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Gilles Escarguel is affiliated with Claude Bernard University Lyon 1 in France. Their research primarily focuses on Earth and Planetary Sciences, with a strong emphasis on Paleontology, as indicated by 31 publications in this subfield. Additional areas of interest include Ecology, Ecology, Evolution, Behavior and Systematics, Atmospheric Science, and Genetics.

Their work spans a variety of topics, including:

  • Evolution and Paleontology Studies
  • Paleontology and Stratigraphy of Fossils
  • Paleontology and Evolutionary Biology
  • Geology and Paleoclimatology Research
  • Insect and Arachnid Ecology and Behavior
  • Pleistocene-Era Hominins and Archaeology
  • Plant and animal studies

Recent papers authored or co-authored by Gilles Escarguel cover diverse themes and include:

  • Dispersal-niche continuum index: a new quantitative metric for assessing the relative importance of dispersal versus niche processes in community assembly, 2020, Ecography
  • Evidence for centennial-scale Mid-Holocene episodes of hypolimnetic anoxia in a high-altitude lake system from central Tian Shan (Kyrgyzstan), 2020, Quaternary Science Reviews
  • Effects of urbanization-climate interactions on range expansion in the invasive European pavement ant, 2020, Basic and Applied Ecology
  • The global genetic diversity of planktonic foraminifera reveals the structure of cryptic speciation in plankton, 2024, Biological Reviews
  • Exceptional fossil assemblages confirm the existence of complex Early Triassic ecosystems during the early Spathian, 2021, Scientific Reports

Frequent collaborators in their scientific work include:

  • Arnaud Brayard
  • Emmanuel Fara
  • James F. Jenks
  • Marion Cordonnier
  • Bernard Kaufmann

The scientist has contributed to multiple publications in prominent venues such as:

  • Geobios
  • MorphoMuseuM
  • HAL (Le Centre pour la Communication Scientifique Directe)
  • Journal of Paleontology
  • Lethaia

Best Publications

  • Oxygen isotope fractionation between human phosphate and water revisited

    Valérie Daux;Christophe Lécuyer;Marie-Anne Héran;Romain Amiot

  • Good genes and good luck: Ammonoid diversity and the end-permian mass extinction

    Arnaud Brayard;Gilles Escarguel;Hugo Bucher;Claude Monnet

  • The Early Triassic ammonoid recovery: Paleoclimatic significance of diversity gradients

    Arnaud Brayard;Arnaud Brayard;Hugo Bucher;Gilles Escarguel;Frédéric Fluteau

  • Can Dental Microwear Textures Record Inter-Individual Dietary Variations?

    Gildas Merceron;Gilles Escarguel;Jean Marc Angibault;Hélène Verheyden-Tixier

  • Unexpected Early Triassic marine ecosystem and the rise of the Modern evolutionary fauna.

    Arnaud Brayard;L.J. Krumenacker;Joseph P. Botting;James F. Jenks

  • Transient metazoan reefs in the aftermath of the end-Permian mass extinction

    Arnaud Brayard;Emmanuelle Vennin;Nicolas Olivier;Kevin G. Bylund

  • Morphological recognition of cryptic species in the planktonic foraminifer Orbulina universa

    Raphaël Morard;Frédéric Quillévéré;Gilles Escarguel;Yurika Ujiie

  • Oxygen isotopes from biogenic apatites suggest widespread endothermy in Cretaceous dinosaurs

    Romain Amiot;Christophe Lécuyer;Eric Buffetaut;Gilles Escarguel

  • Latitudinal gradient of taxonomic richness: combined outcome of temperature and geographic mid-domains effects?

    Arnaud Brayard;Arnaud Brayard;Gilles Escarguel;Hugo Bucher

  • The cryptic and the apparent reversed: lack of genetic differentiation within the morphologically diverse plexus of the planktonic foraminifer Globigerinoides sacculifer

    Aurore Andre;Agnes Weiner;Frederic Quillevere;Ralf Aurahs

  • The biogeography of Early Triassic ammonoid faunas: Clusters, gradients, and networks

    Arnaud Brayard;Arnaud Brayard;Gilles Escarguel;Hugo Bucher

  • A contribution to deciphering the meaning of AP/NAP with respect to vegetation cover

    Eric Favre;Gilles Escarguel;Jean-Pierre Suc;Gérard Vidal

  • High-precision determination of 18O/16O ratios of silver phosphate by EA-pyrolysis-IRMS continuous flow technique.

    Christophe Lécuyer;François Fourel;Francçois Martineau;Romain Amiot

  • Smithian and Spathian (Early Triassic) ammonoid assemblages from terranes: Paleoceanographic and paleogeographic implications

    Arnaud Brayard;Gilles Escarguel;Hugo Bucher;Hugo Bucher;Thomas Brühwiler

  • A biometric re-evaluation of recent claims for Early Upper Palaeolithic wolf domestication in Eurasia

    Myriam Boudadi-Maligne;Gilles Escarguel

  • The significance of pollen signal in present-day marine terrigenous sediments: The example of the Gulf of Lions (western Mediterranean Sea)

    Célia Beaudouin;Célia Beaudouin;Jean-Pierre Suc;Gilles Escarguel;Mireille Arnaud

  • Oxygen isotope fractionation between crocodilian phosphate and water

    Romain Amiot;Christophe Lécuyer;Gilles Escarguel;Jean-Paul Billon-Bruyat

  • GALEACYSTA ETRUSCA COMPLEX: DINOFLAGELLATE CYST MARKER OF PARATETHYAN INFLUXES TO THE MEDITERRANEAN SEA BEFORE AND AFTER THE PEAK OF THE MESSINIAN SALINITY CRISIS

    Speranta-Maria Popescu;Florent Dalesme;Gwénaël Jouannic;Gilles Escarguel

  • SSU rDNA Divergence in Planktonic Foraminifera: Molecular Taxonomy and Biogeographic Implications

    Aurore André;Frédéric Quillévéré;Raphaël Morard;Yurika Ujiié

  • Smithian ammonoid faunas from Utah: implications for Early Triassic biostratigraphy, correlation and basinal paleogeography

    Arnaud Brayard;Kevin G. Bylund;James F. Jenks;Daniel A. Stephen

  • Morphological recognition of cryptic species in the planktonic foraminifer

    Frédéric Quillévéré;Gilles Escarguel;Yurika Ujiie;Richard D. Norris

Frequent Co-Authors

Pascal Allemand
Pascal Allemand École Normale Supérieure de Lyon
Emanuela Mattioli
Emanuela Mattioli Claude Bernard University Lyon 1
Arnaud Brayard
Arnaud Brayard Centre national de la recherche scientifique, CNRS
Emmanuelle Vennin
Emmanuelle Vennin University of Burgundy
Hugo Bucher
Hugo Bucher University of Zurich
Frédéric Quillévéré
Frédéric Quillévéré Claude Bernard University Lyon 1
Christophe Lécuyer
Christophe Lécuyer Claude Bernard University Lyon 1
Christophe J. Douady
Christophe J. Douady Claude Bernard University Lyon 1
Jean-Pierre Suc
Jean-Pierre Suc Sorbonne University
Martin J. Head
Martin J. Head Brock University

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