[FRB-CESAB] Newsletter 2 CESAB – January 2020

• Joint call SYNERGY FRB-CESAB / CIEE: Biodiversity in a time of global change

The Canadian Institute of Ecology and Evolution (CIEE) and the Centre for the Synthesis and Analysis of Biodiversity (CESAB) of the FRB offer a joint call for working groups that include researchers based primarily in Canada and France, on the topic “Biodiversity in a time of Global Change”.

Proposal deadline: 31st January 2020

• Joint call FRB-CESAB / CeMEB CESABATIC: Short term stays for foreign researchers

The CeMEB LabEx (Mediterranean Environment and Biodiversity Centre) and the Centre for the Synthesis and Analysis of Biodiversity (CESAB) of the FRB offer financial support for hosting 2 foreign researchers for short stays at the CESAB in Montpellier (from 2 months minimum to 3 months maximum).

• Deep learning for poverty prediction from staellite images

Location: FRB-CESAB –  5, rue de l’École de Médecine, 34000 MONTPELLIER
Deadlines : 15th February 2020
Starting date : May 2020

Find more information on our postdoctoral offers here.

• 4th October 2019, Montpellier – FAIR Data

CESAB hosted an inter-Labex reflection day on the growing need to make research data FAIR: “Findable, Accessible, Interoperable and Reusable”.

• 29th November 2019 , Montpellier – CESAB presentation

The founding members of the FRB as well as local partners were invited to CESAB for a presentation of our new premises and actions. A partnership convention was signed between the FRB-CESAB and the University of Montpellier during this occasion.

• 29th November 2019, Montpellier – International conference Challenges and Perspectives in Large Scale Conservation

Scientiflc conference of the working group PELAGIC, organized with the ZSL (Zoological Society of London) and the Fondation Bertarelli. Presentations are available online.

• 2-6 December 2019, Montpellier – First Cesab training course : Data toolbox for reproducible research in computational ecology

17 students, engineers and researchers from all over France came to attend this training at CESAB’s premises in Montpellier. The course was co-organized with GDR EcoStat. Building on this success, a second edition will be organised in 2020. More information here.

• BETSI

Hedde M, Nahmani J, Séré G, Auclerc A & Cortet J (2019) Early colonisation of constructed technosols by macro-invertebrates. Journal of Soil and Sediments, 19, 3193–3203. doi: 10.1007/s11368-018-2142-9.

• DISCO-WEED

Catarino R, Gaba S & Bretagnolle V (2019) Experimental and empirical evidence shows that reducing weed control in winter cereal fields is a viable strategy for farmers. Scientific Reports, 9, 9004. doi: 10.1038/s41598-019-45315-8.

Mahaut L, Gaba S & Fried G (2019) A functional diversity approach of crop sequences reveals that weed diversity and abundance show different responses to environmental variability. Journal of Applied Ecology, 56, 1400–1409. doi: 10.1111/1365-2664.13389.

Metcalfe H, Hassall KL, Boinot S & Storkey J (2019) The contribution of spatial mass effects to plant diversity in arable fields. Journal of Applied Ecology, 56, 1560–1574. doi: 10.1111/1365-2664.13414.

• FUNCTIONALWEBS

Marino NAC, Céréghino R, Gilbert B, Petermann J, Srivastava DS, de Omena PM, Ospina Bautista F, Farjalla VF, Guzman LM, Romero GQ, Trzcinski MK, Barberis IM, Corbara B, Debastiani VJ, Dézerald O, Kratina K, Leroy C, MacDonald AAM, Montero G, Pillar VD, Richardson BA, Richardson MJ, Talaga S, Gonçalves AZ, Piccoli GCO & Jocqué M (2019) Species niches, not traits, determine abundance and occupancy patterns: A multi-site synthesis. Global Ecology and Biogeography, accepted. doi: 10.1111/geb.13029.

• LOLA-BMS

Pellissier V, Schmucki R, Pe’er G, Aunins A, Brereton TM, Brotons L, Carnicer J, Chodkiewicz T, Chylarecki P, del Moral JC, Escandell V, Evans D, Foppen R, Harpke A, Heliölä J, Herrando S, Kuussaari M, Kühn E, Lehikoinen A, Lindström A, Moshoj CM, Musche M, Noble D, Oliver TH, Reif J, Richard D, Roy DB, Schweiger O, Settele J, Stefanescu C, Teufelbauer N, Touroult J, Trautmann S, van Strien AJ, Swaay CAM, Turnhout C, Vermouzek Z, Vorísek P, Jiguet F & Julliard R (2019) Effects of Natura 2000 on nontarget bird and butterfly species based on citizen science data. Conservation Biology, accepted. doi: 10.1111/cobi.13434.

• PELAGIC

Letessier TB, Mouillot D, Bouchet PJ, Vigliola L, Fernandes MC, Thompson C, Boussarie G, Turner J, Juhel JB, Maire E, Caley MJ, Koldewey HJ, Friedlander AM, Sala E & Meeuwig JJ (2019) Remote reefs and seamounts are the last refuges for marine predators across the Indo-Pacific. PLoS Biology, 17, e3000366. doi: 10.1371/journal.pbio.3000366.

Press release (in French) : Les monts sous-marins éloignés de l’Homme comme derniers refuges des prédateurs marins

• RAATD

Baylis AMM, Tierney M, Orben RA, Warwick-Evans V, Wakefield E, Grecian WJ, Trathan P, Reisinger R, Ratcliffe N, Croxall J, Campioni L, Catry P, Crofts S, Boersma PD, Galimberti F, Granadeiro J, Handley J, Hayes S, Hedd A, Masello JF, Montevecchi WA, Pütz K, Quillfeldt P, Rebstock GA, Sanvito S, Staniland IJ & Brickle P (2019) Important At-Sea Areas of Colonial Breeding Marine Predators on the Southern Patagonian Shelf. Scientific Reports, 9, 8517. doi: 10.1038/s41598-019-44695-1.

• RAINBIO

Dagallier LM, Janssens SB, Dauby G, Blach-Overgaard A, MacKinder BA, Droissart V, Svenning JC, Sosef MSM, Stévart T, Harris DJ, Sonké B, Wieringa JJ, Hardy OJ & Couvreur TLP (2019) Cradles and museums of generic plant diversity across tropical Africa. New Phytologist, accepted. doi: 10.1111/nph.16293.

(with the working group FREE) Enquist BJ, Feng X, Boyle B, Maitner BS, Newman EA, Jorgensen PM, Roehrdanz PR, Thiers BM, Burger JR, Corlett RT, Couvreur TLP, Dauby G, Donoghue JC, Foden W, Lovett JC, Marquet PA, Merow C, Midgley G, Morueta-Holme N, Neves DM, Oliveira-Filho AT, Kraft NJB, Park DS, Peet RK, Pillet M, Serra-Diaz JM, Sandel B, Schildhauer MP, Símová I, Violle C, Wieringa JJ, Wiser SK, Hannah L, Svenning JC & McGill BJ (2019) The commonness of rarity: Global and future distribution of rarity across land plants. Science Advances, 5, eaaz0414. doi: 10.1126/sciadv.aaz0414.

Stévart T, Dauby G, Lowry PP, Blach-Overgaard A, Droissart V, Harris DJ, MacKinder BA, Schatz GE, Sonké B, Sosef MSM, Svenning JC, Wieringa JJ & Couvreur TLP (2019) A third of the tropical African flora is potentially threatened with extinction. Science Advances, 5, eaax9444. doi: 10.1126/sciadv.aax9444.

Press release (in French) : La synthèse de données au service de la flore tropicale africaine menacée

• FORCIS, Foraminifera Response to Climate Stress: evaluating biodiversity changes of calcifying zooplankton in response to multiple stressors

PI: Thibault de GARIDEL-THORON – CEREGE, CNRS (France)

Second meeting: 9th to 13th December 2019, next meeting: 11th to 15th May 2020.

New FORCIS Postdoc – Sonia CHAABANE

Sonia’s main missions are the management, standardization and homogenization of the global living planktonic foraminifera database, the improvements of the calibration of the foraminiferal models (e.g. FORAMCLIM) and / or to develop other modeling approaches with the group members. She will be based at CEREGE (Aix-en-Provence)

• FREE – co-funded by EDF, Causes and consequences of functional rarity from local to global scales

PIs: Cyrille VIOLLE – CEFE-CNRS (France); Caroline TUCKER – University of Colorado (USA)

Second Meeting: 13th to 17th May 2019, next meeting: 20th to 24th January 2020.

• JustConservation, Towards ‘just conservation’: linking theories and practices of justice in biodiversity conservation

PI: Brendan COOLSAET – Catholic University of Lille (France)

First Meeting: 10th to 14th June 2019, next meeting: 22nd to 26th June 2020.

Article on FRB’s website (in French). Inspiring biodiversity : “Comment le vieux porc Souabe a rendu leur dignité aux éleveurs allemands de Hohenlohe” 

• PARSEC, Building New Tools for Data Sharing and Re-use through a Transnational Investigation of the Socioeconomic Impacts of Protected Areas

PI: Nicolas MOUQUET – MARBEC, CNRS Montpellier, FRB (France)

First meeting: 7th to 11th of October 2019, next meeting: June 2020

PARSEC is funded by the Belmont Forum, selected after the call for projects on “Science-driven e-infrastructure Innovation (SEI)”. The project brings together several partners from France (FRB, University of Toulouse), Brazil (University of São Paulo), United States (American Geophysical Union – AGU) and Japan (National Institute of Information and Communications Technology – NIICT).

• SCORE-REEF – co-funded by AFB, Spatio-temporal variability of coral reefs at the global scale: causalities, idiosyncrasies and implications for ecological indicators

PIs: Valeriano PARRAVICCINI – EPHE (France); Mehdi ADJEROUD – IRD (France)

First Meeting: 23th to 27th September 2019, next meeting: 27th April to 1st May 2020.

New SCORE-REEF Postdoc – Simon BRANDL

Simon’s main research interests are in biodiversity and the functioning of marine ecosystems, particularly fish and tropical coral reefs. He received his PhD from James Cook University in Australia in 2016 and did two postdocs afterwards. He is based at EPHE (Perpignan).

• NETSEED – Finished in 2014

Strengthening management of agrobiodiversity through social networks: A cross- disciplinary method for analyzing how local seed systems impact the diversity of domesticated plants

PI: Doyle McKEY – University of Montpellier/CNRS (France)

The Interdisciplinary Methods on Seed Exchange Networks (MIRES) group, which started in 2012, has integrated more mathematicians and geneticists into its ranks. This group of 30 researchers includes nine NetSeed alumni, and of the six people leading this group, three are NetSeed alumni. In 2018, the GDR Réseaux, Sociétés et DiVersité (ReSoDiV) brings together 51 specialists from 15 UMR CNRS, IRD, CIRAD and INRA in human and social sciences and life sciences, nine of whom were involved in NetSeed. This network, in relation to NetSeed and MIRES, opens its themes on the movement of animals.

• RAINBIO – Finished in 2017

African biodiversity dynamics: interactions between ecological processes and conservation actions

PI: Thomas COUVREUR – IRD Montpellier (France)

Thomas Couvreur received an ECR grant of 1,950,000€ to work on the project GLOBAL: “Tropical rain forest diversification: a GLOBAL approach” for 5 years. The project aims to answer two main question: What evolutionary processes determine tropical rainforests (TRF) diversity? How will human-induced species losses impact the evolutionary history of TRF? In order to do so, the project will generate the largest most comprehensive datasets ever assembled for a major, ecologically important and species-rich pantropical model plant family: Annonaceae (~2500 species). GLOBAL will provide improved predictions of TRF evolution informing conservation policies, and set the new standard for next generation evolutionary studies of TRF evolution applicable to other key tropical groups. 

Working groups can find at CESAB the necessary means and space to organize one more meeting after the 3 years funding.

• PELAGIC – Project finished in 2017, After in 2019

Prioritizing ecologically significant and globally important marine conservation areas for vertebrates: synthesizing the best available knowledge to inform management and policy 

PI: David MOUILLOT – University of Montpellier (France)

• ACTIAS – Project finished in 2019, After in 2020

Global patterns of moth diversity, distribution and evolutionary distinctness

PI: Rodolphe ROUGERIE – MNHN (France)

• AFROBIODRIVERS – Project finished in 2019, After in 2020

African biodiversity dynamics: interactions between ecological processes and conservation actions

PI: Hervé FRITZ – CNRS, UCB Lyon (France)