Summary of 10 of the Countries in the Mediterranean Waterbird Network (MVN) (2021) ^[20]
  de Laura Dami, Elie Gaget Arles (FRA) : Tour du Valat, 2021, 16 En ligne : mega.nz[...] ^[21] ... read more ^[20]
• Les dénombrements internationaux d’oiseaux d’eau. Synthèse pour 10 des pays du Réseau Oiseaux d’Eau Méditerranée (ROEM) (2021) ^[22]
  de Laura Dami, Elie Gaget Arles (FRA) : Tour du Valat, 2021, 16 En ligne : mega.nz[...] ^[21] ... read more ^[22]
• Imputation of incomplete large-scale monitoring count data via penalized estimation ^[23]
  de Mohamed Dakki, Geneviève Robin, Marie Suet, Abdeljebbar Qninba, Mohammed A. El Agbani, Asmaâ Ouassou, Rhimou El Hamoumi, Hichem Azafzaf, Sami Rebah, Claudia Feltrup‐Azafzaf, et al. In Methods in Ecology and Evolution, Online (April, 2021) En ligne : besjournals.onlinelibrary.wiley.com[...] ^[24] In biodiversity monitoring, large datasets are becoming more and ... read more ^[23]
• Assessing the effectiveness of the Ramsar Convention in preserving wintering waterbirds in the Mediterranean ^[25]
  de Elie Gaget, I. Le Viol, D. Pavón-Jordán, V. Cazalis, C. Kerbiriou, Frédéric Jiguet, Nadège Popoff, Laura Dami, Jean-Yves Mondain-monval, Pierre Defos du Rau, et al. In Biological Conservation, 243 (March, 2020), 108485 En ligne : www.sciencedirect.com[...] ^[26] Although biological conservation is based on international agreements, its effectiveness depends ... read more ^[25]