Sébastien J. Puechmaille

TL;DR: Four new supervised methods to detect the number of clusters were developed and tested and were found to outperform the existing methods using both evenly and unevenly sampled data sets and a subsampling strategy aiming to reduce sampling unevenness between subpopulations is presented and tested.

TL;DR: An approach to assess the impacts of global climate change on biodiversity that takes into account adaptive genetic variation and evolutionary potential is presented, showing that considering local climatic adaptations reduces range loss projections but increases the potential for competition between species.

TL;DR: The effects of disease on the local abundances and distributions of species at continental scales are investigated by examining the impacts of white-nose syndrome, an infectious disease of hibernating bats, which has recently emerged in Europe.

TL;DR: The characterisation of the temporal variation in G. destructans growth on bats provides reference data for studying the spatio-temporal dynamic of the fungus, and the presence of G. destructionans spores on cave walls suggests that hibernacula could act as passive vectors and/or reservoirs for G.destructans and therefore, might play an important role in the transmission process.

TL;DR: In this paper, the authors developed a continental-scale classifier for acoustic identification of bats, which can be used throughout Europe to ensure objective, consistent and comparable species identifications, but the use of acoustic methods at continental scales can be hampered by the lack of standardized and objective methods to identify all species recorded.