Amandine Gasc

My work is integrated in the fields of ecology and conservation biology with a particular interest in the acoustic component of natural environments.

Thanks to doctoral funding from CNRS INEE, I participated in the development of acoustic tools for the estimation and monitoring of biodiversity, a thesis carried out at the National Museum of Natural History (France). I continued this research for three years at Purdue University (Indiana, USA) thanks to NSF funding, within the Center for Global Soundscapes. I analysed soundscapes to detect environmental disturbances and their impact on animal communities.

Today, my objective is that these tools are sufficiently developed, tested and criticized so that they can be a real tool to help in the management of natural areas. Indeed, the analysis of soundscapes allows unique access to animal communities with non-invasive, multi-taxa, replicable measurements, with fine spatial and temporal resolution.

Recent studies show that this approach provides information on biodiversity, its natural dynamics (daytime rhythm, season, variations between ecosystems) and changes in animal communities due to external disturbances (invasive species, human activities, fire etc).