After a thesis defended in 2021 at the Institut des Sciences de l'Évolution de Montpellier (ISEM) on the impact of human activities on biodiversity at the community level, I continued my research at the Swedish University of Agricultural Sciences (SLU) in Uppsala, Sweden, in 2022, then at the Université Paris Saclay in 2023. I am currently doing a post-doctorate with INRAE at the Maison de la Télédétection in Montpellier. My research focuses on two interconnected poles, conservation biology and ecological economics.
For the first pole, using participatory science data as well as data on human footprint at a large scale, I study the fate of common bird communities in France and Europe in the face of increasing anthropogenic disturbances. Part of my work therefore consists in highlighting the non-linearity of bird population dynamics and the pressures to which they are subjected, and in linking pressures and responses to help understand the erosion and destruction of biodiversity. This degradation affects not only species, but also the links between species, and I am therefore also interested in the changes that impact these interdependencies themselves, using statistical analyses to estimate interactions and associations between species, in time and space.
The decline in biodiversity is significant and the underlying causes are partly identified, but there is a big gap between identifying the flaws in the current socio-economic system and outlining another model that is no longer destructive of nature. This field of research corresponds to the second focus of my work and therefore seems to me to be a priority if we are to effectively curb the erosion of biodiversity, which requires concrete and substantiated proposals to guide public policies in order to move societies, especially Western societies, towards more sustainable models. There are two major axes here, the first is to succeed in identifying the strategies of environmental struggles that have proved effective for the preservation of nature in the face of the destructive model of society, and the second is to model the consequences that a change of socio-economic paradigm, in particular the implementation of a degrowth society, could have on the future of biodiversity.