We also find out that the axes are fairly related to some species' traits thought to be related to trait matching: beak width and fruit diameter, body mass and crop mass, and Kipp's index and plant height. This suggests that this latent trait approach captures known trait matching patterns! (4/6)

We use a simulation approach to test the method, and illustrate it on a bird-plant frugivory network. Below are species' niches in the multivariate space for birds and plant species interacting in this network. (3/6)

In this article, we relate the interaction niche to trait matching. For that, we use reciprocal scaling, a method related to correspondence analysis, which allows to represent species' niches in the multivariate space and where the multivariate axes can be interpreted as latent traits. (2/6)

This weekend, I took part in the odonatological meeting of the Opie! I presented the DRAGON project I'm working on, and learned how to identify dragonflies in the field. It was an amazing weekend of sharing scientific and naturalist knowledge, while meeting great and passionate people!

Last week was our Dragon project workshop at Cesab! This was a great week of collaborative work to discuss dragonfiles, occupancy models and a lot more! Time to get those models running now 👩‍💻

This week, I visited collaborators for my postdoc project in @cesco-lab.bsky.social. I also presented some work published during my PhD at CESCO’s lab seminar and attended a meeting on the National Action Plan for Dragonflies. A great science-packed week with lots of nice and knowledgeable people!

Today I was invited to a meeting gathering actors from the French National Action Plan for Dragonflies, held in Paris. I learned a great deal about odonates conservation in France at the national and regional scales. I also had the chance to meet a lot of knowledgeable and very nice people!