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Accueil du site > Équipes > Paléontologie (PPP) > Equipe > Jacques MICHAUX
Jacques MICHAUX
Directeur d’études émérite à l’Ecole Pratique des Hautes Etudes (EPHE)
Institut des sciences de l’évolution
Université Montpellier 2 - CNRS
Case Postal 64
Place Eugène Bataillon
34095 MONTPELLIER cedex 5
FRANCE
Téléphone : +33 (0)4 67 14 45 56
Fax : +33 (0)4 67 14 36 10
Courriel : jjmichau@univ-montp2.fr
Education
1963 Agrégation de Sciences naturelles
1971 Doctorat Université de Montpellier (France)
Research Interests
My interests are for rodents, their palaeontology and evolution, mainly the Old World mice and rats (Murinae, Muridae). Lateral to these interests is the Neogene stratigraphy in western Europe. Murinae are one of the most diverse groups of present day mammals (500 species out of the 2000 rodent species).
This subfamily represents an extensive radiation the interest of which being that it allows studying the respective role of the phylogenetic and ecological components in evolution as well (...)
Museum Collection Studies
Laboratoire Mammifères et Oiseaux, Muséum National d’Histoire Naturelle, Paris : Extant rodent species from various parts of the world represented in the collections.
Museum Alexander Koenig Section of Mammals, Bonn (Germany) : Rongeurs Murinae actuels et rongeurs endémiques insulaires de îles Canaries.
Field Work
Several field trips in Paleontology (Prospection and excavation of micromammal remains in the Canary Islands (joint work in « Actions intégrées franco-espagnoles ») and personnal work (supported by French CNRS and EPHE) and now a new program is organized for the study of insular species and their extinctio.
Publications
Some recent publications :
Bocherens H., Michaux J., Billiou D., Castanet J., & Garcia-Talavera F. 2003. Contribution of collagen stable isotope biogeochemistry to the reconstruction of the paleobiology of extinct endemic rodents (Canaryomys bravoi) and lizards (Gallotia goliath) in Tenerife (Canary Islands). Isotopes in Environmental and Health Studies, 39 (3) : 197-210.
Bocherens H., Michaux J. , Garcia Talavera F. & van der Plicht J. (2006). Extinction of endemic vertebrates on (...)
