Publications by authors named "Anne-Caroline Prevot"
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- Insects are super diverse, and understanding them is really important for how ecosystems work.
- People who study insects, like scientists and naturalists, are starting to share their knowledge with more people outside their field.
- Involving regular people in insect research can help us save insects and learn even more about them!
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- People can help scientists learn more about plants and animals by participating in citizen science programs, which helps improve knowledge about biodiversity.
- A study on the French Butterfly citizen science project showed that volunteers who participated for several years changed their gardening habits to help butterflies by planting more flowers and using fewer pesticides.
- While some gardening practices improved, it was harder for people who grew fruits and vegetables to reduce pesticide use, so researchers need to keep studying how to encourage more eco-friendly behaviors.
Avoidance of mating between related individuals is usually considered adaptive because it decreases the probability of inbreeding depression in offspring. However, mating between related partners can be adaptive if outbreeding depression is stronger than inbreeding depression or if females gain inclusive fitness benefits by mating with close kin. In the present study, we used microsatellite data to infer the parentage of juveniles born in a French colony of feral pigeons, which allowed us to deduce parent pairs.
View Article and Find Full Text PDFBesides direct impacts of urban biodiversity on local ecosystem services, the contact of city dwellers with urban nature in their everyday life could increase their awareness on conservation issues. In this paper, we focused on a particularly common animal urban species, the feral pigeon Columba livia. Through an observational approach, we examined behavioral interactions between city dwellers and this species in the Paris metropolis, France.
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