Jean-François Mauffrey

TL;DR: This work shows that mtDNA in mammals does not reject the nearly neutral model, and suggests that, even in the absence of selection, mtDNA genetic diversity is essentially unpredictable, knowing species biology, and probably uncorrelated to species abundance.

TL;DR: A combination of biological traits sensitive to urban features that may represent useful indicators for both theoretical and applied purposes in order to understand the impact of urbanization on animal communities are identified.

TL;DR: The results showed a great richness and heterogeneity of this flora, and similarities in species composition between gardens of the same housing density types, and suggested a detailed analysis of the influence of social, economic and regional factors on planting practices, in order to identify the drivers of these original floral patterns.

TL;DR: In this article, the role of urban public parks in maintaining connectivity and butterfly assemblages was examined using a regression framework, and the relative importance of park size and isolation in predicting abundance and species richness of butterfly assembls across a set of 24 public parks within a large metropolitan area, Marseille (South-East France).

TL;DR: Marco et al. as discussed by the authors studied the diversity and distribution of horticultural flora in 120 Mediterranean gardens belonging to three housing density types and found that twenty-four percent of the cultivated species are well adapted to the Mediterranean climate, and 21 species known to be invasive on the French territory have emanated from gardens.