La Rochelle, France
05.46.44.99.10 (7 jours/7)

Vincent Ridoux

Professor of Ecology at La Rochelle University

Since my thesis work on the feeding of seabirds in the Crozet Islands until now, I have been interested in the ecology of marine birds and mammals and their conservation. My interests include the use of food resources and habitats by these marine predators, and the interactions with human activities at sea that these ecological traits may entail. In particular, I have supervised doctoral work on the composition of marine mammal diets and on the energy value of prey in relation to the predators’ living costs, then on the use of cetacean strandings to assess the anthropogenic pressures on these populations and finally on the distribution and characteristics of the habitats used by these species. This general research orientation has led me to participate in numerous international working groups at the interface with public policies for marine conservation. Thus, I am the scientific leader of the French delegation to the International Whaling Commission, and I regularly participate in the scientific work of regional cetacean conservation agreements. More recently, I am trying to direct my scientific commitments towards projects with a strong capacity building and cooperation dimension.

Professor of Ecology at La Rochelle University
Researcher at CEBC
Scientific leader of the French delegation to the International Whaling Commission and advisor to public policies for the protection of the marine environment
+33(0)5 46 50 76 69
vridoux(at)univ-lr.fr

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