The Mediterranean barbel, Barbus meridionalis (Risso, 1827), is currently classified as a near threatened species by the IUCN. For the purpose of instream habitat management and in order to determine the environmental flows requirements of this species, we recently developed univariate Category Three preferences curves (Bovee et al [1]) for use wit...
In this study we developed a novel methodology based on fish communities to assess the ecological potential of central European reservoirs. Using the hindcasting approach, our index predicts values that could be observed in the absence of pressures for each reservoir depending on their environmental characteristics. Fish data were collected from 14...
Water-level fluctuations are a major function of reservoirs that influence the littoral zone of the lake, and prove to be of high importance for the whole biological communities of lakes. Working on a French hydropower reservoir, we studied the influence of water-level fluctuations on intra-annual variations of littoral habitat availability and the...
We reviewed 219 papers and built an inventory of 532 items of ecological evidence on multiple stressor impacts in rivers, lakes, transitional and coastal waters, as well as groundwaters. Our review revealed that, despite the existence of a huge conceptual knowledge base in aquatic ecology, few studies actually provide quantitative evidence on multi...
Published in PloS one
In the last few years, the study of environmental DNA (eDNA) has drawn attention for many reasons, including its advantages for monitoring and conservation purposes. So far, in aquatic environments, most of eDNA research has focused on the detection of single species using species-specific markers. Recently, species inventories based on the analysi...
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his paper investigates the dependencies between severity levels of road traffic accidents, accounting at the same time for spatial and temporal cor- relations. The study analyses road traffic accidents data at ward level in England over the period 2005-2013. We include in our model multivariate spatially struc- tured and unstructured effects to cap...
Published in Animal Biotelemetry
BackgroundBiotelemetry has many advantages for monitoring fish behaviour. However, the accuracy of results can be impacted by changes in fish behaviour following tagging and other forms of human intervention. Different fish take different amounts of time to return to normal behaviour patterns. This recovery period is often difficult to assess. In m...
Species can respond to climate change by tracking appropriate environmental conditions in space, resulting in a range shift. Species Distribution Models (SDMs) can help forecast such range shift responses. For few species, both correlative and mechanistic SDMs were built, but allis shad (Alosa alosa), an endangered anadromous fish species, is one o...
