Publications by Stéphane Joost

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Simple Summary: After domestication in specific regions, livestock followed human migrations and colonized the whole world. During this population expansion, human and natural selection, together with demographic events, molded the livestock genome leading ...

Given the challenges related to climate change and dependency from fossil fuels, modification of the energy systems infrastructure to increase the share of renewable energy is a priority in urban energy planning. The high heating density in cities makes it ...

In its natural framework, genetic information is embedded within a geographic context. Plants and animals are directly influenced by the specific characteristics of their surrounding environment. Therefore, spatial information is a potentially important el ...

Following domestication, sheep (Ovis aries) have become essential farmed animals across the world through adaptation to a diverse range of environments and varied production systems. Climate-mediated selective pressure has shaped phenotypic variation and h ...

Phosphorus (P) is the second essential nutrient for plant growth but can become an ecological and economical concern in case of over-fertilization. Soil P dynamic is influenced by many parameters like soil physical-chemical properties and farming practices ...

As the world’s population grows in cities, urban dwellers spend a large amount of time inside their home, making housing health ever more important. Critical for residents’ health, the interactions between indoor residential environments and outdoor enviro ...

Background: The etiology of Parkinson’s disease (PD) remains unknown. To approach the issue of PD’s risk factors from a new perspective, we hypothesized that coupling the geographic distribution of PD with spatial statistics may provide new insights into e ...

Background In 2007, the Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations (FAO) initiated the Global plan of action for Farm Animal Genetic Resources (FAnGR). The main goal of this plan is to reduce further loss of genetic diversity in farm animals, ...

The question of how local adaptation takes place remains a fundamental question in evolutionary biology. The variation of allele frequencies in genes under selection over environmental gradients remains mainly theoretical and its empirical assessment would ...

In developing countries, the waterborne transmission of hepatitis E virus (HEV), caused by HEV genotypes 1 (HEV-1) and 2 (HEV-2), leads to the onset of large recurrent outbreaks. HEV infections are of particular concern among pregnant women, due to very hi ...

Urban green infrastructure, especially trees, are widely regarded as one of the most effective ways to reduce urban temperatures in heatwaves and alleviate the adverse impacts of extreme heat events on human health and well-being. Nevertheless, urban plann ...

In a context of rapid global change, one of the key components for the survival of species is their genetic evolutionary potential for adaptation. Many methods have been developed to identify genetic variants underpinning adaptation to climate, but few too ...

In recent decades, we have witnessed great advances on the Internet of Things, mobile devices, sensor-based systems, and resulting big data infrastructures, which have gradually, yet fundamentally influenced the way people interact with and in the digital ...

Background/objectives: This study analyzed the temporal evolution of geographic clusters of obesity among employees of the French national gas and electricity company in the GAZEL cohort from 1990 to 2015. Subjects/methods: The study included 12,798 men an ...

Introduction Physical inactivity and sedentary behaviour are significant modifiable risk factors for chronic diseases, yet their prevalence remains high despite their well-established negative impact on health. This study evaluates regular moderate exercis ...

The transhumance system, which consists in moving animals to high mountain pastures during summer, plays a considerable role in preserving both local biodiversity and traditions, as well as protecting against natural hazard. In cows, particularly, milk pro ...

In face of cumulating evidence about the impact of human-induced environmental changes on mental health and behavior, our understanding of the main effects and interactions between environmental factors – i.e., the exposome and the brain – is still limited ...

Effective biodiversity conservation requires knowledge of species' distributions across large areas, yet prevalence data for marine sessile species is scarce, with traditional variables often unavailable at appropriate temporal and spatial resolutions. As ...

Microevolutionary processes shape adaptive responses to heterogeneous environments, where these effects vary both among and within species. However, it remains largely unknown to which degree signatures of adaptation to environmental drivers can be detecte ...

The vulnerability of alpine environments to climate change presses an urgent need to accurately model and understand these ecosystems. Popularity in the use of digital elevation models (DEMs) to derive proxy environmental variables has increased over the p ...

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The Quest for Genes Involved in Adaptation to Climate Change in Ruminant Livestock

Spatial clustering for district heating integration in urban energy systems: application to geothermal energy

The geographical dimension of genetic diversity : a GIScience contribution for the conservation of animal genetic resources

Adaptations to Climate-Mediated Selective Pressures in Sheep

Spatial variability of soil phosphorus in the Fribourg canton, Switzerland

Housing, street and health: a new systemic research framework

Geospatial analysis of individual-based Parkinson's disease data supports a link with air pollution: a case-control study

A WebGIS platform for the monitoring of Farm Animal Genetic Resources (GENMON)

Multiple genomic solutions for local adaptation in two closely related species (sheep and goats) facing the same climatic constraints

Population density and water balance influence the global occurrence of hepatitis E epidemics

Evaluating urban greening scenarios for urban heat mitigation: a spatially explicit approach

Spatial areas of genotype probability: Predicting the spatial distribution of adaptive genetic variants under future climatic conditions

Artificial intelligence and visual analytics in geographical space and cyberspace: Research opportunities and challenges

Geographical clusters of obesity in France related to complex longitudinal socio-behavioral profiles: findings from the GAZEL cohort

Associations Between Exercise Patterns and Health Outcomes in Sedentary and Non-sedentary Individuals: a Longitudinal Population-based Study in Geneva, Switzerland

Big dairy data to unravel effects of environmental, physiological and morphological factors on milk production of mountain-pastured Braunvieh cows

Large-scale georeferenced neuroimaging and psychometry data link the urban environmental exposome with brain health

Harnessing Multiscale Topographic Environmental Variables for Regional Coral Species Distribution Models

Locally Specific Genome-Wide Signatures of Adaptation to Environmental Variation at High Resolution in an Alpine Plant

Multiscale Very High Resolution Topographic Models in Alpine Ecology: Pros and Cons of Airborne LiDAR and Drone-Based Stereo-Photogrammetry Technologies