Mathieu Basille

Assistant Professor

University of Florida

Fort Lauderdale Research and Education Center

Biography

Mathieu Basille is an Assistant Professor of Landscape Ecology at the University of Florida’s Fort Lauderdale Research and Education Center. He is primarily interested in spatial ecology of large vertebrates. He leads the MabLab, which focuses on movement and habitat selection of animals such as Wood Storks, Raccoons and Seabirds.

See his interview on the Department website: How WEC works: Mathieu Basille

Interests

Landscape Ecology
Movement Ecology
Habitat
Global Change
Conservation
Large Vertebrates

Raccoons

Research project on raccoon home ranges and ecological flows

Wood Storks

Research project on Wood Stork movement ecology.

Project BioBlitz

BioBlitzes: Citizen-science biodiversity surveys.

R

Development of packages and resources for R.

Seabirds

Navigation of seabirds on the vast ocean, and the role of infrasound

People

Matt Boone

Matt is the Biological Scientist and data manager for the lab

Caitlin Jarvis

Caitlin is a technician working on the Raccoon project.

Simona Picardi

Simona started her PhD on Wood Stork movement ecology in 2015.

Rocío Joo

Rocío is a postdoctoral associate who started in 2018.

Alexis Bruant

Alexis did his Master thesis on Wood Storks reproductive success in 2017.

David Bucklin

David was the Biological Scientist in the lab from 2015 to 2017.

Balázs Dukai

Balázs worked as a Google Summer of Code student in 2016 and 2017.

Mel Moreno

Mel was an Intern working on creating beautiful maps in 2017.

Valeria Guerrero

Valeria was an intern in charge of updating the Raccoon Ecology Database in 2018.

Recent Publications

More Publications

Picardi, S., Basille, M., Peters, W., Ponciano, J. M., Boitani, L., Cagnacci, F. (2018). Movement responses of roe deer to hunting risk. J. Wildl. Manag..

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Bucklin D., Basille M. (2018). rpostgis: Linking R with a PostGIS Spatial Database. R Journal.

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Picardi S., Borkhataria R. R., Bryan A. L. Jr., Frederick P. C., Basille M. (2018). GPS telemetry reveals occasional dispersal of federally threatened Wood Stork from the Southeastern US to Mexico. Caribb Nat.

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Smith B.J., Hart K.M., Mazzotti F.J., Basille M., Romagosa C.M. (2018). Evaluating GPS biologging technology for studying spatial ecology of large constricting snakes. Anim. Biotelem..

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Briggs-Gonzalez V., Bonenfant C., Basille M., Cherkiss M., Beauchamp J., Mazzotti F. (2017). Life histories and conservation of long-lived reptiles, an illustration with the American Crocodile (Crocodylus acutus). J. Animal Ecol..

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