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Présentation
After graduating, I initially worked for two conservation organisations in Cambridge (UNEP World Conservation Monitoring Centre, and BirdLife International). I then did a PhD on the phylogeography and evolution of multiple bird lineages that have radiated across the islands of the western Indian Ocean. For this work I was based at the University of East Anglia, Natural History Museum (NHMUK), and Smithsonian Tropical Research Institute. Keeping to the insular biogeography theme, I later worked on a wide range of animal and plant taxa during my postdoc career. This included 6 years on the French oceanic island of La Réunion, as well as periods at several other universities: Zurich, Reading, Tennessee. I subsequently returned both to France and to birds in my current position as Maître de conférences HDR du Muséum National d’Histoire Naturelle (Associate Professor & Curator).
Research
In a broad sense, I’m interested in the processes that generate and eliminate biodiversity. This includes how diversity is created (speciation, diversification) and communities are assembled, and the role of evolutionary history in determining the relative abundance of species over time, and why some lineages decline towards eventual extinction.
Three major ongoing research topics, all of which employ genetics, biogeography and oceanic islands to make inferences:
- Understanding susceptibility to extinction using avian museum specimens and an associated genetic time series that spans environmental changes since first human arrival;
- Understanding the eco-evolutionary dynamics giving rise to variation in bird species abundances using an ecologically neutral model at a community scale;
- Understanding the role of gene flow and ecological gradients in shaping genetic divergence during speciation: the Macaronesian radiation of sea-lavenders (Limonium).
As in my past research, where relevant, I’m also keen for our results to be employed in conservation actions, through publications and collaboration with conservation decision-makers.
Publications
- 2024 — The burden of anthropogenic changes and mutation load in a critically endangered harrier from the Reunion biodiversity hotspot, Circus maillardi. Molecular Ecology vol. 33, n° 6, e17300,ISSN0962-1083, 1365-294X
- 2024 — Museomics, molecular phylogeny and systematic revision of the <span style="font-variant:small-caps;">Eurepini</span> crickets ( <span style="font-variant:small-caps;">Orthoptera: Gryllidae: Eneopterinae</span> ), with description of two new genera. Abstract Natural history collections worldwide house billions of specimens, representing one of the most globally important… SYSTEMATIC ENTOMOLOGY vol. 49, n° 3, p. 389-411 tex.earlyaccessdate: JAN 2024 tex.eissn: 1365-3113 tex.orcid-numbers: He, Shilin/0009-0004-9306-6865 Zwick, Andreas/0000-0002-7532-1752 Robillard, Tony/0000-0002-2177-9549 Su, You Ning/0000-0002-0090-9826 tex.researcherid-numbers: Zwick, Andreas/A-5735-20,ISSN0307-6970
- 2021 — An overview of current population genomics methods for the analysis of wholegenome resequencing data in eukaryotes. Molecular Ecology vol. 30, n° 23, p. 6036-6071,ISSN0962-1083, 1365-294X
- 2021 — Updated diagnoses for the cricket family Trigonidiidae (Insecta: Orthoptera: Grylloidea) and its subfamilies (Trigonidiinae, Nemobiinae), with a review of the fossil record. Zoologischer Anzeiger vol. 294, , p. 80-91,ISSN00445231
- 2021 — The Phalangopsidae crickets (Orthoptera, Grylloidea) of the Seychelles Archipelago: Taxonomy of an ecological radiation. Zootaxa vol. 5047, n° 3, p. 201-246 Publisher: Magnolia Press tex.hal_id: hal-03366692 tex.hal_version: v1,ISSN1175-5334, 1175-5326
- 2021 — Geo-Climatic Changes and Apomixis as Major Drivers of Diversification in the Mediterranean Sea Lavenders (Limonium Mill.). The Mediterranean realm, comprising the Mediterranean and Macaronesian regions, has long been recognized as one of the world’s… Frontiers in Plant Science vol. 11, , p. 612258,ISSN1664-462X
- 2020 — A simple dynamic model explains the diversity of island birds worldwide. Nature vol. 579, n° 7797, p. 92-96 tex.ids: valente\_simple\_2020-1,ISSN0028-0836, 1476-4687
- 2020 — Rapid loss of flight in the Aldabra white-throated rail (vol 14, e0226064, 2019). Plos One vol. 15, n° 13, e0242726,ISSN1932-6203
- 2020 — « How Consideration of Islands Has Inspired Mainstream Ecology: Links Between the Theory of Island Biogeography and Some Other Key Theories » in Encyclopedia of the World’s Biomes.. , , dir. Elsevier p. 57-60 tex.hal_id: hal-02614229 tex.hal_version: v1,ISBN978-0-12-816097-8
- 2019 — Correction to :Progress on bringing together raptor collections in Europe for contaminant research and monitoring in relation to chemicals regulation (correction). Environmental Science and Pollution Research vol. 26, n° 28, p. 29503-29505,ISSN0944-1344, 1614-7499