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Benoit Facon is affiliated with the University of Montpellier in France and conducts research primarily in the fields of Agricultural and Biological Sciences and Environmental Science. Their work spans several subfields including Insect Science, Ecology, Evolution, Behavior and Systematics, Ecological Modeling, and Nature and Landscape Conservation.

Their research covers a range of topics such as insect behavior and control techniques, plant and animal studies, forest insect ecology and management, species distribution and climate change, ecology and vegetation dynamics studies, insect-plant interactions and control, and animal behavior and reproduction.

Benoit Facon has published in various scientific venues. The most frequent publication platform is Zenodo (CERN European Organization for Nuclear Research), with four publications. Additional venues include Oikos, Molecular Biology and Evolution, CABI Agriculture and Bioscience, and Ecology Letters.

Selected recent publications include:

  • A synthesis of biological invasion hypotheses associated with the introduction-naturalisation-invasion continuum (2023, Oikos)
  • A Whole-Genome Scan for Association with Invasion Success in the Fruit Fly Drosophila suzukii Using Contrasts of Allele Frequencies Corrected for Population Structure (2020, Molecular Biology and Evolution)
  • Joint species distributions reveal the combined effects of host plants, abiotic factors and species competition as drivers of species abundances in fruit flies (2021, Ecology Letters)
  • Building integrated plant health surveillance: a proactive research agenda for anticipating and mitigating disease and pest emergence (2024, CABI Agriculture and Bioscience)
  • Understanding the joint evolution of dispersal and host specialisation using phytophagous arthropods as a model group (2023, Biological reviews/Biological reviews of the Cambridge Philosophical Society)

Benoit Facon has collaborated frequently with several researchers, including Virginie Ravigné, François Massol, Stéphane Robin, Anne Loiseau, and Arnaud Estoup. Collaboration counts suggest active partnerships with these co-authors over multiple projects.

Best Publications

  • A general eco-evolutionary framework for understanding bioinvasions

    Benoit Facon;Benjamin J. Genton;Jacqui Shykoff;Philippe Jarne

  • Bridgehead effect in the worldwide invasion of the biocontrol harlequin ladybird.

    Eric Lombaert;Thomas Guillemaud;Jean-Marie Cornuet;Thibaut Malausa

  • Is There a Genetic Paradox of Biological Invasion

    Arnaud Estoup;Virginie Ravigné;Ruth A. Hufbauer;Renaud Vitalis

  • The harlequin ladybird, Harmonia axyridis: global perspectives on invasion history and ecology

    Helen E. Roy;Pëter M.J. Brown;Tim Adriaens;Nick Berkvens

  • Ecological genetics of invasive alien species

    L.-J Lawson Handley;A. Estoup;D. M Evans;C. E Thomas

  • High genetic variance in life-history strategies within invasive populations by way of multiple introductions

    Benoît Facon;Jean-Pierre Pointier;Philippe Jarne;Violette Sarda

  • Anthropogenically induced adaptation to invade (AIAI): contemporary adaptation to human-altered habitats within the native range can promote invasions

    Ruth A. Hufbauer;Ruth A. Hufbauer;Benoît Facon;Virginie Ravigné;Julie Turgeon;Julie Turgeon

  • Inbreeding Depression Is Purged in the Invasive Insect Harmonia axyridis

    Benoît Facon;Ruth A. Hufbauer;Ashraf Tayeh;Anne Loiseau

  • Hybridization and invasiveness in the freshwater snail Melanoides tuberculata: hybrid vigour is more important than increase in genetic variance

    B. Facon;P. Jarne;J. P. Pointier;P. David

  • A molecular phylogeography approach to biological invasions of the New World by parthenogenetic Thiarid snails.

    B. Facon;J.‐P. Pointier;M. Glaubrecht;C. Poux

  • The Missing Response to Selection in the Wild.

    Benoit Pujol;Simon Blanchet;Simon Blanchet;Anne Charmantier;Anne Charmantier;Etienne Danchin

  • Rapid increase in dispersal during range expansion in the invasive ladybird Harmonia axyridis.

    Eric Lombaert;Eric Lombaert;Eric Lombaert;Arnaud Estoup;B Facon;B. Joubard;B. Joubard;B. Joubard

  • Complementarity of statistical treatments to reconstruct worldwide routes of invasion: the case of the Asian ladybird Harmonia axyridis

    Eric Lombaert;Eric Lombaert;Eric Lombaert;Thomas Guillemaud;Thomas Guillemaud;Thomas Guillemaud;Jonathan Lundgren;Robert Koch

  • A synthesis of biological invasion hypotheses associated with the introduction–naturalisation–invasion continuum

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  • The Genomic Basis of Color Pattern Polymorphism in the Harlequin Ladybird.

    Mathieu Gautier;Junichi Yamaguchi;Julien Foucaud;Anne Loiseau

  • A Whole-Genome Scan for Association with Invasion Success in the Fruit Fly Drosophila suzukii Using Contrasts of Allele Frequencies Corrected for Population Structure

    Laure Olazcuaga;Anne Loiseau;Hugues Parrinello;Mathilde Paris

  • Role of propagule pressure in colonization success: disentangling the relative importance of demographic, genetic and habitat effects

    R. A. Hufbauer;A. Rutschmann;B. Serrate;H. Vermeil de Conchard

  • Ecologically heterogeneous populations of the invasive ant Wasmannia auropunctata within its native and introduced ranges

    Jérôme Orivel;Julien Grangier;Julien Foucaud;Julien Le Breton

  • Where do adaptive shifts occur during invasion? A multidisciplinary approach to unravelling cold adaptation in a tropical ant species invading the Mediterranean area

    Olivier Rey;Arnaud Estoup;Merav Vonshak;Anne Loiseau

  • Sex allocation in haplodiploids is mediated by egg size: evidence in the spider mite Tetranychus urticae Koch.

    Emilie Macke;Sara Magalhães;Sara Magalhães;Hong Do-Thi Khan;Hong Do-Thi Khan;Anthony Luciano

  • Experimental evidence for the phenotypic impact of admixture between wild and biocontrol Asian ladybird (Harmonia axyridis) involved in the European invasion.

    J. Turgeon;J. Turgeon;A. Tayeh;B. Facon;E. Lombaert

  • Variation in Desiccation Tolerance in Freshwater Snails and Its Consequences for Invasion Ability

    B. Facon;E. Machline;J.P. Pointier;P. David

  • Host plant range of a fruit fly community (Diptera: Tephritidae): does fruit composition influence larval performance?

    Abir Hafsi;Benoît Facon;Virginie Ravigné;Frédéric Chiroleu

Frequent Co-Authors

Arnaud Estoup
Arnaud Estoup University of Montpellier
Ruth A. Hufbauer
Ruth A. Hufbauer Colorado State University
Thomas Guillemaud
Thomas Guillemaud Université Côte d'Azur
Heiko Vogel
Heiko Vogel Max Planck Society
Jérôme Orivel
Jérôme Orivel Centre national de la recherche scientifique, CNRS
Philippe Jarne
Philippe Jarne University of Montpellier
Jérôme Goudet
Jérôme Goudet University of Lausanne
Andreas Vilcinskas
Andreas Vilcinskas University of Giessen
Pierre Lefeuvre
Pierre Lefeuvre University of La Réunion
Patrice David
Patrice David University of Montpellier

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