- Lardy S, Fortin D and Pays O. (2016) Increased exploration capacity promotes group fission in gregarious foraging herbivores. PLoS One, PLoS ONE 11(12): e0167516. doi:10.1371/journal.
pone.0167516

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- Lardy S, Rey B, Salin K, Voituron Y and Cohas A. (2016) The beneficial effect of group size on oxidative balance in a wild cooperative breeder. Behavioural Ecology doi: 10.1093/beheco/arw114

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- Lardy S, Bonenfant C, Allainé D, Cohas A (2015) Sex-specific determinants of fitness in a social mammal. Ecology, 96 (11): 2947-59.

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- Dupont P, Pradel R, Lardy S, Allainé D and Cohas A (2015) Litter sex composition influences dominance status in Alpine marmots (Marmota marmota), Oecologia, 179 (3): 753-63

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- Ferrandiz-Rovira M, Lemaître J.F, Lardy S, López B.C and Cohas A. (2014) Do pre- and post-copulatory sexually selected traits covary in large herbivores? BMC Evolutionary Biology, 14:79.

 

- Lardy S, Allainé D, and Cohas A. (2013) Intra-sexual competition and female dominance in a singular-breeding mammal, the Alpine marmot, Animal Behaviour, 86:1155-1163.
 

- Tafani M, Cohas A, Bonenfant C, Gaillard JM, Lardy S and Allainé D. (2013) Sex-specific senescence in body mass of a monogamous mammal: a by-product of social thermoregulation? Oecologia, 172:427-436.

- Lardy S, Cohas A, Desouhant E, Tafani M and Allainé D. (2012) Paternity and dominance loss in male breeders : the cost of helpers in a cooperatively breeding mammal. PLoS One 7(1): e29508. doi:10.1371/journal.pone.0029508.

- Lardy S, Cohas A, Figueroa I and Allainé D. (2011) Mate change in a socially monogamous mammal: evidences support the "forced divorce" hypothesis. Behavioural Ecology, 22 (1): 120-125.

Under review / submitted:
 

- Lardy S, Gasparini J, Corbel H, Frantz A, Perret S, Criscuolo F, and Jacquin L. Sex-specific effect of an immune challenge on telomere erosion in young pigeons

 

- Ferreira A, Doutrelant C, Lardy S, Santos S, Tognetti A, van Dijk R, Hatchwell B, Covas R. Transfer of care in a cooperative breeder is associated with benefits for parent and costs for young.

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- Bichet C, Cohas A, Regis C, Frederico V, Rey B, Lardy S. Stress levels of dominants reflect conflicts with subordinates in a cooperatively breeding species.

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- Silva L, Lardy S, Ferreira A, Doutrelant C, Covas R. Assessing the physiological costs of dominance in a highly social bird: dominant females pay the cost

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PhD thesis:

Lardy S. (2012) Evolutionary consequences of intra-sexual competition in social species, the example of the Alpine marmot. Université de Lyon.

 

Popular articles:

- Earthwatch Newsletter - Field notes - Feb 2012: " Head honcho" marmots with large gangs should watch their backs, says new study (http://www.earthwatch.org/europe/newsroom/science/news-3-field-notes-feb12.html)

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