Johann Mourier
@sharkmourier.bsky.social
Shark scientist 🦈 & behavioural ecologist | Animal Social Networks
Junior Professor at University of Montpellier @umontpellier.bsky.social | Lab MARBEC
Website: www.johannmourier.com
Junior Professor at University of Montpellier @umontpellier.bsky.social | Lab MARBEC
Website: www.johannmourier.com
Our paper made the cover of the journal Animal Conservation
Shark feeding affects health and female reproductive investment in blacktip reef sharks from French Polynesia
zslpublications.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/...
Shark feeding affects health and female reproductive investment in blacktip reef sharks from French Polynesia
zslpublications.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/...
August 31, 2025 at 8:06 AM
Our paper made the cover of the journal Animal Conservation
Shark feeding affects health and female reproductive investment in blacktip reef sharks from French Polynesia
zslpublications.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/...
Shark feeding affects health and female reproductive investment in blacktip reef sharks from French Polynesia
zslpublications.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/...
New paper introducing the term of SUPER HABITAT for sharks in which all critical activities (resting, feeding, mating & giving birth) occurs.
🦈🌴❤️🍽️ 👶
Access the paper here:
www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...
@dr-yannis.bsky.social @charlie-huveneers.bsky.social
🦈🌴❤️🍽️ 👶
Access the paper here:
www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...
@dr-yannis.bsky.social @charlie-huveneers.bsky.social
August 23, 2025 at 6:51 PM
New paper introducing the term of SUPER HABITAT for sharks in which all critical activities (resting, feeding, mating & giving birth) occurs.
🦈🌴❤️🍽️ 👶
Access the paper here:
www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...
@dr-yannis.bsky.social @charlie-huveneers.bsky.social
🦈🌴❤️🍽️ 👶
Access the paper here:
www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...
@dr-yannis.bsky.social @charlie-huveneers.bsky.social
‼️ New important shark paper 🦈
We demonstrate that all critical life stages (resting, feeding, being cleaned, mating & giving birth) can occur in the small Fakarava channel & we define it as a “super habitat”
www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti... @dr-yannis.bsky.social @charlie-huveneers.bsky.social
We demonstrate that all critical life stages (resting, feeding, being cleaned, mating & giving birth) can occur in the small Fakarava channel & we define it as a “super habitat”
www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti... @dr-yannis.bsky.social @charlie-huveneers.bsky.social
August 22, 2025 at 4:56 PM
‼️ New important shark paper 🦈
We demonstrate that all critical life stages (resting, feeding, being cleaned, mating & giving birth) can occur in the small Fakarava channel & we define it as a “super habitat”
www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti... @dr-yannis.bsky.social @charlie-huveneers.bsky.social
We demonstrate that all critical life stages (resting, feeding, being cleaned, mating & giving birth) can occur in the small Fakarava channel & we define it as a “super habitat”
www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti... @dr-yannis.bsky.social @charlie-huveneers.bsky.social
Little science art using my Wacom palette and software Krita
This is a painted comber (Serranus scriba) from the Mediterranean Sea
This is a painted comber (Serranus scriba) from the Mediterranean Sea
July 14, 2025 at 4:41 PM
Little science art using my Wacom palette and software Krita
This is a painted comber (Serranus scriba) from the Mediterranean Sea
This is a painted comber (Serranus scriba) from the Mediterranean Sea
Successful fieldtrip as part of the NETFISH project & A. Laurioux's PhD thesis with the tagging & release of 93 tiny coastal Mediterranean fishes (min=8.5cm) in 4 days with @lotektelemetry.bsky.social high resolution acoustic positioning system
@umontpellier.bsky.social @aquatictracking.bsky.social
@umontpellier.bsky.social @aquatictracking.bsky.social
June 22, 2025 at 9:36 AM
Successful fieldtrip as part of the NETFISH project & A. Laurioux's PhD thesis with the tagging & release of 93 tiny coastal Mediterranean fishes (min=8.5cm) in 4 days with @lotektelemetry.bsky.social high resolution acoustic positioning system
@umontpellier.bsky.social @aquatictracking.bsky.social
@umontpellier.bsky.social @aquatictracking.bsky.social
Just back from the field for the start of our new project NETFISH using @lotektelemetry.bsky.social high-resolution telemetry to track small coastal fishes of the Mediterranean including damselfish. We deployed an array of receivers and next week we will be back for tagging ~100 fishes. More soon...
June 7, 2025 at 1:50 PM
Just back from the field for the start of our new project NETFISH using @lotektelemetry.bsky.social high-resolution telemetry to track small coastal fishes of the Mediterranean including damselfish. We deployed an array of receivers and next week we will be back for tagging ~100 fishes. More soon...
New paper in @asab.org !
With both social & diffusion models, we assess the role of social transmission in the acquisition of depredation by social units of killer whales, as well as the extent to which social units engaged in this behaviour once acquired.
www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...
With both social & diffusion models, we assess the role of social transmission in the acquisition of depredation by social units of killer whales, as well as the extent to which social units engaged in this behaviour once acquired.
www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...
June 1, 2025 at 5:34 AM
New paper in @asab.org !
With both social & diffusion models, we assess the role of social transmission in the acquisition of depredation by social units of killer whales, as well as the extent to which social units engaged in this behaviour once acquired.
www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...
With both social & diffusion models, we assess the role of social transmission in the acquisition of depredation by social units of killer whales, as well as the extent to which social units engaged in this behaviour once acquired.
www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...
Our Special Issue on fish telemetry is finally published in Journal of Fish Biology @thefsbi.bsky.social
including 28 papers on freshwater & marine fish movement & behaviour.
Thank all authors and guest editors Taryn Murray, Robert Lennox & Kim Birnie-Gauvin
onlinelibrary.wiley.com/toc/10958649...
including 28 papers on freshwater & marine fish movement & behaviour.
Thank all authors and guest editors Taryn Murray, Robert Lennox & Kim Birnie-Gauvin
onlinelibrary.wiley.com/toc/10958649...
May 29, 2025 at 7:31 AM
Our Special Issue on fish telemetry is finally published in Journal of Fish Biology @thefsbi.bsky.social
including 28 papers on freshwater & marine fish movement & behaviour.
Thank all authors and guest editors Taryn Murray, Robert Lennox & Kim Birnie-Gauvin
onlinelibrary.wiley.com/toc/10958649...
including 28 papers on freshwater & marine fish movement & behaviour.
Thank all authors and guest editors Taryn Murray, Robert Lennox & Kim Birnie-Gauvin
onlinelibrary.wiley.com/toc/10958649...
Nice to see a leatherback turtle nesting today after a hicking in French Guiana
April 25, 2025 at 12:42 AM
Nice to see a leatherback turtle nesting today after a hicking in French Guiana
Short appearance on France 2 TV News in the context of the dramatic shark bite in Israel earlier this week. It occurred in front of a power plant known to aggregate tens of sandbar & dusky sharks attracted by hot water effluent.
More info on this aggregation: link.springer.com/article/10.1...
More info on this aggregation: link.springer.com/article/10.1...
April 23, 2025 at 12:01 PM
Short appearance on France 2 TV News in the context of the dramatic shark bite in Israel earlier this week. It occurred in front of a power plant known to aggregate tens of sandbar & dusky sharks attracted by hot water effluent.
More info on this aggregation: link.springer.com/article/10.1...
More info on this aggregation: link.springer.com/article/10.1...
New paper led by Alexandra McInturf & @physiologyfish.bsky.social
We present a methodological framework for analysing catch data to infer aggregation behaviour. We outline key metrics to explore and apply this framework in a case study of juvenile sharks. 🦈
onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1002/...
We present a methodological framework for analysing catch data to infer aggregation behaviour. We outline key metrics to explore and apply this framework in a case study of juvenile sharks. 🦈
onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1002/...
March 31, 2025 at 6:44 PM
New paper led by Alexandra McInturf & @physiologyfish.bsky.social
We present a methodological framework for analysing catch data to infer aggregation behaviour. We outline key metrics to explore and apply this framework in a case study of juvenile sharks. 🦈
onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1002/...
We present a methodological framework for analysing catch data to infer aggregation behaviour. We outline key metrics to explore and apply this framework in a case study of juvenile sharks. 🦈
onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1002/...
Have you ever wonder how you could visit French Polynesia from a shark's perspective?
A grey reef shark cruise in the reef flats 🦈🌴🎥
#AnimalBorneCamera #FrenchPolynesia #Shark
#GombessaExpeditions #SharkScience
A grey reef shark cruise in the reef flats 🦈🌴🎥
#AnimalBorneCamera #FrenchPolynesia #Shark
#GombessaExpeditions #SharkScience
February 5, 2025 at 8:09 PM
Have you ever wonder how you could visit French Polynesia from a shark's perspective?
A grey reef shark cruise in the reef flats 🦈🌴🎥
#AnimalBorneCamera #FrenchPolynesia #Shark
#GombessaExpeditions #SharkScience
A grey reef shark cruise in the reef flats 🦈🌴🎥
#AnimalBorneCamera #FrenchPolynesia #Shark
#GombessaExpeditions #SharkScience
New paper from the #PhysioShark project led by @shamildebaere.bsky.social & @physiologyfish.bsky.social
Do minor injuries affect baby reef sharks? 🦈🩹
Learn more about their healing super power 💪 & the influence of environmental factors on this process
Link: onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/...
Do minor injuries affect baby reef sharks? 🦈🩹
Learn more about their healing super power 💪 & the influence of environmental factors on this process
Link: onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/...
February 1, 2025 at 1:20 PM
New paper from the #PhysioShark project led by @shamildebaere.bsky.social & @physiologyfish.bsky.social
Do minor injuries affect baby reef sharks? 🦈🩹
Learn more about their healing super power 💪 & the influence of environmental factors on this process
Link: onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/...
Do minor injuries affect baby reef sharks? 🦈🩹
Learn more about their healing super power 💪 & the influence of environmental factors on this process
Link: onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/...
🎁 🦈 New paper out in Animal Conservation for Christmas
Biochemical & endocrinological parameters from blacktip reef sharks suggest that shark-feeding may have long-term fitness costs especially for females during the breeding season
zslpublications.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/full/10....
Biochemical & endocrinological parameters from blacktip reef sharks suggest that shark-feeding may have long-term fitness costs especially for females during the breeding season
zslpublications.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/full/10....
December 26, 2024 at 6:13 PM
🎁 🦈 New paper out in Animal Conservation for Christmas
Biochemical & endocrinological parameters from blacktip reef sharks suggest that shark-feeding may have long-term fitness costs especially for females during the breeding season
zslpublications.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/full/10....
Biochemical & endocrinological parameters from blacktip reef sharks suggest that shark-feeding may have long-term fitness costs especially for females during the breeding season
zslpublications.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/full/10....
Watching a tuna tagging documentary featuring @fishybiologistkim.bsky.social & @kimaarestrup.bsky.social while waiting at the airport in French Guiana ! Nice 🐟😉
November 29, 2024 at 8:47 PM
Watching a tuna tagging documentary featuring @fishybiologistkim.bsky.social & @kimaarestrup.bsky.social while waiting at the airport in French Guiana ! Nice 🐟😉
🦈 ‼️New paper‼️ 🦈
We used ERGMs to analyze movement networks in bull sharks in Reunion Island.
Intra- & interspecific factors often had stronger effects on movements than environmental variables.
#OpenAccess Paper: 👇
onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1002/...
#MARBEC @umontpellier.bsky.social
We used ERGMs to analyze movement networks in bull sharks in Reunion Island.
Intra- & interspecific factors often had stronger effects on movements than environmental variables.
#OpenAccess Paper: 👇
onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1002/...
#MARBEC @umontpellier.bsky.social
November 28, 2024 at 12:19 PM
🦈 ‼️New paper‼️ 🦈
We used ERGMs to analyze movement networks in bull sharks in Reunion Island.
Intra- & interspecific factors often had stronger effects on movements than environmental variables.
#OpenAccess Paper: 👇
onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1002/...
#MARBEC @umontpellier.bsky.social
We used ERGMs to analyze movement networks in bull sharks in Reunion Island.
Intra- & interspecific factors often had stronger effects on movements than environmental variables.
#OpenAccess Paper: 👇
onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1002/...
#MARBEC @umontpellier.bsky.social
What kind of research do I publish?
Here is a World Cloud from my Google Scholar track
(Fin shape of course 🦈)
Try it at : scholargoggler.com
Here is a World Cloud from my Google Scholar track
(Fin shape of course 🦈)
Try it at : scholargoggler.com
November 21, 2024 at 12:37 PM
What kind of research do I publish?
Here is a World Cloud from my Google Scholar track
(Fin shape of course 🦈)
Try it at : scholargoggler.com
Here is a World Cloud from my Google Scholar track
(Fin shape of course 🦈)
Try it at : scholargoggler.com
One of my main research question is to understand how sociality emerges in sharks using social network analysis. 🦈
Shark societies are not as complex as wolf packs but their primitive social structure represents a nice model to study the evolution of sociality.
Learn more at: www.johannmourier.com
Shark societies are not as complex as wolf packs but their primitive social structure represents a nice model to study the evolution of sociality.
Learn more at: www.johannmourier.com
November 19, 2024 at 2:28 PM
One of my main research question is to understand how sociality emerges in sharks using social network analysis. 🦈
Shark societies are not as complex as wolf packs but their primitive social structure represents a nice model to study the evolution of sociality.
Learn more at: www.johannmourier.com
Shark societies are not as complex as wolf packs but their primitive social structure represents a nice model to study the evolution of sociality.
Learn more at: www.johannmourier.com
Nice paper from the Maldives 🦈
Identification of the first gestational ground for tiger sharks (Galeocerdo cuvier) in the Central Indian Ocean using a high-definition submersible ultrasound
www.frontiersin.org/journals/mar...
Identification of the first gestational ground for tiger sharks (Galeocerdo cuvier) in the Central Indian Ocean using a high-definition submersible ultrasound
www.frontiersin.org/journals/mar...
November 15, 2024 at 2:24 PM
Nice paper from the Maldives 🦈
Identification of the first gestational ground for tiger sharks (Galeocerdo cuvier) in the Central Indian Ocean using a high-definition submersible ultrasound
www.frontiersin.org/journals/mar...
Identification of the first gestational ground for tiger sharks (Galeocerdo cuvier) in the Central Indian Ocean using a high-definition submersible ultrasound
www.frontiersin.org/journals/mar...
To present myself for new followers:
I am a junior professor at the University of Montpellier & researcher at lab MARBEC in France.
I study the behavioural ecolgy of marine organisms, in particular sharks, using a variety of approches.
More details about my work on my website:
www.johannmourier.com
I am a junior professor at the University of Montpellier & researcher at lab MARBEC in France.
I study the behavioural ecolgy of marine organisms, in particular sharks, using a variety of approches.
More details about my work on my website:
www.johannmourier.com
November 13, 2024 at 12:33 AM
To present myself for new followers:
I am a junior professor at the University of Montpellier & researcher at lab MARBEC in France.
I study the behavioural ecolgy of marine organisms, in particular sharks, using a variety of approches.
More details about my work on my website:
www.johannmourier.com
I am a junior professor at the University of Montpellier & researcher at lab MARBEC in France.
I study the behavioural ecolgy of marine organisms, in particular sharks, using a variety of approches.
More details about my work on my website:
www.johannmourier.com
Interesting read:
First Evidence of Individual Sharks Involved in Multiple Predatory Bites on People
conbio.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/...
#SharkHumanConflict
First Evidence of Individual Sharks Involved in Multiple Predatory Bites on People
conbio.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/...
#SharkHumanConflict
November 8, 2024 at 5:20 PM
Interesting read:
First Evidence of Individual Sharks Involved in Multiple Predatory Bites on People
conbio.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/...
#SharkHumanConflict
First Evidence of Individual Sharks Involved in Multiple Predatory Bites on People
conbio.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/...
#SharkHumanConflict
2024 has been an exciting year!
Many scientific projects are about to start and I am excited to welcome 4 new PhD students under my supervision or co-supervision.
Great science coming up…
For more information:
sites.google.com/view/dr-joha...
Many scientific projects are about to start and I am excited to welcome 4 new PhD students under my supervision or co-supervision.
Great science coming up…
For more information:
sites.google.com/view/dr-joha...
September 29, 2024 at 2:02 PM
2024 has been an exciting year!
Many scientific projects are about to start and I am excited to welcome 4 new PhD students under my supervision or co-supervision.
Great science coming up…
For more information:
sites.google.com/view/dr-joha...
Many scientific projects are about to start and I am excited to welcome 4 new PhD students under my supervision or co-supervision.
Great science coming up…
For more information:
sites.google.com/view/dr-joha...
New paper from Sebastian Kraft's PhD thesis out in
Marine Biology
Long-term co-occurrence and gregariousness in the migratory common stingray using network analysis
link.springer.com/article/10.1...
Marine Biology
Long-term co-occurrence and gregariousness in the migratory common stingray using network analysis
link.springer.com/article/10.1...
August 13, 2024 at 2:33 PM
New paper from Sebastian Kraft's PhD thesis out in
Marine Biology
Long-term co-occurrence and gregariousness in the migratory common stingray using network analysis
link.springer.com/article/10.1...
Marine Biology
Long-term co-occurrence and gregariousness in the migratory common stingray using network analysis
link.springer.com/article/10.1...
New #OA paper out in Journal of Fish Biology 🦈
Our research uncovers novel behavioral responses in reef sharks to dynamic energyscapes, creating spatiotemporal variations in predation pressure.
Paper: onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/...
Our research uncovers novel behavioral responses in reef sharks to dynamic energyscapes, creating spatiotemporal variations in predation pressure.
Paper: onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/...
May 30, 2024 at 1:22 PM
New #OA paper out in Journal of Fish Biology 🦈
Our research uncovers novel behavioral responses in reef sharks to dynamic energyscapes, creating spatiotemporal variations in predation pressure.
Paper: onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/...
Our research uncovers novel behavioral responses in reef sharks to dynamic energyscapes, creating spatiotemporal variations in predation pressure.
Paper: onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/...
We used a long-term (18 years) monitoring dataset to assess variation in the way killer whale social units depredate fish catches on fishing gear in a commercial fishery. Our results indicate large heterogeneity in both the spatial and temporal extents of depredation across social units.
May 24, 2024 at 12:21 PM
We used a long-term (18 years) monitoring dataset to assess variation in the way killer whale social units depredate fish catches on fishing gear in a commercial fishery. Our results indicate large heterogeneity in both the spatial and temporal extents of depredation across social units.