Research interests

Species distribution, spatial ecology and spatio-temporal statistics

Main phenological patterns of common sole in the Bay of Biscay. Obtained from monthly species distribution between 2008 and 2018 (Alglave et al., 2024).

Some references:

  • Michel M., Alglave B., Olmos M., Torterotot M., Virgili A., Martin-Marin S., Royer J.Y., Samaran F. (2025). Modelling the influence of environmental factors on the acoustic presence of blue whale populations in the Southern Indian Ocean. Scientific Reports (Nature). link

  • Alglave B., Mourguiart B., Vermard Y., Rivot E., Woillez M., Kristensen K., Etienne M.P. (2025). Change of support for zero-inflated data: deriving fine scale species distribution inferences from spatially aggregated data. Journal of the Royal Statistical Society Series C: Applied Statistics. link

  • Alglave B., Rivot E., Etienne M.P., Woillez M., Thorson J.T., Vermard Y. (2022). Combining scientific survey and commercial catch data to map fish distribution.ICES Journal of Marine Science. link

Population dynamics, climate change and mechanistico-statistical modeling

Spatio-temporal abundance estimates from an integrated population dynamics model for the snow crab of the Eastern Bering Sea (Olmos et al., 2023)

Some references:

  • Szuwalski C., Alglave B., Balstad L.J., Olmos M., Punt A.E., Richar J., Stockhausen W., and Veron M. (2026). Density dependence modulates climate change impacts on eastern Bering Sea snow crab. Journal of Applied Ecology. link

  • Rovellini A., Punt A.E., Bryan M.D., Kaplan I.C., Dorn M.W., Aydin K., Fulton E.A., Alglave B., Baker M.R., Carroll G., Ferriss B.E., Haltuch M.A., Hayes A.L., Hermann A.J., Hernvann P.Y., Holsman K.K., Liu O.R., McHuron E., Morzaria-Luna H.N., Moss J., Surma S., Weise M.T. (2024). Linking climate stressors to ecological processes in ecosystem models, with a case study from the Gulf of Alaska. ICES Journal of Marine Science. link

  • Olmos M., Cao J., Thorson J.T., Punt A.E., Monnahan C.C., Alglave B., Szuwalski C. (2023). A step towards the integration of spatial dynamics in population dynamics models: Eastern Bering Sea snow crab as a case study. Ecological Modelling. link