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Françoise Gaill

Françoise Gaill

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Environmental Sciences

D-Index
54
Citations
7682
World Ranking
4124
National Ranking
165

Biology and Biochemistry

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56
Citations
8380
World Ranking
14689
National Ranking
573

Overview

Françoise Gaill is affiliated with the Ocean & Climate Platform in France and focuses research within the field of Environmental Science. Their work spans several specialized subfields including Management, Monitoring, Policy and Law; Ecology; Global and Planetary Change; Sociology and Political Science; and Oceanography.

The scientist's research covers a range of topics primarily centered on the marine environment. These include Coastal and Marine Management, Coral and Marine Ecosystems Studies, Marine and Fisheries Research, Climate Change, Adaptation, and Migration, Microplastics and Plastic Pollution, Air Quality and Health Impacts, and Coastal and Marine Dynamics.

Research outputs by Françoise Gaill include multiple recent papers published in recognized academic venues. These publications are:

  • An evolution towards scientific consensus for a sustainable ocean future, 2022, npj Ocean Sustainability
  • Human Health and Ocean Pollution, 2020, Annals of Global Health
  • Designing Coastal Adaptation Strategies to Tackle Sea Level Rise, 2021, Frontiers in Marine Science
  • The World Coral Conservatory (WCC): A Noah's ark for corals to support survival of reef ecosystems, 2020, PLoS Biology
  • Bridging Shades of Blue: Co-constructing Knowledge with the International Panel for Ocean Sustainability, 2023, Coastal Management

Frequent co-authors with multiple collaborations include:

  • Joachim Claudet
  • Denis Allemand
  • Marie-Alexandrine Sicre
  • Leopoldo Cavaleri Gerhardinger
  • Frédéric Ménard

Published work appears in a variety of academic journals, with repeated contributions to the following venues:

  • npj Ocean Sustainability
  • Annals of Global Health
  • Frontiers in Marine Science
  • PLoS Biology
  • Coastal Management

Best Publications

  • Human Health and Ocean Pollution.

    Philip J Landrigan;John J Stegeman;Lora E Fleming;Denis Allemand

  • A Roadmap for Using the UN Decade of Ocean Science for Sustainable Development in Support of Science, Policy, and Action

    Joachim Claudet;Laurent Bopp;William W.L. Cheung;Rodolphe Devillers;Rodolphe Devillers

  • Structure and rheology of gelatin and collagen gels.

    Madeleine Djabourov;Jean-Pierre Lechaire;Françoise Gaill

  • High-resolution solid-state carbon-13 nuclear magnetic resonance study of chitin

    Steven F. Tanner;Henri Chanzy;Marc Vincendon;Jean Claude Roux

  • Rapid microbial production of filamentous sulfur mats at hydrothermal vents

    Craig D. Taylor;Carl O. Wirsen;Françoise Gaill

  • The chitin system in the tubes of deep sea hydrothermal vent worms

    Françoise Gaill;J. Persson;J. Sugiyama;R. Vuong

  • Designing coastal adaptation strategies to tackle sea level rise

    Théophile Bongarts Lebbe;Hélène Rey-Valette;Éric Chaumillon;Guigone Camus

  • Biology and ecology of the “Pompeii worm” (Alvinella pompejana Desbruyères and Laubier), a normal dweller of an extreme deep-sea environment: A synthesis of current knowledge and recent developments

    D. Desbruyères;P. Chevaldonné;P. Chevaldonné;A. M. Alayse;D. Jollivet

  • Unexpected co‐occurrence of six bacterial symbionts in the gills of the cold seep mussel Idas sp. (Bivalvia: Mytilidae)

    Sébastien Duperron;Sébastien Duperron;Sébastien Halary;Sébastien Halary;Julien Lorion;Myriam Sibuet

  • Wide bacterial diversity associated with tubes of the vent worm Riftia pachyptila

    Purificación López-García;Françoise Gaill;David Moreira

  • Structural Aspects of the Swelling of β Chitin in HCl and its Conversion into α Chitin

    Y. Saito;J.-L. Putaux;T. Okano;F. Gaill

  • Deep-sea ecology. Developmental arrest in vent worm embryos.

    Florence Pradillon;Bruce Shillito;Craig M. Young;Françoise Gaill

  • Early steps in microbial colonization processes at deep-sea hydrothermal vents.

    Karine Alain;Magali Zbinden;Nadine Le Bris;Françoise Lesongeur

  • Symbioses between deep-sea mussels (Mytilidae: Bathymodiolinae) and chemosynthetic bacteria: diversity, function and evolution.

    Sébastien Duperron;Julien Lorion;Julien Lorion;Sarah Samadi;Sarah Samadi;Olivier Gros

  • Structural data on the intra-crystalline swelling of β-chitin

    Yukie Saito;Takeshi Okano;Françoise Gaill;Henri Chanzy

  • Structural comparison of cuticle and interstitial collagens from annelids living in shallow sea-water and at deep-sea hydrothermal vents.

    Francoise Gaill;Karlheinz Mann;Hanna Wiedemann;Jürgen Engel

  • Food web indicators under the Marine Strategy Framework Directive: From complexity to simplicity?

    I. Rombouts;G. Beaugrand;X. Fizzala;F. Gaill

  • Heat-shock response and temperature resistance in the deep-sea vent shrimp Rimicaris exoculata.

    Juliette Ravaux;Françoise Gaill;Nadine Le Bris;Pierre-Marie Sarradin

  • Polychaetous annelids from hydrothermal vent ecosystems: an ecological overview

    D Desbruyeres;F Gaill;L Laubier;Y Fouquet

  • Fossil clams from a serpentinite‐hosted sedimented vent field near the active smoker complex Rainbow, MAR, 36°13′N: Insight into the biogeography of vent fauna

    Franck Lartaud;Marc de Rafelis;Graham Oliver;Elena Krylova

  • New insigths on the metabolic diversity among the epibiotic microbial communitiy of the hydrothermal shrimp Rimicaris exoculata

    Magali Zbinden;Bruce Shillito;Nadine Le Bris;Constance de Villardi de Montlaur

Frequent Co-Authors

Nadine Le Bris
Nadine Le Bris Université Paris Cité
Didier Jollivet
Didier Jollivet Centre national de la recherche scientifique, CNRS
Daniel Desbruyères
Daniel Desbruyères French Research Institute for Exploitation of the Sea
Sarah Samadi
Sarah Samadi French National Museum of Natural History
Pierre-Marie Sarradin
Pierre-Marie Sarradin University of Western Brittany
Henri Chanzy
Henri Chanzy Joseph Fourier University
Rupert Timpl
Rupert Timpl Max Planck Society
Sébastien Duperron
Sébastien Duperron Sorbonne University
Philippe Lebaron
Philippe Lebaron Laboratoire de Biodiversité et Biotechnologies Microbiennes
Jean-Claude Caprais
Jean-Claude Caprais French Research Institute for Exploitation of the Sea

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