18 results on '"Bas, Yves"'
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2. Adapting street lighting to limit light pollution’s impacts on bats
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Pauwels, Julie, Le Viol, Isabelle, Bas, Yves, Valet, Nicolas, Kerbiriou, Christian, Centre d'Ecologie et des Sciences de la COnservation (CESCO), Muséum national d'Histoire naturelle (MNHN)-Sorbonne Université (SU)-Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS), Station de Biologie Marine de Concarneau, Direction générale déléguée à la Recherche, à l’Expertise, à la Valorisation et à l’Enseignement-Formation (DGD.REVE), Muséum national d'Histoire naturelle (MNHN)-Muséum national d'Histoire naturelle (MNHN), Centre d’Ecologie Fonctionnelle et Evolutive (CEFE), Université Paul-Valéry - Montpellier 3 (UPVM)-École Pratique des Hautes Études (EPHE), Université Paris sciences et lettres (PSL)-Université Paris sciences et lettres (PSL)-Université de Montpellier (UM)-Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS)-Institut de Recherche pour le Développement (IRD [France-Sud])-Institut National de Recherche pour l’Agriculture, l’Alimentation et l’Environnement (INRAE)-Institut Agro - Montpellier SupAgro, Institut national d'enseignement supérieur pour l'agriculture, l'alimentation et l'environnement (Institut Agro)-Institut national d'enseignement supérieur pour l'agriculture, l'alimentation et l'environnement (Institut Agro), Université Paul-Valéry - Montpellier 3 (UPVM)-Centre international d'études supérieures en sciences agronomiques (Montpellier SupAgro)-École pratique des hautes études (EPHE), Université Paris sciences et lettres (PSL)-Université Paris sciences et lettres (PSL)-Université de Montpellier (UM)-Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS)-Institut de Recherche pour le Développement (IRD [France-Sud])-Institut national d’études supérieures agronomiques de Montpellier (Montpellier SupAgro), and Institut national d'enseignement supérieur pour l'agriculture, l'alimentation et l'environnement (Institut Agro)-Institut national d'enseignement supérieur pour l'agriculture, l'alimentation et l'environnement (Institut Agro)-Institut National de Recherche pour l’Agriculture, l’Alimentation et l’Environnement (INRAE)
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[SDV.EE]Life Sciences [q-bio]/Ecology, environment ,ALAN ,Ecology ,Chiroptera ,Urbanization ,Artificial light ,Land-use planning ,QH540-549.5 ,Protected areas - Abstract
Artificial light at night (ALAN) affects biodiversity conservation through its impacts on spatio-temporal distribution patterns of species, in particular bat species. The development of this threat underlines the urgency to adopt lighting practices (characteristics) that have the least impact on species, in particular the most vulnerable species still present in semi-natural areas. It is therefore crucial to better assess the relative effects of the different light parameters for a wide variety of species. Our study investigates the relative effects of streetlights characteristics, i.e. height, lamps type (HPS, LED), illuminance, and the distance to a streetlight on the activity of a variety of species (15) according to their flight traits. We compared bat species activity in lit and dark conditions along streets and in hedges at less than 200 m away from streetlights of various characteristics, in a Mediterranean protected area.Lighting had contrasting effects on the activity of clutter and aerial bat species, with a strong negative effect on clutter species (90% reduction of bat activity), half of which are strictly protected. Illuminance particularly affected their activity.Among the possible management options to reduce the effect of light pollution at night (reduction of light intrusion by modifying the height of street lamps, lighting intensity, spectral composition), the removal of light sources, or at least the reduction of illuminance, seems to be the most effective option. Due to its strong impact on highly protected species, we urge the need to manage lighting, in particular in protected areas. Capsule: Artificial light at night had a negative effect on clutter bats activity (90% reduction of bat activity) and among streetlight characteristics illuminance was the most relevant. Data accessibility: Data used for statistical analysis are include in Appendix C. Acoustic row data was delivered to the citizen science program “VigieChiro” (https://vigiechiro.herokuapp.com/).
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- 2021
3. Additional file 1 of Bats seek refuge in cluttered environment when exposed to white and red lights at night
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Barré, Kévin, Kerbiriou, Christian, Ros-Kiri Ing, Bas, Yves, Azam, Clémentine, Viol, Isabelle Le, and Kamiel Spoelstra
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Data_FILES - Abstract
Additional file 1.
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- 2021
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4. Producing biodiversity indicators from citizen science projects: update of birds and bats monitoring schemes on Galaxy-E
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Royaux, Coline, Lorrilière, Romain, Yguel, Benjamin, Amossé, Alan, Bas, Yves, and Le Bras, Yvan
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Biodiversity indicators ,STOC ,Galaxy-E ,Biodiversity ,Vigie-chiro ,Citizen science ,GeneralLiterature_MISCELLANEOUS ,Workflows ,Birds ,Galaxy ,PNDB ,EBV ,Galaxy Ecology ,Bats ,EBV workflows - Abstract
Slides and abstract from the BCC2020 talk "Producing biodiversity indicators from citizen science projects: update of birds and bats monitoring schemes on Galaxy-E" Video capture of the talk is available here: https://vimeo.com/437705490, Video capture of the talk is available here: https://vimeo.com/437705490
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- 2020
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5. Influence of landscape and time of year on bat-wind turbines collision risks
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Roemer, Charlotte, Bas, Yves, Disca, Thierry, Coulon, Aurélie, Centre d'Ecologie et des Sciences de la COnservation (CESCO), Muséum national d'Histoire naturelle (MNHN)-Sorbonne Université (SU)-Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS), Centre d’Ecologie Fonctionnelle et Evolutive (CEFE), Université Paul-Valéry - Montpellier 3 (UPVM)-Centre international d'études supérieures en sciences agronomiques (Montpellier SupAgro)-École pratique des hautes études (EPHE), Université Paris sciences et lettres (PSL)-Université Paris sciences et lettres (PSL)-Université de Montpellier (UM)-Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS)-Institut de Recherche pour le Développement (IRD [France-Sud])-Institut national d’études supérieures agronomiques de Montpellier (Montpellier SupAgro), Institut national d'enseignement supérieur pour l'agriculture, l'alimentation et l'environnement (Institut Agro)-Institut national d'enseignement supérieur pour l'agriculture, l'alimentation et l'environnement (Institut Agro)-Institut National de Recherche pour l’Agriculture, l’Alimentation et l’Environnement (INRAE), Biotope [Mèze], PhD thesis funded by Biotope and the Association Nationale de la Recherche et de la Technologie (Grant No. 2015/0838), and Université Paul-Valéry - Montpellier 3 (UPVM)-Institut National de la Recherche Agronomique (INRA)-Centre international d'études supérieures en sciences agronomiques (Montpellier SupAgro)-École Pratique des Hautes Études (EPHE)
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[SDV.EE]Life Sciences [q-bio]/Ecology, environment ,[SDE.IE]Environmental Sciences/Environmental Engineering ,[SDV.BA.ZV]Life Sciences [q-bio]/Animal biology/Vertebrate Zoology ,[SDE.BE]Environmental Sciences/Biodiversity and Ecology ,ComputingMilieux_MISCELLANEOUS - Abstract
International audience
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- 2019
6. Bat Pass Duration Measurement: An Indirect Measure of Distance of Detection
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Kerbiriou, Christian, Bas, Yves, Le Viol, Isabelle, Lorrilliere, Romain, Mougnot, Justine, Julien, Jean-François, Centre d'Ecologie et des Sciences de la COnservation (CESCO), Muséum national d'Histoire naturelle (MNHN)-Sorbonne Université (SU)-Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS), Centre d’Ecologie Fonctionnelle et Evolutive (CEFE), Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS)-Université de Montpellier (UM)-École pratique des hautes études (EPHE), Université Paris sciences et lettres (PSL)-Université Paris sciences et lettres (PSL)-Centre international d'études supérieures en sciences agronomiques (Montpellier SupAgro)-Institut National de la Recherche Agronomique (INRA)-Université Paul-Valéry - Montpellier 3 (UPVM)-Institut national d’études supérieures agronomiques de Montpellier (Montpellier SupAgro), Institut national d'enseignement supérieur pour l'agriculture, l'alimentation et l'environnement (Institut Agro)-Institut national d'enseignement supérieur pour l'agriculture, l'alimentation et l'environnement (Institut Agro)-Institut de Recherche pour le Développement (IRD [France-Sud]), Université Paul-Valéry - Montpellier 3 (UM3)-Institut National de la Recherche Agronomique (INRA)-Centre international d'études supérieures en sciences agronomiques (Montpellier SupAgro)-École pratique des hautes études (EPHE)-Université de Montpellier (UM)-Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS)-Institut de Recherche pour le Développement (IRD [France-Sud])-Institut national d’études supérieures agronomiques de Montpellier (Montpellier SupAgro), Université Paul-Valéry - Montpellier 3 (UPVM)-Institut National de la Recherche Agronomique (INRA)-Centre international d'études supérieures en sciences agronomiques (Montpellier SupAgro)-École Pratique des Hautes Études (EPHE), and Université Paris sciences et lettres (PSL)-Université Paris sciences et lettres (PSL)-Université de Montpellier (UM)-Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS)-Institut de Recherche pour le Développement (IRD [France-Sud])-Institut national d’études supérieures agronomiques de Montpellier (Montpellier SupAgro)
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bat-pass duration ,bat detectability ,lcsh:Biology (General) ,[SDE.IE]Environmental Sciences/Environmental Engineering ,[SDV.BA.ZV]Life Sciences [q-bio]/Animal biology/Vertebrate Zoology ,bat echolocation ,[SDE.BE]Environmental Sciences/Biodiversity and Ecology ,lcsh:QH301-705.5 ,bat activity - Abstract
Few reports have been published on detection distances of bat calls because the evaluation of detection distance is complicated. Several of the approaches used to measure detection distances are based on the researcher’s experience and judgment. More recently, multiple microphones have been used to model flight path. In this study, the validity of a low-cost and simple detectability metric was tested. We hypothesize that the duration of an echolocating-bat-pass within the area of an ultrasonic bat detector is correlated with the distance of detection. Two independent datasets from a large-scale acoustic bat survey—a total of 25,786 bat-passes from 20 taxa (18 species and two genera)—were measured. We found a strong relationship between these measures of bat-pass duration and published detection distances. The advantages of bat-pass duration measures are that, for each study, experimenters easily produce their own proxy for the distance of detection. This indirect measure of the distance of detection could be mobilized to monitor the loss in microphone sensitivity used to monitor long-term population trends. Finally, the possibility of producing an index for distance of detection provides a weight for each bat species’ activity when they are aggregated to produce a bat community metric, such as the widely used “total activity„.
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7. Estimations des tendances des populations de Chiroptères à partir des suivis de gîtes hivernaux
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Kerbiriou, Christian, Bas, Yves, Julien, Jean-Francois, Centre d'Ecologie et des Sciences de la COnservation (CESCO), and Muséum national d'Histoire naturelle (MNHN)-Sorbonne Université (SU)-Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS)
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[SDV.BA.ZV]Life Sciences [q-bio]/Animal biology/Vertebrate Zoology ,[SDE.BE]Environmental Sciences/Biodiversity and Ecology - Abstract
International audience; Suite à une demande européenne de contribution à la construction d’un indicateur des tendances de populations de Chauves-souris à partir des comptages hivernaux, une réflexion a été menée en France depuis 2015, pour évaluer la faisabilité du réseau français à contribuer à cet indicateur européen. Plusieurs questions se sont alors posées sur les approches à développer pour mobiliser les observateurs et les données, les méthodologies à mettre en œuvre pour prendre en compte les biais inhérents à ce type de suivi. Des formations spécifiques à destination des groupes Chiroptères ont été proposées ainsi que la production d’outils (script R) dans le but de les accompagner dans la structuration de leurs données, l’identification des problèmes potentiels dans les données et les analyses des tendances aux différentes échelles. Les données analysées sur les vingt anciennes régions administratives françaises concernent 9 106 sites dont en moyenne sur la période 2000-2015, plusde 2 000 sites sont suivis annuellement. L’implication des groupes Chiroptères dans ces suivis hivernaux est en très nette augmentation comme en témoigne l’augmentation du nombre de sites suivis. Il a été possible d’obtenir suffisamment de tendances locales pour permettre de produire des tendances locales puis nationales pour douze espèces. Parmi celles-ci, huit espèces ont une tendance significative à l’augmentation (Barbastella barbastellus, Myotis mystacinus, M. myotis, M. emarginatus, M. natterreri, Rhinolophus ferrumequinum, R. hipposideros, R. euryale), une seule espèce (Miniopterus schreibersii) présente une tendance significative à la diminution. Aucune tendance significative n’a été détectée pour trois autres espèces (Myotis daubentonii; Myotis bechsteinii et Plecotus auritus).
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- 2018
8. Articulating citizen science, semi-automatic identification and free web services for long-term acoustic monitoring: examples from France and UK
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Bas, Yves, Newson, Stuart, Barré, Kévin, Julien, Jean-François, and Kerbiriou, Christian
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multi-taxa ,Acoustic monitoring ,citizen science ,population trends - Abstract
Monitoring biodiversity over large spatial and temporal scales is crucial for assessing the impact of global changes and environmental mitigation measures. Bats often have high conservation prioritisation owing to their trophic position, habitat associations and threat level, and many have dedicated management plans. However, poor knowledge of species' ecology, identification issues and surveying challenges mean that large-scale monitoring to produce required distribution and abundance information is less developed than for some other taxa. Exciting possibilities applicable to professional and citizen science are offered by new recording techniques and methods of semi-automated species recognition based on sound detection. Static detectors deployed to record bats throughout whole nights have been recommended for standardised acoustic monitoring but until recently cost and lack of software to support the analyses of such data has prohibited wide uptake. Such monitoring schemes have recently been deployed in both Britain and France allowing the fast and standardized collection of millions of bat records together with very interesting data on non-targeted taxa such as bush-crickets. Such data management led us to develop generic and open tools: (1) the Tadarida software toolbox providing a generic detection and classification of sound events, and (2) an open dedicated web portal (www.vigiechiro.herokuapp.com) to allow participants to manage and upload their data, then being processed trough Tadarida to get a quick feedback on the content of the data. We demonstrate how such data can accurately describe pronounced ecological patterns for numerous species at different scales: spatial variation in activity as a proxy for relative abundance, habitat selection and phenology of seasonal and nocturnal activity. If maintained in the long term, such schemes will also greatly improve estimates of species temporal trends and hence the assessment of conservation priorities. The feedback produced by these two monitoring schemes allows us the opportunity to provide recommendations for the sustainability of long-term acoustic monitoring of bats. These include a database that is adaptively managed to allow all raw data to be re-analysed every time automatic identification makes significant progress, while keeping the link with expert validation to ensure consistency in the semi-automated process. More importantly, there are real benefits of developing long-term acoustic monitoring within a collaborative framework. Specifically, (1) for collaboration among bat scientists for the collection of reference sound data, because diversity and quantity of the reference library remains a limiting factor for automatic identification, and (2) for work on bats to consider the wider acoustic monitoring of other species groups by working with other zoologists to share resources and costs.
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- 2018
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9. Impact of major roads on bats and effectiveness of bat overpasses
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Claireau, Fabien, Puechmaille, Sebastien, Bas, Yves, Machon, Nathalie, Pierre-Loup Jan, Éric Petit, Kévin Barré, Pauwels, Julie, Jean-Francois Julien, Charton, Flavien, Braga, Cédric De Almeida, Allegrini, Benjamin, and Kerbiriou, Christian
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- 2018
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10. Potentiality of the bat pass duration measure for studies dealing with bat activity
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Kerbiriou, Christian, Bas, Yves, Le Viol, Isabelle, Lorrillière, Romain, Mougnot, Justine, Julien, Jean François, Centre d'Ecologie et des Sciences de la COnservation (CESCO), and Muséum national d'Histoire naturelle (MNHN)-Sorbonne Université (SU)-Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS)
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[SDE.BE]Environmental Sciences/Biodiversity and Ecology - Abstract
International audience; Acoustic detectors have become increasingly used by bat workers to investigate bat ecology and assess impacts of anthropogenic pressures. Within these studies, the metric used, "bat activity," is based on the number of bat passes, without considering the bat pass duration (i.e., each event of a bat detected within the volume of an ultrasonic detector); we expected that bat pass duration may contain information about site quality in terms of potentialities for foraging. Because bats are expected to have a more sinuous trajectory and slower velocity when they exhibit foraging behaviour, as opposed to commuting behaviour, we hypothesize a greater bat pass duration in favourable habitats; during seasons with important energetic demands; or during night pic activity. We datasets from a large-scale acoustic bat survey (n=2890 sites), allowing a total of 24597 bat pass measures from 6 taxa, and performed GLMM modelling. We detected a significant effect of habitat type on bat pass duration for five taxa. Smaller bat pass durations were detected in the beginning of the night. We detected longer pass durations during the lactation period or just before hibernating, while weather conditions or ageing and wear of the detector rarely influenced bat pass duration. Bat pass duration appears to be a simple and easy measure for position calls on a gradient between commuting vs. foraging behaviour. We suggest that the traditional measure of bat activity may be weighted by bat pass duration by giving more weight to the events with potentially greater links to foraging behaviour.
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- 2017
11. Les méthodes scientifiques d'évaluation de l'impact des infrastructures renouvelables sur la biodiversité - Cas des éoliennes et des chauves-souris
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Kévin Barré, Kerbiriou, Christian, Touroult, Julien, Bas, Yves, Marmet, Julie, Jean-François Julien, Julliard, Romain, and Viol, Isabelle Le
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- 2017
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12. Impact of wind turbines on bat activity: an ommited long-distance concern
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Kévin Barré, Julliard, Romain, Leviol, Isabelle, Bas, Yves, and Kerbiriou, Christian
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- 2017
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13. Articulating citizen science, semi automatic identification and free web services for longterm acoustic monitoring: examples from France and UK
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Bas, Yves, Newson, Stuart, Barré, Kevin, JeanFrançois Julien, and Kerbiriou, Christian
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- 2017
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14. Use of Large-Scale Acoustic Monitoring to Assess Anthropogenic Pressures on Orthoptera Communities
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PENONE, CATERINA, LE VIOL, ISABELLE, PELLISSIER, VINCENT, JULIEN, JEAN-FRANÇOIS, BAS, YVES, and KERBIRIOU, CHRISTIAN
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- 2013
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15. Vigie-Chiro : 9 ans de suivi des tendances des espèces communes
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Kerbiriou, Christian, Julien, Jean-François, Bas, Yves, Marmet, Julie, Le Viol, Isabelle, Lorrillièr, Romain, Azam, Clémentine, Gasc, Amandine, Lois, Grégoire, Lorrilliere, Romain, Centre d'Ecologie et des Sciences de la COnservation (CESCO), Muséum national d'Histoire naturelle (MNHN)-Sorbonne Université (SU)-Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS), Muséum national d'Histoire naturelle (MNHN)-Université Pierre et Marie Curie - Paris 6 (UPMC)-Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS), Muséum national d'Histoire naturelle (MNHN), Institut de Systématique, Evolution, Biodiversité (ISYEB ), Muséum national d'Histoire naturelle (MNHN)-Université Pierre et Marie Curie - Paris 6 (UPMC)-École Pratique des Hautes Études (EPHE), and Université Paris sciences et lettres (PSL)-Université Paris sciences et lettres (PSL)-Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS)
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[SDE.BE] Environmental Sciences/Biodiversity and Ecology ,[SDE.BE]Environmental Sciences/Biodiversity and Ecology - Abstract
International audience; le programme Vigie-Chiro regroupe 250 observateurs et repose sur trois protocoles complémentaires: le circuit routier, le circuit pédestre et le poste fixe. De 2006 à 2014, il a déjà permis de collecter des enregistrements sur 284 circuits routiers et pédestres, totalisant 111000 contacts. Pour évaluer les variations d'abondance des populations au cours du temps, nous avons eu recours à des modèles linéaires généralisés mixtes (GLMM) pour prendre en compte des variations inter-annuelles de l'effort d'échantillonnage. Il est apparu clairement que certaines espèces déclinent très fortement comme Pipistrellus pipistrellus, Nyctalus leisleri et Eptesicus serotinus, tandis que P. kuhlii ou le groupe des Myotis présentent une tendance significative à l'augmentation jusqu'en 2013. N. noctula quant à elle, présente sur la période étudiée d'importantes fluctuations. Les causes responsables de ces variations de populations restent cependant à clarifier. Mots-clés.-Tendances de populations ; Suivi ultrasonore standardisé.
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- 2015
16. Classification de signaux acoustiques : Classification de matrices cepstre par Support Vector Machine
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Dufour, Olivier, Glotin, Hervé, Giraudet, Pascale, Artières, Thierry, Bas, Yves, Laboratoire des Sciences de l'Information et des Systèmes (LSIS), Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS)-Arts et Métiers Paristech ENSAM Aix-en-Provence-Université de Toulon (UTLN)-Aix Marseille Université (AMU), Machine Learning and Information Access (MLIA), Laboratoire d'Informatique de Paris 6 (LIP6), Université Pierre et Marie Curie - Paris 6 (UPMC)-Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS)-Université Pierre et Marie Curie - Paris 6 (UPMC)-Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS), Centre d'Ecologie et des Sciences de la COnservation (CESCO), Muséum national d'Histoire naturelle (MNHN)-Université Pierre et Marie Curie - Paris 6 (UPMC)-Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS), LSIS, and Aix Marseille Université (AMU)-Université de Toulon (UTLN)-Arts et Métiers Paristech ENSAM Aix-en-Provence-Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS)
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[INFO]Computer Science [cs] ,[SPI.SIGNAL]Engineering Sciences [physics]/Signal and Image processing ,[SPI.AUTO]Engineering Sciences [physics]/Automatic - Abstract
LSIS - ADEME - BIOTOPE; no abstract
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- 2013
17. Classification de signaux acoustiques : Recherche des valeurs optimales des 17 paramètres d'entrée de la fonction melfcc
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Dufour, Olivier, Glotin, Hervé, GIRAUDET, Pascale, Artières, Thierry, Bas, Yves, Laboratoire des Sciences de l'Information et des Systèmes (LSIS), Aix Marseille Université (AMU)-Université de Toulon (UTLN)-Arts et Métiers Paristech ENSAM Aix-en-Provence-Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS), Machine Learning and Information Access (MLIA), Laboratoire d'Informatique de Paris 6 (LIP6), Université Pierre et Marie Curie - Paris 6 (UPMC)-Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS)-Université Pierre et Marie Curie - Paris 6 (UPMC)-Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS), Centre d'Ecologie et des Sciences de la COnservation (CESCO), Muséum national d'Histoire naturelle (MNHN)-Université Pierre et Marie Curie - Paris 6 (UPMC)-Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS), LSIS, and Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS)-Arts et Métiers Paristech ENSAM Aix-en-Provence-Université de Toulon (UTLN)-Aix Marseille Université (AMU)
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[INFO]Computer Science [cs] ,[SPI.SIGNAL]Engineering Sciences [physics]/Signal and Image processing ,[SPI.AUTO]Engineering Sciences [physics]/Automatic - Abstract
LSIS - ADEME - BIOTOPE; no abstract
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- 2013
18. Low-intensity agriculture increases farmland bird abundances in France
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DOXA Aggeliki, BAS Yves, PARACCHINI Maria-Luisa, POINTEREAU Philippe, TERRES Jean, and JIGUET Frederic
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1. It is now widely accepted that agricultural intensification has highly contributed to the observed sharp decline of farmland biodiversity over the last decades. However, in some areas, farming practices continue to favor the existing biodiversity. These areas are referred to as High Nature Value farmlands. The identification of agricultural areas that still support a high level of biological diversity and the quantification of the impact that agricultural practices have on the existing biodiversity are major challenges for biological conservation and environmental politics. 2. Here we cross-validate results obtained from widely used indicators in Europe, that describe ecological changes linked to agricultural activities, namely the High Nature Value (HNV) farmland Indicator and the Common Bird Indicator. 3. Our results confirm our initial prediction that farmland areas estimated as having a high value for nature ¿ from agriculture statistics and landscape elements - effectively hold enhanced levels of biological diversity. 4. Comparing the temporal trend in the Farmland Bird Indicator (FBI) inside and outside HNV farmland, we observed higher trend in HNV than in non-HNV areas. 5. We found that HNV farmlands do not hold more bird species but more specialized bird communities than non-HNV farmlands. In addition, specialist bird species are significantly more abundant in HNV farmlands., JRC.H.5-Rural, water and ecosystem resources
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- 2010
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