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Identification

Personal identification

Full name
Marion Tafani

Citation names

  • Tafani, Marion

Author identifiers

Ciência ID
211B-A567-5E0D
ORCID iD
0000-0001-6709-7984

Email addresses

  • marion.tafani@gmail.com (Professional)
  • marion.tafani@cibio.up.pt (Professional)

Addresses

  • Rua Padre Armando Quintas 7, 4485-661, Vairao, Porto, Portugal (Professional)

Knowledge fields

  • Natural sciences - Biological Sciences - Ecology
  • Natural sciences - Biological Sciences - Evolutionary Biology
  • Natural sciences - Earth and Environmental Sciences - Environmental Sciences
  • Agrarian Sciences - Agriculture, Forestry and Fisheries - Forestry
Education
Degree Classification
2009/10/01 - 2013/02/20
Concluded
 Population ecology (Doctorat)
Université Claude Bernard Lyon 1, France
"Life history traits and demography facing climate change in the Alps: the case of Alpine marmots (marmota marmota)" (THESIS/DISSERTATION)
 N/A
2008/09/01 - 2009/08/31
Concluded
 Ecology Biodiversity and Evolution (Master)
Major in Conservation Biology
AgroParisTech, France
"Effects of agricultural landscape structure on trends and distribution of passerine birds" (THESIS/DISSERTATION)
2006/09/01 - 2009/08/31
Concluded
 Agronomy Engineer (Master)
Major in Forestry
Bordeaux Sciences Agro, France
Affiliation

Science

Category
Host institution 		Employer
2023/04/01 - Current Postdoc (Research) Universidade do Porto Centro de Investigação em Biodiversidade e Recursos Genéticos, Portugal
Universidade do Porto Centro de Investigação em Biodiversidade e Recursos Genéticos, Portugal
2015/01/01 - 2018 Postdoc (Research) University of Cape Town Department of Biological Sciences, South Africa

Others

Category
Host institution 		Employer
2019/01/01 - 2023/03/31 Project Manager & Capacity Development Officer Birdlife International, United Kingdom
2012/04/01 - 2012/07/31 Team Leader Earthwatch Institute, United States
Université Claude Bernard Lyon 1, France
Projects

Grant

Designation Funders
2022/07/01 - 2023/03/31 Build capacity and capability to regulate hunting and protect biodiversity
DARCC003
Project Manager
Birdlife International, United Kingdom
 United Kingdom Department for Environment Food and Rural Affairs

Darwin Initiative
Ongoing
2021/03/01 - 2023/03/31 Sao Tomé and Principe Landscape Project
EuropeAid/168944/DD/ACT/ST
Capacity Development Officer & Liaison with Academia
European Commission
Ongoing
2019/01/01 - 2023/03/31 ECOFAC6 Preserving biodiversity and fragile ecosystem of central Africa
ECOFAC6STP
Technical Adviser
Birdlife International, United Kingdom
 European Union
Concluded
2019/01 - 2021/12 Sao Tomé's buffer zone hotspot: A unique landscape for people and nature
Rainforest Trust: 4875
Technical development
Birdlife International, United Kingdom
 Rainforest Trust
Concluded
2015/01 - 2018/07 The Karoo Predator Project
1533922
Post-doc Fellow
University of Cape Town, South Africa

University of Cape Town Institute for Communities and Wildlife, South Africa
University of Cape Town
2009/10/01 - 2013/02/20 The Alpine Marmot Project
0000
PhD Student Fellow
Université Claude Bernard Lyon 1, France

Biometrie et Biologie Evolutive, France
Université Claude Bernard Lyon 1
Ongoing

Contract

Designation Funders
2023/04/01 - 2025/12/31 Research Network in Biodiversity and Evolutionary Biology (InBIO)
LA/P/0048/2020
10.54499/LA/P/0048/2020
Post-doc
Rede de Investigação em Biodiversidade e Biologia Evolutiva, Portugal

Universidade de Lisboa Instituto Superior de Agronomia, Portugal

Fundação Gaspar Frutuoso, Portugal

Universidade do Porto Instituto de Ciências Tecnologias e Agroambiente, Portugal
Fundação para a Ciência e a Tecnologia
Ongoing
2023/04/01 - 2023/12/31 Research Network in Biodiversity and Evolutionary Biology
UIDB/50027/2020
10.54499/UIDB/50027/2020
Post-doc
Rede de Investigação em Biodiversidade e Biologia Evolutiva, Portugal

Universidade de Lisboa Instituto Superior de Agronomia, Portugal

Fundação Gaspar Frutuoso, Portugal

Universidade do Porto Instituto de Ciências Tecnologias e Agroambiente, Portugal
Fundação para a Ciência e a Tecnologia
Concluded
2023/04/01 - 2023/12/31 Research Network in Biodiversity and Evolutionary Biology
UIDP/50027/2020
10.54499/UIDP/50027/2020
Post-doc
Rede de Investigação em Biodiversidade e Biologia Evolutiva, Portugal

Universidade de Lisboa Instituto Superior de Agronomia, Portugal

Fundação Gaspar Frutuoso, Portugal

Universidade do Porto Instituto de Ciências Tecnologias e Agroambiente, Portugal
Fundação para a Ciência e a Tecnologia
Concluded
Outputs

Publications

Book chapter
  1. Du Plessis, J.J.; Avenant, N.L.; Botha, A.J.; Mkhize, N.R.; Müller, L.; Mzileni, N.; O’Riain, M.J.; et al. "Past and current management of predation on livestock". In Livestock predation and its management in South Africa: a scientific assessment, 125-177. Port Elizabeth, South Africa: Centre for African Conservation Ecology, Nelson Mandela University, 2018.
    Published
  2. Somers, M.J.; Davies-Mostert, H.; Mzileni, M; Swanepoel, L.H.; Do Linh San, E; Botha, A.J.; Tjelele, J; et al. "Biology, ecology and interaction of other predators with livestock". In Livestock predation and its management in South Africa: a scientific assessment, 228-254. Port Elizabeth, South Africa: Centre for African Conservation Ecology, Nelson Mandela University, 2018.
    Published
Conference abstract
  1. Tafani, Marion; O'Rian, Justin; Drouilly, Marine; Nattrass, Nicoli. "Stable isotopes as a tool for conservation? Understanding human-primate conflict through seasonal variations of isotopic ratios". Paper presented in 12th International Mammalogical Congress, Perth, 2017.
Conference poster
  1. Tafani, Marion; Cohas, Aurelie; Allainé, Dominique. "Growth pattern and senescence in body mass of a medium sized herbivore (Marmota marmota)". Paper presented in Ecologie 2010 (SFE), 2010.
Journal article
  1. Drouilly, Marine; Tafani, Marion; Nattrass, Nicoli; O’Riain, Justin. "Spatial, temporal and attitudinal dimensions of conflict between predators and small-livestock farmers in the Central Karoo". African Journal of Range & Forage Science 35 3-4 (2018): 245-255. http://dx.doi.org/10.2989/10220119.2018.1522669.
    10.2989/10220119.2018.1522669
  2. Bichet, Coraline; Sauzet, Sandrine; Averty, Laetitia; Dupont, Pierre; Ferrandiz-Rovira, Mariona; Ferrari, Caterina; Figueroa, Irene; et al. "Multiple geographic origins and high genetic differentiation of the Alpine marmots reintroduced in the Pyrenees". Conservation Genetics 17 5 (2016): 1157-1169. http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/s10592-016-0851-4.
    10.1007/s10592-016-0851-4
  3. Rézouki, Célia; Tafani, Marion; Cohas, Aurélie; Loison, Anne; Gaillard, Jean-Michel; Allainé, Dominique; Bonenfant, Christophe. "Socially mediated effects of climate change decrease survival of hibernating Alpine marmots". Journal of Animal Ecology 85 3 (2016): 761-773. http://dx.doi.org/10.1111/1365-2656.12507.
    10.1111/1365-2656.12507
  4. Tafani, Marion; Cohas, Aurélie; Bonenfant, Christophe; Gaillard, Jean-Michel; Allainé, Dominique. "Decreasing litter size of marmots over time: a life history response to climate change?". Ecology 94 3 (2013): 580-586. http://dx.doi.org/10.1890/12-0833.1.
    10.1890/12-0833.1
  5. Tafani, Marion; Cohas, Aurélie; Bonenfant, Christophe; Gaillard, Jean-Michel; Lardy, Sophie; Allainé, Dominique. "Sex-specific senescence in body mass of a monogamous and monomorphic mammal: the case of Alpine marmots". Oecologia 172 2 (2012): 427-436. http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/s00442-012-2499-1.
    10.1007/s00442-012-2499-1
  6. Lardy, Sophie; Cohas, Aurélie; Desouhant, Emmanuel; Tafani, Marion; Allainé, Dominique. "Paternity and Dominance Loss in Male Breeders: The Cost of Helpers in a Cooperatively Breeding Mammal". PLoS ONE 7 1 (2012): e29508. http://dx.doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0029508.
    10.1371/journal.pone.0029508
Report
  1. Laurent, Benjamin; Sampaio, Hugo ; Tafani, Marion; Courret, Julie; Lima, Ricardo; Costa, Luis; Buchanan, Graeme. 2022. Plano de Ação 2022-2027 para a conservação das aves em Perigo Crítico de extinção em São Tomé. https://www.researchgate.net/publication/366464430_Plano_de_Acao_2022-2027_para_a_conservacao_das_aves_em_Perigo_Critico_de_extincao_em_Sao_Tome.
    10.13140/RG.2.2.32343.96169
  2. Bonfim, Victor; Lima, Abnilde; Costa, Pascoa; Rita, Aurélio; Barreto, Ernestelma; Neves, Eugenio; Elba, Eduardo; et al. 2022. Plano de Manejo do Parque Natural Obô de São Tomé, 2021-2025. https://www.researchgate.net/publication/367521026_Plano_de_Manejo_do_Parque_Natural_Obo_de_Sao_Tome_2021-2025.
    10.13140/RG.2.2.33347.58409
  3. Pina, Ana Alice; Prazeres, Maria José; Leal, Alberto; Ramos, Daniel; Bird, Tania; Benitez, Laura; Costa, Ester; et al. 2022. Parque Natural do Príncipe (PNP) - Plano de Manejo 2022-2026. https://www.researchgate.net/publication/367521024_Parque_Natural_do_Principe_PNP_-_Plano_de_Manejo_2022-2026.
    10.13140/RG.2.2.11537.20322
Activities

Oral presentation

Presentation title Event name
Host (Event location)
2022/07 Sao Tomé e Principe, a jewel of biodiversity African Protected Areas Congress (APAC)
IUCN (Kigali, Rwanda)
2022/01/26 PRÉSERVER LA BIODIVERSITÉ DE SÃO TOMÉ-ET-PRÍNCIPE (https://www.theatredelaville-paris.com/fr/spectacles/projets-passerelles/rencontres/preserver-la-biodiversite-de-sao-tome-et-principe) Cultural Exchange between France and Sao Tomé & Principe
Théatre de la Ville (Paris, France)
2016/09/20 The spatial and dietary ecology of baboons in conflict with sheep farmers in the Karoo. The South African Wildlife Management Association Conference The South African Wildlife Management Association Conference
(Tzaneen, Limpopo, South Africa)
2015 Baboons as predators of small livestock in the Karoo? Arid Zone Ecology Forum Conference
(Springbok, South Africa)
2013 Effet des changements climatiques sur une population de marmottes alpines (Marmota marmota) 36ème colloque de mammalogie (SFEPM)
SFEPM (Toulouse, France)

Supervision

Thesis Title
Role 		Degree Subject (Type)
Institution / Organization
2023/12/01 - Current Coexistência Homem-Elefante no Pós-Guerra em Angola: Dinâmicas de Interação e Mitigação de Conflito entre Humanos e Elefantes no Parque Nacional do Bicuar
Co-supervisor
Universidade do Porto Centro de Investigação em Biodiversidade e Recursos Genéticos, Portugal

Event organisation

Event name
Type of event (Role) 		Institution / Organization
2022/06/05 - 2022/06/09 Participation in the organizing committee of the CEPF Final Assessment Workshop, in particular to support the creation and dynamisation of a network of beneficiaries from West African countries in BirdLife Hatch Platform (including oral presentation of the platform) (2022/06/05 - 2022/06/09)
Workshop (Member of the Organising Committee)
 Critical Ecosystem Partnership Fund, United States

Birdlife International, United Kingdom

Course / Discipline taught

Academic session Degree Subject (Type) Institution / Organization
2009/10/01 - 2010/08/31 Assistant Lecturer for the Department of Biology, University of Lyon (academic year 2009/2010) - 64h of lectures for BSc and MSc classes in: informatics, quantitative genetics, statistics for ecology & population ecology Ecology, Statistics (Licence) Université Claude Bernard Lyon 1, France

Mentoring / Tutoring

Topic Student name
2021/07/01 - 2022/03/31 Action Plan for endangered birds of Sao Tomé island & study of palm wine extraction impacts on biodivesity in Sao Tomé Benjamin Laurent
Distinctions

Other distinction

2015 Harry Harry Crossley Foundation Postdoctoral Research Fellowship
University of Cape Town, South Africa
2009 PhD scholarship
Gouvernement francais Ministère de l'Enseignement supérieur de la Recherche et de l'Innovation, France