Yoann Pinguet

CR CNRS

Institut Méditerranéen de Biodiversité et d’Écologie Marine et Continentale (IMBE)
UMR IMBE | Aix Marseille Université, CNRS, IRD, Avignon Université

mail: yoann.pinguet@imbe.fr

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Biosketch

I am a plant community ecologist. I conduct my researches in a wide range of ecosystems including calcareous, subalpine and alpine grasslands, coastal sand dunes, drylands and aquatic plant communities.

My research aims to identify the mechanisms driving plant diversity in response to global change drivers (climate and land-use changes, eutrophication of lakes). Currently my work deals with different study scales: individual, community and ecosystem levels.

My research uses quantitative functional trait data to assess how biotic interactions and assembly rules 1) determine plant diversity and distributions and 2) ultimately affect ecosystem functioning.

Such an approach enables (i) to understand community responses to environmental drivers, (ii) to predict community feedbacks on ecosystems and (iii) to understand underlying ecological mechanisms, such as the importance of abiotic constraints and biotic interactions.

Key-words: assembly rules, biotic interactions, community ecology, environmental drivers, functional traits, plant diversity.

CV

RESEARCH POSITIONS

Since 2018 Researcher at CNRS

Keywords: community assembly, climate change, desertification, ecosystem multifunctionality, ecosystem thresholds, functional diversity, land-use changes, phylogenetic diversity.
Approaches: observational.
Systems: drylands.
IMBE, Aix – Marseille University, France.

2017 - 2018 Post-doctoral position

Keywords: community assembly, climate change, desertification, ecosystem multifunctionality, ecosystem thresholds, functional diversity, land-use changes, phylogenetic diversity.
Approaches: observational.
Systems: drylands.
Fernando Maestre’s lab, University Rey Juan Carlos, Spain.

2015 - 2017 Marie Skłodowska-Curie fellow: H2020 - Individual Fellowship (IF), DRYFUN project, n° 656035

Keywords: community assembly, desertification, ecosystem multifunctionality, ecosystem thresholds, functional diversity, large-scale gradients, phylogenetic diversity.
Approaches: observational.
Systems: drylands.
Fernando Maestre’s lab, University Rey Juan Carlos, Spain.

2012 - 2015 Post-doctoral position

Keywords: community assembly, functional biogeography, functional diversity, large-scale gradients, phylogenetic diversity.
Approaches: observational.
Systems: alpine grasslands, drylands, limestone grasslands.
Jan Leps’ lab, University of South Bohemia, the Czech Republic.

2010 – 2012 Post-doctoral position

Keywords: community assembly, disturbance, local stress gradients, plant interactions, taxonomic diversity.
Approaches: experimental (field experiments).
Systems: subalpine grasslands, calcareous grasslands, sand dune forests.
Richard Michalet’s lab, University of Bordeaux, France.

2007 – 2010 University thesis (PhD)

Keywords: alternative states, ecosystem thresholds, eutrophication, grazing, nutrient manipulation, plant interactions, species distributions.
Approaches: experimental (mesocosm experiments).
Systems: freshwater ecosystems.
Dietmar Straile’s lab, University of Constance, Germany.

2005 – 2006 Master degree (2nd year)

Keywords: community ecology, nutrient manipulation, plant interactions, water manipulation.
Approaches: experimental (field experiments).
Systems: coastal sand dunes.
Richard Michalet’s lab, University of Bordeaux, France.

2004 – 2005 Master degree (1st year)

Keywords: functional diversity, land use, mycorrhiza, nutrient manipulation, plant interactions, plant-soil interactions.
Approaches: experimental (field and pot experiments).
Systems: subalpine grasslands.
Sandra Lavorel’s lab, University of Grenoble, France.

PRICES, AWARDS, FELLOWSHIPS

Marie Skłodowska-Curie Individual Fellowship 2014 University Rey Juan Carlos, Mostoles, Spain

UNIVERSITY DEGREES

2010 PhD position in Plant Ecology (University of Constance, Germany)

Title: Indirect facilitation as a structuring mechanism of submersed aquatic plants: a buffering role under abiotic and biotic constraints.
Date of PhD defense: 22nd October 2010

2006 Master in Plant Ecology and Ecophysiology Sciences

Post-graduate Degree: University of Bordeaux (with honours).
Master’s Degree: University of Grenoble (with honours).

GENERAL SKILLS

Languages French (mother tongue), English (fluent), German (fluent), Spanish and Czech (basic level)

Study systems dryland, Mediterranean, alpine and subalpine, grasslands, coastal sand dunes, freshwater systems

Diversities functional (intra- and interspecific), phylogenetic, taxonomic

Approaches observational and experimental (field, mesocosm and pot)

Experimental designs nested designs, full factorial designs

Statistic softwares JMP 9.0, R Core Team 2012 (v. 3.3.2)

Statistics linear and non linear regression models, mixed effect models, multiple regression models, SMA models, partial regression models, structural equation models (SEM), nested SEM, multivariate analyses, random forest analyses, split-plot ANOVAs.

R packages ade4, FD, glmulti, lavaan, lme4, MuMin, picante, sem, vegan.

EDITORIAL RESPONSABILITIES

Associate Editor of Journal of Ecology (IF: 5.81) handling manuscripts in community ecology on all aspects of functional and phylogenetic diversities

Reviewer for research papers (N = 61) Annals of Botany (1), Biology Letters (1), Ecography (2), Ecology (2), Ecology and Evolution (2), Flora (2), Folia Geobotanica (2), Forest Ecology and Management (1), Freshwater Biology (1), Functional Ecology (4), Fundamental and Applied Limnology (1), Global Ecology and Biogeography (1), Journal of Applied Ecology (1), Journal of Arid Environment (2), Journal of Ecology (4), Journal of Vegetation Science (7), New Phytologist (1), Oecologia (2), Oikos (8), PeerJ (1), Plant and Soil (2), Plant Ecology (1), Plant Ecology and Diversity (1), PlosOne (6), Rethinking Ecology (1), Science (1), Science of the Total Environment (1), Scientific Reports (1), Trends in Ecology and Evolution (1)

Reviewer for research proposals (N = 1) Icelandic Research Fund (IRF, August 2014)

Chairman Session “Dryland Ecology: Advances and perspectives“, ECOSSUMIT 2016, Montpellier, France

Invited conferences (N = 4)
« Functional diversity and trait distributions in ecological researches », IDiv (Leipzig, 2019).
« Trait distributions and ecosystem multifunctionality in global drylands », Biodiversity Exploratories workshop (Tübingen, 2016).
« Plant trait distributions and the functioning of global drylands», IMBE (Marseille, 2016).
« Plant trait distributions and ecosystem functioning», INRA-UREP (Clermont-Ferrand, 2016).

Programmes de recherche

P.I. of the ECOPRINCE project « Applying an ecological principle to link multitrophic biodiversity to ecosystem services under climate change » (2019 - 2021) – Funding: ANR MRSEI, France (29 700 EUR). Set-up and coordination of a European consortium (10 countries)

P.I. of the DRYFUN project « Linking plant functional diversity to ecosystem multifunctionality in arid systems worldwide » (2015 - 2017) – Funding: Europe, Marie Skłodowska-Curie Individual Fellowship – Project N° 656035 (172 000 EUR). Development / coordination of a global trait database in drylands worldwide (29 countries)

Assistant-coordinator of the BIODESERT project (pilot and strategy committees) « Assessing the impacts of grazing and climate change in global drylands » (2015-2020), P.I. Dr. FT. Maestre – Funding: Europe, ERC Consolidator Grant. (29 countries)

Member of the BIODIVERSITY EXPLORATORIES (synthesis committee) « Exploratories for large-scale and long-term functional biodiversity research » (2007 -présent), P.I. Dr. M. Fischer – Funding: DFG Priority Programme 1374, Germany

Participant of the O2LA Project « Organisms and locally adapted organisations » (2010 – 2012) P.I. Dr. L. Hazard – Funding: ANR, France.

Publications

2020

36. Le Provost G., Badenhauser I., Le Bagousse-Pinguet Y., Clough Y., Henckel L., Violle C., Bretagnolle V., Roncoroni M., Manning P., Gross N. Land-use history impacts functional diversity across trophic groups. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America, 117: 1573-1579.

35. Kattge J. et al. TRY plant trait database – enhanced coverage and open access. Global Change Biology, 26: 119-188.

2019

34. Le Bagousse-Pinguet Y., Soliveres S., Gross N., Torices R., Berdugo M., Maestre F.T. Phylogenetic, functional and taxonomic richness have both positive and negative effects on ecosystem multifunctionality. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America, 116: 8419-8424.

33. Saiz H., Le Bagousse-Pinguet Y., Gross N., Maestre F.T. Intransitivity increases plant functional diversity by limiting dominance in drylands worldwide. Journal of Ecology, 107: 204-252.

32. Berdugo M., Maestre F.T., Kéfi S., Gross N., Le Bagousse-Pinguet Y., Soliveres S. Aridity preferences alter the relative importance of abiotic and biotic drivers on plant species abundance in global drylands. Journal of Ecology, 107: 190-202.

2018

31. Le Bagousse-Pinguet Y., Liancourt P., Götzenberger L., de Bello F., Altman J., Brozova V., Chlumska Z., Dvorsky M., Capkova K., Kopecky M., Rehakova K., Riha P., Leps J., Dolezal J. A multi-scale approach reveals random phylogenetic patterns at the edge of vascular plant life. Perspectives in Plant Ecology, Evolution and Systematics, 30: 22-30.

30. Ochoa-Hueso R. et al. Soil fungal abundance and plant functional traits drive fertile island formation in global drylands. Journal of Ecology, 106: 242-253.

29. Li Y. et al. Habitat filtering determines the functional niche occupancy of plant communities worldwide. Journal of Ecology, 106: 1001-1009.

2017

28. Le Bagousse-Pinguet Y., Gross N., Maestre F.T, Maire V., de Bello F., Fonseca CR., Kattge J., Valencia E., Leps J., Liancourt P. Testing the environmental filtering concept in global drylands. Journal of Ecology, 105: 1058-1069.

27. Gross N.*, Le Bagousse-Pinguet Y.*, Liancourt P.*, Berdugo M., Gotelli N.J., Maestre F.T. Functional trait diversity maximizes ecosystem multifunctionality. Nature Ecology and Evolution, 1: 0132.
* equal contribution.

26. Liancourt P., Le Bagousse-Pinguet Y., Rixen C., Dolezal, J. SGH: Stress or Strain Gradient Hypothesis? Insights from an elevation gradient on the roof of the world. Annals of Botany, 120: 29-38.

2016

25. Májeková M., Taavi Paal T., Plowman NS., Bryndová M., Kasari L., Norberg A., Weiss M., Bishop TR., Luke SH., Sam K., Le Bagousse-Pinguet Y., Lepš J., Götzenberger L., de Bello F. Evaluating Functional Diversity: Missing Trait Data and the Importance of Species Abundance Structure and Data Transformation. PlosOne, e0149270.
From the course “creative publishing” led by Le Bagousse-Pinguet Y., Lepš J., Götzenberger L. and de Bello F (cf CV).

24. Volf M., Redmond C., Albert A.J., Le Bagousse-Pinguet Y., Biella P., Götzenberger L., Hrazsky Z., Janecek S., Klimesova J., Leps J., Sebelikova L., Vlasata T., de Bello F. Effects of long- and short-term management on the functional structure of meadows through species turn-over and intraspecific trait variability. Oecologia, 180 : 941-950.
From the course “creative publishing” led by Le Bagousse-Pinguet Y., Lepš J., Götzenberger L. and de Bello F (cf CV).

23. Noumi Z., Chaieb M., Le Bagousse-Pinguet Y., Michalet R. The relative contribution of short-term vs. long-term effects in shrub-understory species interactions under arid conditions. Oecologia, 180: 529-542.

2015

22. Le Bagousse-Pinguet Y., Börger L., Quéro J-L., Garcia-Gomez M., Soriano S., Maestre F.T., Gross N. Traits of neighbouring plants and space limitation determine intraspecific trait variability in semi-arid shrublands. Journal of Ecology, 103: 1647-1657.

21. Kelemen A., Lazzaro L., Besnyoi V., Albert A-J., Konecna M., Dobay G., Memelink I., Adamec V., Götzenberger L., de Bello F., Le Bagousse-Pinguet Y., Leps J. Net outcome of competition and facilitation changes with life stage and productivity in a wet meadow. Preslia, 87: 347-361.
From the course “creative publishing” led by Le Bagousse-Pinguet Y., Lepš J., Götzenberger L. and de Bello F (cf CV).

20. Valencia E., Maestre F.T., Le Bagousse-Pinguet Y., Quero J.L., Tamme R., Börger L., Garcia-Gomez M., Gross N. Functional diversity enhances the resistance of ecosystem multifunctionality to aridity in Mediterranean drylands. New Phytologist, 206: 660-671.

19. Kumordzi B.B., de Bello F., Freschet G.T., Le Bagousse-Pinguet Y., Leps J., Wardle D. Linkage of plant trait space to successional age and species richness in boreal understorey vegetation. Journal of Ecology, 103: 1610-1620.

18. Carabajal-Paladino L., Muntaabski I., Lanzavecchia S., Le Bagousse-Pinguet Y., Viscarret M., Juri M., Fueyo-Sanchez L., Papeschi A., Cladera J., Bressa MJ. Complementary sex determination in the parasitic wasp Diachasmimorpha longicaudata. PlosOne, e0119619.

17. Siefert A, Violle C, Chalmandrier L., Albert CA., Taudiere A., Fajardo A., Aarssen LW., Baraloto C., Carlucci MB., Cianciaruso MV., Dantas VL., de Bello F., Duarte LDS., Fonseca CR., Freschet GT., Gaucherand S., Gross N., Hikosaka K., Jackson B., Jung V., Kamiyama C., Katabuchi M., Kembel SW., Kichenin E., Kraft NJB., Lagerström A., Le Bagousse‐Pinguet Y., Li Y., Mason N., Messier J., Nakashizuka T., McC Overton J., Peltzer DA., Pérez‐Ramos IM., Pillar VD., Prentice HC., Richardson S., Sasaki T, Schamp BS., Schöb C., Shipley B., Sundqvist M., Sykes MT., Vandewalle M., Wardle DA. A global meta-analysis of the relative extent of intra-specific trait variation in plant communities. Ecology Letters, 18: 1406-1419.

2014

16. Le Bagousse-Pinguet Y., Maalouf JP., Touzard B., Michalet R. Importance, but not intensity of plant interactions relates to species diversity under the interplay of stress and disturbance. Oïkos 123: 777-785.
Selected as editor’s choice.

15. Le Bagousse-Pinguet Y., de Bello F., Vandewalle M., Leps J., Sykes M. Species richness of limestone grasslands increases with trait overlap: evidence from within- and between-species functional diversity partitioning. Journal of Ecology 102: 466-474.

14. Le Bagousse-Pinguet Y., Xiao, S., Brooker R.W., Gross N., Liancourt P., Straile D., Michalet R. 2014. Facilitation displaces hot-spots of diversity and allows communities to persist in heavily stressed and disturbed environments. Journal of Vegetation Science 25: 66-76.

13. Michalet R., Le Bagousse-Pinguet Y., Maalouf JP., Lortie C. The two alternatives to the Stress- Gradient-Hypothesis at the edge of life: the collapse of facilitation and the switch from facilitation to competition. Journal of Vegetation Science 25: 609-613.

12. Al Hayek P., Touzard B., Le Bagousse-Pinguet Y., Michalet R. Phenotypic differentiation within a foundation grass species correlates with species richness in a subalpine community. 2014. Oecologia, 176: 533-544.

11. Schöb C., Michalet R., Cavieres LA., Pugnaire FI., Brooker RW., Butterfield BJ., Cook BJ., Kikvidze Z., Lortie CJ., Xiao S., Al Hayek P., Anthelme F., Cranston BH., Garcia M-C., Le Bagousse-Pinguet Y., Reid AM., le Roux PC., Lingua E., Nyakatya MJ., Touzard B., Zhao L., Callaway RM. 2014. A global analysis of bi-directional interactions in alpine communities shows facilitators experiencing strong reciprocal fitness costs. New Phytologist 202: 95-105.

2013

10. Le Bagousse-Pinguet Y., Forey E., Touzard B., Michalet R. Disentangling the effects of water and nutrients for studying the outcome of plant interactions in sand dune systems. Journal of Vegetation Science 24: 375-383.

9. Muhamed H., Touzard B., Le Bagousse-Pinguet Y., Michalet R. The role of biotic interactions for the early establishment of oak seedlings in coastal dune forest communities. Forest Ecology and Management 297: 67-74.

8. Gross N., Soriano-Morales S., Börger L., Le Bagousse-Pinguet Y., Quero J.L., Garcia-Gomez M., Valencia-Gomez E., Maestre F.T. Uncovering multi-scale effects of aridity and biotic interactions on the functional structure of Mediterranean shrublands. Journal of Ecology 101: 637-649.

2012

7. Le Bagousse-Pinguet Y., Liancourt P., Gross N., Straile D. Indirect facilitation promotes macrophyte survival and growth in freshwater ecosystems threatened by eutrophication. Journal of Ecology 100: 530-538.

6. Le Bagousse-Pinguet Y., Gross E., Straile D. Release from competition and protection determine the outcome of plant interactions along a grazing gradient. Oïkos 121: 95-101.

5. Maalouf J.P., Le Bagousse-Pinguet Y., Marchand L., Touzard B., Michalet R. The interplay of stress and mowing disturbance for the intensity and importance of plant interactions in dry calcareous grasslands. Annals of Botany 110: 821-828.

4. Fridley J., Grime J.P., Huston M.A., Pierce S., Smart S.M., Thompson K., Börger L., Brooker R.W., Bruno E.L., Gross N., Liancourt P., Michalet M., Le Bagousse-Pinguet Y. Comment on “Productivity is a poor predictor of plant species richness”. Science 335: 1441.

3. Maalouf J.P., Le Bagousse-Pinguet Y., Marchand L., Bachelier E., Touzard B., Michalet R. Integrating climate change into calcareous grassland management. Journal of Applied Ecology 49: 795-802.

2010

2. Gross N., Le Bagousse-Pinguet Y., Liancourt P., Urcelay C., Roumet C., Lavorel S. Trait-mediated effect of arbuscular mycorrhiza on the competitive effect and response of a monopolistic species. Functional Ecology 24: 1122-1132.

2008

1. Gross N., Lavorel S., Robson T.M., Albert C., Le Bagousse-Pinguet Y., Guillemin R. Plant response traits mediate the effect of subalpine grassland on soil moisture. New Phytologist 180: 652-662.

PREPRINTS

2. Berdugo M, Maestre F.T., Kefi S., Gross N., Le Bagousse-Pinguet Y. *, Soliveres S. 2017. Species-specific adaptations determine how aridity and biotic interactions drive the assembly of dryland plant communities. BioRxiv, doi: https://doi.org/10.1101/147181.

1. Le Bagousse-Pinguet Y. *, Liancourt P.*, Gross N.*, de Bello F., Fonseca CR., Kattge J., Valencia E., Leps J., Maestre F.T. 2016. Climate, topography and soil factors interact to drive community trait distributions in global drylands. PeerJ, doi: 10.7287/peerj.preprints.1913v1.

BOOK CHAPTERS

1. D’Amico F., Bardonnet A., Delzon S., Michalet R., Vles V., Berroneau M., Largier G., Le Bagousse- Pinguet Y., Maalouf J.P., Sota A., Touzard B., Urcun J.P. (2013) Chapitre 7 : La montagne, In: Le Treut H. (coord.) : Les impacts du changement climatique en Aquitaine. Un état des lieux scientifique. Presses Universitaires de Bordeaux, LGPA-Editions, Pessac.

Communications orales et posters

Le Bagousse-Pinguet Y. et al. How species assemble through their functional traits governs ecosystem multifunctionality across biomes. BES Meeting, Belfast, UK, 2019. Oral presentation.

Le Bagousse-Pinguet Y. Functional diversity and trait distributions in ecological researches », IDiv, Leipzig, 2019. Oral présentation (Invited talk).

Le Bagousse-Pinguet Y. et al. Phylogenetic, functional and taxonomic richness are key drivers of ecosystem multifunctionality. BES Meeting, Birmingham, UK, 2018. Oral presentation.

Le Bagousse-Pinguet Y. et al. Testing the environmental filtering concept in global drylands. MEDECOS-AEET Meeting, Seville, Spain, 2017. Oral presentation.

Le Bagousse-Pinguet Y. et al. Functional trait diversity maximizes ecosystem multifunctionality in global drylands. Observatories Workshop, Tübingen, Germany, 2016. Oral presentation (Invited talk).

Le Bagousse-Pinguet Y. et al. Functional trait diversity maximizes ecosystem multifunctionality in global drylands. SFE Meeting, Marseille, France, 2016. Oral presentation.

Le Bagousse-Pinguet Y. Trait distributions in plant communities and ecosystem functioning in global drylands. IMBE, Marseille, France, 2016. Oral presentation (Invited talk).

Le Bagousse-Pinguet Y. et al. Functional trait diversity maximizes ecosystem multifunctionality in global drylands. ECOSUMMIT Meeting, Montpellier, France, 2016. Oral presentation.

Le Bagousse-Pinguet Y. Trait distributions in plant communities and ecosystem functioning. INRA-UREP, Clermont-Ferrand, France, 2016. Oral presentation (Invited talk).

Le Bagousse-Pinguet Y. et al. Climate, topography and soil factors interact to drive community trait distributions in global drylands. IAVS Meeting, Brno, the Czech Republic, 2015. Oral presentation.

Le Bagousse-Pinguet Y. et al. Climate and topo-edaphic conditions drive community trait distributions in global drylands. BES-SFE Meeting, Lille, France, 2014. Oral presentation.

Le Bagousse-Pinguet Y. et al. The dark side of phylogenetic conservatism at the edge of life. Czech Academy of Sciences, Trebon, the Czech Republic, 2014. Oral presentation.

Le Bagousse-Pinguet Y. et al. Rainfall and neighbouring plant traits interact to determine intra-specific trait variability in semi-arid shrublands. Czech Academy of Sciences, Trebon, the Czech Republic, 2013. Oral presentation.

Le Bagousse-Pinguet Y. et al. Phylodiversity at the edge of life: the matter of species pool, elevation and plant interactions. GFÖ Meeting, Potsdam, Germany, 2013. Oral presentation.

Michalet R., Le Bagousse-Pinguet Y., Maalouf J.P. The contribution of local-scale facilitative interactions for community diversity and composition. INTECOL Symposium, London, UK, 2013. Oral presentation.

Le Bagousse-Pinguet Y. et al. Species richness increases with trait overlap in limestone grasslands. IAVS Meeting, Tartu, Estonia, 2013. Oral presentation.

Le Bagousse-Pinguet Y. et al. Interacting effects of a water stress gradient and mowing on the functional structure of subalpine grasslands. SYSTERA Meeting, Toulouse, France, 2011. Oral presentation.

Le Bagousse-Pinguet Y. et al. Changes in plant interactions along grazing disturbance gradients in a freshwater ecosystem. SFB Symposium: The role of Littoral processes in Lake Ecology, Constance, Germany, 2010. Poster.

Straile D., Miler O., Eschenbächer S., Le Bagousse-Pinguet Y. Foodweb interaction in macrophyte beds. SFB Symposium: The role of Littoral processes in Lake Ecology, Constance, Germany, 2010. Oral presentation.

Le Bagousse-Pinguet Y. et al. Linking biodiversity to plant interactions along biotic disturbance and environmental severity gradients: using a response surface model. BES Symposium: Facilitation in Plant Communities, Aberdeen, UK, 2009. Poster.

Le Bagousse-Pinguet Y. et al. Experimental evidence for a littoral trophic cascade in macrophyte beds. ASLO Meeting, Nice, France, 2009. Oral presentation.

Le Bagousse-Pinguet Y. et al. Experimental evidence for a littoral trophic cascade in macrophyte beds. Oikos Meeting, Lund, Sweden, 2008. Poster.

Michalet R., Forey E., Touzard B., Le Bagousse-Pinguet Y., Gross N., Liancourt P. 2007. Biotic interactions in water-stressed environments. OPTIMA, Pisa, Italia, 2007. Oral presentation.