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Overview

Fabien Lombard is affiliated with the Villefranche Oceanographic Laboratory in France. Their research focuses on environmental science and earth and planetary sciences, with a particular emphasis on ecology and oceanography. Contributions to subfields such as global and planetary change, molecular biology, and pollution are also part of their body of work.

The scientist's research topics cover a range of marine and ecological themes, including:

  • Coral and Marine Ecosystems Studies
  • Microbial Community Ecology and Physiology
  • Marine and coastal ecosystems
  • Marine Biology and Ecology Research
  • Environmental DNA in Biodiversity Studies
  • Marine and fisheries research
  • Microplastics and Plastic Pollution

Lombard has contributed several recent papers to prominent scientific journals. These include:

  • "Tara Oceans: towards global ocean ecosystems biology," 2020, Nature Reviews Microbiology
  • "Airborne microplastic particles detected in the remote marine atmosphere," 2020, Communications Earth & Environment
  • "Monitoring and modelling marine zooplankton in a changing climate," 2023, Nature Communications
  • "Functional trait-based approaches as a common framework for aquatic ecologists," 2020, Limnology and Oceanography
  • "Global distribution patterns of marine nitrogen-fixers by imaging and molecular methods," 2021, Nature Communications

Their publication record also includes a book chapter published by Frontiers Media titled Technological Advances for Measuring Planktonic Components of the Pelagic Ecosystem: An Integrated Approach to Data Collection and Analysis (2023).

Lombard frequently publishes in venues such as Zenodo (CERN European Organization for Nuclear Research), bioRxiv (Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory), HAL (Le Centre pour la Communication Scientifique Directe), Nature Communications, and Frontiers in Marine Science.

Collaboration is a notable feature of their work, with frequent co-authors including Colomban de Vargas, Emmanuel Boss, Patrick Wincker, Chris Bowler, and Shinichi Sunagawa.

Best Publications

  • Tara Oceans: towards global ocean ecosystems biology.

    Shinichi Sunagawa;Silvia G Acinas;Peer Bork;Peer Bork;Chris Bowler

  • Global Trends in Marine Plankton Diversity across Kingdoms of Life.

    Federico M. Ibarbalz;Nicolas Henry;Manoela C. Brandão;Séverine Martini

  • Globally consistent quantitative observations of planktonic ecosystems

    F. Lombard;F. Lombard;E. Boss;A.M. Waite;J. Uitz

  • Airborne microplastic particles detected in the remote marine atmosphere

    Miri Trainic;J. Michel Flores;Iddo Pinkas;Maria Luiza Pedrotti

  • Monitoring and modelling marine zooplankton in a changing climate

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  • Functional trait-based approaches as a common framework for aquatic ecologists

    Séverine Martini;Floriane Larras;Aurélien Boyé;Emile Faure

  • Microplastic Ingestion by Gelatinous Zooplankton May Lower Efficiency of the Biological Pump.

    Alina M. Wieczorek;Peter L. Croot;Fabien Lombard;Fabien Lombard;Jerome N. Sheahan

  • Patterns of eukaryotic diversity from the surface to the deep-ocean sediment

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  • The Underwater Vision Profiler 6: an imaging sensor of particle size spectra and plankton, for autonomous and cabled platforms

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  • Modelling the temperature dependent growth rates of planktic foraminifera

    Fabien Lombard;Laurent Labeyrie;Elisabeth Michel;Howard J. Spero

  • Grazer cues induce stealth behavior in marine dinoflagellates

    Erik Selander;Hans Henrik Jakobsen;Fabien Lombard;Thomas Kiørboe

  • Effect of carbonate ion concentration and irradiance on calcification in planktonic foraminifera

    Fabien Lombard;Fabien Lombard;R. E. da Rocha;J. Bijma;J. P. Gattuso;J. P. Gattuso

  • Global distribution patterns of marine nitrogen-fixers by imaging and molecular methods

    Juan José Pierella Karlusich;Juan José Pierella Karlusich;Eric Pelletier;Eric Pelletier;Fabien Lombard;Fabien Lombard;Fabien Lombard;Madeline Carsique

  • Mid-Holocene and Last Glacial Maximum climate simulations with the IPSL model—part I: comparing IPSL_CM5A to IPSL_CM4

    Masa Kageyama;Pascale Braconnot;Laurent Bopp;Arnaud Caubel

  • Modelling planktic foraminifer growth and distribution using an ecophysiological multi-species approach

    Fabien Lombard;Fabien Lombard;L. Labeyrie;E. Michel;L. Bopp

  • Mammoth grazers on the ocean's minuteness: a review of selective feeding using mucous meshes.

    Keats R. Conley;Fabien Lombard;Kelly R. Sutherland

  • Priorities for ocean microbiome research

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  • Oxygen respiration rates of benthic foraminifera as measured with oxygen microsensors

    E. Geslin;N. Risgaard-Petersen;Fabien Lombard;E. Metzger

  • Community‐Level Responses to Iron Availability in Open Ocean Plankton Ecosystems

    Luigi Caputi;Quentin Carradec;Damien Eveillard;Amos Kirilovsky

  • The Tara Pacific expedition-A pan-ecosystemic approach of the "-omics" complexity of coral reef holobionts across the Pacific Ocean.

    Serge Planes;Denis Allemand;Sylvain Agostini;Bernard Banaigs

  • Mid-Holocene and last glacial maximum climate simulations with the IPSL model: part II: model-data comparisons

    Masa Kageyama;Pascale Braconnot;Laurent Bopp;Véronique Mariotti

  • Distribution of Pelagia noctiluca (Cnidaria, Scyphozoa) in the Ligurian Sea (NW Mediterranean Sea)

    M. Ferraris;M. Ferraris;L. Berline;L. Berline;F. Lombard;L. Guidi

  • Accumulation of nanoparticles in “jellyfish” mucus: a bio-inspired route to decontamination of nano-waste

    Amit Patwa;Alain Thiéry;Fabien Lombard;Martin K.S. Lilley

  • Temperature effect on respiration and photosynthesis of the symbiont-bearing planktonic foraminifera Globigerinoides ruber, Orbulina universa, and Globigerinella siphonifera

    F. Lombard;J. Erez;E. Michel;L. Labeyrie

  • Genomic evidence for global ocean plankton biogeography shaped by large-scale current systems

    Daniel Richter;Romain Watteaux;Thomas Vannier;Jade Leconte

  • Global distribution patterns of marine nitrogen-fixers by imaging and molecular methods

    Juan José Pierella Karlusich;Eric Pelletier;Madeline Carsique;Etienne Dvorak

Frequent Co-Authors

Gabriel Gorsky
Gabriel Gorsky Sorbonne University
Lars Stemmann
Lars Stemmann Sorbonne University
Lionel Guidi
Lionel Guidi Centre national de la recherche scientifique, CNRS
Marc Picheral
Marc Picheral Université Paris Cité
Emmanuel Boss
Emmanuel Boss University of Maine
Patrick Wincker
Patrick Wincker University of Paris-Saclay
Chris Bowler
Chris Bowler École Normale Supérieure
Laurent Labeyrie
Laurent Labeyrie University of Southern Brittany
Matthew B. Sullivan
Matthew B. Sullivan The Ohio State University
Laurent Bopp
Laurent Bopp École Normale Supérieure

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