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François Brischoux

François Brischoux

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Ecology and Evolution

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36
Citations
3964
World Ranking
7224
National Ranking
321

Overview

François Brischoux is affiliated with the University of La Rochelle in France. Their research spans multiple disciplines focused on environmental science and agricultural and biological sciences, with a strong emphasis on ecology.

The scientist's main fields of study include:

  • Environmental Science
  • Agricultural and Biological Sciences

Within these fields, their work explores various subfields such as:

  • Ecology
  • Global and Planetary Change
  • Ecology, Evolution, Behavior and Systematics
  • Nature and Landscape Conservation
  • Health, Toxicology and Mutagenesis

Key topics in their research cover:

  • Amphibian and Reptile Biology
  • Animal Behavior and Reproduction
  • Fish Ecology and Management Studies
  • Marine animal studies overview
  • Physiological and biochemical adaptations
  • Avian ecology and behavior
  • Wildlife Ecology and Conservation

Among recent papers, notable publications include:

  • Green infrastructures and ecological corridors shape avian biodiversity in a small French city, 2020, Urban Ecosystems
  • A worldwide and annotated database of evaporative water loss rates in squamate reptiles, 2021, Global Ecology and Biogeography
  • Water deprivation compromises maternal physiology and reproductive success in a cold and wet adapted snake Vipera berus, 2021, Conservation Physiology
  • Long-term trends of salinity in coastal wetlands: Effects of climate, extreme weather events, and sea water level, 2023, Environmental Research
  • Universal metabolic constraints shape the evolutionary ecology of diving in animals, 2020, Proceedings of the Royal Society B Biological Sciences

Frequent co-authors in their publications are:

  • Frédéric Angelier
  • Léa Lorrain-Soligon
  • Fréderic Robin
  • Olivier Lourdais
  • Marion Cheron

François Brischoux frequently publishes in the following venues:

  • Zenodo (CERN European Organization for Nuclear Research)
  • Environmental Research
  • Biological Journal of the Linnean Society
  • Environmental Pollution
  • Journal of Experimental Biology

Best Publications

  • Children prioritize virtual exotic biodiversity over local biodiversity.

    Jean-Marie Ballouard;François Brischoux;Xavier Bonnet

  • Influence of Urbanization on Body Size, Condition, and Physiology in an Urban Exploiter: A Multi-Component Approach

    Alizée Meillère;François Brischoux;Charline Parenteau;Frédéric Angelier

  • Impact of chronic noise exposure on antipredator behavior: an experiment in breeding house sparrows

    Alizée Meillère;François Brischoux;Frédéric Angelier

  • Traffic noise exposure affects telomere length in nestling house sparrows.

    Alizée Meillère;François Brischoux;Cécile Ribout;Frédéric Angelier

  • Growing in cities: an urban penalty for wild birds? A study of phenotypic differences between urban and rural great tit chicks (Parus major)

    Clotilde Biard;François Brischoux;Alizée Meillère;Bruno Michaud

  • Anguilliform fishes and sea kraits : neglected predators in coral-reef ecosystems

    Ivan Ineich;Xavier Bonnet;Xavier Bonnet;François Brischoux;François Brischoux;Michel Kulbicki

  • Corticosterone levels in relation to trace element contamination along an urbanization gradient in the common blackbird (Turdus merula).

    Alizée Meillère;François Brischoux;Paco Bustamante;Bruno Michaud

  • Salinity influences the distribution of marine snakes: Implications for evolutionary transitions to marine life

    François Brischoux;Reid Tingley;Richard Shine;Harvey B. Lillywhite;Harvey B. Lillywhite

  • Foraging ecology of sea kraits Laticauda spp. in the Neo-Caledonian Lagoon

    François Brischoux;François Brischoux;Xavier Bonnet;Richard Shine

  • Influence of temperature on the corticosterone stress-response: An experiment in the Children's python (Antaresia childreni)

    Andréaz Dupoué;François Brischoux;Olivier Lourdais;Olivier Lourdais;Frédéric Angelier

  • Protein catabolism in pregnant snakes (Epicrates cenchria maurus Boidae) compromises musculature and performance after reproduction

    O. Lourdais;O. Lourdais;F. Brischoux;Dale Denardo;R. Shine

  • Future directions in the research and management of marine snakes

    Vinay Udyawer;Peter Barnes;Xavier Bonnet;François Brischoux

  • Beach rock as a keystone habitat for amphibious sea snakes

    Xavier Bonnet;François Brischoux;David Pearson;Philippe Rivalan

  • Growing in a city: consequences on body size and plumage quality in an urban dweller, the house sparrow (Passer domesticus)

    Alizée Meillère;François Brischoux;Pierre-Yves Henry;Bruno Michaud

  • Thirsty sea snakes forsake refuge during rainfall

    Xavier Bonnet;François Brischoux;François Brischoux

  • Does urbanization cause stress in wild birds during development? Insights from feather corticosterone levels in juvenile house sparrows (Passer domesticus).

    Erika Beaugeard;François Brischoux;Pierre-Yves Henry;Charline Parenteau

  • No evidence for an effect of traffic noise on the development of the corticosterone stress response in an urban exploiter

    Frédéric Angelier;Alizée Meillère;Jacquelyn K. Grace;Colette Trouvé

  • Importance of ground refuges for the biodiversity in agricultural hedgerows

    Stéphane Lecq;Anne Loisel;Francois Brischoux;S. J. Mullin

  • Insights into the adaptive significance of vertical pupil shape in snakes

    F. Brischoux;L. Pizzatto;R. Shine

  • Intergenerational trade-off for water may induce a mother–offspring conflict in favour of embryos in a viviparous snake

    Andréaz Dupoué;Andréaz Dupoué;François Brischoux;Frédéric Angelier;Dale F. DeNardo

  • Allometry of diving capacities: ectothermy vs. endothermy.

    François Brischoux;Xavier Bonnet;Timothée R. Cook;Richard Shine

Frequent Co-Authors

Xavier Bonnet
Xavier Bonnet Centre national de la recherche scientifique, CNRS
Olivier Lourdais
Olivier Lourdais Centre national de la recherche scientifique, CNRS
Frédéric Angelier
Frédéric Angelier Centre national de la recherche scientifique, CNRS
Richard Shine
Richard Shine Macquarie University
Harvey B. Lillywhite
Harvey B. Lillywhite University of Florida
Paco Bustamante
Paco Bustamante University of La Rochelle
Jean-François Le Galliard
Jean-François Le Galliard École Normale Supérieure
Sandrine Meylan
Sandrine Meylan Sorbonne University
David T. Bilton
David T. Bilton Plymouth University
Theodore Garland
Theodore Garland University of California, Riverside

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