Publications

Retrouvez ici toutes les dernières publications de la Tour du Valat (articles scientifiques, brochures et rapports) :

• Fasciola hepatica-Pseudosuccinea columella interaction: effect of increasing parasite doses, successive exposures and geographical origin on the infection outcome of susceptible and naturally-resistant snails from Cuba
  de Annia Alba, Antonio A. Vázquez, Jorge Sánchez, David Duval, Hilda M. Hernández, Emeline Sabourin, Marion Vittecoq, Sylvie Hurtrez-Boussès, Benjamin Gourbal In Parasites & Vectors, 11:1 (October 2018) En ligne : parasitesandvectors.biomedcentral.com[...] Pseudosuccinea columella is one of the most widespread vectors of Fasciola hepatica, a globally distributed trematode that affects humans, livestock and wildlife. The exclusive occurrence in Cuba of susceptible and naturally-resistant populations to F. hepatica within ...
  Publié le 29/10/2018
• Research studies on herons in the Camargue (Southern France)
  de Jocelyn Champagnon, Jérémiah Petit, Yves Kayser In Journal of Heron Biology and Conservation, 3:5 (2018), 13-14 En ligne : www.heronconservation.org[...] ...
  Publié le 29/10/2018
• Analyse critique du jeu d’indicateurs de la réunion thématique « Milieux humides » de l’Observatoire national de la biodiversité (2018)
  de Christian Perennou, Observatoire des zones humides méditerranéennes Arles : Tour du Valat, 2018, 52 Le Ministère en charge de l'Ecologie pilote et anime le 3ème Plan national d'action en faveur des milieux humides, dont l'une des actions est le développement d’indicateurs « Milieux humides » par l’Observatoire national de la biodiversité (ONB). Au sein de l’ONB, et notamment de sa Réunion thématique « Milieux humides » (RT-MH), des indicateurs « Milieux ...
  Publié le 15/10/2018
• Nuisibles d’hier et d’aujourd’hui : le lapin, le sanglier et le flamant dans la réserve de biosphère de Camargue. (2018)
  de Raphael Mathevet, Anthony Olivier, Arnaud Béchet Rennes, France : Presses Universitaires de Rennes, 2018, 173-187 Dans le cadre d'un travail à long terme sur les rapports homme/nature et sur l'histoire de la chasse en Camargue, cette communication propose une approche historique et socioécologique de la notion de nuisible, à travers l'analyse comparée de trois espèces animales qui alimentent régulièrement la chronique camarguaise : le lapin de garenne(Oryctolagus cuniculus, le sanglier (Sus ...
  Publié le 09/10/2018
• Impact of land cover change on ecosystem service supply in mountain systems: a case study in the Cantabrian Mountains (NW of Spain)
  de Paula García-Llamas, Ilse R. Geijzendorffer, Ana P. García-Nieto, Leonor Calvo, Susana Suarez-Seoane, Wolfgang Cramer In Regional Environmental Change, 10.1007/s10113-018-1419-2 (September, 2018), 13 En ligne : hal-amu.archives-ouvertes.fr[...] Land abandonment and the loss of traditional farming practices are thought to control land cover dynamics, and hence the ecosystem service supply in traditionally managed mountain landscapes. We evaluate the impact of land cover changes in Cantabrian Mountains (NW Spain), over ...
  Publié le 09/10/2018
• Short-Term Effects on Diversity and Biomass on Grasslands from Artificial Dykes under Grazing and Mowing Treatments
  de Cannelle Moinardeau, François Mesléard, Hervé Ramone, Thierry Dutoit In Environmental Conservation, 10.1017/S0376892918000346 (October 2018), 1-8 En ligne : www.cambridge.org[...] Few studies document the impacts of conservation management practices such as extensive grazing or mowing on the new ecosystems created by industrial conversions. In southern France, the Rhône channelling led to the construction of dykes to protect the Tricastin industrialized area from floods. Aiming to control plant dynamics ...
  Publié le 02/10/2018
• Mapping Mediterranean Wetlands With Remote Sensing: A Good-Looking Map Is Not Always a Good Map
  de Christian Perennou, Anis Guelmami, Marc Paganini, Petra Philipson, Brigitte Poulin, Adrian Strauch, Christian Tottrup, John Truckenbrodt, Ilse R. Geijzendorffer, David A. Bohan, et al. In Advances in Ecological Research, 58:1 (2018), 243-277 En ligne : www.sciencedirect.com[...] Wetlands are a key habitat within the Mediterranean biodiversity hotspot and provide important ecosystem services for human well-being. Remote sensing (RS) has significantly boosted our ability to monitor changes in Mediterranean ...
  Publié le 27/09/2018
• Mediterranean Wetlands: a Gradient from Natural Resilience to a Fragile Social-Ecosystem (2018)
  de Ilse R. Geijzendorffer, Thomas Galewski, Anis Guelmami, Christian Perennou, Nadège Popoff, Patrick Grillas [S.l.] : Springer International Publishing, 2018 En ligne : This book aims to identify, present and discuss key driving forces and pressures on ecosystem services. Ecosystem services are the contributions that ecosystems provide to human well-being. The scope of this atlas is on identifying solutions and lessons to be applied across science, policy and practice. The atlas ...
  Publié le 27/09/2018
• Context-dependent conservation of the cavity-nesting European Roller
  de Tom Finch, Claire Branston, Harriet Clewlow, Jamie Dunning, Aldina M. A. Franco, Edmunds Račinskis, Timothée Schwartz, Simon J. Butler In Ibis, 10.1111/ibi.12650:0 (July 2018), 1-17 En ligne : onlinelibrary.wiley.com[...] To maximize the effectiveness of conservation interventions, it is crucial to have an understanding of how intraspecific variation determines the relative importance of potential limiting factors. For bird populations, limiting factors include nest-site availability and foraging resources, with ...
  Publié le 27/09/2018
• A framework for estimating the determinants of spatial and temporal variation in vital rates and inferring the occurrence of unobserved extreme events
  de Simone Vincenzi, Dušan Jesenšek, Alain J. Crivelli In Royal Society Open Science, 5:3 (03/2018), 171087 En ligne : rsos.royalsocietypublishing.org[...] We develop a general framework that combines long-term tag–recapture data and powerful statistical and modelling techniques to investigate how population, environmental and climate factors determine variation in vital rates and population dynamics in an animal species, using as a case study the population of brown trout living in ...
  Publié le 27/09/2018
• Impact of Human Activities on Fasciolosis Transmission
  de Emeline Sabourin, Pilar Alda, Antonio Vázquez, Sylvie Hurtrez-Boussès, Marion Vittecoq In Trends in Parasitology, 34:10 (October 2018), 891-903 En ligne : linkinghub.elsevier.com[...] Fasciolosis is a neglected water- and food-borne disease. There are approximately 17 million human cases annually in the world. In some areas, these numbers may be underestimated. This disease has an important worldwide distribution due to parasite proliferation in a wide range of freshwater snail ...
  Publié le 27/09/2018
• Flux closures and source term models for shallow water models with depth-dependent integral porosity
  de Guinot, Vincent, Carole Delenne, Marine Rousseau, Olivier Boutron In Advances in Water Resources, 122 (December, 2018), 390-400 En ligne : www.sciencedirect.com[...] We use a pore-scale dissolution model to simulate the dissolution of calcite by HCl in two different systems and compare with experiment. The model couples flow and transport with chemical reactions at the mineral surface and in the fluid bulk. Firstly, we inject HCl through a ...
  Publié le 27/09/2018
• Late snowmelt can result in smaller eggs in Arctic shorebirds
  de Jean-Louis Martin, Paul Allen Smith, Arnaud Béchet, Tanguy Daufresne In Polar Biology, 41:11 (2018-11-01), 2289-2295 En ligne : doi.org[...] Migratory birds often travel long distances between non-breeding and breeding areas. The suitability of weather and foraging conditions they experience upon arrival at their breeding grounds is an essential component explaining the timing and success of reproduction. Climate change has been identified as a major contributor to “mismatches” ...
  Publié le 27/09/2018
• Noteworthy records from Senegal, including the first Freckled Nightjar Caprimulgus tristigma / Observations remarquables du Sénégal, y compris la première de l’Engoulevent pointillé Caprimulgus tristigma
  de Jean-Francois Blanc, Vincent Blanc, Karsten Schmale, Marc Thibault In African Bird Club, 25:1 (March 2018), 58-61 En ligne : www.africanbirdclub.org[...] Au moins cinq Engoulevents pointillés Caprimulgus tristigma ont été observés sur l’escarpement entre Dindéfello et Dande, au sud-est, les 21–22 mars 2016 ; il s’agit des premières données pour le Sénégal. Les observations de l’Engoulevent doré C. eximius dans le Khelkom, au nord-ouest, et du Drongo de ...
  Publié le 27/09/2018
• The IPBES regional assessment report on biodiversity and ecosystem services for Europe and Central Asia. (2018)
  de Mark Rounsevell, Markus Fischer, Torre-Marin Rando, A. Mader Bonn, Germany : Secretariat of the Intergovernmental Science-Policy Platform on Biodiversity and Ecosystem services (IPBES), 2018, 854 En ligne : www.ipbes.net[...] Parts of Europe and Central Asia – an enormous region stretching from Iceland to Russia’s far east — are so developed and densely populated that much of their native biodiversity has been lost. Yet some of these States lead the world in ...
  Publié le 27/09/2018