Scientific projects

2023-2026 PI of the Biodiversa+ project (under the BiodivProtect call) INTEGRADIV - 7 european partners

2015-2020 PI of the CESAB / OT-Med Labex project : WOODIV - Origin and congruence of taxonomic, phylogenetic, functional and paleoecological diversity patterns : the model of European-Mediterranean woody plant biodiversity.
Funded by the CESAB and Labex OT-Med. Collaborative program involving 12 laboratories from 8 European countries.
https://www.fondationbiodiversite.fr/la-frb-en-action/programmes-et-projets/le-cesab/woodiv/
https://www.otmed.fr/research-projects-and-results/result-2437

2012-2013 PI of the F2IR project « French Mediterranean biodiversity facing global changes : current issues and future prospects », supervising a post-doctoral fellow who works on the identification of the factors driving taxonomic, functional and phylogenetic diversity patterns at the scale of French Mediterranean.
Project participation

2014-2015 Participation to the European Project (ENPI) GREAT-Med : Generating a Risk and Ecological Analysis Toolkit for the Mediterranean. Agathe Leriche works in collaboration with the post-doctoral fellowship to develop species distribution modelling framework and fragmentation analysis.

PhD and post-doc supervision

Since October 2023 - Post-doc - Manuel Cartereau (100% supervision) - Biodiversa+ funding
Efficient conservation of Mediterranean forests : an integrative assessment of the drivers and vulnerability of multi-taxa, multi-facet and multi-scale biodiversity patterns (INTEGRADIV)

Since 2022- Co-Supervisor of a PhD student, Charlotte Rault (with Y. Pinguet, A. Millon and A. Flitti)
Functional assemblage of bird communities : vulnerability to climate change and habitat alteration in the PACA region.

Since 2019- Co-Supervisor of a PhD student, Manuel Cartereau (with Pr. F. Médail and Dr Alex Baumel)
Extinction or persistence of trees in arid situations in the face of global changes ? Biogeographic modeling and conservation genomics approach applied to dragon trees.

2019 - Post-doc - Kévin Cilleros (100% supervision) - OT-Med funding
Finalization and structuring of the multi-faceted database of biodiversity and woody occurrences in the Euro-Mediterranean region ; phylogenetic and functional analyses of biodiversity ; congruence analyses ; analysis of drivers (contemporary / past, natural / anthropic) of the 3 facets of biodiversity.

2017/2019 - Post-doc - Anne-Christine Monnet (100%) - Funding CESAB/OT-Med
Database structuring and workflow ; collection of occurrence data ; literature review on the relevance for conservation of multi-faceted congruence analysis of biodiversity (over 10 years of publications)

2016 - Post-doc - Aggeliki Doxa (100%) - FI2R AMU funding
Analyses of multifaceted biodiversity on woody species in the Mediterranean (France)

Administrative responsabilities

Co-responsible of the 2nd year of the Adaptive Management of Biodiversity (GABi) finalization of the master’s degree in Biodiversity, Ecology, Evolution (BEE) of Aix Marseille University (already been in charge of this same finality (former model, speciality EEGB) from 2010 to 2016)
Member of the organization committee of the International Conference of Ecological Sciences SFE 2016
Co-leader of the PPM research team 2017 - 2023
Member of the site logistic commission at Arbois 2017 - 2023