GAËLLE DARMON

Academic training and work experience : Gaëlle obtained her Ph.D. in France at the university of Lyon 1. She studied the determinants of the habitat used by large herbivores in mono and plurispecific contexts. During her Ph.D., supervised by Anne Loison (Researcher at the Laboratoire d'Écologie d'Altitude, Chambéry) and Daniel Maillard (Office national de la chasse et de la faune sauvage, CNERA Faune de Montagne, Montpellier), she was particularly interested in the mechanisms of habitat partitioning among different species. She studied a community of large wild (chamois Rupicapra rupicapra, mouflon Ovis gmelini, roe deer Capreolus capreolus, and red deer Cervus elaphus) and domestic (cattle and goats) herbivores of the game and wildlife reserve of les Bauges, situated in the northern French Alps. After one year of teaching in the university of Savoie, Gaëlle did a postdoc supervised by Jean-Michel Gaillard (Director of research), at the Laboratoire de Biométrie et de Biologie Evolutive in Villeurbanne (France). She studied the relationship between the spatio-temporal heterogeneity of the habitat and the condition and the reproductive success of females roe deer in the Chizé forest (France).

Current research : With Steeve Côté and Jean-Pierre Tremblay, Gaëlle studies the impacts of overbrowsing by white-tailed deer (Cervus virginianus) on forest regeneration. The objective is to integrate all the knowledge obtained during the last 10 years of research on Anticosti island, combined with expert advices, and to establish a model on deer-forest-silviculture relationships.

Research interests : Plant-herbivore relationships, habitat use, interspecific interactions, browsing.

Publications :

CALENGE C., DARMON G., BASILLE M., LOISON A., and JULLIEN J.M. 2008. The factorial decomposition of the Mahalanobis distances in habitat selection analysis. Ecology 89: 555-556.

LOISON A., DARMON G. , CASSAR S., JULLIEN JM., and MAILLARD D. 2008. Age and sex- specific settlement patterns of chamois (Rupicapra rupicapra) offspring inferred from monitoring female-kid pairs. Canadian Journal of Zoology 86: 588-593.

DARMON G., CALENGE C., LOISON A., MAILLARD D., and JULLIEN J.M. 2007. Social and spatial patterns determine the population structure and colonization processes in mouflon. Canadian jJournal of Zoology 85: 634-643.

JULLIEN J.M., MAILLARD D., DARMON G., CALENGE C., and LOISON A. 1954-2004 Le mouflon dans les Bauges : cinquante ans d'histoire. Faune Sauvage 285 : 4-9.