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In press
Ruffino L. & Russell J. The role of spatio-temporal resource fluctuations on an insular rat population. Proceedings of the Royal Society B., in press.
Medina F., Bonnaud E., Nogales M., Vidal E., Tershy B., Zavaleta E., Donlan J., Keitt B., Le Core M. & Horwarth S. A global review of the impacts of invasive cats on island endangered vertebrates. Gobal Change Biology, (accepted).
2011
Bonnaud E., Bourgeois K., Zarzoso-Lacoste D. & Vidal E. 2011- 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, pp 395-401.
Baumberger T., Affre L., Torre F., Vidal E., Dumas P.-J. & Tatoni T. (2012) Plant community changes as ecological indicator of seabird colonies' impacts on Mediterranean Islands. Ecological Indicators, 15: 76-84.
Zarzoso-Lacoste D., Ruffino L. & Vidal E. (2011) Limited predatory capacity of introduced black rats on bird eggs: an experimental approach. Journal of Zoology, 285 : 188-193.
Medina F., Bonnaud E., Nogales M., Vidal E., Tershy B., Zavaleta E., Donlan J., Keitt B., Le Core M. & Horwarth S. 2011.A global review of the impacts of invasive cats on island endangered vertebrates. Gobal Change Biology, 17: 3503-3510.
Bourgeois K., Vorenger J., Faulquier L., Legrand J. & Vidal E. (2011) Diet and contamination of the yelkouan shearwater Puffinus yelkouan in the Hyères archipelago, Mediterranean Basin, France. Journal of Ornithology, 152: 947-953.
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 Mulder, C.P.H., W.B. Anderson, D.R. Towns and P.J. Bellingham (eds). Seabird Islands: Ecology, Invasion and Restoration. Oxford University Press.
Seabird Islands: Ecology, Invasion, and Restoration
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 Mulder, C.P.H., W.B. Anderson, D.R. Towns and P.J. Bellingham (eds). Seabird Islands: Ecology, Invasion and Restoration. Oxford University Press.
Seabird Islands: Ecology, Invasion, and Restoration
Drake D.R., Bodey T.W., Russell J.C., Towns D.R., Nogales M. & Ruffino L. Direct Impacts of Seabird Predators on Island Biota Other Than Seabirds. In Mulder, C.P.H., W.B. Anderson, D.R. Towns and P.J. Bellingham (eds). Seabird Islands: Ecology, Invasion and Restoration. Oxford University Press.
Seabird Islands: Ecology, Invasion, and Restoration
Ruffino L., Russel J.C., Pisanu B., Caut S. & Vidal E. (2011) Low individual-level diet plasticity in an island-invasive generalist forager. Population Ecology, 53: 535-548.
Thiam M., Ag Atteynine S., Traoré S., Duplantier J.M., Maurel D & Sicard B. - Capacity for water conservation in invasive (Gerbillus nigeriae) and declining rodents (Taterillus pygargus and Taterillus gracilis) that exhibit climate-induced distribution changes in Senegal. J. Arid Environments, 75: 998-1007.
Oppel S., Raine A.F., Borg J., Raine H., Bonnaud E., Bourgeois K.& Breton A.R. - Is the Yelkouan shearwater Puffinus yelkouan threatened by low adult survival probabilities? Biological Conservation, 144: 2255-2263.
Millon A, Petty SJ, Little, B. & Lambin X (2011) Natal conditions alter age-specific reproduction but not survival or senescence in a long-lived bird of prey. Journal of Animal Ecology, 80: 968-975.
Blight O., Fadda S., Orgeas J., Ponel P., Buisson E. & Dutoit T. Using stone cover patches and grazing exclusion to restore ground-active beetle communities in a degraded pseudo-steppe. Journal of Insect Conservation, 15: 561-572.
Bonnaud, F. Medina, E. Vidal, M. Nogales, E. Zavaleta, B. Tershy, J. Donlan, B. Keitt, M. Le Corre. & Fitzgerald M. (2011) A Review of feral cat diet on world’islands. Biological Invasions, 13: 581-603.
BLIGHT O., ORGEAS J., RENUCCI M. & PROVOST E. Imidacloprid gel bait effective in Argentine ant control at nest scale. Sociobiology. 57 (3) : 1-8
Renucci M., Tirard A. & Provost E. (2011) Complex undertaking behavior in Temnothorax lichtensteini ant colony : from corpse-burying behavior to necrophoric behavior. Insectes Sociaux 58 : 9-16
2010
Bonnaud E., Zarzoso-Lacoste D., Bourgeois K. Ruffino L., Legrand J. & Vidal E. (2010) Top-predator control on islands boosts endemic prey but not mesopredator. Animal Conservation, 13: 556-567.
Ruffino L. & Vidal E. Early colonization of Mediterranean islands by Rattus rattus: a review of zooarcheological data. (2010). Biologial Invasions, 12: 2389-2394.
Blight O., Provost E., Renucci M., Tirard A. & Orgeas J. (2010) A native ant armed to limit the spread of the Argentine ant. Biological Invasions, 12: 3785–3793.
Blight O., Renucci M., Tirard A., Orgeas J. and Provost E. A new colony structure of the invasive Argentine ant (Linepithema humile) in Southern Europe. Biological Invasions, 12: 1491-1497.
2009
Hydrocarbons and insects’ social physiology. Provost E., Blight O., Tirard A., Renucci M.(2008) In "Insect Physiology: New Research" (Rayan P. Maes Editor, Novascience Publishers) 19-72.
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(2): 330-336.
Blight O., Orgeas J., Renucci M., Tirard A., and Provost E. (2009) Where and how the Argentine ant (Linepithema humile) spreads in Corsica? CR Biologies. 332: 747-751.
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., 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.
2008
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., Vidal E., Zarzoso-Lacoste D. & Franck Torre (2008) - Measuring rodent incisors from scats can increase accuracy of predator diet studies. An illustration based on island cats and rats. /Comptes-rendus Biologies,/ 331, 686-691.
Comor V., Orgeas J., Ponel P., Rolando C.& Delettre Y. (2008) Impact of anthropogenic disturbances on beetle communities of French Mediterranean coastal dunes. Biodiversity and Conservation, 17:1837­1852
Fadda S, Henry F., Orgeas J., Ponel P., Buisson E. & Dutoit T. (2008) Consequences of the cessation of 3000 years of grazing on dry Mediterranean grassland ground-active beetle assemblages. Comptes Rendus Biologies, 331: 532-546.
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, threats and a plea for new data. Oryx, 42, 187-194.
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.
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.
2007
*Fadda S.*, Orgeas J., Ponel P., Buisson E., Torre F. & Dutoit T., 2007. Past cultivation is a factor driving organization of dry grassland ground-active beetle communities. /Environmental Conservation/, 34 : 132-139.
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.
Bourgeois K. & Vidal E. (2007) Yelkouan shearwater nest-cavity selection and breeding success. C. R. Biologies, 330 : 205-214.
Dalecky A., Renucci M., Tirard A., Debout G., Roux M., Kjellberg F. & Provost E. (2007) Changes in composition of cuticular biochemicals of the facultatively polygynous ant Petalomyrmex phylax during range expansion in Cameroon. Molecular Ecology 16: 3778-3791
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.
Vela E., Tirard A., Renucci M., Suehs C.M. & Provost E. (2007) Floral chemical signatures in the Genus Ophrys L. (Orchidaceae): a preliminary test of a new tool for taxonomy and evolution. Plant Mol. Biol. Rep., 25: 83-97