Cécile Vanpé
- Service conservation et gestion des espèces à enjeux (OFB SEE)
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cecile-vanpe
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0000-0001-8136-1657
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119035405
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204937590
- ISNI : 0000000358436301
- ResearcherID : 29574231
Présentation
I am a researcher in wildlife ecology & conservation. My research interests encompass the ecology, evolution, genetics, behaviour and conservation of wild populations of large mammals and birds. I aim at providing management authorities with scientifically based knowledge to meet the challenges facing vertebrate populations, in the context of global changes and biodiversity crisis. I have worked on a range of Mammal taxa, including ungulates (roe deer, brocket deer, peccaries), carnivores (pumas, jaguars, bears, margays), marsupials (wombats), monotremes (echidnas), pinnipeds (fur seals, elephant seals), perissodactyls (tapirs) and primates (lemurs) in a wide diversity of ecosystems (sub-polar, temperate, tropical, arid, mountains, agro-ecosystems, oceans), as well as on seabirds (especially penguins, petrels, albatrosses and seaducks). Being born and growing up in the Alps surrounded by mountains, I have always been fascinated by the natural world, and especially animals. That childish fascination has not left me but deepened over the years. Throughout my education, Biology has been the subject which I have been most engaged and enthralled by, it fills me with wonder and awe. I had the chance for my 1st year of MSc to study Habitat and Wildlife Management at Rimouski University in Quebec (Canada) and then to spend 16 months in Kerguelen (French subantarctic islands) as an ornithologist, carrying out field work on albatrosses, penguins, seals, petrels, ... These amazing experiences further developed my passion for animal ecology, behaviour, conservation and evolution. During my 2nd year of MSc (2003), I studied community ecology and niche partitioning among seabirds and sea mammals using stomach content analyses and stable isotopes. My PhD (2007), permformed at CEFS-INRA and Grimsö Wildlife Research Station (Sweden) under the co-direction of Mark Hewison and Henrik Andrén, focused on mating system and sexual selection in the European roe deer. I used molecular tools in combination with field ecology to assign paternities and investigate the main determinant of male reproductive success in this cervid species. I then performed several postdocs in various parts of the world (New Zealand, French Guiana, Australia, Portugal, France), studying behavioural ecology, population genetics and/or population dynamics of a range of mammals. From December 2012 to February 2017, I was the principal investigator of an ANR research project at LBBE-CNRS in Jean-Michel Gaillard's lab, investigating roe deer behavioural plasticity and adaptation to landscape changes. I started to work on brown bear in 2017, as the assistant group leader of the Pyrenean brown bear project at the Predators and Depredator Animals Unit of the French Hunting and Wildlife Agency (ONCFS). I conducted research projects on the ecology, genetics, dynamics, behaviours and conservation of the Pyrenean brown bear population. Since 2020, I have been working as a permanent researcher and project leader on terrestrial large carnviores at the French Biodiversity Agency (OFB).
My research projects on large carnivores currently encompass:
Compétences
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Publications
Rôle dans les écosystèmesMuséum national d'histoire naturelle (MNHN); Office Français de la Biodiversité (OFB). Atlas des mammifères sauvages de France, Volume 3 : Carnivores et Primates, , pp.292-296, 2024, 978-2-38327-003-4 |
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Fiche espèce : Ours brunCNPF-IDF. Faune forestière française. Guide écologique illustré., Tome 1 – Mammifères, oiseaux, reptiles et amphibiens, , pp.105, 2023, 9782385580629 |
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Rapport annuel du Réseau Ours Brun 2025Office Français de la Biodiversité. 2026 |
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Rapport annuel du Réseau Ours Brun 2024Office Français de la Biodiversité. 2025, pp.25 |
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Rapport annuel du Réseau Ours Brun 2023Office Francais de la Biodiversité. 2024 |
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Large carnivore distribution maps and population updates 2017 – 2022/23IUCN/SSC Large Carnivore Initiative for Europe (LCIE); Istituto di Ecologia Applicata (IEA). 2024, pp.133 |
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Rapport annuel du Réseau Ours Brun 2022Office Français de la Biodiversité. 2023 |
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Rapport annuel du Réseau Ours Brun 2021Office Français de la Biodiversité. 2022 |
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Rapport annuel du Réseau Ours Brun 2020Office Français de la Biodiversité. 2021 |
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Rapport annuel du Réseau Ours Brun 2019Office Français de la Biodiversité. 2020 |
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SUIVI DE L’OURS BRUN DANS LES PYRENEES FRANCAISES Rapport annuel Année 2018Office National de la Chasse et de la Faune Sauvage. 2019 |
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SUIVI DE L’OURS BRUN DANS LES PYRENEES FRANCAISES Rapport annuel Année 2017Office National de la Chasse et de la Faune Sauvage. 2018 |
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Male mating systems and sexual selection in ungulates.Swedish University of Agricultural Sciences. 2005 |
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Mating systems and sexual selection in ungulates New insights from a territorial species with low sexual size dimorphism: the European roe deer (Capreolus capreolus)Ecology, environment. Université Paul Sabatier - Toulouse III; Swedish University of Agricultural Sciences, Uppsala, 2007. English. ⟨NNT : ⟩ |
From consumption to germination: analysis of the whole seed dispersal process by Eurasian brown bear.Biennial meeting of the French Society of Ecology and Evolution, Oct 2024, Lyon, France |
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Exploring re-introduced Pyrenean bear diet and their importance for plant and fungi potential (co)-dispersal.Ecological and evolutionary consequences of plant–fungal invasions, 45th New Phytologist symposium, Jun 2024, Campinas (Brazil), Brazil |
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How inbreeding depression across various life stages affects the dynamics and the viability of the Pyrenean brown bear (Ursus arctos) populationBiennial meeting of the French Society of Ecology and Evolution, Oct 2024, Lyon, France |
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Seed dispersal by brown bear: Shrubs, herbaceous and the importance of destructuring.8th Frugivores and Seed Dispersal Symposium: Frugivores and Seed Dispersal: Unifying ecology, evolution and conservation in a human-modified world, Aug 2024, Ilhéus-Bahia, Brazil |
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Facing the challenges of studying endozoochorous seed dispersal effectiveness: lessons from the brown bear8th Frugivores and Seed Dispersal Symposium: Frugivores and Seed Dispersal: Unifying ecology, evolution and conservation in a human-modified world, Aug 2024, Ilhéus-Bahia, Brazil |
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Reproductive skew in a territorial ungulate with a low sexual size dimorphism11th Congress of the International Society for Behavioral Ecology (ISBE), Jul 2006, Tours, France. 1 p |
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Is bigger better? Territory size, antler size and body weight as determinant of access to mates in deer bucks.7th European Roe deer Meeting, Mar 2005, Jerez de la Frontera, Spain. 1 p |
Do sex, age or ecological needs shape an endangered Brown Bear population diet? New insights from faecal metabarcoding.International Wildlife Congress, Sep 2025, Lillehammer, Norway. |