SUMMARY C.V.
Simon Blanchet
CNRS researcher – DR2
Date and place of birth: 03 Décembre 1980, Châteauroux, France
French Nationality
Male, Pacsé, 2 children (7 and 6 years old)
Appointments / affiliations
- From October 2018. Director of research, CNRS, Station d’Ecologie Théorique et Expérimentale, UMR 5321, 09200 Moulis, France.
- October 2009-October 2018. Researcher, CNRS, Station d’Ecologie Expérimentale du CNRS à Moulis, USR 2936, 09200 Moulis, France.
- October 2008-October 2009. Post-doctoral researcher, Laboratoire EcoLab, University Paul Sabatier, Toulouse, France.
- October 2007-October 2008. Post-doctoral researcher, Laboratoire Evolution et Diversité Biologique, University Paul Sabatier, Toulouse, France.
Degrees and diplomas
- October 2016. Accreditation to supervise research (HDR) – University Paul Sabatier, Toulouse, France.
Title (in French): Changements globaux et écosystèmes aquatiques : une opportunité pour combiner recherche fondamentale et appliquée
- October 2003-October 2007. PhD Thesis in Biology – University Laval, Québec, Canada.
Title: Competitive interactions between the Atlantic salmon and the rainbow trout: Ecological and evolutionary aspects.
- September 2002-September 2003. Master thesis in Aquatic Ecology (2nd year), University Paul Sabatier, Toulouse, France.
Title: Competitive ability of the native brown trout (Salmo trutta) toward two exotic salmonids, the rainbow trout (Oncorhynchus mykiss) and the brook char (Salvelinus fontinalis).
PUBLICATIONS
Fargeot L., Poesy C., Lefort M., Prunier J.P.G., Krick M., Verdonck V., Veyssière C., Richard M., Legrand D., Loot G. and Blanchet S.
(2025) - Genetic diversity affects ecosystem functions across tropphic levels as much as species diversity, but in an opposite direction. - ELifeRichard, M., Garreau A., Bestion E., Cucherousset J., Montoya J.M. and Blanchet S.
(2025) - The Aquatic Metatron: A large-scale experimental facility to study the combined effects of habitat fragmentation and climate change on aquatic meta-ecosystems. - Methods in Ecology and Evolution.Deluen M., Loot G., Bertrand R., Aubret F., Valentini A., Calvez O., Delmas C., Le Chevalier H., Muratet J., Pottier G., Ribéron A., Rolet S., Dubut V., Trochet A. and Blanchet S.
(2024) - Development of an environmental and faecal DNA tool for monitoring the spatial distribution and fish predation on the mountain amphibian Calotriton asper. - Aquatic Conservation 34: e70034Bazin, S., Morla, J., Diouloufet, V., Molina, A., Peroux, T., Lassus, R., Montoya J.M., Blanchet S., Edeline, E., Jacquet, S., Rasconi, S., Fayolle, S., Campana, M., Zambeaux, T., Leclerc, C., Daufresne, M. and Sentis, A.
(2024) - Direct effect of artificial warming on communities is stronger than its indirect effect through body mass reduction - Oikos 10: e10561Marques, V., Blanchet S., Loot G., Miaud C., Planes S., Peyran C., Arnal V., Calvet C., Pioch S. and Manel S.
(2024) - Optimizing detectability of the endagered fan mussel using eDNA and ddPCR. - Ecology and Evolution 14: e10807Diot, A., Groth, G., Blanchet S., and Chervin, C..
(2024) - Responses of animals and plants to physiological doses of ethanol: a molecular messenger of hypoxia? - The FEBS Journal 291: 1102-1110Langford N., Fargeot L. and Blanchet S.
(2024) - Spatial covariation between genetic and epigenetic diversity in wild plant and animal populations: a meta-analysis. - The Journal of Experimental BIology 7: 227(suppl 1): jeb246009Duval, E., Blanchet S., Quéméré E., Jacquin L., Veyssière C. and Loot G.
(2024) - When does a parasite become a disease? eDNA unravels complex host-pathogen dynamics across environmental stress gradients in wild salmonid populations. - Science of the Total Environment 946, 174367(2023) - Genomic and species diversity patterns across multiple trophic levels in riverscapes - Oikos
Fargeot L, Poesy C, Lefort M, Prunier JG, Krick M, Veyssière C, Richard M, Mercier C, Sautreuil M, Huberson N, Langford N, Legrand D, Loot G, Blanchet S
(2023) - Genomic and species diversity patterns across multiple trophic levels in riverscapes - Oikos e10015Duval, E., Quéméré, E., Loot, G., Jacquin, L., Veyssière, C. & Blanchet, S.
(2022) - A multifaceted index of population health to detect risk-prone populations and underlying stressors in wildlife - Biological Conservation 109706Cote J, Dahirel M, Schtickzelle, Nicolas, Altermatt F, Ansart A, Blanchet S, Chaine A, De Laender F, De Raedt J, Haegeman B, Jacob S, Kaltz O, Laurent E, Little C, Madec L, Manzi F, Masier S, Pellerin F, Pennekamp F, Therry L, Vong A, Winandy L, Bonte D, Fronhofer E, Legrand D
(2022) - Dispersal syndromes in challenging environments: a cross-species experiment - Ecology Letters 25(12):2675-2687Mathieu-Bégné, E., Loot, G., Mazé-Guilmo, E., Mullet, V., Genthon, C. and Blanchet, S
(2021) - Combining species distribution models and population genomics underlines the determinants of range limitation in an emerging parasite - Ecography In pressLegrand D., Blanchet S.
(2021) - Evolutionary Dynamics of Wild Populations - Genes 12(5):778De 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: 516Fargeot L., Loot G., Prunier J.G., Rey O., Veyssière C. and Blanchet S.
(2021) - Patterns of epigenetic diversity in two sympatric fish species: Genetic vs. environmental determinants. - Genes 12, 107Côte J., Morisseau O., Pilisi C., Veyssière C., Perrault A., Jezequel C., Loot G., Blanchet S., Jean S. and Jacquin L.
(2021) - Urbanization and eutrophication as drivers of morphological and physiological divergence among riverine fish populations - Freshwater Biology In pressDuval, E., Blanchet, S., Quéméré, E., Jacquin, L., Veyssière, C., Lautraite, A., Garmendia, L., Yotte, A., Parthuisot, N., Côte, J., & Loot, G.
(2021) - Urine DNA (uDNA) as a non-lethal method for endoparasite biomonitoring: Development and validation - Environmental DNA 00, 1–11Blanchet S., Prunier JPG, Paz-Vinas I, Saint-Pé K, Rey O, Raffard A, Mathieu-Bégné E, Loot G, Fourtune L & Dubut V
(2020) - A river runs through it: The causes, consequences and managment of intraspecific diversity in river networks - Evolutionary Applications 13: 1195-1213Jabot F., Laroche F. Massol, F.,Arthaud A., Crabot J., Dubart M., Blanchet S. , Munoz F., David P., & Datry T
(2020) - Assessing metacommunity processes through signatures in spatiotemporal turnover of community composition - Ecology Letters 23: 1330-1339Bertrand R, Aubret F, Grenouillet G, Ribéron A and Blanchet S.
(2020) - Comment on “Forest microclimate dynamics drive plant responses to warming”. - Science 10.1126/science.abd3850Therry L., Raffard A., Finn F., Koch K., Brodin T., Blanchet S. & Cote J.
(2020) - Does range expansion modify trait covariation? An experimental test in a northward expanding dragonfly. - Oecologia 192(2): 565-575
Baltazar-Soares M., Blanchet S., Cote J., Tarkan A., Záhorská E., Gozlan R., Eizaguirre C.
(2020) - Genomic footprints of a biological invasion: introduction from Asia and dispersal in Europe of the topmouth gudgeon (Pseudorasbora parva) - Molecular Ecology 29 (1): 71-85Manel S., Finn F., Guérin P.E., Mouillot D., Blanchet S., Velez L., Albouy C., & Pellissier L.
(2020) - Global determinants of freshwater and marine fish genetic diversity. - Nature Communications 11: 692Raffard A., Santoul F., Blanchet S. & Cucherousset J.
(2020) - Linking intraspecific variability in trophic and functional niches along an environmental gradient. - Freshwater Biology 13508Prunier J., Poésy C., Dubut V., Veyssière C., Loot G., Poulet N. & Blanchet S.
(2020) - Quantifying the individual impact of barriers in freshwaters: A standardized and absolute index of genetic connectivity - Evolutionary Applications 13: 2566-2581Cuff A.L., Lou Y., Zhigang J., Baguette M., Blanchet S., Clobert J. & al.
(2019) - BMC ecology image competition 2018: the winning images. - BMC Ecology 19:11Mathieu-Bégné E., Loot G., Blanchet S., Toulza E., Genthon C. & Rey O.
(2019) - De novo transcriptome assembly for Tracheliastes polycolpus, an invasive ectoparasite of freshwater fish in western Europe. - Marine Genomics 46: 58-61Mathieu-Bégné E., Loot G., Chevalier M., Paz-Vinas I. & Blanchet S.
(2019) - Demographic and genetic collapses in spatially structured populations: insights from a long-term survey in wild fish metapopulations. - Oikos 128: 196–207Saint-Pé K., Leitwein M., Tissot L., Poulet N., Guinand B., Berrebi P., Marselli G., Lascaux JM., Gagnaire PA. & Blanchet S.
(2019) - Development of a large SNPs resource and a low-density SNP array for brown trout (Salmo trutta) population genetics - BMC Genomics 582 (2019)Danchin E., Pocheville A., Rey O., Pujol B. & Blanchet S.
(2019) - Epigenetically facilitated mutational assimilation: epigenetics as a hub within the inclusive evolutionary synthesis: Epigenetics as a hub for genetic assimilation. - Biological Reviews 94: 259-282Baltazar-Soares M., Blanchet S., Cote J., Tarkan A.S., Zahorska E., Gozlan R.E. & Eizaguirre C.
(2019) - Genetic footprints of a biological invasion: Introduction from Asia and dispersal in Europe of the topmouth gudgeon (Pseudorasbora parva). - Molecular Ecology 29: 71–85Therry L., Cote J., Cucherousset J., Finn F., Buoro Y. & S. Blanchet
(2019) - Genetic, plastic and environmental contributions to the impact of a range-expanding predator on aquatic ecosystems - Journal of Animal Ecology 88: 35-46Trochet A., Le Chevalier H., Calvez O., Ribéron A., Bertrand R. & Blanchet S.
(2019) - Influence of substrate types and morphological traits on movement behavior in a toad and newt species. - PeerJ 6: e6053Rey O., Eizaguirre C., Angers B., Baltazar-Soares M., Sagonas K., Prunier J. & Blanchet S.
(2019) - Linking epigenetics and biological conservation: Toward a conservaion epigenetics perspective - Functional Ecology In pressRey O., Eizaguirre C., Angers B., Baltazar-Soares M., Sagonas K., Prunier J. & Blanchet S.
(2019) - Linking epigenetics and biological conservation: Toward a conservation epigenetics perspective. - Functional Ecology 34: 414–427Prunier J., Poésy C., Dubut V., Veyssière C., Loot G., Poulet N. & Blanchet S.
(2019) - Quantifying the individual impact of barriers in freshwaters: A standardized and absolute index of genetic connectivity. - bioRxiv 809111Raffard A., Santoul F., Cucherousset J. & Blanchet S.
(2019) - The community and ecosystem consequences of intraspecific diversity: a meta-analysis: The ecological effects of intraspecific diversity. - Biological Reviews 94(2): 648-661Raffard A., Cucherousset J., Prunier J., Loot G., Santoul F. & Blanchet S.
(2019) - Variability of functional traits and their syndromes in a freshwater fish species (Phoxinus phoxinus): The role of adaptive and nonadaptive processes. - Ecology and Evolution 9: 2833-2846Côte J., Pilissi C., Morisseau O., Veyssière C., Perrault A., Jean S., Blanchet S. & Jacquin L.
(2019) - Water turbidity affects melanin-based coloration in gudgeon: a reciprocal transplant experiment. - Biological Journal of the Linnean Society In pressSaint-Pé K., Blanchet S., Tissot L., Poulet N., Plasseraud O., Loot G., Veyssière C. & Prunier J.G.
(2018) - Genetic admixture between captive-bred and wild individuals affects patterns of dispersal in a brown trout (Salmo trutta) population. - Conservation Genetics 19: 1269–1279Prunier J.G., Dubut V., Loot G., Tudesque L. and Blanchet S.
(2018) - The relative contribution of river network structure and anthropogenic stressors to spatial patterns of genetic diversity in two freshwater fishes: A multiple-stressors approach. - Freshwater Biology 63:6–21Prunier J.G., Dubut V., Loot G., Tudesque L. and Blanchet S.
(2018) - The Missing Response to Selection in the Wild - Trends in Ecology and Evolution 33:337–346Fronhofer E., Legrand D., Altermatt F., Anstart A., Blanchet S., Bonte D., Chaine A., Dahirel M., De Laender F., de Raedt J., Di Gesu L., Jacob S., Kaltz O., Laurent E., Little C., Madec L., Manzi F., Masier S., Pellerin F., Pennekamp F., Schtickzelle N., Therry L., Vong A., Winandy L. and Cote J.
(2018) - Bottom-up and top-down control of dispersal across major organismal groups. - Nature ecology & evolution 2: 1859–1863Guillerault N., Loot G., Blanchet S. & Santoul F.
(2018) - Catch-related and genetic outcome of adult northern pike Esox lucius stocking in a large river system. - Journal of Fish Biology 93: 1107-1112Mathieu-Bégné E., Loot G., Chevalier M., Paz-Vinas I. and Blanchet S.
(2018) - Demographic and genetic collapses in spatially structured populations: insights from a long-term survey in wild fish metapopulations - Oikos 128(2): 196-207Marmonier P., Maazouzi C., Baran N., Blanchet S., Ritter A., Saplairoles M., Dole-Olivier M.-J., Galassi D.M.P., Eme D., Dolédec S. & Piscart C.
(2018) - Ecology-based evaluation of groundwater ecosystems under intensive agriculture: A combination of community analysis and sentinel exposure. - Science of The Total Environment 613–614- 1353–1366Fourtune L., Prunier J.G., Paz-Vinas I., Loot G., Veyssière C. & Blanchet S.
(2018) - Inferring Causalities in Landscape Genetics: An Extension of Wright’s Causal Modeling to Distance Matrices. - American Naturalist 191: 491–508Trochet A.,Le Chevalier H. L., Calvez O., Ribéron A., Bertrand R. and Blanchet S.
(2018) - Influence of substrate types and morphological traits on movement behavior in a toad and newt species - Peer J DOI10.7717/peerj.6053Côte J., Boniface A., Blanchet S., Hendry A.P., Gasparini J. and Jacquin L.
(2018) - Melanin-based coloration and host–parasite interactions under global change. - Proceedings of the Royal Society B: Biological Sciences 285: 20180285Pujol B., Blanchet S., Charmantier A., Danchin E., Facon B., Marrot P., Roux F., Scotti I., Teplitsky C., Thomson C.E. & Winney I.
(2018) - The Missing Response to Selection in the Wild. - Trends in Ecology & Evolution 33(5): 337-346Prunier J.G. and Blanchet S.
(2018) - Using connectivity to identify climatic drivers of local adaptation: a response to Macdonald et al - Ecology Letters 21:1121–1123Tedesco P.A., Beauchard O., Bigome R., Blanchet S., Buisson L., Conti L., Cornu J.F., Dias M.S., Grenouillet G., Hugueny B., Jézéquel C., Leprieur F., Brosse S. and Oberdorf
(2017) - A global database on freshwater fish species occurrence in drainage basins - Scientific Data 4: 170141Foote 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 17Prunier J.G., Dubut V., Chikhi L. & Blanchet S.
(2017) - Contribution of spatial heterogeneity in effective population sizes to the variance in pairwise measures of genetic differentiation. - Methods in Ecology and Evolution 8: 1866–1877Thomas F., Jacqueline C., Tazzio T., Morgane H., Blanchet S., Loot G., Dawson E., MŽry F., Renaud F., Montagne J., Beckmann C., Biro P., Rodrigo H. and Ujvari B.
(2017) - The importance of cancer cell communities for animal evolutionary ecology. - Nature ecology & evolution 1: 1592-1595Blanchet S., Prunier J.G. & De Kort H.
(2017) - Time to go bigger: emerging patterns in macro-genetics - Trends in Genetics 33: 579-580Rey O., Danchin E., Mirouze M., Loot C. & Blanchet S.
(2016) - Adaptation to Global Change: A Transposable Element–Epigenetics Perspective. - Trends in Ecology & Evolution 31: 514–526Simundza J., Palmer M., Settele J., Jacobus L.M., Hughes D.P., Mazzi D. & Blanchet S.
(2016) - BMC Ecology image competition 2016: The winning images. - BMC Ecology 16: 34Trochet A., Dechartre J., Le Chevalier H., Baillat B., Calvez O., Blanchet S. & Riberon A.
(2016) - Effects of habitat and fragmented-landscape parameters on amphibian distribution at a large spatial scale. - Herpetological Journal 26: 73Mazé-Guilmo E., Blanchet S., McCoy K.D. & Loot G.
(2016) - Host dispersal as the driver of parasite genetic structure: a paradigm lost? - Ecology Letters 19: 336–347Fourtune L., Paz-Vinas I., Loot G., Prunier J.G. & Blanchet S.
(2016) - Lessons from the fish: a multi-species analysis reveals common processes underlying similar species-genetic diversity correlations. - Freshwater Biology 61: 1830-1845Mazé-Guilmo E., Blanchet S., Rey O., Canto N. & Loot G.
(2016) - Local adaptation drives thermal tolerance among parasite populations: a common garden experiment. - Proceedings of the Royal Society of London Series B- Biological Sciences 283: 20160587Germain M., Blanchet S., Loyau A. & Danchin E.
(2016) - Mate-choice copying in Drosophila melanogaster: Impact of demonstration conditions and male–male competition. - Behavioural Processes 125: 76-84Fletcher D.H., Gillingham P.K., Britton J.R., Blanchet S. & Gozlan R.E.
(2016) - Predicting global invasion risks: a management tool to prevent future introductions. - Scientific Reports 6: 26316Podgorniak T., Blanchet S., De Oliveira E., Daverat F. & Pierron F.
(2016) - To boldly climb: behavioural and cognitive differences in migrating European glass eels. - Royal Society Open Science 3: 150665Podgorniak T., Angelini A., Blanchet S., de Oliveira E., Pierron F. & Daverat F.
(2015) - Climbing experience in glass eels: A cognitive task or a matter of physical capacities? - Physiology & Behavior 151: 448–455Paz-Vinas I. & Blanchet S.
(2015) - Dendritic connectivity shapes spatial patterns of genetic diversity: a simulation-based study. - Journal of Evolutionary Biology 28: 986–994Rey O., Fourtune L., Paz-Vinas I., Loot G., Veyssière C., Roche B. & Blanchet S.
(2015) - Elucidating the spatio-temporal dynamics of an emerging wildlife pathogen using approximate Bayesian computation. - Molecular Ecology 24: 5348–5363Paz-Vinas I., Loot G., Stevens V.M. & Blanchet S.
(2015) - Evolutionary processes driving spatial patterns of intraspecific genetic diversity in river ecosystems. - Molecular Ecology 24: 4586–4604Villéger S., Blanchet S., Beauchard O., Oberdorff T. & Brosse S.
(2015) - From current distinctiveness to future homogenization of the world’s freshwater fish faunas. - Diversity and Distributions 21: 223–235Genomic Resources Development Consortium, Blanchet S., Bouchez O., Chapman C.A., Etter P.D., Goldberg T.L. & al.
(2015) - Genomic Resources Notes. - Molecular Ecology Resources 15- 684Murienne J., Jeziorski C., Holota H., Coissac E., Blanchet S. & Grenouillet G.
(2015) - PCR-free shotgun sequencing of the stone loach mitochondrial genome (Barbatula barbatula). - Mitochondrial DNA 10: e0117964Shinn C., Blanchet S., Loot G., Lek S. & Grenouillet G.
(2015) - Phenotypic variation as an indicator of pesticide stress in gudgeon: Accounting for confounding factors in the wild. - Science of The Total Environment 538: 733–742Maze-Guilmo E., Loot G., Paez D.J., Lefevre T. & Blanchet S.
(2014) - Heritable variation in host tolerance and resistance inferred from a wild host-parasite system. - Proceedings of the Royal Society of London Series B- Biological Sciences 281: 20132567Blanchet S., Helmus M.R., Brosse S. & Grenouillet G.
(2014) - Regional vs local drivers of phylogenetic and species diversity in stream fish communities. - Freshwater Biology 59: 450–462Cheng L., Blanchet S., Loot G., Villéger S., Zhang T., Lek S. & al.
(2014) - Temporal changes in the taxonomic and functional diversity of fish communities in shallow Chinese lakes: the effects of river-lake connections and aquaculture: Effects of connections and aquaculture on fish. - Aquatic Conservation-Marine and Freshwater Ecosystems 24: 23–34