BERLIOZ Émilie
Postdoctoral researcher
Associated member
Main research question
I explore the feeding ecology of extant and extinct ungulates, the influence of environmental factors on this ecology and the contribution of ungulates feeding behavior as a (paleo)environmental bioindicator.
Topics of study
Dental Microwear Texture Analyses (DMTA) constitue my main approach.
One of my research focuses is a better paleoenvironmental regional characterization for early Pleistocene European localities, period that coincides with Homo dispersion in Europe.
In New Caledonia I study the destructive impact of extant deer populations on natural habitats. DMTA is proposed as a managing tool. I built a reference database unparalleled in the world.
For Middle Paleolithic and Tardiglacial I explore variations in deer feeding behaviors in order to make the link between cultural changes in human societies and climatic oscillations.
Fieldworks
New-Calédonia is my main field of investigation. Its insular and therefore constrained context constitutes a perfect model to address archeological and paleontological questionings.
Project management
Coordination of several studies concerning New Caledonian rusa deer ecology (post-doctorat, external collaborations…)
Collaborations in progress
- EvoAdapta Group., Spain – https://www.evoadapta.unican.es/en/home/
- TRACES, Toulouse – http://traces.univ-tlse2.fr/
- Polish Academy of Sciences, Białowieża, Pologne – http://www.rzym.pan.pl/en/about-us/polish-academy-of-sciences
- Trajectoires (De la sédentarisation à l’État), Nanterre – http://trajectoires.prod.lamp.cnrs.fr/
- Georgian National Museum, Tbilisi, Géorgie – http://museum.ge/?lang_id=ENG
- Applied and Analytical Paleontology, Mainz, Allemagne – http://www.paleontology.uni-mainz.de/en_team.html
- Max Planck Gesellschaft, Mainz, Allemagne – https://www.mpic.de/en/research/111561/gruppe-vonhof.html
Others connections
- Member (postdoctoral researcher) of Laboratory TRACES, UMR 5608, University of Toulouse Jean Jaurès, France.
- Associate member of the Laboratory PALEVOPRIM, UMR 7262, Université SFA Poitiers, France
Contact
- EvoAdapta Group. Dpto. Historical Sciences, University of Cantabria, Spain.
- emilie.berlioz@unican.es
Iconic publications
Thiery G., Francisco A., Louail M., Berlioz E., Blondel C., Brunetière N., Ramdarshan A., Walker A. Ec., Merceron G. 2024 – Introducing ’trident’: a graphical interface for discriminating groups using dental microwear texture analysis – Peer Community In Paleontology, 4, e90. – DOI: 10.24072/pcjournal.467
Alifieri E., Berlioz E., Gkeme A. G., Kostopoulos D. S., Merceron G. 2024 – Tooth wear analyses track niche partitioning at Gerakarou, a 1.8 Ma old site from Greece – Quaternary Science Reviews 334, 108712 – https://doi.org/10.1016/j.quascirev.2024.108712
Frantz A. C., Luttringer A., Colyn M., Kazilas C., Berlioz B. 2023 – « Landscape structure does not hinder the dispersal of an invasive herbivorous mammal in the New Caledonian biodiversity hotspot » – Eur J Wildl Res 70, 6 – doi.org/10.1007/s10344-023-01757-0
Berlioz E., Leduc C., Hofman-Kamińska E., Bignon-Lau O., Kowalczyk R., Merceron G. 2022 – Dental microwear foraging ecology of a large browsing ruminant in Northern Hemisphere: The European moose (Alces alces) – Palaeogeography, Palaeoclimatology, Palaeoecology 586: 110754 – doi: 10.1016/j.palaeo.2021.110754
Gildas Merceron, Emilie Berlioz, Hubert Vonhof, Daniel Green, Mathieu Garel, Thomas Tütken, 2020 – Tooth tales told by dental diet proxies: An alpine community of sympatric ruminants as a model to decipher the ecology of fossil fauna – Palaeogeography, Palaeoclimatology, Palaeoecology – https://doi.org/10.1016/j.palaeo.2020.110077
Hofman-Kamińska, E., Ramdarshan, A., Makowiecki, D., Berlioz, E., Piličiauskienė, G., Merceron, G., Bocherens, H., Kowalczyk, R. (2018). Foraging habitats and niche partitioning of European large herbivores during the Holocene – insights from 3D dental microwear texture analysis. Palaeogeography, Palaeoclimatology, Palaeoecology.
Berlioz, E. (2017). Ecologie alimentaire et paléoenvironnements des cervidés européens du Pléistocène inférieur : le message des textures de micro-usure dentaire. Thèse de doctorat, Université de Poitiers.
Berlioz, E., Azorit, C., Blondel, C., Tellado Ruiz, M. S., & Merceron, G. (2017). Deer in an arid habitat: dental microwear textures track feeding adaptability. Hystrix, in press.
Berlioz, E., Kostopoulos, D. S., Blondel, C., & Merceron, G. (2017). Feeding ecology of Eucladoceros ctenoides as a proxy to track regional climatic oscillations in Europe during the Early Pleistocene. Comptes Rendus Palevol, in press.
Bignon-Lau, O., Catz, N., Berlioz, E., Veiberg, V., Strand, O., & Merceron, G. (2017). Dental microwear textural analyses to track feeding ecology of reindeer: a comparison of two contrasting populations in Norway. Mammal Research, 62(1), 111–120.