University of Groningen
Experimental analysis and modelling of the behavioural interactions underlying the
coordination of collective motion and the propagation of information in fish schools
Lecheval, Valentin Jacques Dominique
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Acknowledgements
The research presented in this thesis is the result of a collective effort that has emerged from interactions between many individuals to whom I am extremely grateful.
First, I would like to warmly thank Guy Theraulaz and Charlotte Hemelrijk. They have initiated a fruitful collaboration between two re-search teams in Toulouse and Groningen, that investigate moving animal groups with different approaches and methods. I am very pleased for hav-ing been part of this project durhav-ing three years, under their demandhav-ing and enriching supervision. I would also like to thank Cl´ement Sire for all the work he dedicated to this thesis and for his inspired and illuminating assistance regarding analysis and modelling.
Thank you to all members of the research teams involved in this work, that is staff, researchers, students and friends of the Centre de Recherches sur la Cognition Animale (in particular the CAB1 and IVEP2 teams) in
Toulouse as well as the BPE3 and TRˆES4 teams in Groningen. As for
the technical support, I would like to stress and thank the very important contributions of Hanno Hildenbrandt, Patrick Arrufat, St´ephane Ferrere, Mathieu Moreau, Maud Combe and G´erard Latil who made all sorts of ideas possible. Thank you to the two master students who have been work-ing with us in Toulouse, Pierre Tichit, Marlene Afflerbach and Alexandra Litchinko. Their dedication to this project has been amazing and their con-tribution substantial. I would also like to thank Jean-Baptiste Ferdy and Christophe Eloy for their time, ideas and inputs to this work, during my annual PhD committee. Thank you also to Li Jiang and Emanuele Crosato and their respective teams for their very interesting studies based on the empirical work of this thesis as well as for their friendship, that was of main importance during the talks we all gave for the first time in congresses.
1Collective Animal Behaviour
2Interindividual Variability and Emergent Plasticity 3Behavioural and Physiological Ecology
4Theoretical Research in Evolutionary ife Sciences
158 Acknowledgements The teaching dimension of my position as a PhD student is unfortu-nately missing from this thesis, but I would like to thank the ≥1000 students I have had over three years of what became an intensive and inspiring teach-ing duty, masterfully assisted by Sergine Ponsard and La¨etitia Buisson.
Finally, I would like to thank Jacques Gautrais, Richard Fournier, St´ephane Blanco and Ana¨ıs Khuong for their supervision of my first re-search project, a few years ago. They have not only initiated my interests in collective behaviours and in modelling but also have deeply shaped my research and teaching practises.
