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Olivier Lourdais is affiliated with the Centre national de la recherche scientifique (CNRS) in France. Their primary research focus lies within the field of Environmental Science, with a significant contribution to various subfields including Ecology, Global and Planetary Change, Ecology, Evolution, Behavior and Systematics, Ecological Modeling, and Nature and Landscape Conservation.

The scientist's work prominently features studies related to amphibians and reptiles, as well as broader aspects of species distribution and climate change. Their research topics also encompass physiological and biochemical adaptations, animal behavior and reproduction, wildlife ecology and conservation, bat biology and ecology studies, and fish ecology and management studies.

Some of Olivier Lourdais's recent publications include:

  • Evaluating taxonomic inflation: towards evidence-based species delimitation in Eurasian vipers (Serpentes: Viperinae), 2020, Amphibia-Reptilia
  • Lizards from warm and declining populations are born with extremely short telomeres, 2022, Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences
  • 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
  • Ecological responses of squamate reptiles to nocturnal warming, 2023, Biological reviews/Biological reviews of the Cambridge Philosophical Society

The scientist frequently publishes in venues such as Zenodo (CERN European Organization for Nuclear Research), Journal of Experimental Biology, Biological Journal of the Linnean Society, Amphibia-Reptilia, and Animal Conservation.

Olivier Lourdais collaborates regularly with several co-authors including:

  • Jean-François Le Galliard
  • Andréaz Dupoué
  • Chloé Chabaud
  • François Brischoux
  • Mathias Dezetter

Best Publications

  • Short-term versus long-term effects of food intake on reproductive output in a viviparous snake, Vipera aspis

    X. Bonnet;G. Naulleau;R. Shine;O. Lourdais

  • Climate affects embryonic development in a viviparous snake, Vipera aspis

    Olivier Lourdais;Richard Shine;Xavier Bonnet;Xavier Bonnet;Michaël Guillon

  • When water interacts with temperature: Ecological and evolutionary implications of thermo-hydroregulation in terrestrial ectotherms

    David Rozen‐Rechels;Andréaz Dupoué;Olivier Lourdais;Olivier Lourdais;Simon Chamaillé‐Jammes

  • REPRODUCTION IN A TYPICAL CAPITAL BREEDER: COSTS, CURRENCIES, AND COMPLICATIONS IN THE ASPIC VIPER

    Xavier Bonnet;Xavier Bonnet;Olivier Lourdais;Richard Shine;Guy Naulleau

  • Capital-breeding and reproductive effort in a variable environment: a longitudinal study of a viviparous snake

    Olivier Lourdais;Olivier Lourdais;Xavier Bonnet;Richard Shine;Dale F. Denardo

  • Fat is sexy for females but not males: the influence of body reserves on reproduction in snakes (Vipera aspis).

    Fabien Aubret;Xavier Bonnet;Richard Shine;Olivier Lourdais

  • What is the appropriate timescale for measuring costs of reproduction in a 'capital breeder' such as the aspic viper?

    X. Bonnet;G. Naulleau;R. Shine;O. Lourdais

  • Reproductive versus ecological advantages to larger body size in female snakes, Vipera aspis

    Xavier Bonnet;Guy Naulleau;Richard Shine;Olivier Lourdais

  • Costs of anorexia during pregnancy in a viviparous snake (Vipera aspis).

    Olivier Lourdais;Olivier Lourdais;Xavier Bonnet;Paul Doughty

  • ‘Heaven’ for serpents? A mark–recapture study of tiger snakes (Notechis scutatus) on Carnac Island, Western Australia

    Xavier Bonnet;David Pearson;Mitchell Ladyman;Olivier Lourdais

  • Gestation, Thermoregulation, and Metabolism in a Viviparous Snake, Vipera aspis: Evidence for Fecundity‐Independent Costs

    Mitchell Ladyman;Xavier Bonnet;Olivier Lourdais;Don Bradshaw

  • Evaluating taxonomic inflation: towards evidence-based species delimitation in Eurasian vipers (Serpentes: Viperinae)

    Inês Freitas;Sylvain Ursenbacher;Konrad Mebert;Oleksandr Zinenko

  • Thermoregulation during gravidity in the children's python (Antaresia childreni): a test of the preadaptation hypothesis for maternal thermophily in snakes

    Olivier Lourdais;Olivier Lourdais;Benoit Heulin;Dale F. Denardo

  • Maternal influences on early development: preferred temperature prior to oviposition hastens embryogenesis and enhances offspring traits in the Children's python, Antaresia childreni.

    Sophie Lorioux;Sophie Lorioux;Dale F. DeNardo;Root Gorelick;Olivier Lourdais;Olivier Lourdais

  • Thermal benefits of artificial shelters in snakes: A radiotelemetric study of two sympatric colubrids

    Hervé Lelièvre;Hervé Lelièvre;Gabriel Blouin-Demers;Xavier Bonnet;Olivier Lourdais

  • 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

  • When does a reproducing female viper (Vipera aspis) 'decide' on her litter size?

    Olivier Lourdais;Olivier Lourdais;Xavier Bonnet;Richard Shine;Emily N. Taylor

  • Contrasted thermal preferences translate into divergences in habitat use and realized performance in two sympatric snakes

    Hervé Lelièvre;Hervé Lelièvre;Gabriel Blouin-Demers;David Pinaud;Hélène Lisse

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

    Alexandre Boissinot;Aurélien Besnard;Olivier Lourdais;Olivier Lourdais

  • Permanent Genetic Resources added to Molecular Ecology Resources Database 1 October 2011 - 30 November 2011: PERMANENT GENETIC RESOURCES NOTEM

    Aluana G. Abreu;A. Albaina;Tilman J. Alpermann;Vanessa E. Apkenas

Frequent Co-Authors

Xavier Bonnet
Xavier Bonnet Centre national de la recherche scientifique, CNRS
François Brischoux
François Brischoux University of La Rochelle
Richard Shine
Richard Shine Macquarie University
Gabriel Blouin-Demers
Gabriel Blouin-Demers University of Ottawa
Frédéric Angelier
Frédéric Angelier Centre national de la recherche scientifique, CNRS
Jean-François Le Galliard
Jean-François Le Galliard École Normale Supérieure
Jean Clobert
Jean Clobert Centre national de la recherche scientifique, CNRS
Sandrine Meylan
Sandrine Meylan Sorbonne University
Michael L. Berumen
Michael L. Berumen King Abdullah University of Science and Technology
Harry M. Savage
Harry M. Savage Centers for Disease Control and Prevention

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