[FRB-CESAB] Newsletter 7 CESAB- Septembre 2022

More information on the DATASHARE call

More information on the FRB-MTE-OFB call

Through its CESAB, the FRB opened in Spring its 2022 call for research proposals to fund three innovative projects relating to the synthesis of ideas and concepts and/or the analysis of existing data. The main aim of these projects should be to improve scientific knowledge of biodiversity and demonstrate how we can use this knowledge to better protect it. Six pre-proposals were selected in the first phase. Three projects will be selected in the final phase and funded for a period of three years, including: the recruitment of a post-doctoral fellow for 24 months, the organization of six meetings of the working group at CESAB and the promotion and publication of the results.

More information on the 2022 CESAB call

Watch on on your YouTube channel the conference Retrouvez sur notre chaîne YouTube la conférence “From species to functions: towards a paradigm shift for biodiversity conservation?“, organised on the 16th of June 2022 in Montpellier on the work of the FRB-CESAB project FREE, in partnership with EDF, CEFE, LabEX CEMEB and MUSE.

This conference will present a new facet of biological rarity – functional rarity – and will lay the foundations for biodiversity and rarity conservation policies, revisited in the light of functional ecology. The working group FREE has largely contributed to the development of the conceptual basis of functional rarity and has proposed global analyses attempting to identify areas of the globe with a significant proportion of ecologically unique species.

• Introduction Hélène SOUBELET (FRB director), Nicolas MOUQUET (CESAB scientific director)
• Conservation of biodiversity through a functional lens Cyrille VIOLLE (Cefe CNRS, Montpellier)
• Practical applications of functional diversity and rarity to the definition of spatial conservation priorities – promises and limits Ana RODRIGUES (Cefe CNRS, Montpellier)
• The commonness of rarity: (big) data, theory, and implications for conservation Brian ENQUIST (University of Arizona, USA)
• The functional consequences of marine megafaunal extinctions Catalina PIMENTO (University of Zurich)
• The biogeography of functional rarity David MOUILLOT (Marbec, University of Montpellier)

A workshop dedicated to the use of different R packages to calculate several functional rarity/diversity indices was organised before the conference. 15 young researchers participated.

• Four synthesis projects within the call FRB-MTE-OFB “Impacts on terrestrial biodiversity in the Anthropocene”

These SYNTHESIS 3-years projects will develop syntheses of ideas and/or concepts, analyses of existing data, and will focus on factors affecting the state, evolution and dynamics of biodiversity. They will start beginning of 2023. Three SYNERGY projects and one SYSTEMATIC MAP project have also been selected within this call. 

• ACOUCENE

Towards a silent spring? Modeling and projecting the impacts of the Anthropocene on soundscapes with birds as an acoustic ecological indicator

Principal investigators: Jean-Yves BARNAGAUD (EPHE, France) and Solène CROCI (CNRS, France)

• IMPACTS

French biodiversity in the Anthropocene – impacts and drivers of spatial and temporal response

Principal investigators: Wilfried THUILLER (CNRS, France) and Franziska SCHRODT (University of Nottingham, United Kingdom)

• LANDWORM

Impact of Land use and management on earthworm communities

Principal investigators: Daniel CLUZEAU (University of Rennes, France) and Céline PELOSI (INRAE, France)

• SPATMAN

What role for the spatial organisation of human societies to modulate their pressures on biodiversity?

Principal investigators: Isabelle BOULANGEAT (INRAE, France) and Mohamed HILAL (INRAE, France)

• Two projects within the call SYNERGY FRB-CESAB / SinBiose / FAPESP / CEBA “Biodiversity in the neotropical realm”

The call for proposals was launched in 2021 in partnership with SinBiose, FAPESP, and LabEX CEBA, and resulted in the selection of two projects on neotropical biodiversity out of nine proposals received. The two working groups, made up of 10 international researchers, will be funded for  three years, and will meet four times in France at Cesab and in Brazil in the state of Sao Paulo. Both projects will start in early 2023 in Brazil.

•  FAUNASERVICES

The relationship between soil macrofauna biodiversity and ecosystem services delivery across land use systems in neotropical rainforest biomes

Principal investigators: Jérôme MATHIEU (Sorbonne Université, France) and Miguel COOPER (University of Sao Paulo, Brésil)

• NEFINEO

Networks of Fungal Interactions in the Neotropics

Principal investigators: Mélanie ROY (Université de Toulouse, France) and Paulo GUIMARAES (University of Sao Paulo, Brésil)

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The CESAB Scientific Committee (CS) drafts and monitors call for proposals, and selects the scientific projects submitted. More broadly, its mission is to carry out a general reflection on the strategic orientations of Cesab.

It was partly renewed at the beginning of 2022: for this new 4-year term, the CS has 22 members, including 12 new ones and is co-chaired by Verena TRENKEL (IFREMER) and François MASSOL (CNRS). We warmly thank the leaving members for their work and for having kindly extended their mandate until the new CS was active: Isabelle ARPIN, Jean-François BAROILLER, Sébastien BAROT, Clément CALENGE, Bruno FADY, Philippe GROS, Sonia KEFI, Hélène MORLON, Laurianne MOUYSSET, Olivier THEBAUD.

More information on the CESAB Scientific Committee

The FRB-CESAB is increasingly committed to training young researchers in the tools to analyse biodiversity and proposes three training courses in 2022, including two new ones.

• Theory-driven Analysis of Ecological Data / 16-20 May 2022

This new 5-day training course, organized with the GdR TheoMoDive aimed to train young researchers in analyzing ecological data using theory-driven approaches. 15 participants were selected and the training course took place from the 16^th to the 20^th of May 2022 in the CESAB premises in Montpellier. It will be renewed in 2023. Subscribe to CESAB newsletter to keep informed when registration will open. 

• Biodiversity knowledge synthesis: an introduction to meta-analyses and systematic reviews / 3-7 October 2022

• Data Toolbox for Reproducible Research in Computational Ecology / 28 November-2 December 2022
  

More information on CESAB training courses

• Sixteen groups at CESAB this first semester

Out of the ongoing 24 projects,  sixteen groups met between February and July 2022 in Montpellier, including three for CESABAFTER meetings: complementary meetings during which GEISHA, FREE and FUNCTIONALWEBS were able to extend their research work, finalize articles in the process of being written, and initiate a new dynamic of scientific collaboration as an extension of their initial project. Several groups also met remotely.

The autumn will also be busy with 12 weeks of meetings already scheduled between mid-September and mid-December.

After several postponements due to restrictive sanitary conditions of the last two years, the CESAB finally hosted two researchers on sabbatical in the first semester of 2022: Tom LETESSIER from the Zoological Society of London and Kasey BARTON, from the University of Hawaii (USA). Both researchers were funded through the 2020 call for projects, in partnership with the LabEX Mediterranean Center for Environment and Biodiversity (CeMEB). 

CESAB is currently hosting five postfocs:

• Brunno OLIVEIRA is working with BIOSHIFTS looking at whether species range shift processes vary across ecosystems, taxonomic groups, or environmental contexts (both natural and anthropogenic) to understand species vulnerability to global changes
• Aurore RECEVEUR is working with MAESTRO looking at integrated models and scenarios to better predict and anticipate the mixed impacts of climate change and fishing pressure on marine communities, using data from exploited communities in the Northeast Atlantic and Mediterranean Sea.
• Aaron SEXTON is working with NAVIDIV and is looking at mitigating the impacts of navigation and inland navigation infrastructures on biodiversity by evaluating the general effects of navigation intensity depending on land-cover types and territorial characteristics, and investigate underlying mechanisms to identify management compromises.
• Erica RIEVRS BORGES is working with BRIDGE and is looking at the role of local and regional environmental factors in shaping the taxonomic and functional diversity of plant communities established along river corridors, roadside corridors and cultivated field margins.
• Devi VEYTIA is conducting a systematic review of scientific literature, within the Priority Research Program (PRP) Ocean & Climate, on ocean-based solutions to mitigate and adapt to climate change.

All the best to Andrew HELMSTETTER and Ali BEN ABBES, whose contracts ended this summer (respectively on the DIVERS and PARSEC projects) after 24 months at Cesab.

Six new postdocs should join the team in 2023. Depending on the CESAB’s capacity, they will join the center or be hosted in the laboratories of the principal investigators.

• Zoom on INDYSEM

Funded by the 2020 Systematic Reviews call, the INDYSEM project aims to identify and analyze the interactions between marine biodiversity and human societies in order to identify how ecological dynamics, whether natural or related to anthropogenic forcing, have an effect on the production and demand for marine ecosystem services.  In 2021, the research team published a paper on the systematic map method to highlight the clustering and knowledge gaps on how changes in marine ecosystems influence the provision of marine ecosystem services (Campagne et al., 2021).

Sylvie CAMPAGNE (postdoc) and Eric THIEBAUT (project leader) supervised in spring 2022 a student in Master 2 “Marine Sciences” at Sorbonne University, Laurie-Anne ROY: preliminary results were presented at a workshop on ecosystem services organized in Wimereux (Thiébaut E., Roy L.-A., Campagne S.C. How does the evolution of marine ecosystems influence the provision of ecosystem services? First results of a systematic mapping).

• Zoom on AFROBIODRIVERS

Results from the AFROBIODRIVERS project were presented to the Members Parties of the Congo Basin Forest Partnership (CBFP) early July in Libreville, Gabonese Republic. Linked to the Convention on Biological Diversity (CBD), which aims to protect 30% of the globe by 2030″, the member states of the Central African Forest Commission are invited to increase funding, improve management, identify other effective conservation measures by areas (AMCEZ), and focus scarce resources on smaller areas to improve the effectiveness of protected area management (Scholte et al., 2021).

You can also read the French synthesis of the artcile: “La conservation sur des espaces surdimensionnés et le déclin de la faune sauvage et du tourisme dans les savanes d’Afrique centrale“.

• • Publications from CESAB working groups

• ACTIAS

Li X, Hamilton CA, St Laurent R, Ballesteros-Mejia L, Markee A, Haxaire J, Rougerie R, Kitching IJ & Kawahara AY (2022) A diversification relay race from Caribbean-Mesoamerica to the Andes: Historical biogeography of Xylophanes hawkmoths. Proceedings of the Royal Society B: Biological Sciences, 289, 20212435. doi: 10.1098/rspb.2021.2435.

• DIVERS

Käfer J, Méndez M & Mousset S (2022) Labile sex expression in angiosperm species with sex chromosomes. Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society B: Biological Sciences, 377, 20210216. doi: 10.1098/rstb.2021.0216.

• FORCIS

de Garidel-Thoron T, Chaabane S, Giraud X, Meilland J, Jonkers L, Kucera M, Brummer G-JA, Grigoratou M, Monteiro FM, Greco M, Mortyn PG, Kuroyanagi A, Howa H, Beaugrand G & Schiebel R (2022) The foraminiferal response to climate stressors project: Tracking the community response of planktonic foraminifera to historical climate change. Frontiers in Marine Science, 9, 827962. doi: 10.3389/fmars.2022.827962.

• FREE

Auber A, Waldock C, Maire A, Goberville E, Albouy C, Algar AC, McLean M, Brind’Amour A, Green AL, Tupper M, Vigliola L, Kaschner K, Kesner-Reyes K, Beger M, Tjiputra J, Toussaint A, Violle C, Mouquet N, Thuiller W & Mouillot D (2022) A functional vulnerability framework for biodiversity conservation. Nature Communications, 13, 4774. doi: 10.1038/s41467-022-32331-y.

Brun P, Violle C, Mouillot D, Mouquet N, Enquist BJ, Munoz F, Münkemüller T, Ostling A, Zimmermann NE & Thuiller W (2022) Plant community impact on productivity: Trait diversity or key (stone) species effects? Ecology Letters, accepted. doi: 10.1111/ele.13968.

Delalandre L, Gaüzère P, Thuiller W, Cadotte MW, Mouquet N, Mouillot D, Munoz F, Denelle P, Loiseau N, Morin X & Violle C (2022) Functionally distinct tree species support long-term productivity in extreme environments. Proceedings of the Royal Society B: Biological Sciences, 289, 20211694. doi: 10.1098/rspb.2021.1694.

Feng X, Enquist BJ, Park DS, Boyle B, Breshears DD, Gallagher RV, Lien A, Newman EA, Burger JR, Maitner BS, Merow C, Li Y, Huynh KM, Ernst K, Baldwin E, Foden W, Hannah L, Jorgensen PM, Kraft NJB, Lovett JC, Marquet PA, McGill BJ, Morueta‐Holme N, Neves DM, Núñez‐Regueiro MM, Oliveira‐Filho AT, Peet RK, Pillet M, Roehrdanz PR, Sandel B, Serra‐Diaz JM, Símová I, Svenning J, Violle C, Weitemier TD, Wiser S & López‐Hoffman L (2022) A review of the heterogeneous landscape of biodiversity databases: Opportunities and challenges for a synthesized biodiversity knowledge base. Global Ecology and Biogeography, accepted. doi: 10.1111/GEB.13497.

Guo W-Y, Serra-Diaz JM, Schrodt F, Eiserhardt WL, Maitner BS, Merow C, Violle C, Anand M, Belluau M, Bruun HH, Byun C, Catford JA, Cerabolini BEL, Chacón-Madrigal E, Ciccarelli D, Cornelissen JHC, Dang-Le AT, de Frutos A, Dias AS, Giroldo AB, Guo K, Gutiérrez AG, Hattingh W, He T, Hietz P, Hough-Snee N, Jansen S, Kattge J, Klein T, Komac B, Kraft NJB, Kramer K, Lavorel S, Lusk CH, Martin AR, Mencuccini M, Michaletz ST, Minden V, Mori AS, Niinemets Ü, Onoda Y, Peñuelas J, Pillar VD, Pisek J, Robroek BJM, Schamp B, Slot M, Sosinski ÊE, Soudzilovskaia NA, Thiffault N, van Bodegom P, van der Plas F, Wright IJ, Xu W-B, Zheng J, Enquist BJ & Svenning J-C (2022) High exposure of global tree diversity to human pressure. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America, 119, e2026733119. doi: 10.1073/pnas.2026733119.

Magneville C, Loiseau N, Albouy C, Casajus N, Claverie T, Escalas A, Leprieur F, Maire E, Mouillot D & Villéger S (2022) mFD: an R package to compute and illustrate the multiple facets of functional diversity. Ecography, 44, 1–15. doi: 10.1111/ecog.05904.

Sabatini FM, Jiménez-Alfaro B, Jandt U, Chytry M, Field R, Kessler M, Lenoir J, Schrodt F, Wiser SK, Arfin Khan MAS, Attorre F, Cayuela L, De Sanctis M, Dengler J, Haider S, Hatim MZ, Indreica A, Jansen F, Pauchard A, Peet RK, Petrik P, Pillar VD, Sandel B, Schmidt M, Tang Z, van Bodegom P, Vassilev K, Violle C, Alvarez-Davila E, Davidar P, Dolezal J, Hérault B, Galán-de-Mera A, Jiménez J, Kambach S, Kepfer-Rojas S, Kreft H, Lezama F, Linares-Palomino R, Monteagudo Mendoza A, N’Dja JK, Phillips OL, Rivas-Torres G, Sklenár P, Speziale K, Strohbach BJ, Vásquez Martínez R, Wang H-F, Wesche K & Bruelheide H (2022) Global patterns of vascular plant alpha diversity. Nature Communications, 13, 4683. doi: 10.1038/s41467-022-32063-z.

• FUNCTIONALWEBS

Céréghino R, Trzcinski MK, MacDonald AAM, Marino NAC, Acosta Mercado D, Leroy C, Corbara B, Romero GQ, Farjalla VF, Barberis IM, Dézerald O, Hammill E, Atwood TB, Piccoli GCO, Ospina Bautista F, Carrias J-F, Leal JS, Montero G, Antiqueira PAP, Freire R, Realpe E, Amundrud SL, de Omena PM, Campos ABA & Srivastava DS (2022) Functional redundancy dampens precipitation change impacts on species-rich invertebrate communities across the Neotropics. Functional Ecology, accepted. doi: 10.1111/1365-2435.14048.

Ruiz T, Carrias J-F, Bonhomme C, Farjalla VF, Jassey VEJ, Leflaive J, Compin A, Leroy C, Corbara B, Srivastava DS & Céréghino R (2022) Asynchronous recovery of predators and prey conditions resilience to drought in a neotropical ecosystem. Scientific Reports, 12, 8392. doi: 10.1038/s41598-022-12537-2.

• GEISHA

Chang C-W, Miki T, Ye H, Souissi S, Adrian R, Anneville O, Agasild H, Ban S, Beeri-Shlevin Y, Chiang Y-R, Feuchtmayr H, Gal G, Ichise S, Kagami M, Kumagai M, Liu X, Matsuzaki S-IS, Manca MM, Noges P, Piscia R, Rogora M, Shiah F-K, Thackeray SJ, Widdicombe CE, Wu J-T, Zohary T & Hsieh C-H (2022) Causal networks of phytoplankton diversity and biomass are modulated by environmental context. Nature Communications, 13, 1140. doi: 10.1038/s41467-022-28761-3.

• JUSTCONSERVATION

Pickering J, Coolsaet B, Dawson NM, Suiseeya K, Inoue C & Lim M (2022) Rethinking and upholding justice and equity in transformative biodiversity governance. In: Visseren-Hamakers I & Kok M (Eds.), Transforming Biodiversity Governance, Cambridge: Cambridge University Press (pp. 155–178). doi: 10.1017/9781108856348.009.

• MAESTRO

Auber A, Waldock C, Maire A, Goberville E, Albouy C, Algar AC, McLean M, Brind’Amour A, Green AL, Tupper M, Vigliola L, Kaschner K, Kesner-Reyes K, Beger M, Tjiputra J, Toussaint A, Violle C, Mouquet N, Thuiller W & Mouillot D (2022) A functional vulnerability framework for biodiversity conservation. Nature Communications, 13, 4774. doi: 10.1038/s41467-022-32331-y.

• PARSEC

Machicao J, Ben Abbes A, Meneguzzi L, Corrêa PLP, Specht A, David R, Subsol G, Vellenich D, Devillers R, Stall S, Mouquet N, Chaumont M, Berti-Equille L & Mouillot D (2022) Mitigation strategies to improve reproducibility of poverty estimations from remote sensing images using deep learning. Earth and Space Science, 9, e2022EA002379. doi: 10.1029/2022EA002379.

Machicao J, Specht A, Vellenich D, Meneguzzi L, David R, Stall S, Ferraz K, Mabile L, O’Brien M & Corrêa P (2022) A deep-learning method for the prediction of socio-economic indicators from street-view imagery using a case study from Brazil. Data Science Journal, 21, 1–15. doi: 10.5334/dsj-2022-006.

• SCORE-REEF

Schiettekatte NMD, Brandl SJ, Casey JM, Graham NAJ, Barneche DR, Burkepile DE, Allgeier JE, Arias-Gonzaléz JE, Edgar GJ, Ferreira CEL, Floeter SR, Friedlander AM, Green AL, Kulbicki M, Letourneur Y, Luiz OJ, Mercière A, Morat F, Munsterman KS, Rezende EL, Rodríguez-Zaragoza FA, Stuart-Smith RD, Vigliola L, Villéger S & Parravicini V (2022) Biological trade-offs underpin coral reef ecosystem functioning. Nature Ecology & Evolution, accepted. doi: 10.1038/s41559-022-01710-5.

Strona G, Beck PS, Cabeza M, Fattorini S, Guilhaumon F, Micheli F, Montano S, Ovaskainen O, Planes S, Veech JA & Parravicini V (2021) Ecological dependencies make remote reef fish communities most vulnerable to coral loss. Nature Communications, 12, 7282. doi: 10.1038/s41467-021-27440-z.

Strona G, Lafferty KD, Fattorini S, Beck PS, Guilhaumon F, Arrigoni R, Montano S, Seveso D, Galli P, Planes S & Parravicini V (2021) Global tropical reef fish richness could decline by around half if corals are lost. Proceedings of the Royal Society B: Biological Sciences, 288, 20210274. doi: 10.1098/rspb.2021.0274.

Langlois J, Guilhaumon F, Baletaud F, Casajus N, de Almeida Braga C, Fleuré V, Kulbicki M, Loiseau N, Mouillot D, Renoult JP, Stahl A, Stuart-Smith RD, Tribot A-S & Mouquet N (2022) The aesthetic value of reef fishes is globally mismatched to their conservation priorities. PLoS Biology, 20, 1–22. doi: 10.1371/journal.pbio.3001640.

Mouton TL, Leprieur F, Floury M, Stephenson F, Verburg P & Tonkin JD (2022) Climate and land‐use driven reorganisation of structure and function in river macroinvertebrate communities. Ecography, accepted. doi: 10.1111/ecog.06148.

Mouton TL, Stephenson F, Torres LG, Rayment W, Brough T, McLean M, Tonkin JD, Albouy C & Leprieur F (2022) Spatial mismatch in diversity facets reveals contrasting protection for New Zealand’s cetacean biodiversity. Biological Conservation, 267, 109484. doi: 10.1016/j.biocon.2022.109484.