Articles

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Thel L., Bonenfant C. & Chamaillé-Jammes S. (2025). Good moms: dependent young and their mothers cope better than others with longer dry season in plains zebra. Oecologia 207.

​https://doi.org/10.1007/s00442-025-05676-6

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Thel L., Garel M., Marchand P., Bourgoin G., Loison A. (2024). Too hot or too disturbed? Temperatures more than hikers affect circadian activity of females in northern chamois. Animal Behaviour 210: 347-367.​

https://doi.org/10.1016/j.anbehav.2024.01.010

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Thel L., Chamaillé-Jammes S., Bonenfant C. (2022). How to describe and measure phenology? An investigation on the diversity of metrics using phenology of births in large herbivores. Oikos 4: e08917.​

https://doi.org/10.1111/oik.08917

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Thel L., Chamaillé-Jammes S., Keurinck L., Catala M., Packer C., Huebner S., Bonenfant C. (2021). Can citizen science analysis of camera trap data be used to study reproduction? Lessons from Snapshot Serengeti program. Wildlife Biology 2: wlb-00833.https://doi.org/10.2981/wlb.00833​

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In Prep​

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Thel L., Pineaux M., Ribeiro L., Danchin E., Hatch S. A., Blanchard P., Leclaire S. Sex-specific mate choice and mate change based on MHC-IIB dissimilarity in a genetically monogamous seabird (under revision).

https://doi.org/10.1101/2024.12.19.629314

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Thel L.*, Stols D.*, Orth S., Lagendijk G., Slotow R., Venter J.^, Fritz H.^. The effect of an increasing elephant population on the allometry of trees (under revision).​

https://doi.org/10.1101/2024.12.18.629108

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Dzingwena L.*, Thel L.*, Choisy M., Garbett R., Wilkinson A., Venter J. A., Fritz H., Huchard E., Prugnolle F., Rougeron V. Climate and predation drive variation of diel activity patterns in chacma baboons (Papio ursinus) across southern Africa (under revision).

https://doi.org/10.1101/2024.11.05.622068
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van Rooyen N.*, Thel L.*, Venter J. A., Fritz H., Prugnolle F., Rougeron V. To flee or not to flee? Reactive temporal responses of olive and chacma baboons to predator encounters (under revision).

https://doi.org/10.1101/2025.04.01.646592

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Swanepoel H., Thel L., Tambling C., Parini F., Venter J. A. ​The use of NDGI and NDVI to monitor primary production across an aridity gradients in Southern Africa (in prep).

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PhD Thesis​

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Thel L. (2021). Phenology of births in ungulates: insights on its measure and its ecological determinants​​

https://hal.archives-ouvertes.fr/tel-03689048/

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