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Philippe Perret is affiliated with the Centre national de la recherche scientifique (CNRS) in France. Their research primarily focuses on environmental science, with particular attention to ecology and parasitology. The work explores interactions between parasites and their hosts, as well as broader animal ecology and behavior studies.

Among the recent peer-reviewed publications by Philippe Perret are:

  • Parasite intensity is driven by temperature in a wild bird (2021), published in Peer Community Journal
  • Correction to: Hissing like a snake: bird hisses are similar to snake hisses and prompt similar anxiety behavior in a mammalian model (2020), published in Behavioral Ecology and Sociobiology

The scientist has collaborated frequently with several coauthors, including Anne Charmantier, Claire Doutrelant, Adèle Mennerat, Sylvie Hurtrez-Boussès, and Marcel M. Lambrechts.

Philippe Perret's work has appeared in publication venues such as:

  • Peer Community Journal
  • Behavioral Ecology and Sociobiology

Their research deals extensively with topics including:

  • Parasite Biology and Host Interactions
  • Animal Ecology and Behavior Studies
  • Bird parasitology and diseases

Their book publications include a work released by the Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique titled La mésange et la chenille: 50 ans d'enquête évolutive, scheduled for 2025.

Best Publications

  • Energetic and fitness costs of mismatching resource supply and demand in seasonally breeding birds.

    Donald W. Thomas;Jacques Blondel;Philippe Perret;Marcel M. Lambrechts

  • The effect of habitat quality on foraging patterns, provisioning rate and nestling growth in Corsican Blue Tits Parus caeruleus

    Isabelle Tremblay;Isabelle Tremblay;Donald Thomas;Donald Thomas;Jacques Blondel;Philippe Perret

  • Feeding ecology and life history variation of the blue tit in Mediterranean deciduous and sclerophyllous habitats.

    Jacques Blondel;Alain Dervieux;Marie Maistre;Philippe Perret

  • Habitat Heterogeneity and Life-History Variation of Mediterranean Blue Tits (Parus Caeruleus)

    Jacques Blondel;Dias Paula Cristina;Marie Maistre;Philippe Perret

  • Blue tits use selected plants and olfaction to maintain an aromatic environment for nestlings

    Cécile Petit;Martine Hossaert‐McKey;Philippe Perret;Jacques Blondel

  • VARIATION IN BLUE TIT BREEDING PERFORMANCE ACROSS GRADIENTS IN HABITAT RICHNESS

    Isabelle Tremblay;Isabelle Tremblay;Donald W. Thomas;Donald W. Thomas;Marcel M. Lambrechts;Jacques Blondel

  • Selection-Based Biodiversity at a Small Spatial Scale in a Low-Dispersing Insular Bird

    Jacques Blondel;Paula C. Dias;Philippe Perret;Marie Maistre

  • A Thirty-Year Study of Phenotypic and Genetic Variation of Blue Tits in Mediterranean Habitat Mosaics

    Jacques Blondel;Donald W. Thomas;Anne Charmantier;Philippe Perret

  • A Single Response Mechanism is Responsible for Evolutionary Adaptive Variation in a Bird's Laying Date

    Marcel M. Lambrechts;Jacques Blondel;Marie Maistre;Philippe Perret

  • Female coloration indicates female reproductive capacity in blue tits

    C. Doutrelant;A. Grégoire;N. Grnac;D. Gomez

  • How do plant waxes cause flies to slide? Experimental tests of wax-based trapping mechanisms in three pitfall carnivorous plants.

    L. Gaume;P. Perret;E. Gorb;S. Gorb

  • Aromatic plants in nests of the blue tit Cyanistes caeruleus protect chicks from bacteria

    Adèle Mennerat;Adèle Mennerat;Pascal Mirleau;Pascal Mirleau;Pascal Mirleau;Jacques Blondel;Philippe Perret

  • High blowfly parasitic loads affect breeding success in a Mediterranean population of blue tits

    Sylvie Hurtrez-Boussès;Philippe Perret;François Renaud;Jacques Blondel

  • Habitat quality as a predictor of spatial variation in blue tit reproductive performance: a multi-plot analysis in a heterogeneous landscape.

    Marcel M. Lambrechts;Samuel Caro;Samuel Caro;Anne Charmantier;Nicolas Gross

  • Molecular phylogeny and the historical biogeography of the warblers of the genus Sylvia (Aves)

    J. Blondel;F. Catzeflis;P. Perret

  • Adaptive inter-population differences in blue tit life-history traits on Corsica

    Marcel M. Lambrechts;Jacques Blondel;Sylvie Hurtrez-Bousses;Marie Maistre

  • Variation in phenotypic plasticity and selection patterns in blue tit breeding time: between- and within-population comparisons

    Melody Porlier;Melody Porlier;Anne Charmantier;Patrice Bourgault;Philippe Perret

  • Chick parasitism by blowflies affects feeding rates in a Mediterranean population of blue tits

    Sylvie Hurtrez‐Boussès;Sylvie Hurtrez‐Boussès;Jacques Blondel;Philippe Perret;Jacques Fabreguettes

  • Effect of human presence and handling on circulating corticosterone levels in breeding blue tits (Parus caeruleus).

    Claudia Müller;Susanne Jenni-Eiermann;Jacques Blondel;Philippe Perret

  • Physiological Ecology of Mediterranean Blue Tits (Parus caeruleus L.): Effects of Ectoparasites (Protocalliphora spp.) and Food Abundance on Metabolic Capacity of Nestlings

    Aurélie Simon;Don Thomas;Jacques Blondel;Philippe Perret

  • A long photoperiod overrides non-photoperiodic factors in blue tits' timing of reproduction

    Marcel M. Lambrechts;Philippe Perret

Frequent Co-Authors

Jacques Blondel
Jacques Blondel Centre national de la recherche scientifique, CNRS
Marcel M. Lambrechts
Marcel M. Lambrechts Centre national de la recherche scientifique, CNRS
Donald W. Thomas
Donald W. Thomas Université de Sherbrooke
Claire Doutrelant
Claire Doutrelant University of Montpellier
Anne Charmantier
Anne Charmantier Centre national de la recherche scientifique, CNRS
Mikko Mönkkönen
Mikko Mönkkönen University of Jyväskylä
François Renaud
François Renaud University of Montpellier
Juan Carlos Senar
Juan Carlos Senar Museum of Natural Sciences of Barcelona
Seppo Rytkönen
Seppo Rytkönen University of Oulu
Santiago Merino
Santiago Merino Museo Nacional de Ciencias Naturales

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