Maud MOUCHET

Keywords: Biogeography, Community Ecology, Conservation, Ecosystems, Ecosystem Services, Functional Ecology

Research axes:

Biogeography: assembly rules, alpha/beta/gamma diversities

Functional Ecology and ecosystem functioning: evaluating FD estimators, functional niche, defining functional traits, BEF relationship

Community ecology: dynamic and spatial structure of communities

Ecosystem services: quantifying ES, ES bundles, BES relationship

Marine spatial planning, land or sea use changes

Fish ecology: defining traits, identifying assembly rules, identifying functions of fish species

 

About me:

I’m a functional ecologist (PhD, HDR).

When looking at a species, I usually wonder « hum, what are you doing here? ». That is the main rationale of my research: linking biodiversity to ecosystem functioning, identifying which drivers shape community structure and evaluating the stability of these complex relationships.

Lately, I have been interested in bringing more functional ecology into conservation (or the other way around ?). To be continued…

PhD students:

- LOREL Claire (2015-2018, co-supervisors: I. Le Viol and E. Porcher, CESCO), on biodiversity patterns and human appropriation of NPP

- VINCENT Florian (2016-2019, co-supervisor: E. Edeline, iEES-Paris), on conservation and engineering of aquatic ecosystems

- MERILLET Laurène (2017-2020, co supervisors: S. Pavoine, CESCO, D. Kopp and M. Robert, LTBH IFREMER), on the spatio-temporal dynamic of marine resources in the Celtic Sea

- PECQUET Jules (2018-2021, co-supervisiors: F. Lasram, ULCO), on the ecosystem services provided by kelps on the French coasts

- AMELOT Morgane (2022-2025, co-supervisiors: D. Kopp and M. Robert, LTBH IFREMER), on the trophic and functional spatio-temporal dynamic of biotic communities in the Celtic Sea

 

Postdocs:

- SOARES FILIPA (2022-2024) Impact des programmes de translocations sur les communautés naturelles et les niveaux de biodiversité – Projet Transloc. Cosupervision : B. Colas (Univ. P. Saclay), Sarrazin François (CESCO) et M. Mouchet (CESCO).

- BOUSSARIE GERMAIN (2021-2022) Construction d’un exercice de planification des activités maritimes de la Grande Vasière (Golfe de Gascogne) – Projet - PACMAN. Co-supervision : D Kopp (IFREMER), M. Morfin (IFREMER) et M. Mouchet (CESCO).

- BAULAZ Yoann (2020-2022) Définition d’un cadre conceptuel pour l’évaluation des services écosystémiques au sein des parcs éoliens offshore – Projet WindServ. Co-supervision : F. Lasram (UMR8187 LOG), N. Niquil (UMR7208 BOREA) et M. Mouchet (CESCO).

- LEJEUNE BENJAMIN (2020-2022) Etude du devenir des rejets de pêche par ADNe, suivi vidéo et isotopes stables. Projet DREAM Co-supervision : D Kopp (IFREMER), S. Méhaut (IFREMER) et M. Mouchet (CESCO).

- VICTORERO Lissette (2018-2019) Valorisation of natural history collections and natural expeditions for the conservation and management of deep environments: the unique case of the Tropical Deep Sea Benthos program. Financement Labex BCDiv. Co-supervision : S. Samadi (UMR7205 ISYEB) et B. Leroy (UMR7208 BOREA).

- DANET Alain (2018-2020) Etude de la stabilité spatio-temporelle des réseaux écologiques. ANR ECOSTAB. Co-supervision : C. Fontaine (CESCO).

- VERON Simon (2017-2019) Global patterns of Phylogenetic and Functional Diversity of Monocotiledoneae. Financement Labex BCDiv. Co-supervision : T. Haevermans et R. Pellens (UMR7205 ISYEB).

 

Expertise:

Biodiversity & Re-insurance (2020-2021) - MNHN-SCoR

EFESE - écosystèmes agricoles (2014-2016): bundling ecosystem services in the French agroecosystems

LANGOLF - TV (2015-2017): participation to the surveys for the assessment of Nephrops sp stock in the Bay of Biscay

 

 

Selected publications: 

Boussarie G, Kopp D, Lavialle G, Mouchet MA & Morfin M (2023) Marine spatial planning to solve increasing conflicts at sea: A framework for prioritizing offshore windfarms and marine protected areas. Journal of Environmental Management, 339:  117857.

Lavialle G, Boussarie G, Kopp D, Morfin M & Mouchet MA (2023) Mapping marine ecosystem services in a multifunctional
seascape: the case of Grande Vasière (Bay of Biscay). Frontiers in Marine Science, 10: 1110299.

Baulaz Y, Mouchet MA, Niquil N & Lasram F (2023) An integrated conceptual model to characterize the effects of offshore wind farms on ecosystem services. Ecosystem services, 60: 101513.

Lejeune B, Mouchet MA, Méhault S & Kopp D (2022) Gut content metabarcoding reveals potential importance of fisheries discards consumption in marine fauna. Canadian Journal of Fisheries and Aquatic Sciences, 79(7): 1064-1073.

Mérillet L, Pavoine S, Kopp D, Robert M & Mouchet MA (2021) Biomass of slow life history species increases as local bottom trawl effort decreases in the Celtic sea. Journal of Environmental Management, 290: 112634

Danet A, Mouchet MA, Bonnaffé W, Thébault E & Fontaine C (2021) Species richness and food-web structure jointly drive community biomass and its temporal stability in fish communities. Ecology Letters, 24: 2364– 2377.

Mérillet L, Kopp D, Robert M, Mouchet MA & Pavoine S (2020) Environment outweighs the effects of fishing in regulating demersal community structure in an exploited marine ecosystem. Global Change Biology, 26(4): 2106-2119.

Mouchet MA, Poirson M, Morandeau F, Vogel C, Méhault S & Kopp D (2019) Using a trait-based approach to understand the efficiency of a selective device in a multispecific fishery. Scientific Reports, 9: 12489.

Mouchet MA, Paracchini ML, Schulp CJE, Stürck J, Verkerk PJ, Verburg PH & Lavorel S (2017) Bundles of ecosystem (dis)services and multifunctionality across European landscapes. Ecological Indicators, 73: 23-28.

Mouchet MA, Villéger S, Mason N & Mouillot D (2010) Functional diversity measures: an overview of their redundancy and their ability to discriminate community assembly rules. Functional Ecology, 24: 867-876.