Maxime Dahirel

The paper examines how urbanization affects specific traits of the European garden spider across 22 cities, finding trait-specific and city-dependent responses.

This study examines morphological and thermoregulatory responses of spiders to urbanization across spatial scales, finding size increases with urbanization while body condition declines, and no significant color change despite pigment evidence.

The paper investigates factors driving invertebrate community structure in West-European coastal dunes, finding biogeography and marram grass characteristics are key drivers.

This study examines how urbanization affects shell phenotype, behavior, and parasite prevalence in the snail Cornu aspersum across an urbanization gradient in Rennes, France.

The paper examines how urbanization affects nematode trapping in Cepaea nemoralis snails, finding reduced encapsulation rates and a link between snail size and nematode presence.

This study shows urbanization affects web-building behavior in spiders independently of body size changes across different spatial scales.

The paper tests how bottom-up and top-down controls affect dispersal across species and shows their impacts on community dynamics.

This study shows intraspecific trait variation explains community-level behavioural responses to urbanisation in spiders, enhancing capture efficiency and buffering ecosystem impacts.

The paper argues for dispersal as an independent life history trait that influences fitness and evolutionary dynamics in spatially structured environments.