Dr. Basile Finand
Chair for Terrestrial Ecology
Department for Life Science Systems
TUM School of Life Sciences
Technische Universität München
Hans-Carl-von-Carlowitz-Platz 2
D-85350 Freising-Weihenstephan
Room: 1.1.2.3
Phone: +49.8161.71.3713
Fax: +49.8161.71.3495
E-mail: basile.finand[at]tum.de
Curriculum vitae
| 2026- | present | Postdoctoral researcher at Chair for Terrestrial Ecology, Technische Universität München, Germany |
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| 2023- | 2025 | Postdoctoral researcher at the Urban Ecosystems Research Group, University of Helsinki, Finland |
| 2019- | 2023 | PhD in Ecology and Evolution, Sorbonne University, Paris, France |
| 2017- | 2019 | MSc in Ecology, Evolution, and Genomics, Université Claude Bernard Lyon 1, France |
| 2013- | 2017 | BSc in Science of Biodiversity, Université Claude Bernard Lyon 1, France |
Research interest
- Community Ecology
- Urban Ecology
- Habitat fragmentation
- Climate change
- Functional traits
- Insects
- Ants
- Carabid beetles
Biodiversity Exploratories: Arthropod core project (current project)
As part of the DFG Priority Program "Biodiversity Exploratories," I contribute to the Arthropods core project. The project has been conducting long-term monitoring of arthropod communities across 300 grassland and forest plots since 2008. My work focuses on analysing the interplay between land-use intensity and climate change to understand how these drivers influence arthropod biodiversity.
Publications
2026
Doums, C., Chifflet-Belle, P., Finand, B., & Monnin, T. (2026). Increased worker aggression toward allopatric compared to sympatric males in an ant species with limited female dispersal. Behavioral Ecology and Sociobiology, 80(1), 16. [ more… ]
2025
Finand, B., Tahvanainen, M., Setälä, H., & Kotze, D. J. (2025). Perceived urban microhabitat heterogeneity impacts carabid beetle communities. Landscape Ecology, 40(12), 236. [ more… ]
2024
Finand, B., Loeuille, N., Bocquet, C., Fédérici, P., & Monnin, T. (2024). Solitary foundation or colony fission in ants: an intraspecific study shows that worker presence and number increase colony foundation success. Oecologia, 204(3), 517–527. [ more… ]
Finand, B., Monnin, T., & Loeuille, N. (2024). Evolution of dispersal and the maintenance of fragmented metapopulations. Oikos, 2024(2). [ more… ]
2023
Finand, B., Loeuille, N., Bocquet, C., Fédérici, P., Ledamoisel, J., & Monnin, T. (2023). Habitat fragmentation through urbanization selects for low dispersal in an ant species. Oikos. [ more… ]
Eyer, P. A., Finand, B., Mona, S., Khimoun, A., D’ettorre, P., Fédérici, P., Leroy, C., Cornette, R., Chifflet-Belle, P., Monnin, T., & Doums, C. (2023). Integrative characterization of genetic and phenotypic differentiation in an ant species complex with strong hierarchical population structure and low dispersal abilities. Heredity, 130(3), 163–176. [ more… ]