Marion Valeix is a researcher at the CNRS, based at the Centre for Functional and Evolutionary Ecology (CEFE, UMR 5175, Montpellier, France) where she is the MAD (Movement, Abundance, Distribution) team leader. She is the director of the Hwange LTSER. Marion is an ecologist and has worked in Hwange National Park since 2000. Her research, anchored in community ecology, behavioural ecology, spatial ecology and conservation ecology, aims at understanding the networks of interspecific interactions in communities of African large mammals. She is particularly interested in predator-prey interactions, intraguild carnivore interactions, interactions between elephants and other large mammals, and the interaction between scavenging and active hunting. She studies the role of these interactions in the functioning of communities of African large mammals, and ultimately aims at understanding how human activities inside protected areas (e.g. water management), outside protected areas (e.g. trophy hunting), and climate changes shape these networks of interspecific interactions.
Eve Miguel is a researcher at IRD in the MIVEGEC unit (Infectious Diseases and Vectors: Ecology, Genetics, Evolution and Control). She is deputy director of the Hwange LTSER and based in Harare (Zimbabwe). Eve is an ecologist and epidemiologist, specialist in Human/Nature interfaces for health issues, on which she has worked in Hwange since 2009.
Chloé Guerbois is a research engineer at the CNRS, an associate researcher at the Sustainability Research Unit at Nelson Mandela University, and affiliated with the IRL (International Research Laboratory) REHABS (‘Reconciling Man and Nature for Sustainable Harmony based on the Biosphere’) at George (South Africa). She is deputy director of the Hwange LTSER. Chloé is a socio-ecologist and specialist in sustainability sciences. She has been carrying out transdisciplinary approaches in the Hwange socio-ecosystem since 2009, particularly with research-action approaches.
Vladimir Grosbois is a researcher at CIRAD in the ASTRE unit. He is deputy director of the Hwange LTSER and based in Harare (Zimbabwe). Vladimir is the coordinator of the RP-PCP platform (Research Platform ‘Produce and Conserve in Partnership’). The RP-PCP is a partnership between CIRAD, CNRS and the universities of Zimbabwe, which provides the framework for scientific cooperation between the different institutions and guarantees recognition of the actions of the Hwange LTSER by the National Research Council (National Research Council) of Zimbabwe. Vladimir is a researcher with background in ecology and evolution. During his career, he acquired solid skills in quantitative approaches in ecology and epidemiology.
