I’m a 21-year-old student in my first year of Biodiversity, Ecology and Evolution in Rennes (France). I love theoretical ecology, especially when it’s linked to behaviour. Last year, for my bachelor’s thesis, I studied the effect of droughts on the behaviour of juvenile Atlantic salmon in refuge pools, using a mesocosm for the experiment and automatically recording for the behavioural analysis at INRAE, in Saint-pée-sur-Nivelle. This year, I’m coming to the ABEC lab to understand the effect of individual heterogeneity on within- and among-group dynamics in stickleback groups, using a high-resolution tracking system (Atracker) developed by Jolle Jolles. In the future, I want to become a researcher in behavioural ecology using multiple approaches such as fieldwork, laboratory experiments and modelling.
Paul Prat

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