Publications

Retrouvez ci-dessous les dernières publications de la Tour du Valat (articles scientifiques, brochures et rapports), ou la liste intégrale en cliquant ici :

• How Cortaderia selloana, an ornamental plant considered highly invasive, fails to spread from urban to natural habitats in Southern France
  de Anne Charpentier, Marine Kreder, Aurélien Besnard, Perrine Gauthier, Claudine Bouffet In Urban Ecosystems, Online (2020-05-11), 10 En ligne : doi.org[...] The role of urban areas in the introduction of alien plant species, and their subsequent spread in the countryside, has long been identified. However, it was mainly ... read more
• The dimensions of evolutionary potential in biological conservation
  de Emmanuel Milot, Arnaud Béchet, Virginie Maris In Evolutionary Applications, Online (2020-06-12), eva.12995 En ligne : onlinelibrary.wiley.com[...] It is now well admitted by ecologists that the conservation of biodiversity should imply preserving the evolutionary processes that will permit its adaptation to ongoing and future environmental changes. This is ... read more
• Extensive horse grazing improves grassland vegetation diversity, seed bank and forage quality of artificial embankments (Rhône River – southern France): Influence of extensive horse grazing on artificial embankments
  de Cannelle Moinardeau, François Mesléard, Hervé Ramone, Thierry Dutoit In Journal for Nature Conservation, Online (June, 2020), 125865 En ligne : www.sciencedirect.com[...] Grazing by herds of herbivores modifies plant communities in different ways, depending on the herbivore species. Horse grazing is already known to be effective in increasing ... read more
• Assessing population status and conservation of endangered Marmaris salamander, Lycisalamandra flavimembris (Mutz and Steinfartz, 1995), in southwestern Turkey
  de Dilara Arslan, Çağdaş Yaşar, Akın İzgin, Kerim Cicek In Herpetology Notes, 13 (June, 2020), 531-541 En ligne : www.biotaxa.org[...] The Marmaris salamander is an endemic and endangered amphibian species in Southwestern Anatolia. Here, we estimated some population parameters of the Marmaris salamander by conducting a total of ... read more
• Languedoc lagoon environments and man: Building a modern analogue botanical macroremain database for understanding the role of water and edaphology in sedimentation dynamics of archaeobotanical remains at the Roman port of Lattara (Lattes, France)
  de Bigna L. Steiner, Natàlia Alonso, Patrick Grillas, Christophe Jorda, Gaël Piquès, Margaux Tillier, Núria Rovira In PLOS ONE, 15(6) (18 juin 2020), e0234853 En ligne : journals.plos.org[...] A new method to evaluate archaeological wetland sites in a more objective way was tested. Different wetland environments have been ... read more
• Mediterranean wetland conservation in the context of climate and land cover change
  de Roxanne Leberger, Ilse R. Geijzendorffer, Elie Gaget, Anis Gwelmami, Thomas Galewski, Henrique M. Pereira, Carlos A. Guerra In Regional Environmental Change, 20(2) (6/2020), 67 En ligne : link.springer.com[...] Wetlands are known to support diverse and unique species assemblages. Globally, but particularly in the Mediterranean basin, they are ... read more
• Wetland extent tools for SDG 6.6.1 reporting from the Satellite-based Wetland Observation Service (SWOS)
  de Kathrin Weise, Rene Höfer, Jonas Franke, Anis Guelmami, Will Simonson, Javier Muro In Remote Sensing of Environment, Online (June, 2020), 12 En ligne : doi.org[...] Wetlands are the most fragile and threatened ecosystems worldwide, and also one of the most rapidly declining. At the same time wetlands ... read more
• Giving recipient communities a greater head start and including productive species boosts early resistance to invasion
  de Manon Célia Morgane Hess, Elise Buisson, Hugo Fontes, Léo Bacon, Florent Sabatier, François Mesléard, Rob Marrs In Applied Vegetation Science, Online (June, 2020), avsc.12502 En ligne : onlinelibrary.wiley.com[...] Methods: In a pot experiment, we simulated invasion by three major invasive species (Ambrosia artemisiifolia, Bothriochloa barbinodis, and Cortaderia ... read more
• Intérêt de la chasse à l’arc dans un espace protégé camarguais
  de Antony Olivier, Olivier Pineau In Chasser en Provence, 51 (avril-mai-juin 2020), 41-'1 ... read more
• Evolution of wetlands in Mediterranean region (2020)
  de Christian Perennou, Elie Gaget, Thomas Galewski, Ilse Geijzendorffer, Anis Guelmami [S.l.] : Elsevier, 2020, 297-320 En ligne : linkinghub.elsevier.com[...] This chapter reviews the current state of knowledge of Mediterranean wetlands in the sense of the Ramsar Convention and their recent trends, largely based on the results produced by the Mediterranean Wetlands ... read more