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Simon Chamaillé-Jammes is affiliated with the Centre national de la recherche scientifique (CNRS) in France. Their research primarily spans the field of Environmental Science, with a significant focus on Ecology. Within this broad discipline, they have contributed substantially to areas such as Ecological Modeling, Ecology, Evolution, Behavior and Systematics, Small Animals, and Genetics.

Their work covers multiple topics related to wildlife and ecological studies. Key topics include:

  • Wildlife Ecology and Conservation
  • Species Distribution and Climate Change
  • Animal Behavior and Welfare Studies
  • Animal Ecology and Behavior Studies
  • Bat Biology and Ecology Studies
  • Animal Behavior and Reproduction
  • Rangeland Management and Livestock Ecology

Simon Chamaillé-Jammes has authored several recent papers published in prominent scientific outlets. These include:

  • Mapping out a future for ungulate migrations, 2021, Science
  • Deer, wolves, and people: costs, benefits and challenges of living together, 2020, Biological reviews/Biological reviews of the Cambridge Philosophical Society
  • Beyond spatial overlap: harnessing new technologies to resolve the complexities of predator-prey interactions, 2022, Oikos
  • Behavioral responses of terrestrial mammals to COVID-19 lockdowns, 2023, Science
  • The generality of cryptic dietary niche differences in diverse large-herbivore assemblages, 2022, Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences

Their frequent co-authors, with whom they have collaborated on multiple occasions, include Christophe Bonenfant, Gaspard Dussert, Olivier Giménez, Vincent Mièle, and Nicolas Morellet.

Simon Chamaillé-Jammes has contributed extensively to various publication venues. Notable journals and platforms where their work appears frequently include:

  • bioRxiv (Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory)
  • Animal Behaviour
  • Zenodo (CERN European Organization for Nuclear Research)
  • Oikos
  • Ecology and Evolution

Best Publications

  • Moving in the Anthropocene : global reductions in terrestrial mammalian movements

    Marlee A. Tucker;Katrin Böhning-Gaese;William F. Fagan;John M. Fryxell

  • Behavioral adjustments of African herbivores to predation risk by lions: Spatiotemporal variations influence habitat use

    Marion Valeix;A.J. Loveridge;Simon Chamaillé-Jammes;Z. Davidson

  • Paws without claws? Ecological effects of large carnivores in anthropogenic landscapes

    D. P. J. Kuijper;E. Sahlén;Bodil Elmhagen;S. Chamaillé-Jammes

  • Managing heterogeneity in elephant distribution: interactions between elephant population density and surface‐water availability

    Simon Chamaillé-Jammes;Marion Valeix;Hervé Fritz

  • Global warming and positive fitness response in mountain populations of common lizards Lacerta vivipara

    Simon Chamaillé-Jammes;Manuel Massot;Pedro Aragón;Pedro Aragón;Jean Clobert

  • Savanna woody plant dynamics: the role of fire and herbivory, separately and synergistically

    Jeremy J. Midgley;Michael J. Lawes;Simon Chamaillé-Jammes

  • Resource variability, aggregation and direct density dependence in an open context: the local regulation of an African elephant population

    Simon Chamaillé-Jammes;Hervé Fritz;Marion Valeix;Felix Murindagomo

  • Interference competition and temporal niche shifts: elephants and herbivore communities at waterholes

    Marion Valeix;Simon Chamaillé-Jammes;Simon Chamaillé-Jammes;Hervé Fritz;Hervé Fritz

  • 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

  • Spatial patterns of the NDVI–rainfall relationship at the seasonal and interannual time scales in an African savanna

    S. Chamaille-Jammes;H. Fritz;F. Murindagomo

  • Detecting climate changes of concern in highly variable environments: Quantile regressions reveal that droughts worsen in Hwange National Park, Zimbabwe

    S. Chamaillé-Jammes;H. Fritz;F. Murindagomo

  • Mapping out a future for ungulate migrations.

    Matthew J. Kauffman;Francesca Cagnacci;Simon Chamaillé-Jammes;Mark Hebblewhite

  • Beyond spatial overlap: harnessing new technologies to resolve the complexities of predator–prey interactions

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  • How Memory-Based Movement Leads to Nonterritorial Spatial Segregation

    Louise Riotte-Lambert;Simon Benhamou;Simon Chamaillé-Jammes

  • Reactive responses of zebras to lion encounters shape their predator–prey space game at large scale

    Nicolas Courbin;Andrew J. Loveridge;David W. Macdonald;Hervé Fritz

  • Non-consumptive effects of predation in large terrestrial mammals: Mapping our knowledge and revealing the tip of the iceberg

    Elise Say-Sallaz;Simon Chamaillé-Jammes;Simon Chamaillé-Jammes;Simon Chamaillé-Jammes;Hervé Fritz;Marion Valeix

  • Deer, wolves, and people: costs, benefits and challenges of living together

    Jean‐Louis Martin;Simon Chamaillé‐Jammes;Donald M. Waller

  • Climate‐driven fluctuations in surface‐water availability and the buffering role of artificial pumping in an African savanna: Potential implication for herbivore dynamics

    Simon Chamaillé-Jammes;Hervé Fritz;Felix Murindagomo

  • Behavioral responses of terrestrial mammals to COVID-19 lockdowns

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  • The generality of cryptic dietary niche differences in diverse large-herbivore assemblages

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  • Innate threat-sensitive foraging: black-tailed deer remain more fearful of wolf than of the less dangerous black bear even after 100 years of wolf absence

    Simon Chamaillé-Jammes;Hélène Malcuit;Soizic Le Saout;Jean-Louis Martin

  • Roe deer at risk: teasing apart habitat selection and landscape constraints in risk exposure at multiple scales

    Sophie Padié;Nicolas Morellet;A. J. Mark Hewison;Jean-Louis Martin

  • Piosphere contribution to landscape heterogeneity: a case study of remote‐sensed woody cover in a high elephant density landscape

    Simon Chamaillé‐Jammes;Hervé Fritz;Hillary Madzikanda

  • Movement-based analysis of interactions in African lions

    Simon Benhamou;Marion Valeix;Simon Chamaillé-Jammes;David W. Macdonald

  • Fluctuations in abundance of large herbivore populations: insights into the influence of dry season rainfall and elephant numbers from long-term data

    Marion Valeix;Hervé Fritz;Simon Chamaillé-Jammes;M. Bourgarel

Frequent Co-Authors

Hervé Fritz
Hervé Fritz Nelson Mandela University
Marion Valeix
Marion Valeix Claude Bernard University Lyon 1
Andrew J. Loveridge
Andrew J. Loveridge University of Oxford
David W. Macdonald
David W. Macdonald University of Oxford
Christophe Bonenfant
Christophe Bonenfant Claude Bernard University Lyon 1
Jean-Louis Martin
Jean-Louis Martin Centre national de la recherche scientifique, CNRS
Nicolas Morellet
Nicolas Morellet Federal University of Toulouse Midi-Pyrénées
Patrick Duncan
Patrick Duncan Centre national de la recherche scientifique, CNRS
Francesca Cagnacci
Francesca Cagnacci Fondazione Edmund Mach
Marco Heurich
Marco Heurich University of Freiburg

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