RESEARCH INTERESTS
I am particularly interested by the role of dispersal in metapopulations and metacommunities. My objective is to seek how individual variability in dispersal moulds metapopulations and metacommunities and drives their dynamics and evolution, and what this means for biological diversity. Current research projects focus on (1) the genomic of dispersal phenotypic variation, and its consequences on metapopulation dynamics, and (2) the modelling of dispersal in fragmented landscapes.
SUMMARY C.V.
Personal information: born 22/05/1961, dual citizenship Belgian - French
Education
· 1992. PhD, Zoological Sciences: PhD thesis: Habitat selection of forest Carabid beetles, summa cum laude, Dept Biology, Fac. Sciences, Univ. Louvain, Belgium
· 1984. Master, Biological Sciences. MSc thesis: Characterization of the transcription promoters of the broad spectrum plasmid RSF 1010, summa cum laude, Institute de Duve, Univ. Louvain, Belgium
Current positions
· 2006 –2019. First tier Professor, Institute of Systematics, Biodiversity, Evolution (CNRS UMR 7205), Muséum National d'Histoire Naturelle, Paris, France
· 2010 –2019. On secondment to the Experimental Ecology Research Station of the CNRS in Moulis (CNRS USR 2936), Moulis, France
Previous positions
· 1987–2007. Dept Biology, Fac. Sciences, Univ. Louvain, Belgium (1987-1992: Research and teaching assistant, 1992–1995: Postdoctoral researcher, 1995–1998: Lecturer, 1998–2003: Senior Lecturer, 2003–2007: Full Professor)
Fellowship and awards
· 2008–2011. Scientific excellence fellowship from the Ministry of Higher Education and Research, France
· 2006 . Jean Lebrun award from the Royal Academy of Sciences, Belgium
· 2002. Research award from the Univ. Louvain Research Fund, Belgium
· 2000. Nature Conservation research award from the Walloon Region, Belgium
· 1984–1987. PhD research fellow, Fund for research and education within industry and agriculture, Belgium
Supervision of graduate students and postdoctoral fellows
· 1995–2007. Supervised 5 Postdocs/4 PhD Students, Dept Biology, Univ. Louvain
· 1995–2014. Supervised 5 Postdocs/4 PhD Students, Muséum National d'Histoire Naturelle, Paris
· 2010–2015. Supervised 5 Postdocs/1PhD Student, CNRS, Moulis
· 73% of the postdocs have a permanent position in research; 18% are still on postdoc positions
Teaching activities
· 1995–2007: 200– 300 hours/year at the Univ. Louvain at different levels (BSc, MSc, PhD) in various fields (general zoology, general ecology, field ecology, evolution, population biology, conservation biology etc.)
· 2007–2015: 5–60 hours/year at the Univ. Paris 6, Univ. Toulouse 3 or at the Muséum National d'Histoire Naturelle at the MSc or PhD levels in spatial ecology, evolutionary ecology and conservation biology
Organisation of scientific meetings (selection)
· · 2012: Organizer, Workshop "Dispersal: experimental approach, inter-individual heterogeneity", Dispersal Informal Network, Moulis, France, October 7-11
· · 2007: Organizer, Congress “Dispersal”, Paris, France, December 5-6
· · 2007: Organizer, Workshop “Dispersal: from theory to practice”, Dispersal Informal Network, Brunoy, December 3-5
· · 2007: Co-organizer of the session “Butterfly movements” at the Biobutterfly - 5th interrnational conference on the biology of butterfly, Villa Mondragone, Frascati, Italy, July 2-7
Institutional responsibilities (selection)
· 2010-2014: Deputy Director, Experimental Ecology Research Station of the CNRS in Moulis (CNRS USR 2936), France (3 research teams, 15 permanent researchers, 10 postdocs)
· 2007-2010: Director, General Ecology Lab, Muséum National d'Histoire Naturelle, France (5 research teams, 27 permanent researchers, 8 postdocs)
· 1995-2007: Head of the team Population and Conservation Biology, Dept Biology, Fac. Sciences, Univ. Louvain, Belgium (3 permanent researchers, 5 postdocs)
Commissions of trust (selection)
· 2017-: Member of the European Science Foundation College of Expert Reviewers
· 2015: Member of the selection panel of the Swedish Research Council FORMAS (Sweden)
· 2013-2016: Member of the ENV selection panel of the Marie Sklodowska-Curie grants (REA, EU)
· 2011-2012: Member of the selection panel of the call AGROBIOSPHERE of the National Research Agency (France)
· 2010: Member of the selection panel of the call SYSTERRA of the National Research Agency (France)
· 2009: Member of the environmental science review panel for the Swedish University for Agricultural Sciences (Sweden)
· 2007-2008: Member of the environmental science selection panel of the Academy of Finland (Finland)
Member of research networks (selection)
· 2015-2017: Coordination of the TramMidPyr network (test of ecological networks), funded by the Région Midi Pyrénées
· 2014-2017: Member of the INDHET network (individual heterogeneity in dispersal), funded by the National Research Agency (France)
· 2010-2014: Member of the MOBIGEN network (Mobility genetics and genomics), funded by the National Research Agency (France)
· 2009-2014: Member of the SCALES network (Securing the conservation of biodiversity across administrative levels and spatial, temporal, and ecological Scales), funded by the European Union’s Seventh Programme for research, technological development and demonstration
· 2009-2012: Coordination of the TenLamas network (the value of ecological networks and different landscape management approach, funded by Biodiversa ERANET, 4 labs from France, UK and Germany
· 2009-2012: Member of the CLIMIT network (Climate change impacts on insects and their mitigation), funded by Biodiversa ERANET
· 2008-2010: Member of the DIAME network (dispersal and metapopulations), funded by the National Research Agency (France)
· 2007-2015: Co-founder and member of the Dispersal Informal Network (~35 members, 7 European countries, 1 thematic meeting a year)
Major collaborations
· Within the Dispersal Informal Network: Prof. J.M.J. Travis (Univ. Aberdeen), Prof. Nicolas Schtickzelle (Unv. Louvain), Prof. Hand Van Dyck (Univ. Louvain), Dr. Camille Turlure (Univ. Louvain), Dr. Delphine Legrand (CNRS Moulis), Dr. Virginie M. Stevens (CNRS Moulis), Dr. Rik Verdonk (CNRS Moulis)
· With experts in Orchid ecology and evolution: Dr. Bertrand Schatz (CNRS Montpellier), Dr. Joris Bertrand (Univ. Perpignan via Domitia), Dr. Pierre & Jean Devillers (IRScNB), Prof. Daniel Tyteca (Univ. Louvain)
· With experts in Phylogenomics: Dr. Hervé Philippe (CNRS Moulis), Dr. Joris Bertrand (Univ. Perpignan via Domitia)
PUBLICATIONS
Remon J., Moulherat S., Cornuau J.H., Gendron L., Richard M., Baguette M., Prunier J.G
(2022) - Patterns of gene flow across multiple anthropogenic infrastructures: Insights from a multi-species approach. - Landscape and Urban Planning 226, 104507Legrand D., Baguette M., Prunier J.G., Dubois Q., Turlure C., Schtickzelle N.
De Kort H., Prunier J., Ducatez S., Honnay O., Baguette M., Stevens V., and Blanchet S.
(2021) - Life history, climate and biogeography interactively affect worldwide genetic diversity of plant and animal populations. - Nature Communications 12: 516Moulherat S., Bestion E., Baguette M., Moulherat M., Palmer S.C.F., Travis J.M. et al.
(2020) - MetaConnect, a new platform for population viability modelling to assist decision makers in conservation and urban planning. - bioRxiv 890921Cuff A.L., Lou Y., Zhigang J., Baguette M., Blanchet S., Clobert J. & al.
(2019) - BMC ecology image competition 2018: the winning images. - BMC Ecology 19:11Larranaga N., Baguette M., Calvez O. & Legrand D.
(2019) - Mobility affects copulation and oviposition dynamics in Pieris brassicae in semi-natural cages. - Insect Science 26(4): 743-752Turlure C., Schtickzelle N., Dubois Q., Baguette M., Dennis R.L.H. & Van Dyck H.
(2019) - Suitability and transferability of the resource-based habitat concept: a test with an assemblage of butterflies. - Frontiers in Ecology and Evolution 7: 127Reim E., Baguette M., Günter F. and Fischer K.
(2018) - Emigration propensity and flight performance are decoupled in a butterfly - Ecosphere 9:e02502.Turlure C., Pe’er G., Baguette M. & Schtickzelle N.
(2018) - A simplified mark-release-recapture protocol to improve the cost effectiveness of repeated population size quantification. - Methods in Ecology and Evolution 9: 645–656Remon J., Chevallier E., Prunier J.G., Baguette M. and Moulherat S.
(2018) - Estimating the permeability of linear infrastructures using recapture data - Landscape Ecology 33: 1697–1710De Kort H., Baguette M., Prunier J.G., Tessier M., Monsimet J., Turlure C. and Stevens V.
(2018) - Genetic costructure in a meta-community under threat of habitat fragmentation - Molecular Ecology 27:2193–2203Saastamoinen M., Bocedi G., Cote J., Legrand D., Guillaume F., Wheat C.W., Fronhofer E.A., Garcia C., Henry R., Husby A., Baguette M., Bonte D., Coulon A., Kokko H., Matthysen E., Niitepõld K., Nonaka E., Stevens V.M., Travis J.M.J., Donohue K., Bullock J.M. & del Mar Delgado M.
(2018) - Genetic of dispersal. - Biological Reviews 93: 574–599De Kort H., Prunier J.G., Tessier M., Turlure C., Baguette M. and Stevens V.M.
(2018) - Interacting grassland species under threat of multiple global change drivers. - Journal of Biogeography 45:2133–2145Larranaga N., Baguette M., Calvez O. & Legrand D.
(2018) - Mobility affects copulation and oviposition dynamics in Pieris brassicae in seminatural cages: Mobility and copulation dynamics. - Insect Science 26: 743-752Cote J., Bocedi G., Debeffe L., Chudzinska M.E., Weigang H.C., Dytham C., Gonzalez G., Matthysen E., Travis J., Baguette M. & Hewison A.J.M.
(2017) - Behavioural synchronization of large-scale animal movements - disperse alone, but migrate together? - Biological Reviews 92: 1275-1296Foote C., Darimont C.T., Baguette M., Blanchet S., Jacobus L.M., Mazzi D. et al.
(2017) - BMC ecology image competition 2017: the winning images. - BMC Ecology 17Cote J., Bestion E., Jacob S., Travis J., Legrand D. and Baguette M.
(2017) - Evolution of dispersal strategies and dispersal syndromes in fragmented landscapes. - Ecography 40, 56-73Baguette B., Michniewicz R. & Stevens V.M.
(2017) - From genes to metapopulations. - Nature ecology & evolution 1(5): 130Saastamoinen M.,Bocedi G., Cote J., Legrand D., Guillaume F., Wheat C.W., Fronhofer E.A, Garcia C., Henry R., Husby A., Baguette M., Bonte D., Coulon A., Kokko H., Matthysen E., Niitepold K., Nonaka E., Stevens V.M., Travis J.M.J, Donohue K., Bullock J.M. & del Mar Delgado M.
(2017) - Genetics of dispersal. - Biological Reviews 93(1): 574-599Oliver T.H., Powney G.D., Baguette M. & Schtickzelle N.
(2017) - Synchrony in population counts predicts butterfly movement frequencies: Population synchrony and movement frequency. - Ecological Entomology 42: 375–378Villemey A., Peterman W. E., Richard M., Ouin A., van Halder I., Stevens V.M., Baguette M., Roche P. & Archaux F.
(2016) - Butterfly dispersal in farmland: a replicated landscape genetics study on the meadow brown butterfly (Maniola jurtina). - Landscape Ecology 31:1629–1641Legrand D., Larranaga N., Bertrand R., Ducatez S., Calvez O., Stevens V.M. & Baguette M.
(2016) - Evolution of a butterfly dispersal syndrome. - Proceedings of the Royal Society of London Series B- Biological Sciences 283: 20161533Ducatez S. & Baguette M.
(2016) - Inter-individual variation in shivering behaviour in the migratory painted lady Vanessa cardui: Shivering behaviour in the painted lady. - Ecological Entomology 41: 131-137Turlure C., Legrand D., Schtickzelle N. & Baguette M.
(2016) - Male disguised females: costs and benefits of female-limited dimorphism in a butterfly: Evolutionary ecology of female-limited dimorphism. - Ecological Entomology 41: 572-581Trochet A., Courtois E., Stevens V.M., Baguette M., Chaine A.S., Schmeller D.S. & Clobert J.
(2016) - The evolution of sex-biased dispersal. - Quarterly Review of Biology 91: 297-320Coulon A., Aben J., Palmer S.C.F., Stevens V.M., Callens T., Strubbe D., Baguette M. & al.
(2015) - A stochastic movement simulator improves estimates of landscape connectivity. - Ecology 96: 2203–2213Baguette M., Legrand D. & Stevens V.M.
(2015) - An Individual-Centered Framework For Unravelling Genotype-Phenotype Interactions. - Trends in Ecology & Evolution 30: 709–711Potenski C.J., Porzecanski A.L., Baguette M., Clobert J., Hughes D. & Settele J.
(2015) - BMC Ecology Image Competition 2015: the winning images. - BMC Ecology 15(1): 22Richard M., Villemey A., Stevens V.M., Blanvillain G., Dardenne S. & Baguette M.
(2015) - Fifteen new polymorphic microsatellite loci for the meadow brown butterfly, Maniola jurtina. - Biochemical Systematics and Ecology 63: 165–169Flavenot T., Fellous S., Abdelkrim J., Baguette M. & Coulon A.
(2015) - Impact of quarrying on genetic diversity: an approach across landscapes and over time. - Conservation Genetics 16: 181–194Legrand D., Trochet A., Moulherat S., Calvez O., Stevens V.M., Ducatez S., Baguette M. & Clobert J.
(2015) - Ranking the ecological causes of dispersal in a butterfly. - Ecography 38: 822–831Stevens V.M., Whitmee S., Le Galliard J.-F., Clobert J., Böhning-Gaese K., Bonte D., Brändle M., Dehling D.M., Hof C., Trochet A. & Baguette M.
(2014) - A comparative analysis of dispersal syndromes in terrestrial and semi-terrestrial animals. - Ecology Letters 17: 1039–1052Harold S., Henderson C., Baguette M., Bonsall M.B., Hughes D. & Settele J.
(2014) - BMC Ecology image competition 2014: the winning images. - BMC Ecology 14: 24Ducatez S., Humeau A., Congretel M., Fréville H. & Baguette M.
(2014) - Butterfly species differing in mobility show different structures of dispersal-related syndromes in the same fragmented landscape. - Ecography 37: 378–389Turlure C., Vandewoestijne S. & Baguette M.
(2014) - Conservation genetics of a threatened butterfly: comparison of allozymes, RAPDs and microsatellites. - BMC Genetics 15: 114Chaput-Bardy A., Ducatez S., Legrand D. & Baguette M.
(2014) - Fitness Costs of Thermal Reaction Norms for Wing Melanisation in the Large White Butterfly (Pieris brassicae). - Plos One 9: e90026Legrand D., Chaput-Bardy A., Turlure C., Dubois Q., Huet M., Schtickzelle N., Stevens V.M. & Baguette M.
(2014) - Isolation and characterization of 15 microsatellite loci in the specialist butterfly boloria eunomia. - Conservation Genetics Resources 6: 223-227Pavoine S., Baguette M., Stevens V.M., Leibold M.A., Turlure C. & Bonsall M.B.
(2014) - Life history traits, but not phylogeny, drive compositional patterns in a butterfly metacommunity. - Ecology 95: 3304–3313Baguette M., Clobert J., Schtickzelle N. & Stevens V.M.
(2014) - Populations locales, dispersion et métapopulations. - Sciences de la conservation 2: 19-32Baguette M., Stevens V.M. & Clobert J.
(2014) - The pros and cons of applying the movement ecology paradigm for studying animal dispersal. - Movement Ecology 2(1): 13Pe’er G., Tsianou M.A., Franz K.W., Matsinos Y.G., Mazaris A.D., Storch D., Baguette M., Stevens V.M. & al.
(2014) - Toward better application of minimum area requirements in conservation planning. - Biological Conservation 170: 92–102Legrand D, Guillaume O, Baguette M, Cote, Trochet A, Calvez O, Zajitschek S, Zajitschek F, Lecomte J, Bénard Q, Le Galliard JF & Clobert J.
(2012) - The Metatron :an experimental system to study dispersal and metaecosystems for terrestrial organisms. - Nature Methods