Séminaire Ecobio - Angelo Alcaraz (LMBA, Univ. Brest)

The use of statistics in behavioural ecology is an integral part of the field,
but the actual study of a behavioural adaptation can lead to statistical
challenges. This presentation aims to clarify some of these challenges and
possible ways of circumventing them. Generally speaking, the meeting of
statistics and ecology, in an interdisciplinary approach, leads to the
construction of new validation criteria that are not limited to estimation
accuracy. The notion of statistical interpretability also leads us to rethink
the place of complexity in the modelling process. These different concepts
will be developed around an example of ecological work on the trophic
diversity of fish in coral reefs. The aim of this talk is to establish a
collaboration with ecologists interested in these subjects and to try to
identify possible research questions at the intersection between statistics,
epistemology and ecology.