Anthropogenic impacts on marine ecosystems

2016-01-01

Food webs form a complex network linking all organisms living in an ecosystem together. They can therefore acts as vectors, through which human-induced changes can propagate from one ecosystem compartment to another. In this context, part of my research focuses on impacts of human activities on marine ecosystems’ structure and function.

From 2012 to 2014, I was a postdoctoral researcher at the STARESO research station (Calvi, Corsica, France), where I was in charge the scientific management of a locally funded mutli-institutional research programme focusing on multiscale anthropogenic impacts on Mediterranean coastal zones.

Since then, I’ve worked on links between direct (e.g. pollution by organic or inorganic contaminants, eutrophication or habitat modification) or indirect (global change) anthropogenic perturbations and ecological interactions and/or food web structure in multiple polar, temperate or tropical marine and/or freshwater ecosystems.

Monitoring density of invasive algae, Corsica, 06/2012

Publications

Steiner N. S., Bowman J., Campbell K., Chierici M., Eronen-Rasimus E., Falardeau M., Flores H., Fransson A., Herr H., Insley S. J., Kauko H. M., Lannuzel D., Loseto L., Lynnes A., Majewski A., Meiners K. M., Miller L. A., Michel L. N., Moreau S., Nacke M., Nomura D., Tedesco L., van Franeker J. A., van Leeuwe M. A., Wongpan P (2021). Climate change impacts on sea-ice ecosystems and associated ecosystem services. Elementa: Science of the Anthropocene, 9 (1): 00007.

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Lins L., Zeppilli D., Menot L., Michel L. N., Bonfiácio P., Brandt M., Pape E., Rossel S., Uhlenkott K., Macheriotou L., Bezerra T. N., Sánchez N., Alfaro-Lucas J. M., Martinez Arbizu P., Kaiser S., Murakami C., Vanreusel A (2021). Toward a reliable assessment of potential ecological impacts of deep-sea polymetallic nodule mining on abyssal infauna. Limnology and Oceanography Methods, 19 (9): 626-650.

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Frotté L., Michel L. N., Lepoint G., Cordonnier S., Bezault E., Monti D (2021). Variability of amphidromous organism isotopic niches in three Guadeloupe rivers affected by damming and water catchment. Belgian Journal of Zoology, 151: 63-80.

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Padilha J. A., Carvalho G. O., Espejo W., Souza J. S., Pizzochero A. C., Cunha L. S. T., Costa E. S., Pessôa A. R. L., Almeida A. P., Torres J. P. M., Lepoint G., Michel L. N., Das K., Dorneles P. R (2021). Factors that influence trace element levels in blood and feathers of Pygoscelis penguins from South Shetland Islands, Antarctica. Environmental Pollution, 284: 117209.

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Yunda-Guarin G., Brown T. A., Michel L. N., Saint-Béat B., Amiraux R., Nozais C., Archambault P (2020). Reliance of deep-sea benthic macrofauna on ice-derived organic matter highlighted by multiple trophic markers during spring in Baffin Bay, Canadian Arctic. Elementa: Science of the Anthropocene, 8 (1): 047.

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Pinzone M.*, Damseaux F.*, Michel L. N., Das K (2019). Stable isotope ratios of carbon, nitrogen and sulphur and mercury concentrations as descriptors of trophic ecology and contamination sources of Mediterranean whales. Chemosphere, 237: 124448. *Shared first authorship.

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Pizzochero A. C., de la Torre A., Sanz P., Navarro I., Michel L. N., Lepoint G, Das K., Schnitzler J. G., Chenery S. R., McCarthy I. D., Malm O., Dorneles P. R., Martínez M. A (2019). Occurrence of legacy and emerging organic pollutants in whitemouth croakers from Southeastern Brazil. Science of The Total Environment, 682: 719-728.

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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.

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Włodarska‐Kowalczuk M., Aune M., Michel L. N., Zaborska A., Legeżyńska J (2019). Is the trophic diversity of marine benthic consumers decoupled from taxonomic and functional trait diversity? Isotopic niches of Arctic communities. Limnology and Oceanography, 65 (5): 2140-2151.

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Latli A., Michel L. N., Lepoint G., Kestemont P (2019). River habitat homogenisation enhances trophic competition and promotes individual specialisation among young of the year fish. Freshwater Biology, 64 (3): 520-531.

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Saucède T., Guillaumot C., Michel L. N., Fabri-Ruiz S., Bazin A., Cabessut M., García-Berro A., Mateos A., Mathieu O., De Ridder C., Dubois P., Danis B., David B., Díaz A., Lepoint G., Motreuil S., Poulin E., Féral J.-P (2019). Modeling species response to climate change in Sub-Antarctic islands: Echinoids as a case study for the Kerguelen Plateau. In: Welsford, D., J. Dell and G. Duhamel (Eds). The Kerguelen Plateau: marine ecosystem and fisheries. Proceedings of the Second Symposium: 95-116.

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Jankowska E., Michel L. N., Lepoint G., Włodarska-Kowalczuk M (2019). Stabilizing effects of seagrass meadows on coastal water benthic food webs. Journal of Experimental Marine Biology and Ecology, 510: 54-63.

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Jankowska E., De Troch M., Michel L. N., Lepoint G., Włodarska-Kowalczuk M (2018). Modification of benthic food web structure by recovering seagrass meadows, as revealed by trophic markers and mixing models. Ecological Indicators, 90: 28-37.

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Gajdzik L., Parmentier E., Michel L. N., Sturaro N., Soong K., Lepoint G., Frédérich B (2018). Similar levels of trophic and functional diversity within damselfish assemblages across Indo-Pacific coral reefs. Functional Ecology, 32 (5): 1358-1369.

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Jankowska E., Michel L. N., Zaborska A., Włodarska-Kowalczuk M (2016). Sediment carbon sink in low-density temperate eelgrass meadows (Baltic Sea). Journal of Geophysical Research: Biogeosciences, 121 (12): 2918-2934.

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Giakoumi S., Halpern B. S., Michel L. N., Gobert S., Sini M., Boudouresque C.-F., Gambi M.-C., Katsanevakis S., Lejeune P., Montefalcone M., Pergent G., Pergent-Martini C., Sanchez-Jerez P., Velimirov B., Vizzini S., Abadie A., Coll M., Guidetti P., Micheli F., Possingham H. P (2015). Towards a framework for assessment and management of cumulative human impacts on marine food webs. Conservation Biology 29 (4): 1228-1234.

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