Research interests

My research is currently focused on analysing the different spatiotemporal factors that can affect the species composition turnover. For that I use parametric approach to estimate community similarity and I work along with Steinar Engen and Vidar Grøtan.

I am also developing, along with other colleagues, spatial explicit hierarchical models to estimate population abundance in space and identify emergent structures in the species distribution pattern from large-scale count surveys. These models are then applied to counts of common guillemot (mainly Uria algae ) in open sea (non constrained by breeding activities), obtained from surveys carried out in the Bay of Biscay (France) and in the Barentz sea (Norway).

I develop this framework along with Pascal Monestiez, Gregoire Certain, Joel Chadoeuf, Vincent Bretagnolle and Per Fauchald.

Peer-reviewed Publications

(pdf's available upon request to edwige.bellier(at)nina.no)

[13] Bellier, E., Grøtan, V., Engen, S., Schartau, A-K., Diserud, O.H,, Finstad, A.G. Combining counts and incidence data : an efficient approach for estimating the species abundance distribution and diversity indices. Oecologia (Online). DOI

[12] Dray, S., R. Pélissier, P. Couteron, M.-J. Fortin, P. Legendre, P. R. Peres-Neto, E. Bellier , R. Bivand, F.G. Blanchet, M. De Cáceres, A.-B. Dufour, E. Heegaard, T. Jombart, F. Munoz, J. Oksanen, J. Thioulouse, H.H. Wagner. Community ecology in the age of multivariate multiscale spatial analysis. Ecological Monographs (Accepted). DOI

[11] Bellier, E . Monestiez, P., Certain, G., Chadoeuf, J. and Bretagnolle, V. Decomposing the heterogeneity of species distribution into multiscale: A hierarchical framework for large-scale count survey. Ecography (Online) DOI

[10] Planque, B., Bellier, E. and Loots, C. (2011) Uncertainties in projecting spatial distributions of marine populations. ICES journal of Marine Science . 68 (6) 1045-1050. DOI

[9] Teichert,M.A.K, Foldvick,A., Forseth, T, Ugedal, O. Einum, S. Finstad, A.G., Hedger, R.D. and Bellier, E. (2011) Effects of spawning distribution on juvenile Atlantic salmon (Salmor salar) density and growth. Canadian Journal of Fisheries and Aquatic Sciences , 68, 43-50.

[8] Finstad, A.G., Forseth,T., Jonsson,B., Bellier, E., Hesthagen,T., Jensen, A.J.,Hessen, D.O & Foldvik, A. (2011) Competitive exclusion along climate gradients: Energy efficiency influences the distribution of two salmonid fishes. Global Change Biology 17, 1703-1711

[7] Chadoeuf, J., Certain, G., Bellier, E., Bar-Hen, A., Couteron, P., Monestiez, P., & Bretagnolle, V. (2011) Estimating inter-group interaction radius for point processes with nested spatial distribution. Computationnal Statistics and Data Analysis 55 , 627-640. DOI

[6] Bellier, E. & Monestiez, P. (2010) A spatial covariance model with a single wave effect and a finite range.A spatial covariance model with a single wave effect and a finite range. Statistics & Probability Letters 80(17-18): 1343-1347. DOI

[5] Bellier, E., Certain, G., Planque, B., Monestiez, P. & Bretagnolle, V. (2010) Modelling habitat selection at multiple scales with multivariate geostatistics: an application to seabirds in open sea. Oikos 119(6): 988-999. DOI

[4] Certain, G. Bellier, E., Planque, B. & Bretagnolle, V. (2007) Characterising the temporal variability of the spatial distribution of animals: an application to seabirds at sea. Ecography 30 (5),695-708. DOI

[3] Bellier, E. Monestiez, P., Durbec, J-P. & Candau, J-N. (2007) Identifying spatial relationships at multiple scales: Principal coordinates of neighbour matrices (PCNM) and geostatistical approaches. Ecography 30 (3)-385-399. DOI

[2] Bellier, E. Planque, B. & Petitgas, P.(2007) Historical fluctuations in spawning location of anchovy Engraulis encrasicolus and sardine Sardina pilchardus in the Bay of Biscay during 1967-1973 and 2000-2004. Fish. Oceanogr. 16:1-15. DOI

[2] Planque, B., Bellier, E. & Lazure, P. (2007) Modelling potential spawning habitat of sardine Sardina pilchardus and anchovy Engraulis encrasicolus in the Bay of Biscay. Fish.Oceanogr. 16:16-30. DOI

[1] Ménard, F. Marsac, F. Bellier, E. & Cazelles B. (2007) Links between climate oscillations and tuna abundance in the equatorial Indian Ocean: a wavelet approach. Fish. Oceanogr. 16:95-104 . DOI

Peer-reviewed book chapters and procceedings

Bellier, E. Monestiez, P. & Guinet, C. (2010) Geostatistical Modelling of Wildlife Populations: A Non-stationary Hierarchical Model for Count Data. geoENV VII – Geostatistics for Environmental Applications Quantitative Geology and Geostatistics , 16, 1-12.

Bellier, E. & Monestiez, P. (2008) Model based block kriging to estimate spatial abundance of wildlife populations from count data. In Proceedings of the Eighth International Geostatistics Congress. Julian Ortiz & Xavier Emery (Eds.). GECAMIN. pp 119-128. ISBN:978-956-8504-18-2.