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David A. Bohan is affiliated with INRAE, the Institut national de recherche pour l'agriculture, l'alimentation et l'environnement in France. Their research primarily spans the fields of Agricultural and Biological Sciences and Environmental Science, with a total of 81 and 45 publications in these domains respectively.

Their work extends into several specialized subfields, including Plant Science, Ecology, Ecology, Evolution, Behavior and Systematics, Insect Science, and Molecular Biology. This diverse scope reflects an interdisciplinary approach to understanding biological systems, ecosystems, and environmental interactions.

Key themes in their research include:

  • Plant and animal studies
  • Ecology and Vegetation Dynamics Studies
  • Environmental DNA in Biodiversity Studies
  • Species Distribution and Climate Change
  • Insect-Plant Interactions and Control
  • Mycorrhizal Fungi and Plant Interactions
  • Plant Pathogens and Fungal Diseases

David A. Bohan has contributed to various publication venues, frequently publishing in:

  • bioRxiv (Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory)
  • Zenodo (CERN European Organization for Nuclear Research)
  • Journal of Pest Science
  • HAL (Le Centre pour la Communication Scientifique Directe)
  • Molecular Ecology

Recent notable papers include:

  • Ecosystems monitoring powered by environmental genomics: A review of current strategies with an implementation roadmap, 2020, Molecular Ecology
  • Key Questions for Next-Generation Biomonitoring, 2020, Frontiers in Environmental Science
  • The resilience of weed seedbank regulation by carabid beetles, at continental scales, to alternative prey, 2020, Scientific Reports
  • Soil seedbank: Old methods for new challenges in agroecology?, 2020, Annals of Applied Biology
  • Handling of targeted amplicon sequencing data focusing on index hopping and demultiplexing using a nested metabarcoding approach in ecology, 2021, Scientific Reports

Frequent collaborators in their research include Corinne Vacher, Didac Barroso-Bergadà, Sandrine Petit, Michael Traugott, and Michael J. O. Pocock.

In addition to journal articles, David A. Bohan has contributed to book publications. One such work is published by Frontiers Media titled A Next-Generation of Biomonitoring to Detect Global Ecosystem Change (2020).

Best Publications

  • Ballooning dispersal using silk: world fauna, phylogenies, genetics and models.

    J.R. Bell;D.A. Bohan;E.M. Shaw;G.S. Weyman

  • Mesocosm Experiments as a Tool for Ecological Climate-Change Research

    Rebecca I.A. Stewart;Matteo Dossena;David A. Bohan;Erik Jeppesen

  • Responses of plants and invertebrate trophic groups to contrasting herbicide regimes in the Farm Scale Evaluations of genetically modified herbicide–tolerant crops

    C. Hawes;A. J. Haughton;J. L. Osborne;D. B. Roy

  • Entomopathogenic Nematodes: Biodiversity, Geographical Distribution and the Convention on Biological Diversity

    William M. Hominick;Alexander P. Reid;David A. Bohan;Bernard R. Briscoe

  • An introduction to the Farm-Scale Evaluations of genetically modified herbicide-tolerant crops

    L. G. Firbank;M. S. Heard;I. P. Woiwod;C. Hawes

  • Spatial dynamics of predation by carabid beetles on slugs

    David A. Bohan;Anna C. Bohan;David M. Glen;William O. C. Symondson

  • National-scale regulation of the weed seedbank by carabid predators

    David A. Bohan;David A. Bohan;Aline Boursault;David R. Brooks;Sandrine Petit

  • Ecosystems monitoring powered by environmental genomics: a review of current strategies with an implementation roadmap

    Tristan Cordier;Laura Alonso-Sáez;Laure Apothéloz-Perret-Gentil;Eva Aylagas

  • Invertebrate responses to the management of genetically modified herbicide-tolerant and conventional spring crops. II. Within-field epigeal and aerial arthropods.

    A. J. Haughton;G. T. Champion;C. Hawes;M. S. Heard

  • Next-Generation Global Biomonitoring: Large-scale, Automated Reconstruction of Ecological Networks.

    David A. Bohan;Corinne Vacher;Alireza Tamaddoni-Nezhad;Alan Raybould

  • Invertebrate responses to the management of genetically modified herbicide-tolerant and conventional spring crops. I. Soil-surface-active invertebrates

    D. R. Brooks;D. A. Bohan;G. T. Champion;A. J. Haughton

  • Effects on weed and invertebrate abundance and diversity of herbicide management in genetically modified herbicide-tolerant winter-sown oilseed rape.

    David A Bohan;Caroline W.H Boffey;David R Brooks;Suzanne J Clark

  • On the rationale and interpretation of the Farm Scale Evaluations of genetically modified herbicide-tolerant crops

    G. R. Squire;D. R. Brooks;D. A. Bohan;G. T. Champion

  • A novel, integrated approach to assessing social, economic and environmental implications of changing rural land-use: A case study of perennial biomass crops

    Alison J. Haughton;Alan J. Bond;Andrew A. Lovett;Trudie Dockerty

  • Invertebrates and vegetation of field margins adjacent to crops subject to contrasting herbicide regimes in the Farm Scale Evaluations of genetically modified herbicide-tolerant crops.

    D. B. Roy;D. A. Bohan;A. J. Haughton;M. O. Hill

  • Prey choice by carabid beetles feeding on an earthworm community analysed using species- and lineage-specific PCR primers.

    R. Andrew King;Ian Phillip Vaughan;James R. Bell;James R. Bell;David A. Bohan

  • Networking Our Way to Better Ecosystem Service Provision

    David A. Bohan;Dries Landuyt;Athen Ma;Sarina Macfadyen

  • Biodiversity-based options for arable weed management. A review

    Sandrine Petit;Stéphane Cordeau;Bruno Chauvel;David Bohan

  • Networking Agroecology: Integrating the Diversity of Agroecosystem Interactions

    David A. Bohan;Alan Raybould;Christian Mulder;Guy Woodward

  • Learning ecological networks from next-generation sequencing data

    Corinne Vacher;Alireza Tamaddoni-Nezhad;Stefaniya Kamenova;Nathalie Dubois Peyrard

  • Ecosystems Monitoring Powered by Environmental Genomics: A Review of Current Strategies with An Implementation Roadmap

    Tristan Cordier;Laura Alonso Sáez;Laure Apotheloz-Perret-Gentil;Eva Aylagas

Frequent Co-Authors

James R. Bell
James R. Bell Rothamsted Research
Suzanne J. Clark
Suzanne J. Clark Rothamsted Research
Joe N. Perry
Joe N. Perry Rothamsted Research
Guy Woodward
Guy Woodward Imperial College London
Les G. Firbank
Les G. Firbank University of Leeds
Matthew S. Heard
Matthew S. Heard Rothamsted Research
Ian P. Woiwod
Ian P. Woiwod Rothamsted Research
Peter Rothery
Peter Rothery Natural Environment Research Council
François Massol
François Massol University of Lille
Juliet L. Osborne
Juliet L. Osborne University of Exeter

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