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Introduction
I am a passionate tropical ecologist with a keen focus on studying bat diversity and their trophic interactions across environmental gradients. My academic journey has focused on understanding trophic cascades involving insectivorous predators (i.e., birds and bats), insects, and plants. I have extensive experience in surveying bats in diverse tropical forests, especially in Papua New Guinea.
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September 2019 - present
Education
September 2019 - April 2024
September 2017 - June 2019
Natural History Museum of Paris
Field of study
- Biodiversity Ecology Evolution
September 2014 - May 2017
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Publications (9)
Insectivorous predators, including birds and bats, play crucial roles in trophic cascades. However, previous research on these cascades has often relied on permanent predator exclosures, which prevent the isolation of specific effects of birds and bats, given their different activity patterns throughout the day. Moreover, limited knowledge exists r...
Birds, bats and ants are recognised as significant arthropod predators. However, empirical studies reveal inconsistent trends in their relative roles in top‐down control across strata. Here, we describe the differences between forest strata in the separate effects of birds, bats and ants on arthropod densities and their cascading effects on plant d...
Birds, bats, and ants are recognized as significant arthropod predators. However, empirical studies reveal inconsistent trends in their relative roles in top-down control across strata. Here, we describe the differences between forest strata in the separate effects of birds, bats, and ants on arthropod communities and their cascading effects on pla...
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The effects of insectivorous predators on herbivorous prey should have a cascading effect releasing herbivory pressure and favouring plant's biomass. However, it remains unclear whether different types of predators regulate herbivores to the same degree across seasons, and how their interactions affect lower trophic levels across elevations whe...
Larger animals are assumed to ingest larger seeds and consume larger fruits, but empirical studies reveal inconsistent trends between body mass and the average size of fruits and seeds ingested. Furthermore, no studies have explored seed size relationships with morphological traits, such as skull dimensions. Such characteristics might provide more...
Over the past decades, elevational gradients have become a powerful tool with which
to understand the underlying cause(s) of biodiversity. The Mt. Wilhelm elevational
transect is one such example, having been used to study the birds, insects, and plants
of Papua New Guinea (PNG). However, a survey of mammals from this forest elevational transect...
Aim
The theory on trophic interactions between plants, insect herbivores, and their predators predicts that predators increase plant biomass by feeding on herbivores. However, it remains unclear whether different types of predators regulate herbivores to the same degree, and how the trophic interactions affect lower trophic levels along elevational...
Over the past decades, elevational gradients have become a powerful tool with which to understand the underlying cause(s) of biodiversity. The Mt. Wilhelm elevational transect is one such example, having been used to study the birds, insects, and plants of Papua New Guinea (PNG). However, a survey of mammals from this forest elevational transect wa...
