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D-Index
34
Citations
4161
World Ranking
7655
National Ranking
342

Florence Caurant publication distribution in Ecology and Evolution in 2026

The chart shows the distribution of publications by all Research.com ranked scientists in the field of Ecology and Evolution in 2026. The highlighted bar marks where Florence Caurant sits on this spectrum.

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37 publications 531+

This scientist: 79 publications — 6th percentile

6% of scientists in this discipline score the same or lower.

The last bar groups every scientist with 531 publications or more.

Florence Caurant D-index placement in Ecology and Evolution in 2026

The chart shows the D-index (discipline H-index) distribution of Ecology and Evolution scientists ranked by Research.com in 2026. The highlighted bar marks where Florence Caurant sits on this spectrum.

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30 D-Index 121+

This scientist: 34 D-Index — 11th percentile

11% of scientists in this discipline score the same or lower.

The last bar groups every scientist with 121 D-Index or more.

Overview

Florence Caurant is affiliated with the Centre national de la recherche scientifique (CNRS) in France. Their research predominantly falls within Environmental Science, with a focus on several subfields including Ecology, Health, Toxicology and Mutagenesis, Oceanography, Global and Planetary Change, and Aquatic Science.

The scientist's work covers a range of topics in marine and environmental research. Key areas include:

  • Marine animal studies overview
  • Mercury impact and mitigation studies
  • Marine and fisheries research
  • Toxic organic pollutants impact
  • Marine and coastal plant biology
  • Coral and marine ecosystems studies
  • Isotope analysis in ecology

Florence Caurant has contributed to multiple recent papers published in recognized scientific venues. Representative publications include:

  • In the Wrong Place at the Wrong Time: Identifying Spatiotemporal Co-occurrence of Bycaught Common Dolphins and Fisheries in the Bay of Biscay (NE Atlantic) From 2010 to 2019, 2021, Frontiers in Marine Science
  • Nontargeted LC/ESI-HRMS Detection of Polyhalogenated Compounds in Marine Mammals Stranded on French Atlantic Coasts, 2020, ACS ES&T Water
  • Two cetacean species reveal different long-term trends for toxic trace elements in European Atlantic French waters, 2022, Chemosphere
  • High inter-species variability in elemental composition of the twilight zone fauna varies implications for predators and exploitation by humans, 2021, Environmental Research
  • Nutritional grouping of marine forage species reveals contrasted exposure of high trophic levels to essential micro-nutrients, 2022, Oikos

The scientist frequently publishes in journals such as Frontiers in Marine Science, Ecology and Evolution, Marine Biology, ACS ES&T Water, and Chemosphere. The most frequent venue is Frontiers in Marine Science.

Florence Caurant has collaborated extensively with several coauthors, including:

  • Jérôme Spitz
  • Matthieu Authier
  • Willy Dabin
  • Yann Planque
  • Cécile Vincent

Best Publications

  • Cephalopods as a vector for the transfer of cadmium to top marine predators in the north-east Atlantic Ocean

    Paco Bustamante;Florence Caurant;Scott Fowler;Pierre Miramand

  • Distribution of trace elements in the tissues of benthic and pelagic fish from the Kerguelen Islands.

    Paco Bustamante;Pierrick Bocher;Pierrick Bocher;Yves Cherel;Pierre Miramand

  • Total and organic Hg concentrations in cephalopods from the North Eastern Atlantic waters: Influence of geographical origin and feeding ecology

    Paco Bustamante;Virginie Lahaye;Catherine Durnez;Carine Churlaud

  • Cadmium detoxification processes in the digestive gland of cephalopods in relation to accumulated cadmium concentrations.

    Paco Bustamante;Richard Cosson;Isabelle Gallien;Florence Caurant

  • Bioaccumulation of cadmium, copper and zinc in some tissues of three species of marine turtles stranded along the French Atlantic coasts

    Florence Caurant;Paco Bustamante;Monique Bordes;Pierre Miramand

  • Enhanced bioaccumulation of mercury in deep-sea fauna from the Bay of Biscay (north-east Atlantic) in relation to trophic positions identified by analysis of carbon and nitrogen stable isotopes

    Tiphaine Chouvelon;Jérôme Spitz;Florence Caurant;Paula Mèndez-Fernandez

  • Bioaccumulation of 12 Trace Elements in the Tissues of the Nautilus Nautilus macromphalus from New Caledonia

    Paco Bustamante;Sveva Grigioni;Renata Boucher-Rodoni;Florence Caurant

  • Revisiting the use of δ15N in meso-scale studies of marine food webs by considering spatio-temporal variations in stable isotopic signatures – The case of an open ecosystem: The Bay of Biscay (North-East Atlantic)

    T. Chouvelon;J. Spitz;J. Spitz;F. Caurant;P. Mèndez-Fernandez

  • Ecological and biological factors controlling the concentrations of trace elements (As, Cd, Cu, Hg, Se, Zn) in delpinids Globicephala melas from the North Atlantic Ocean

    Florence Caurant;Jean-Claude Amiard;Claude Amiard-Triquet;Pierre-Guy Sauriau

  • Cadmium, copper and zinc in octopuses from Kerguelen Islands, Southern Indian Ocean

    Paco Bustamante;Yves Cherel;Florence Caurant;Pierre Miramand

  • Trace element (Cd, Cu, Hg, Se, Zn) accumulation and tissue distribution in loggerhead turtles (Caretta caretta) from the Western Mediterranean Sea (southern Italy).

    Fulvio Maffucci;Florence Caurant;Paco Bustamante;Flegra Bentivegna

  • Bioaccumulation of persistent organic pollutants in female common dolphins (Delphinus delphis) and harbour porpoises (Phocoena phocoena) from western European seas: Geographical trends, causal factors and effects on reproduction and mortality

    G.J. Pierce;M.B. Santos;S. Murphy;S. Murphy;J.A. Learmonth

  • Trace elements in two odontocete species (Kogia breviceps and Globicephala macrorhynchus) stranded in New Caledonia (South Pacific).

    Paco Bustamante;Claire Garrigue;Ludovic Breau;Ludovic Breau;Florence Caurant

  • Cadmium contamination in pilot whales Globicephala melas: source and potential hazard to the species

    F. Caurant;C. Amiard-Triquet

  • Foraging ecology of five toothed whale species in the Northwest Iberian Peninsula, inferred using carbon and nitrogen isotope ratios

    Paula Mèndez-Fernandez;Paula Mèndez-Fernandez;Paco Bustamante;Antonio Bode;Tiphaine Chouvelon

  • Inter-specific and ontogenic differences in δ13C and δ15N values and Hg and Cd concentrations in cephalopods

    Tiphaine Chouvelon;Jérôme Spitz;Yves Cherel;Florence Caurant

  • Long-term dietary segregation of common dolphins Delphinus delphis in the Bay of Biscay, determined using cadmium as an ecological tracer

    Virginie Lahaye;Paco Bustamante;Jérôme Spitz;Willy Dabin

  • Plasticity of trophic interactions among sharks from the oceanic south-western Indian Ocean revealed by stable isotope and mercury analyses

    Jeremy J. Kiszka;Jeremy J. Kiszka;Aurore Aubail;Nigel E. Hussey;Michael R. Heithaus

  • New insights from age determination on toxic element accumulation in striped and bottlenose dolphins from Atlantic and Mediterranean waters

    Virginie Lahaye;Paco Bustamante;W Dabin;O Van Canneyt

  • Ecological opportunities and specializations shaped genetic divergence in a highly mobile marine top predator

    Marie Louis;Michael C. Fontaine;Jérôme Spitz;Erika Schlund

  • Biological and ecological factors related to trace element levels in harbour porpoises (Phocoena phocoena) from European waters

    Virginie Lahaye;Paco Bustamante;Robin Law;J. Learmonth

Frequent Co-Authors

Paco Bustamante
Paco Bustamante University of La Rochelle
Jérôme Spitz
Jérôme Spitz University of La Rochelle
Graham J. Pierce
Graham J. Pierce Spanish National Research Council
Ángel F. González
Ángel F. González Spanish National Research Council
Marcelo U. Ferreira
Marcelo U. Ferreira Universidade de São Paulo
Krishna Das
Krishna Das University of Liège
Ángel Guerra
Ángel Guerra Spanish National Research Council
Walter Vetter
Walter Vetter University of Hohenheim
Deborah J. Pain
Deborah J. Pain University of Cambridge
Bernie J. McConnell
Bernie J. McConnell University of St Andrews

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