Graduated student in master 2 "Biodiversity, Ecology and Evolution"
National Museum of Natural History, Paris
2023 February - July: Master internship
"Assessment of chiropteran and invertebrate diversity in temporary wetlands in the European boreal forest: impact of water quality and landscape structure"
Biological Station - Lammi, Finland
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Leading a scientific study project on aquatic ecosystems
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Studying the effect of water color changes towards brown tones on bat's activity regarding the food ressource availibility (flying, emergent and aquatic invertebrates)
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Bibliography review and funding application
Trap building and installation on sites
Data collecting and fieldwork follow-up
Biological and statistical analysis
Writing master's thesis
Supervised by Dr. Céline Arzel and Basile Marteau
February - March
Bibliography review on each part of my subject (brownification phenomenom, boreal temporary ponds and forest, invertebrates of boreal aquatic ecosystem, boreal bats population, trophic link insect-bat), on traps and statistics
Zotero / MindMap
Planning of the sampling campaign (number of sites, weeks, traps, ...)
Cartography of my study area (Evo Natura 2000 area) and the experimental sites: temporary ponds and control sites
QGIS
Helping to winter fieldwork and discover other scientific projects led at the station
April - May
Fieldwork preparation: material purchase, prototype trying, crafting and building traps (window, malaise, emergence, activity traps and), initialization of the Audiomoth devices, fieldwork planning (rented car/workers/lab analysis)
Sites prospection
May - June
Fieldwork: trap installation, water sampling and data collecting, leading of field-days
July
Biological analysis: invertebrate and bat's sound identifications
August
Statistical analysis (R Studio)
Writing of my Master's thesis
