Students

PhD students

Oct 2019- PhD Camille Bernery

Hello! I’m Camille Bernery. After a master of modelling in ecology at Rennes, I did an internship on the impact of climate change on the lion distribution in the BioM team. I’m now working on freshwater fish invasions in the same team but as a PhD student, supervised by Boris Leroy, Céline Bellard et Franck Courchamp. The main goal of my PhD project is to understand the factors impacting the invasion success of freshwater fishes at a global scale, identifying the invasive species characteristics and the invaded region characteristics. The long-term goal of my PhD is to build future scenarios of invasion gathering all the factors we have identified. I am also very interested in science popularization, and I have done a doctoral mission at the Palais de la découverte in order to increase the public awareness on biodiversity threats, including biological invasions.

Bernery C., Bellard C., Courchamp F., Brosse S., Gozlan R.E., Jarić I., et al. 2022 Freshwater fish invasions: A comprehensive review. Annual Review of Ecology, Evolution, and Systematics 53:1, 427–456.
C. Bellard, C. Bernery, C. Leclerc. Global Change Biology, 2021 Looming extinctions due to invasive species: Irreversible loss of ecological strategy and evolutionary history
What is the recorded economic cost of alien invasive fishes worldwide?
C. Bernery*; P. J Haubrock*; R. N. Cuthbert*; C. Liu; M. Kourantidou; B. Leroy; A. J. Turbelin; A. M. Kramer; L. Verbrugge; C. Diagne; F. Courchamp; R. E. Gozlan. STOTEN, 2021.

Sept 2020- PhD Clara Marino

I am a PhD student at the ESE lab in the BioM team, and I work under the supervision of Céline Bellard. The main objective of my PhD is to understand the functional consequences of biological invasions on terrestrial vertebrates on a global scale in a context of climate change. I was trained in fundamental ecology by the Master’s degree of Sorbonne Université (Ecology, Biodiversity, Evolution), doing my M2 internship on the consequences of biological invasions on insular endemic mammals. Before starting my PhD, I did a second Master’s degree in human geography (Biodiversity, Territoires, Environment), in order to have a better understanding of the current societal challenges of biodiversity conservation.

Bellard, C., Marino, C. & Courchamp, F. (2022) Ranking threats to biodiversity and why it doesn’t matter. Nature Communications in press, https://doi.org/10.1038/s41467-022-30339-y
Marino, C., Leclerc, C., & Bellard, C. (2022). Profiling insular vertebrates prone to biological invasions: What makes them vulnerable? Global Change Biology, 28, 1077– 1090.

Oct 2016-19 PhD Camille Leclerc (personal website): « Impacts of past, current and future threats on insular biodiversity”

Leclerc C., Magneville C. & Bellard C. (Early view). Conservation hotspots of insular endemic mammalian diversity at risk of extinction across a multidimensional approach. Diversity and Distributions, in press
Marino C., Leclerc C. & Bellard C. (2022). Profiling insular vertebrates prone to biological invasions: what makes them vulnerable?. Global Change Biology, 28 (3): 1077-1090.
Bellard C., Bernery C. & Leclerc C. (2021). Looming extinctions due to invasive species: Irreversible loss of ecological strategy and evolutionary history. Global Change Biology, 27 (20): 4967-4979.
Leclerc C., Courchamp F. & Bellard C. (2020). Future climate change vulnerability of endemic island mammals. Nature Communications, 11: 4943.
Leclerc C., Villéger S., Marino C. & Bellard C. (2020). Global changes threaten functional and taxonomic diversity of insular species worldwide. Diversity and Distributions, 26 (4): 402-414. Editor’s choice