Lugdivine Burtschell

The impacts of human activities on biodiversity are unprecedented, and its management, both in terms of protection and regulation, is now a major issue for public policies. Ensuring the survival or non-proliferation of a species requires a thorough understanding of its reproduction, a major aspect of which is seasonality, i.e. the temporal distribution of births. The study of the evolution of reproductive seasonality also provides information on the resilience of species to climate change. Having identified mammals as a particularly vulnerable group, I will ask myself during my thesis how the understanding of the evolution of the reproductive seasonality of mammals allows us to anticipate their response to climate change and how its consideration allows us to improve public policies for the protection and regulation of mammal populations.