Publications

Chatelain, M., Rubbmark, O., Rüdisser, J., & Traugott, M. 2026. Urbanisation and habitat shape resource-driven dietary shifts in wild birds. Landscape and Urban Planning. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.landurbplan.2025.105552
Chatelain, M., Nold, F., & Mathieu, J. 2024. Metal pollution drives earthworm biodiversity in urban lawns. Science of the Total Environment. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.scitotenv.2024.169867
Chatelain, M. 2023. Endogeic earthworms avoid soil mimicking metal pollution levels in urban parks. Sustainability. doi.org/10.3390/su151511513
Chatelain M, Rüdisser J, Traugott M. 2023. Urban-driven decrease in arthropod richness and diversity associated with group-specific changes in arthropod abundance. Frontiers in Ecology and Evolution. doi: 10.3389/fevo.2023.980387
Chatelain M, Da Silva A, Celej M, Kurek E, Bulska E, Corsini M, Szulkin M. 2021. Replicated, urban-driven exposure to metallic trace elements in two passerines. Scientific Reports. doi: 10.1038/s41598-021-99329-2

Chatelain M, Massemin S, Zahn S, Kurek E, Bulska E & Szulkin M. 2021. Urban metal pollution explains variation in reproductive outputs in great tits and blue tits. Science of the Total Environment. doi: 10.1016/j.scitotenv.2021.145966

Chatelain M & Szulkin M. 2020. Mammals in urban environments. In: The Routledge Handbook of Urban Ecology. Routledge, New York.

Corsini M, Schöll EM, Di Lecce I, Chatelain M, Dubiec A & Szulkin M. 2020. Growing in the city: urban evolutionary ecology of avian growth rates. Evolutionary Applications. doi: 10.1111/eva.13081.
Chatelain M, Drobniak S, Szulkin M. 2019. The association between stressors and telomeres in non-human vertebrates: a meta-analysis. Ecology Letters. doi: 10.1111/ele.13426

Leclaire S, Chatelain M, Pessato A, Buatois B, Frantz A and Gasparini J. 2018. Pigeon odor varies with experimental exposure to trace metal pollution. Ecotoxicology. doi: 10.1007/s10646-018-2001-x

Chatelain M, Gasparini J, Frantz A, and Angelier F. 2018. Reproduction impairments in metal-polluted environments and parental hormones: No evidence for a causal association in an experimental study in breeding feral pigeons exposed to lead and zinc. Ecotoxicology and Environmental Safety. doi: 10.1016/j.ecoenv.2018.06.043

Chatelain M and Mathieu J. 2017. How good are epigeic earthworms at dispersing? An investigation to compare epigeic to endogeic and anecic groups. Soil Biology and Biochemistry. doi: 10.1016/j.soilbio.2017.04.004

Chatelain M, Pessato A, Frantz A, Gasparini J and Leclaire S. 2017. Do trace metals influence visual signals? Effects of trace metals on iridescent and melanic feather colouration in the feral pigeon. Oikos. doi: 10.1111/oik.04262

Chatelain M, Gasparini J, Haussy C and Frantz A. 2016. Trace metals affect early maternal transfer of immune components in the feral pigeon. Physiological and Biochemical Zoology. doi: 10.1086/685511.

Chatelain M, Gaspaini J and Frantz A. 2016. Trace metals, melanin-based pigmentation and their interaction influence immune parameters in feral pigeons (Columba livia). Ecotoxicology. doi: 10.1007/s10646-016-1610-5

Chatelain M, Frantz A, Gasparini J and Leclaire S. 2016. Experimental exposure to trace metals affects plumage bacterial communities in the feral pigeon. Journal of Avian Biology. doi: 10.1111/jav.00857

Chatelain M, Gasparini J and Frantz A. 2016. Do trace metals select for darker birds in urban areas? An experimental exposure to lead and zinc. Global Change Biology. doi: 10.1111/gcb.13170

Chatelain M, Gasparini J, Jacquin L and Frantz A. 2014. The adaptive function of melanin-based plumage polymorphism to trace metals. Biology Letters. doi: 10.1098/rsbl.2014.0164

Leclaire S, Pierret P, Chatelain M and Gasparini J. 2014. Feather bacterial load affects plumage condition, iridescent color, and investment in preening in pigeons. Behavioral Ecology. doi: 10.1093/beheco/aru109

Chatelain M, Halpin C and Rowe C. 2013. Ambient temperature influences birds' decisions to eat toxic prey. Animal behaviou doi: 10.1016/j.anbehav.2013.07.007

Date de dernière mise à jour : 13/01/2026