Mathieu Basille Email & Phone Number

Pérols, Occitanie, France

Fort Lauderdale, Florida

I primarily worked on the determinism of the spatial distributions of animal species in human-dominated landscapes, from a fine scale (movement models) to a large scale (distribution in the landscape) in relation to human disturbances, including climate change and land use. My work relied on a strong theoretical and methodological basis using the movement ecology framework and the concept of ecological niche, and allowed applied achievements in the context of animal population management, as… Show more I primarily worked on the determinism of the spatial distributions of animal species in human-dominated landscapes, from a fine scale (movement models) to a large scale (distribution in the landscape) in relation to human disturbances, including climate change and land use. My work relied on a strong theoretical and methodological basis using the movement ecology framework and the concept of ecological niche, and allowed applied achievements in the context of animal population management, as well as basic developments at the intersection of evolutionary ecology and behavioral ecology. My main study species were large vertebrates, such as raccoons and wood stork in Florida. Show less

In James Watling's lab, I primarily focused on the integration of movement data and spatially-explicit population processes into mechanistic niche models, using wood storks as a case study.

For 30 months in Daniel Fortin's lab, I studied animal movement in a multi-predator multi-prey system in Quebec, including woodland caribou, moose, grey wolves and black bears.