Ecology & Behaviour 2025

🚨 Looking for motivated people to take over the organisation of the Ecology & Behaviour Conference 🚨
By young researchers, for young researchers: inclusive, international and free of charge
A rewarding adventure: we’ll be happy to guide and support the next team. Interested? Reach out soon!

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The 17th edition of Ecology & Behaviour is already over… Huge thanks to all the participants, you made this week exceptional!

Big thanks as well to all our partners who made it possible to keep this event inclusive, and especially to the CEFE🌿 for giving us the opportunity to host it!

Thank you to Benoit Penel, for coming from the CBGP: " Major entomological communities in French agro-ecosystems and their relationships with climate, agricultural landscapes and management intensity." 🪲

@cbgpmontpellier.bsky.social

Thank you to Lucie Foucart, for coming from the CEFE: "Improving bird detection of wind turbine rotatory motion: Experimental insights of black and white patterns painted on wind turbines" 🐦

www.cefe.cnrs.fr

Thank you to Lisa Nicvert for coming from the CESAB, FRB : "Linking conservation status and species traits: a case study on European dragonflies"🐉

www.fondationbiodiversite.fr/la-fondation...

@frbiodiv.bsky.social

Thank you to Gaëlle Picon for coming from the CEFE : "Where do vultures feed? Using biologging to quantify the real use of supplementary feeding stations" 𓅐

www.cefe.cnrs.fr/fr/

Thank you to Loan Arguel, for coming from the CRBE : "Space use and habitat selection by a threatened semi-aquatic mammal, the Pyrenean desman (Galemys pyrenaicus)" 🏞

crbe.cnrs.fr

Thank you to Vinni Jain, for coming from Oxford Brookes University: "Feathers and forests: How do trees, crop diversity, and canopy cover affect bird diversity and abundance in West Bali’s polyculture agroforests?" 🦜

www.brookes.ac.uk

Thank you to Colline Richard, for coming from DEPE, IPHC: "Under heat stress: Investigating the drivers of physiological and behavioural responses of king penguins to warm environmental conditions" 🐧

@iphc-strasbourg.bsky.social

Thank you to Filipe Serrano, for coming from São Paulo University: "Living at the edge: are abundances of vertebrates changing at the borders of species ranges?" ↔️

@uspoficial.bsky.social

Thank you to Ana Rodrigues, from the CEFE, to open the Conservation session this afternoon : "Unshifting the baseline : insights from history into the future of conservation" 🐋

Thank you to Pierre Bouchet, for coming from the CRBE : "Threatened freshwater fish used by humans support unique morphological traits" 🐟

crbe.cnrs.fr

Thank you Camille Touchet, for coming from LEHNA : "Grazing the plastisphere reduces biofilm consumption and modifies energy allocation strategies in freshwater snail Physa acuta" 🐌

umr5023.univ-lyon1.fr

Thank you to Julie Sénécal, for coming from the CBGP : "The role of gut microbiota in the invasion success and insecticide resistance of Spodoptera frugiperda" 🐛

@cbgpmontpellier.bsky.social

Thank you to Léa Keurinck, for coming from LBBE : "Shifts in the conditions for pollen diffusion related to fruiting dynamics in temperate oak species: a regional and temporal perspective since 1960" 🌳

lbbe.univ-lyon1.fr/fr

Thank you, Louise Laux, for coming from the LOV : "Long-term monitoring of zooplanktonic communities in the Bay of Villefranche-Sur-Mer in a context of climate change over 55 years" 🦐

@imev-mer.fr

Thank you, Teddy Chikwane, for coming from REHABS, Nelson Mandela University : "The role of large carcasses on the structure and functioning of the vertebrate scavenger guild" 🦴

Thank you Chloé Vagnon, for coming from the CESAB: "Difference in the global association between trophic and functional diversity of fish communities between rivers and lakes" 🐟

Thank you Barbara Bignon, for coming from ISYEB :"Pronotum shape of burrowing and non-burrowing cockroaches moving in granular media" 🪳

@isyeb.mnhn.fr

Thank you Emmanuelle Porcher, from CESCO, for opening the Functional session this morning : "Plant-pollinator interactions in a changing world" 🐝🌾

@cesco-lab.bsky.social

Thank you to Kyu Min Huh, for coming from the University of Oxford : "Trade-off and Social Transmission in Escape Flights " 🪽
@ox.ac.uk

Thank you to Cecilia Gimano Castellano, for coming from Estacion Biological de Doñana (Sevilla): "Dispersal on islands: the case of long-lived territorial vulture" 🪶
@ebdonana.bsky.social

Thank you to Titouan Hommeau, for coming from the OFB : "modeling effective connectivity to investigate the environmental derteminants of Alpine ibex migration » 🐐

@ofbiodiversite.bsky.social

Thank you to Sabiya Sheikh, for coming from the University of Exeter: " Mapping the Menu: Understanding Seabird-Prey Interactions to Inform Conservation Strategies" 🐧
@exeter.ac.uk

Thank you to Roger López Mañas for coming from the IBB (Barcelona) : " A Remote Sensing-based Toolbox to disentangle the ecological drivers of insect migration" 🦋

Thank you to Steph Trapp, for coming from the Centre for Ecology and Conservation (Exeter): "Blessing or curse? The effects of Artificial Light at Night (ALAN) on the nocturnal space use of urban shorebirds" 🌖

Thank you to Inês Silva, for coming from the Center for Advanced Systems Understanding (Görlitz): "Too few, too many, or just right? Optimizing sample sizes in animal tracking projects" 📊

Thank you to Tom Chaubet, for coming from the CEFE (Montpellier) : "Prospecting under pressure: social information gathering strategies in immature Golden eagles" 🦅

Thank you to Emily Shepard (@elcshepard.bsky.social) for coming from Swansea University and for opening the movement ecology session today : « Please fasten your safety belts in preparation for landing » 🦉