Romain Monassier

DC-Doctoring

POPCO

Biodiversity, Global change, Socio-ecological cohabitation

My thesis is entitled "Primates in anthropised landscapes: a challenge for conservation". Its aim is to analyse the behavioural and demographic responses of neotropical primates to landscape change, and to identify the obstacles to the implementation of animal population management strategies.

The thesis is based on an integrative approach combining, on the one hand, the modelling of the distribution and dynamics of groups of golden lion tamarins (a threatened endemic primate) and marmosets (exotic primates) in a landscape of the Brazilian Atlantic Forest, and on the other hand, the study of the perceptions of local communities concerning conservation and restoration actions.

My thesis is co-supervised by Anne-Marie Farnet and Valéria Romano.

  • Landscape ecology
  • Biodiversity conservation
  • Environmental geography
  • Primatology