Ifremer Brittany
I’m a marine ecologist broadly interested in how food web structure and trophic interactions influence ecosystem functioning and biodiversity. I’m also interested in how natural or anthropogenic environmental variations impact animal feeding, and how ecological plasticity mediates marine consumers’ response to change. I mostly tackle those issues by using polar and deep-sea benthic invertebrates as ecological models, and by developing approaches based on trophic markers, notably stable isotopes.
PhD in Biology of Organisms and Ecology, 2011
MAS in Oceanology, 2007
MSc in Animal Biology, 2005
Right on time for the holiday break, our newest paper is out in Elementa: Science of the Anthropocene. It was lead by Gustavo …
It is a great pleasure to finally introduce DeepIso (A global open database of stable isotope ratios and elemental contents for …
Last weekend (03-05/10/2020), alongside many Ifremer and Océanopolis colleagues, we hosted the “20 Mo under the seas” event …
We just received the amazing news that our project ARDECO (Assessing Resilience of DEep COrals) was selected for funding by the French …
2020-09-15 Projects, Funding
In November 2018, we hosted the “ Lipids in the ocean: Structure, function, ecological role and applications” conference in …
Couturier L. I. E.*, Michel L. N.*, Amaro T., Budge S. M., da Costa E., De Troch M., Di Dato V., Fink P., Giraldo C., Le Grand F., Loaiza I., Mathieu-Resuge M., Nichols P. D., Parrish C. C., Sardenne F., Vagner M., Pernet F., Soudant P (2020). State of the art and best practices for fatty acid analyses in aquatic sciences. ICES Journal of Marine Science, 77 (7-8): 2375-2395. Paper selected as Editor’s Choice. *Shared first authorship.
Alfaro Lucas J. M., Pradillon F., Zeppilli D., Michel L. N., Martinez Arbizu P., Tanaka H., Foviaux M., Sarrazin J (2020). High environmental stress and productivity increase functional diversity along a deep-sea hydrothermal vent gradient. Ecology, 101 (11): e03144..
Le Bourg B., Lepoint G., Michel L. N (2020). Effects of preservation methodology on stable isotope compositions of sea stars. Rapid Communications in Mass Spectrometry, 34 (2): e8589.
Dehnhard N., Achurch H., Clarke J., Michel L. N., Southwell C., Sumner M. D., Eens M., Emmerson L (2020). High inter‐ and intraspecific niche overlap among three sympatrically breeding, closely related seabird species: Generalist foraging as an adaptation to a highly variable environment?. Journal of Animal Ecology, 89 (1): 104-119.
Michel L. N., Danis B., Dubois P., Eleaume M., Fournier J., Gallut C., Jane P., Lepoint G (2019). Increased sea ice cover alters food web structure in East Antarctica. Scientific Reports, 9: 8062.
Deep Environment Laboratory / Laboratoire Environnement Profond (LEP)
Ifremer Brittany / Ifremer Centre de Bretagne
ZI de la Pointe du Diable, CS 10070
Building Emile Postel, 1st floor, room 217B.01.29