Eric Vidal - 2011-2012 IRD Nouméa
Docteur en Sciences
Maître de Conférences HDR
Université  Aix-Marseille
IMBE - CNRS UMR 7263 - INEE

Europôle Méditerranéen de l'Arbois
Bat. Villemin, BP 80
13545 Aix-en-Provence cedex 4
Email: eric.vidal@ird.fr
Téléphone: 33 (0)4 42 90 84 72
Département : Organisation et vulnérabilité des systèmes écologiques
Equipe : INTERACTIONS BIOTIQUES et BIOLOGIE de la CONSERVATION
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Expertise : Biologie de la Conservation

Eric VIDAL est habilité à diriger des recherches depuis le lundi 11 juillet 2011

Espèces invasives et proliférantes en milieux insulaires
Composition du Jury : Jean-François Silvain (DR IRD), Michel Pascal (DR INRA), Philippe Clergeau (Pr MNHN),
Franck Courchamp (DR CNRS), Thierry Tatoni (Pr UPCAM)
Thèmes de recherche, mots clé :
Invasions biologiques, Ecologie insulaire, Extinctions-Raréfactions, Relations prédateurs-proies
Enseignement :
Service complet d'enseignement (192 h eq. TD) Licence BPE - Master SET
Directions ou co-directions de thèse
Tâches administratives:
  • Responsable spécialité Master Pro IngéBio
  • Membre du Conseil du Département Environnement de l'Université Paul Cézanne
  • Membre du Conseil Scientifique de la Réserve de Biosphère de Fakarava (Polynésie Française)
  • Responsable de l'équipe IBBC-IMEP.
  • Publications récentes:
  • Bonnaud E., Zarzoso-Lacoste D., Bourgeois K., Ruffino L., Legrand J. & Vidal E. Top predator control boost endemic prey but not mesopredator populations. Animal Conservation, in press .
  • Bonnaud E., Bourgeois K., Zarzoso-Lacoste D. & Vidal E. - Cat impact and management on two Mediterranean sister Islands: "the French conservation touch". Proceedings of the Conference on Eradication of Island Invasives, Auckland, New Zealand, Feb. 2010, in press.
  • Ellis J.C., Bellingham P.J., Cameron E.K., Croll D.A., Kolb G.S., Kueffer C., Mittelhauser G.H., Schmidt S., Vidal E. & Wait D.A. (2011) Effects of seabirds on plant communities. In Seabird Islands: Ecology, Invasion, and Restoration (Eds. C.P.H. Mulder, WB Anderson, D.R. Towns & P.J. Bellingham), Oxford University Press, in press.
  • Mulder C.P.H., Jones H., Kameda K., Palmborg C., Schmidt S., Ellis J.C., Orrock J.L., Wait D.A., Wardle D.A., Yang L., Young H., Croll D. & Vidal E.. (2011) Impacts of seabirds on plant and soil properties. In Seabird Islands: Ecology, Invasion, and Restoration (Eds. C.P.H. Mulder, WB Anderson, D.R. Towns & P.J. Bellingham), Oxford University Press, in press.
  • Ruffino L. & Vidal E. (2010) Early colonization of Mediterranean islands by Rattus rattus : a review of zooarcheological data. Biological Invasions, in press.
  • Bonnaud E., Bourgeois K. Vidal E., Legrand J. & Le Corre M. (2009) How can the Yelkouan shearwater survive feral cat predation ? A meta-population structure as a solution ? Population Ecology, 51 : 261-270.
  • Faulquier L., Fontaine R., Vidal E., Salamolard M. & Lecorre M. (2009) Feral cats Felis catus threaten the endangered endemic Barau’s petrel Pterodroma baraui at Reunion Island (Western Indian Ocean). Waterbirds, 32: 330-336.
  • Ruffino L., Bourgeois K., Vidal E., Duhem C., Paracuellos M., Escribano F., Sposimo P., Baccetti N., Pascal M. & Oro D. (2009) Invasive rats and seabirds: a review after 2,000 years of an unwanted coexistence on Mediterranean islands. Biological Invasions, 11 : 1631-1651.
  • Bonnaud E., Vidal E., Zarzoso-Lacoste D. & Torre F. (2008) Measuring rodent incisors from scats can increase accuracy of predator diet studies. An illustration based on island cats and rats C. R. Biologies, 331 : 686-691.
  • Bourgeois K., Dromzée S., Vidal E & Legrand J. (2008) Yelkouan shearwater Puffinus yelkouan presence and behaviour at colonies : not only a moonlight question. C. R. Biologies, 331 : 88-97.
  • Bourgeois K., Vidal E., Comor V., Legrand J. & Dromzée S. (2008) Colony-site selection drives management priorities for Yelkouan shearwater. Journal of Wildlife Management, 72(5) : 1188-1193.
  • Bourgeois K. & Vidal E. (2008) The Mediterranean endemic Yelkouan shearwater Puffinus Yelkouan population, distribution and threats and a plea for new data. Oryx, 42, 187-194.
  • Duhem C., Roche P., Vidal E. & tatoni T. (2008) Effects of anthropogenic food resources in yellow-legged gull colony size on Mediterranean islands. Population Ecology, 50: 91-100.
  • Ruffino L., Bourgeois K., Vidal E., Icard J., Torre F. & Legrand J. (2008) Introduced predators and cavity-nesting seabirds: unexpected low level of interaction at breeding sites. Canadian Journal of Zoology, 86(9): 1068-1073.
  • Bonnaud E., Bourgeois K., Vidal E., Kayser Y., Tranchant T. & Legrand J. (2007) Feeding ecology of feral cats on a small Mediterranean island. Journal of Mammalogy, 88(4): 1074-1081.
  • Bourgeois K., Curé C., Legrand J., Gomez-Diaz E., Vidal E., Aubin T., Mathevon N. (2007) Morphological versus acoustic analysis: what is the most efficient method for sexing yelkouan shearwaters Puffinus yelkouan? Journal of Ornithology, 148: 261-269.
  • Duhem C., Roche P., Vidal E. & Tatoni T. (2007) Distribution of breeding sites and food constrains size and density of yellow-legged gull colonie. Ecoscience, 14(4): 535-543.
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