Martin Philippe-Lesaffre
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Martin Philippe-Lesaffre
@mphilippelesaffre.bsky.social
Postdoc at mncn @csic.es. Macroecologist in his spare time, but unofficial look-alike of T. Chalamet most of the time.
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🏝️ Saviez-vous que 3/4 des extinctions récentes ont eu lieu sur des îles ?

#FRB-Cesab #Rivage propose un cadre inédit pour évaluer cette vulnérabilité. Leur objectif : replacer les îles au cœur des priorités de conservation.

📌 bit.ly/4mrUBil

@celinebellard.bsky.social @claramarino.bsky.social
Les îles : joyaux de biodiversité en péril - Fondation pour la recherche sur la biodiversité
La théorie de l’évolution a fait ses premiers pas sur une île – et ce n’est pas un hasard. En 1835, lors de son voyage aux Galápagos, Charles Darwin observe des pinsons avec attention. Ce sont les dif...
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September 25, 2025 at 8:22 AM
🖨️ New preprint out !

We present the first global, high-resolution, spatiotemporal maps of hunting pressure across tropical forests 🦜🐒🌴.

This long-standing blind spot in biodiversity threat mapping is now filled 😎:

ecoevorxiv.org/repository/v...
Hotspots, refuges, and rising risk: mapping tropical hunting pressure across space and time
ecoevorxiv.org
June 25, 2025 at 8:58 AM
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New paper out! We present a framework for quantifying the vulnerability of terrestrial insular biota to multiple threats. This is the first output of the #RIVAGE project, funded by @frbiodiv.bsky.social & brilliantly led by @celinebellard.bsky.social.

peercommunityjournal.org/articles/10....
A framework to quantify the vulnerability of insular biota to global changes
peercommunityjournal.org
May 18, 2025 at 10:56 PM
Our paper on 🐈 vs. 🐦 , an overview 🔐:
Ever wonder how domestic cats choose their prey? We combined citizen science and machine learning to find out what makes birds attractive to cats. Small size, generalist habits, and large range put birds at higher risk!
www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...
Pinpointing bird species vulnerability to free-ranging domestic cats using trait-based predictive models
We developed a method to assess bird species’ vulnerability to predation by free-ranging domestic cats (Felis catus) using prey preference data from c…
www.sciencedirect.com
April 15, 2025 at 10:20 AM
I'm really happy to see that more and more articles on ecology are highlighting the fact that we really need to adopt more causal approaches or at least try !
Very excited this paper is now out in Ecology Letters onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/epdf/10.... #causalsky
January 21, 2025 at 8:52 AM
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🪱 Putting Earthworm conservation on the map!

Check out the last publication of our #CESAB LANDWORM and IMPACT groups by @sylvaingrd.bsky.social et al.

👉 bit.ly/4ij7sTg

🔑 They are soil keystones & face global threats, demanding broad-scale, multifaceted diversity indicators for conservation.

🧪🌐🌍🦤
December 5, 2024 at 8:38 AM
Our new article, published in
@ecography.bsky.social, examines free-ranging domestic cat predation patterns on mainlands, focusing on how coevolutionary differences between continents might influence these patterns :
nsojournals.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/full/10....
Differential predation patterns of free‐ranging cats among continents
Co-evolutionary relationships associated with biogeographical context mediate the response of native prey to introduced predators, but this effect has not yet been demonstrated for domestic cats. We ...
nsojournals.onlinelibrary.wiley.com
November 27, 2024 at 9:25 AM