ECOFUNC - Functional ecology of coastal trophic and social-ecological networks

General topics

The team EcoFunc’s objectives are to establish a link between individuals’ functions (growth, reproduction, bleaching, toxicity, metabolism, diet, migration, etc), ecosystem’s functioning (functional diversity, food webs, resilience) and social-ecological network’s functioning (nature’s contribution to peoples, cultural benefit, risk, perception by actors of the seashore). The originality of the team is to be based on a multi-scale approach (traits, diversity, trophic functioning, social-ecological functioning), a strong numerical basis (data analysis and modelling) and a strong interdisciplinarity (collaborations with human and math/computer sciences). Understanding the effects of the ecosystem functioning on the reaction to climate change and global change more generally, will allow a better understanding of resilience’s factors, the definition of functional ecosystem health indicators and a social-ecological approach to scenarios of possible evolution.

Research axis

Axe 1/ Traits and functional diversity : from experiments to chronological series from the field

Determinism of microphytoplankton and in particular toxic diatoms (species and functional diversity)

Biological and physiological traits of toxic algaes and tropical corals, under environmental influences. Sensitivity of temperatures anomalies.

Interactions between trophic diatoms and zooplankton, chemical communication

Axe 2/ Trophic ecology and trophic network functioning

Isotopic tracers and stomach contents, role of cephalopods in food webs, validation of trophic models by consumers’ trophic levels determined through isotopes

Functional diversity of coral reed associated communities and associated resilience.

Cumulative impacts, effects on the food-web functioning, and ecosystem health associated (marine energy, climate change, fisheries)

Axe 3/ From functional ecology to the characterization of the perception by humans of risks and benefits associated to the functioning of social-ecological networks.

Risks associates to coral bleaching and toxic algae blooms

Ecosystem services associated to Cephalopods

Ecosystem perception and interactions with networks of actors, in the case of the development of wind farms

Latest scientific articles

Article archives (pre-2014)

2020

Haraldsson, M. , A. Raoux, F. Riera, J. Hay, J.M. Dambacher, and Nathalie Niquil. 2020. “How To Model Social-Ecological Systems? – A Case Study On The Effects Of A Future Offshore Wind Farm On The Local Society And Ecosystem, And Whether Social Compensation Matters”. Marine Policy 119. doi:10.1016/j.marpol.2020.104031. https://www.scopus.com/inward/record.uri?eid=2-s2.0-85085318224&doi=10.1016%2fj.marpol.2020.104031&partnerID=40&md5=9e69340af6d591878af0f943cd4bc347.
F. Lasram, Ben Rais, T. Hattab, Q. Nogues, G. Beaugrand, J.C. Dauvin, G. Halouani, F. Le Loc'h, Nathalie Niquil, and B. Leroy. 2020. “An Open-Source Framework To Model Present And Future Marine Species Distributions At Local Scale”. Ecological Informatics 59. doi:10.1016/j.ecoinf.2020.101130. https://www.scopus.com/inward/record.uri?eid=2-s2.0-85086876945&doi=10.1016%2fj.ecoinf.2020.101130&partnerID=40&md5=0a5c308eac10a69880027d5de2e6fe98.
“Shifting Levels Of Ecological Network's Analysis Reveals Different System Properties”. 2020. Philosophical Transactions Of The Royal Society Of London. Series B, Biological Sciences 375: 20190326. doi:10.1098/rstb.2019.0326. https://royalsocietypublishing.org/doi/abs/10.1098/rstb.2019.0326.
Raoux, A. , J.-P. Pezy, B. Ernande, Nathalie Niquil, J.-C. Dauvin, and K. Grangeré. 2020. “Isotopic Analyses, A Good Tool To Validate Models In The Context Of Marine Renewable Energy Development And Cumulative Impacts”. Estuarine, Coastal And Shelf Science 237. doi:10.1016/j.ecss.2020.106690.
van der Heijden, L.H. , Nathalie Niquil, M. Haraldsson, R.M. Asmus, S.R. Pacella, M. Graeve, J. Rzeznik-Orignac, H. Asmus, B. Saint-Béat, and B. Lebreton. 2020. “Quantitative Food Web Modeling Unravels The Importance Of The Microphytobenthos-Meiofauna Pathway For A High Trophic Transfer By Meiofauna In Soft-Bottom Intertidal Food Webs.”. Ecological Modelling 430. doi:10.1016/j.ecolmodel.2020.109129.

2019

“Towards Coherent Ges Assessments At Sub-Regional Level: Signs Of Fisheries Expansion Processes In The Bay Of Biscay Using An Ospar Food Web Indicator, The Mean Trophic Level”. 2019. Ices Journal Of Marine Science 76: 1543-1553. doi:10.1093/icesjms/fsz023. https://academic.oup.com/icesjms/article-abstract/76/6/1543/5369193.
“Global Changes Jeopardize The Trophic Carrying Capacity And Functioning Of Estuarine Ecosystems”. 2019. Ecosystems 22: 473-495. doi:10.1007/s10021-018-0282-9. https://link.springer.com/article/10.1007/s10021-018-0282-9.
“Ecological Network Analysis Metrics: The Need For An Entire Ecosystem Approach In Management And Policy”. 2019. Ocean And Coastal Management 174: 1-14. doi:10.1016/j.ocecoaman.2019.03.007. https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/abs/pii/S0964569118305969.
“Assessing The Ecological Status Of An Estuarine Ecosystem: Linking Biodiversity And Food-Web Indicators”. 2019. Estuarine, Coastal And Shelf Science 228. doi:10.1016/j.ecss.2019.106339. https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/abs/pii/S0272771419300484.
“Inter- And Intra-Specific Transcriptional And Phenotypic Responses Of Pseudo-Nitzschia Under Different Nutrient Conditions”. 2019. Genome Biology And Evolution 11: 731-747. doi:10.1093/gbe/evz030. https://academic.oup.com/gbe/article/11/3/731/5332980.

Gallery

ARMS : Mini-HLM dans l’île d’Europa, deux ans après la pose (10 m de profondeur) - H. Bruggemann

Mesures de calmars Loliginidés à la criée de Port-en-Bessin - J.-P. Robin

Eoliennes en mer, leur effet sur l’écosystème est étudié par Ecofunc - Bhart9070_Pixabay

La diatomée Pseudo-nitzschia, responsable d'efflorescences toxiques - Aurore Sauvey

Leader(s)

Nathalie NIQUIL

Team members

PhD Thesis

NOGUES Quentin

Etude du cumul d'impact autour du parc éolien offshore de la baie de Seine : quelles conséquences pour le fonctionnement trophique de l'écosystème, son état de santé et les services écosystémiques ?

Programs

2020 to 2024	PHENOMEN
2020 to 2023	SENSITROPH
2019 to 2022	INCIDENCE
2018 to 2021	ECUME
2020	Impact écosystémique des efflorescences d'espèces toxiques en lien avec les changements environnementaux et climatiques : détection de ruptures dans des séries temporelles multivariées
2017 to 2020	CephsandChefs
2020	EUBIOTTKK
2016 to 2018	ANR TROPHIK
2013 to 2017	ANR Gigassat
2015 to 2017	The EcApRHA project
2013 to 2017	ANTHROPOSEINE
2012 to 2016	DEVOTES
2013 to 2015	Pêcheries de Céphalopodes : outils pour gérer la ressource, préserver le recrutement et valoriser la production
2013 to 2015	FLAM
2011 to 2014	ANR COMANCHE
2013 to 2014	PEGASEAS

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