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Alice Bernard
Postdoctoral Research Fellow, Institute for Global Change Biology
Geospatial Data Sciences
Conservation + Restoration
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3315 Dana
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About
My research interests lie in understanding the complex interactions between humans and wildlife to address conservation issues and inform decision making. In my previous work, I mainly focused on how wildlife uses human-modified landscapes and the consequences for wildlife populations. During my PhD, I examined the spatiotemporal use of multifunctional landscapes by African mammals, combining camera trap data with local ecological knowledge. My previous postdoctoral position focused on assessing the impact of offshore wind farms on seabird populations in the Atlantic Ocean. My current work investigates how the intactness of mammal communities and the decline of mammal abundance impact human health in low- to middle-income countries.
Publications
Bernard A., Guerbois C., Moolman L., de Morney M.A., Venter J.A., Fritz F. (2024) Combining local ecological knowledge with camera traps to assess the link between African mammal life history traits and their occurrence in anthropogenic landscapes. Journal of Applied Ecology. doi: 10.1111/1365-2664.14742
Bernard A., Guerbois C., Venter J.A., Fritz F. (2024). Comparing Local Ecological Knowledge with Camera Trap Data to Study Mammal Occurrence in Anthropogenic Landscapes of the Garden Route Biosphere Reserve. Conservation Science and Practice. doi: 10.1111/csp2.13101.
Bernard A., Fritz F., Dufour A., Venter J.A. and Guerbois C. (2024). A local knowledge-based assessment of anthropodependence for large mammals in anthropogenic landscapes. Biological Conservation. doi: 10.1016/j.biocon.2024.110450.
Bernard A., Rodrigues A.S.L., Cazalis V., Grémillet D. (2021). Towards a global strategy for seabird tracking. Conservation Letters. doi: 10.1111/conl.12804.
Education
- Ph.D., Conservation Ecology, University of Lyon 1 (2023)
- M.S., Ecology, Ecophysiology, Behavior; University of Strasbourg (2019)
- M.S., Agronomy, University of Lorraine (2018)