Yness Messaoudi
Project: Analysis of the spatial movement of the black-lion tamarin (Leontopithecus chrysopygus) in a forest fragment: determination of the social and ecological factors influencing the use of home range
Abstract: Known for their high cognitive abilities, non-human primates are able to develop complex navigation strategies in function of their biotic and abiotic environment. My research project focuses on the understanding of answers from non-human primates populations, in terms of ecology (spatial distribution, spatial movements…) and behaviors (social and interspecific interactions, territoriality…) within a fragmented landscape context. From these elements, last researches carried out during my last internship for my master's dissertation (UNESP Campûs of Rio Claro (SP), BRAZIL) on the biological model Black lion tamarin (Leontopithecus chrysopygus) are mainly part of a wider framework in functional ecology concerning plant species' dispersal by frugivorous tamarins, but are also responding to concern for this threatened species' conservation and management. More specifically, my project aimed at determining the social and ecological factors driving the movements of the black lion-tamarins in a fragment of the Pontal do Paranapanema (SP).
Affiliation: University of Rennes 1, Campus of Beaulieu, Rennes (FRANCE)
Master's degree Mention B.A.S (Biology, Agronomy, Health) background CAH (Animal and Human Behavior) - 1st year.
Master's degree Mention B.E.E (Biodiversity, Écology, Environment) background EFCE (Functional, Behavioral, and Evolutive Ecology) - 1st and 2nd year.
Studies areas: Behavioural Ecology; Landscape Ecology; Functional Ecology; Movement Ecology; Ecological Modelling; Ethology; Species conservation and management.
