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Eric Feunteun is affiliated with the French National Museum of Natural History in France and has contributed extensively to the field of Environmental Science, with a focus on aquatic and marine ecosystems.

Their research spans several subfields, including:

  • Global and Planetary Change
  • Nature and Landscape Conservation
  • Ecology
  • Oceanography
  • Aquatic Science

Main topics of their work cover diverse aspects of aquatic biology and environmental dynamics:

  • Fish Ecology and Management Studies
  • Marine and fisheries research
  • Reproductive biology and impacts on aquatic species
  • Isotope Analysis in Ecology
  • Fish Biology and Ecology Studies
  • Coral and Marine Ecosystems Studies
  • Marine animal studies overview

Recent publications illustrate the breadth of their research. Notable papers include:

  • "A global-scale screening of non-native aquatic organisms to identify potentially invasive species under current and future climate conditions," 2021, The Science of The Total Environment
  • "Important questions to progress science and sustainable management of anguillid eels," 2021, Fish and Fisheries
  • "Stable species boundaries despite ten million years of hybridization in tropical eels," 2020, Nature Communications
  • "When "safe" dams kill: Analyzing combination of impacts of overflow dams on the migration of silver eels," 2020, Ecological Engineering
  • "Development of an accurate model to predict the phenology of Atlantic salmon smolt spring migration," 2020, Aquatic Conservation Marine and Freshwater Ecosystems

Feunteun frequently collaborates with other researchers. Regular co-authors include:

  • Anthony Acou
  • Thomas Trancart
  • Alexandre Carpentier
  • Nils Teichert
  • Anne Lizé

Their work has been published in multiple scientific venues, with several recurring publication outlets such as:

  • Estuarine Coastal and Shelf Science
  • HAL (Le Centre pour la Communication Scientifique Directe)
  • The Science of The Total Environment
  • Marine Environmental Research
  • Fish and Fisheries

Best Publications

  • Management and restoration of European eel population (Anguilla anguilla): An impossible bargain

    Eric Feunteun

  • Empirical observations of the spawning migration of European eels: The long and dangerous road to the Sargasso Sea

    David Righton;Håkan Westerberg;Eric Feunteun;Finn Økland

  • Composition of Fish Communities in a European Macrotidal Salt Marsh (the Mont Saint-Michel Bay, France)

    Pascal Laffaille;Eric Feunteun;Jean-Claude Lefeuvre

  • A Review of Upstream Migration and Movements in Inland Waters by Anguillid Eels: Toward a General Theory

    Eric Feunteun;Pascal Laffaille;Tony Robinet;Cédric Briand

  • Les poissons d'eau douce de France

    Philippe Keith;Nicolas Poulet;Gael Denys;T. Changeux

  • An Ecosystem-Based Approach to Assess the Status of a Mediterranean Ecosystem, the Posidonia oceanica Seagrass Meadow

    Sébastien Personnic;Charles F. Boudouresque;Patrick Astruch;Enric Ballesteros

  • A global-scale screening of non-native aquatic organisms to identify potentially invasive species under current and future climate conditions

    Lorenzo Vilizzi;Gordon H. Copp;Jeffrey E. Hill;Boris Adamovich

  • European eel (Anguilla anguilla): prediction of spawner escapement from continental population parameters

    Eric Feunteun;Anthony Acou;Pascal Laffaille;Antoine Legault

  • Spatial organisation of European eel (Anguilla anguilla L.) in a small catchment

    Pascal Laffaille;Eric Feunteun;Aurore Baisez;Tony Robinet

  • Migration pattern of silver eel (Anguilla anguilla, L.) in an obstructed river system

    Anthony Acou;Pascal Laffaille;Antoine Legault;Eric Feunteun

  • Feeding ecology of 0-group sea bass Dicentrarchus labrax in salt marshes of Mont Saint-Michel bay (France)

    Pascal Laffaille;Jean-Claude Lefeuvre;Marie-Thérèse Schricke;Eric Feunteun

  • Biodiversity in salt marshes: from patrimonial value to ecosystem functioning. The case study of the Mont-Saint-Michel bay.

    Jean-Claude Lefeuvre;Pascal Laffaille;Eric Feunteun;Virginie Bouchard

  • Important questions to progress science and sustainable management of anguillid eels

    David Righton;David Righton;Adam Piper;Kim Aarestrup;Elsa Amilhat

  • Did a “perfect storm” of oceanic changes and continental anthropogenic impacts cause northern hemisphere anguillid recruitment reductions?

    Michael J. Miller;Eric Feunteun;Katsumi Tsukamoto

  • Can thin-lipped mullet directly exploit the primary and detritic production of European macrotidal salt marshes?

    Pascal Laffaille;Eric Feunteun;C. Lefebvre;Alain Radureau

  • Dynamics of particulate organic matter composition in coastal systems: a spatio-temporal study at multi-systems scale

    Camilla Liénart;Nicolas Savoye;Yann Bozec;Elsa Breton

  • European salt marshes diversity and functioning: The case study of the Mont Saint-Michel bay, France

    Jean-Claude Lefeuvre;Virginie Bouchard;Eric Feunteun;Sonia Grare

  • Towards a standardized characterization of the potentially migrating silver European eel (Anguilla anguilla, L.)

    Anthony Acou;Pauline Boury;Pascal Laffaille;Alain Jean Crivelli

  • Spatial distribution of an eel population (Anguilla anguilla L.) in a small coastal catchment of Northern Brittany (France). Consequences of hydraulic works.

    Eric Feunteun;Anthony Acou;Jérôme Guillouët;Pascal Laffaille

  • Role of fish communities in particulate organic matter fluxes between salt marshes and coastal marine waters in the Mont Saint-Michel bay.

    Pascal Laffaille;Sébastien Brosse;Eric Feunteun;Aurore Baisez

  • Estuarine and fluvial recruitment of the European glass eel, Anguilla anguilla, in an exploited Atlantic estuary

    C. Briand;D. Fatin;G. Fontenelle;E. Feunteun

  • Stable Species Boundaries Despite Ten Million Years of Hybridization in Tropical Eels

    Julia M. I. Barth;Chrysoula Gubili;Michael Matschiner;Michael Matschiner;Ole K. Tørresen

Frequent Co-Authors

Pascal Laffaille
Pascal Laffaille Ecolab (United Kingdom)
Katsumi Tsukamoto
Katsumi Tsukamoto University of Tokyo
Michael J. Miller
Michael J. Miller University of Tokyo
Jun Aoyama
Jun Aoyama University of Tokyo
David Righton
David Righton Centre for Environment, Fisheries and Aquaculture Science
Patrick Berrebi
Patrick Berrebi University of Montpellier
Kim Aarestrup
Kim Aarestrup Technical University of Denmark
Boris Leroy
Boris Leroy French National Museum of Natural History
Patrick Raimbault
Patrick Raimbault Mediterranean Institute of Oceanography
Pierre Sasal
Pierre Sasal University of Perpignan

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