Wow, another good news, our project “Climate and management effects on COMmunity dynamics – Developing multi-species DEMOgraphy” will be funded by ANR!
I decided to teach myself how to do proper reproducible research. Many reasons to that: save time on the mid/long term, make my analyses open and criticizable, share with others, …
I attended the International Statistical Ecology Conference in Seattle. I don’t go often to conferences, but I do my best not to miss that one.
Great news! Our project on “Scenarios for coexistence between men and dolphins on the Mediterranean French littoral” will be funded by Fondation de France.
My post-doc Sarah Cubaynes and I went to visit our colleague Jon Aars in Tromso, Norway. We are working together on the demography of polar bears using an amazing dataset the Norwegian Polar Institute has been collecting for decades. It was also the opportunity to catch up with Nigel (Gilles) Yoccoz who’s being very helpful with this project. Jon took us fishing; I was luckier than with fly-fishing ;-)
We organised the second conference of the GdR EcoStat. We spent two lovely days in Montpellier talking about ecological statistics with the hundred people who attended. The talks are available here. If you’d like to know more about our acitivities in the GdR, check out our website.
Among the papers we published lately, I’d like to emphasize two contributions on the conservation of brown bears with some eminent colleagues:
Karamanlidis, A.A., M. de Gabriel Hernando, L. Krambokoukis, O. Gimenez (2015). Evidence of a large carnivore population recovery: counting bears in Greece. Journal for Nature Conservation. This is a joint venture with Alex and the Greek Arcturos NGO in which we provide the first reliable abundance estimates for brown bears in Greece.
The GIS3M held an international workshop in Marseille on the conservation of Bottlenose dolphin conservation and monitoring in the North-Western Mediterranean Sea. This was the opportunity to discuss the results of the GDEGeM project on the same topic. I mostly contributed by analysing the tons of photo-IDs that were collected during the program to estimate abundance and analyze the social structure. The slides of my talk:
Jean-Dominique Lebreton went on retirement, and we could not let him go without organizing something in his honor. Jean-Do had a tremendous influence in the field of statistical ecology with important contributions in (among others) multivariate analyses, software developments, population dynamics, and capture-recapture methods. On a personal side, I would simply not be here in science without him. Many friends and colleagues came or sent a message for the occasion. These interventions were filmed, see here and enjoy.