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Aurélien Besnard is affiliated with the Centre national de la recherche scientifique (CNRS) in France. Their research primarily centers on environmental science, with an emphasis on ecology and its subfields.

The main fields of study covered in their work include:

  • Environmental Science

Besnard's subfields of study are diversified within ecology, including:

  • Ecology
  • Nature and Landscape Conservation
  • Ecological Modeling
  • Ecology, Evolution, Behavior and Systematics
  • Global and Planetary Change

The scientist explores various main topics in their publications, such as:

  • Wildlife Ecology and Conservation
  • Avian ecology and behavior
  • Species Distribution and Climate Change
  • Ecology and Vegetation Dynamics Studies
  • Animal Behavior and Reproduction
  • Fish Ecology and Management Studies
  • Animal Ecology and Behavior Studies

Some of the more frequent publication venues for their research include:

  • bioRxiv (Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory)
  • Ecology and Evolution
  • Methods in Ecology and Evolution
  • Zenodo (CERN European Organization for Nuclear Research)
  • Biological Conservation

Recent papers by Besnard showcase the diversity of their contributions, including:

  • "Diverse aging rates in ectothermic tetrapods provide insights for the evolution of aging and longevity" (2022), published in Science
  • "The DeepFaune initiative: a collaborative effort towards the automatic identification of European fauna in camera trap images" (2023), published in European Journal of Wildlife Research
  • "Anthropogenic disturbance drives dispersal syndromes, demography, and gene flow in amphibian populations" (2020), published in Ecological Monographs
  • "Windfarm collisions in medium-sized raptors: even increasing populations can suffer strong demographic impacts" (2022), published in Animal Conservation
  • "Compensatory recruitment allows amphibian population persistence in anthropogenic habitats" (2022), published in Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences

Aurélien Besnard collaborates frequently with other researchers, including:

  • Olivier Duriez
  • Thierry Chambert
  • Arzhela Hemery
  • Coline Canonne
  • Thibaut Couturier

Best Publications

  • Next-generation monitoring of aquatic biodiversity using environmental DNA metabarcoding

    Alice Valentini;Pierre Taberlet;Pierre Taberlet;Claude Miaud;Raphaël Civade

  • Wood density, phytomass variations within and among trees, and allometric equations in a tropical rainforest of Africa

    M. Henry;M. Henry;M. Henry;A. Besnard;W. A. Asante;J. Eshun

  • Demographic and genetic approaches to study dispersal in wild animal populations: A methodological review

    Hugo Cayuela;Quentin Rougemont;Jérôme G. Prunier;Jean-Sébastien Moore

  • Diverse aging rates in ectothermic tetrapods provide insights for the evolution of aging and longevity

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  • HIGH HUNTING PRESSURE SELECTS FOR EARLIER BIRTH DATE: WILD BOAR AS A CASE STUDY

    Marlène Gamelon;Aurélien Besnard;Jean-Michel Gaillard;Sabrina Servanty;Sabrina Servanty

  • Resilience to climate variation in a spatially structured amphibian population.

    Avril Weinbach;Hugo Cayuela;Odile Grolet;A. Besnard

  • To breed or not to breed: past reproductive status and environmental cues drive current breeding decisions in a long-lived amphibian

    Hugo Cayuela;Hugo Cayuela;Aurélien Besnard;Eric Bonnaire;Haize Perret

  • Estimating abundance and population trends when detection is low and highly variable: A comparison of three methods for the Hermann's tortoise

    Thibaut Couturier;Marc Cheylan;Albert Bertolero;Guillelme Astruc

  • Assessing the efficacy of reintroduction programmes by modelling adult survival: the example of Hermann's tortoise

    Albert Bertolero;Daniel Oro;Aurélien G. Besnard

  • Molecular identification of three sympatric species of wood mice (Apodemus sylvaticus, A. flavicollis, A. alpicola) in western Europe (Muridae: Rodentia)

    Johan Michaux;Séverine Kinet;M. G. Filippucci;Roland Libois

  • Confronting expert-based and modelled distributions for species with uncertain conservation status: A case study from the corncrake (Crex crex)

    Yoan Fourcade;Jan O. Engler;Aurélien G. Besnard;Dennis Rödder

  • Effect of weather on the reproductive rate of Rock Ptarmigan Lagopus muta in the eastern Pyrenees

    Claude Novoa;Aurélien Besnard;Jean François Brenot;Laurence N. Ellison

  • Heterogeneous responses of temperate-zone amphibian populations to climate change complicates conservation planning

    E. Muths;T. Chambert;T. Chambert;B. R. Schmidt;D. A. W. Miller

  • Reducing light pollution improves connectivity for bats in urban landscapes

    Alexis Laforge;Alexis Laforge;Julie Pauwels;Baptiste Faure;Yves Bas;Yves Bas

  • Testing restocking methods for an endangered species: Effects of predator exclusion and vegetation cover on common hamster (Cricetus cricetus) survival and reproduction

    Anne Villemey;Aurélien Besnard;Jimmy Grandadam;Julien Eidenschenck

  • Contrasting patterns of environmental fluctuation contribute to divergent life histories among amphibian populations

    Hugo Cayuela;Dragan Arsovski;Jean-Maric Thirion;Eric Bonnaire

  • Factors determining the abundance and occurrence of Hermann’s tortoise Testudo hermanni in France and Spain: Fire regime and landscape changes as the main drivers

    Thibaut Couturier;Aurélien Besnard;Albert Bertolero;Valérie Bosc

  • Amphibian diversity in farmlands: Combined influences of breeding-site and landscape attributes in western France

    Alexandre Boissinot;Aurélien Besnard;Olivier Lourdais;Olivier Lourdais

  • Demographic responses to weather fluctuations are context dependent in a long‐lived amphibian

    Hugo Cayuela;Dragan Arsovski;Jean-Marc Thirion;Eric Bonnaire

  • Retrofitting of power lines effectively reduces mortality by electrocution in large birds: an example with the endangered Bonelli's eagle

    Clément Chevallier;Clément Chevallier;Antonio Hernández-Matías;Joan Real;Nicolas Vincent-Martin

  • Bird-monitoring in Europe – a first overview of practices, motivations and aims

    Dirk Schmeller;Klaus Henle;Adeline Loyau;Aurelien Besnard

  • Prescribed fire and conservation of a threatened mountain grassland specialist: a capture–recapture study on the Orsini's viper in the French alps

    A. Lyet;M. Cheylan;R. Prodon;A. Besnard

  • Relative contribution of local demography and immigration in the recovery of a geographically-isolated population of the endangered Egyptian vulture

    Nicolas Lieury;Nicolas Lieury;Max Gallardo;Cécile Ponchon;Aurélien Besnard

Frequent Co-Authors

Pierre Joly
Pierre Joly Claude Bernard University Lyon 1
Jean-Dominique Lebreton
Jean-Dominique Lebreton Centre national de la recherche scientifique, CNRS
Olivier Gimenez
Olivier Gimenez Centre national de la recherche scientifique, CNRS
Jean-Michel Gaillard
Jean-Michel Gaillard Claude Bernard University Lyon 1
Claude Miaud
Claude Miaud University of Montpellier
Roger Pradel
Roger Pradel University of Montpellier
Pascal Laffaille
Pascal Laffaille Ecolab (United Kingdom)
José-Miguel Sanchez-Pérez
José-Miguel Sanchez-Pérez Paul Sabatier University
Erin Muths
Erin Muths United States Geological Survey
Sabine Sauvage
Sabine Sauvage Paul Sabatier University

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