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Frédéric Rimet is affiliated with Université Savoie Mont Blanc in France and has contributed extensively to the field of environmental science. Their research focuses particularly on ecology, biomaterials, molecular biology, environmental chemistry, and oceanography.

The scientist's work covers main topics such as:

  • Environmental DNA in Biodiversity Studies
  • Microbial Community Ecology and Physiology
  • Diatoms and Algae Research
  • Protist Diversity and Phylogeny
  • Aquatic Ecosystems and Phytoplankton Dynamics
  • Identification and Quantification in Food
  • Freshwater Macroinvertebrate Diversity and Ecology

Their frequent co-authors include:

  • Agnès Bouchez
  • Valentin Vasselon
  • Isabelle Domaizon
  • Rosa Trobajo
  • Maria Kahlert

Throughout their career, Frédéric Rimet has published in several scholarly venues, including:

  • The Science of The Total Environment
  • ARPHA Conference Abstracts
  • Metabarcoding and Metagenomics
  • Zenodo (CERN European Organization for Nuclear Research)
  • Ecological Indicators

Selected recent papers authored or co-authored by Frédéric Rimet include:

  • The Observatory on LAkes (OLA) database: Sixty years of environmental data accessible to the public, 2020, Journal of Limnology
  • Monitoring the ecological status of rivers with diatom eDNA metabarcoding: A comparison of taxonomic markers and analytical approaches for the inference of a molecular diatom index, 2020, Molecular Ecology
  • Evaluation and sensitivity analysis of diatom DNA metabarcoding for WFD bioassessment of Mediterranean rivers, 2020, The Science of The Total Environment
  • Ripe for reassessment: A synthesis of available molecular data for the speciose diatom family Bacillariaceae, 2020, Molecular Phylogenetics and Evolution
  • A taxonomy-free approach based on machine learning to assess the quality of rivers with diatoms, 2020, The Science of The Total Environment

Best Publications

  • The future of biotic indices in the ecogenomic era: Integrating (e)DNA metabarcoding in biological assessment of aquatic ecosystems

    Jan Pawlowski;Mary Kelly-Quinn;Florian Altermatt;Laure Apothéloz-Perret-Gentil

  • DNA barcode reference libraries for the monitoring of aquatic biota in Europe: Gap-analysis and recommendations for future work.

    Hannah Weigand;Arne J Beermann;Fedor Čiampor;Filipe O. Costa

  • phylosignal: an R package to measure, test, and explore the phylogenetic signal.

    François Keck;Frédéric Rimet;Frédéric Rimet;Agnès Bouchez;Agnès Bouchez;Alain Franc

  • Life-forms, cell-sizes and ecological guilds of diatoms in European rivers

    Frederic Rimet;Frederic Rimet;Agnès Bouchez;Agnès Bouchez

  • Using diatom life-forms and ecological guilds to assess organic pollution and trophic level in rivers: a case study of rivers in south-eastern France

    Vincent Berthon;Agnès Bouchez;Frédéric Rimet

  • Recent views on river pollution and diatoms

    Frédéric Rimet

  • Next-generation sequencing to inventory taxonomic diversity in eukaryotic communities: a test for freshwater diatoms.

    L. Kermarrec;A. Franc;A. Franc;F. Rimet;P. Chaumeil;P. Chaumeil

  • Assessing ecological status with diatoms DNA metabarcoding: Scaling-up on a WFD monitoring network (Mayotte island, France)

    Valentin Vasselon;Frédéric Rimet;Kálmán Tapolczai;Agnès Bouchez

  • DNAqua-Net: Developing new genetic tools for bioassessment and monitoring of aquatic ecosystems in Europe

    Florian Leese;Florian Altermatt;Agnès Bouchez;Torbjørn Ekrem

  • Determination of the biological diatom index (IBD NF T 90-354): results of an intercomparison exercise

    Jean Prygiel;Patrice Carpentier;Salomé Almeida;Michel Coste

  • Use of diatom life-forms and ecological guilds to assess pesticide contamination in rivers: Lotic mesocosm approaches

    Frédéric Rimet;Agnès Bouchez

  • A next-generation sequencing approach to river biomonitoring using benthic diatoms

    Lenaïg Kermarrec;Alain Franc;Alain Franc;Frédéric Rimet;Philippe Chaumeil;Philippe Chaumeil

  • Diat.barcode, an open-access curated barcode library for diatoms

    Frédéric Rimet;Evgenuy Gusev;Maria Kahlert;Martyn G. Kelly

  • Freshwater biomonitoring in the Information Age

    François Keck;François Keck;Valentin Vasselon;Kálmán Tapolczai;Frédéric Rimet

  • Biomonitoring river diatoms: Implications of taxonomic resolution

    Frédéric Rimet;Agnès Bouchez

  • Pioneer marine biofilms on artificial surfaces including antifouling coatings immersed in two contrasting French Mediterranean coast sites

    Jean-François Briand;Ikram Djeridi;Dominique Jamet;Stéphane Coupé

  • Separate treatment of hospital and urban wastewaters: A real scale comparison of effluents and their effect on microbial communities.

    Teofana Chonova;Teofana Chonova;François Keck;Jérôme Labanowski;Bernard Montuelle

  • Avoiding quantification bias in metabarcoding: Application of a cell biovolume correction factor in diatom molecular biomonitoring

    Valentin Vasselon;Agnès Bouchez;Frédéric Rimet;Stéphan Jacquet

  • Typology of diatom communities and the influence of hydro-ecoregions: a study on the French hydrosystem scale.

    J. Tison;Y.-S. Park;M. Coste;J.G. Wasson

  • Trait-based ecological classifications for benthic algae: review and perspectives

    Kálmán Tapolczai;Agnès Bouchez;Csilla Stenger-Kovács;Judit Padisák

Frequent Co-Authors

Agnès Bouchez
Agnès Bouchez Université Savoie Mont Blanc
Luc Ector
Luc Ector Luxembourg Institute of Science and Technology
Isabelle Domaizon
Isabelle Domaizon Université Savoie Mont Blanc
Stéphan Jacquet
Stéphan Jacquet INRAE : Institut national de recherche pour l'agriculture, l'alimentation et l'environnement
David G. Mann
David G. Mann Royal Botanic Garden Edinburgh
Bernard Montuelle
Bernard Montuelle INRAE : Institut national de recherche pour l'agriculture, l'alimentation et l'environnement
Jean-François Humbert
Jean-François Humbert INRAE : Institut national de recherche pour l'agriculture, l'alimentation et l'environnement
Martyn Kelly
Martyn Kelly Durham University
Lucien Hoffmann
Lucien Hoffmann Luxembourg Institute of Science and Technology
Marie-Elodie Perga
Marie-Elodie Perga University of Lausanne

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