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Overview

Jérôme Fort is affiliated with the Centre national de la recherche scientifique (CNRS) in France. Their work predominantly falls within the field of Environmental Science, with a focus on related subfields such as Ecology, Health, Toxicology and Mutagenesis, Ecological Modeling, Ecology, Evolution, Behavior and Systematics, and Global and Planetary Change.

The research topics covered by Jérôme Fort include:

  • Avian ecology and behavior
  • Marine animal studies overview
  • Mercury impact and mitigation studies
  • Wildlife Ecology and Conservation
  • Species Distribution and Climate Change
  • Isotope Analysis in Ecology
  • Animal Behavior and Reproduction

Recent publications by Jérôme Fort, showing the diversity of their research interests, include:

  • "Ecological insights from three decades of animal movement tracking across a changing Arctic" (2020), published in Science
  • "Multispecies tracking reveals a major seabird hotspot in the North Atlantic" (2021), published in Conservation Letters
  • "Linking pollution and cancer in aquatic environments: A review" (2021), published in Environment International
  • "Mercury contamination and potential health risks to Arctic seabirds and shorebirds" (2022), published in The Science of The Total Environment
  • "North Atlantic winter cyclones starve seabirds" (2021), published in Current Biology

Their frequent co-authors include:

  • David Grémillet
  • Paco Bustamante
  • Andrea S. Grunst
  • Melissa L. Grunst
  • Mark L. Mallory

Jérôme Fort has published multiple studies in various scientific venues. The most frequent publication venues include:

  • Zenodo (CERN European Organization for Nuclear Research)
  • The Science of The Total Environment
  • bioRxiv (Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory)
  • Environmental Pollution
  • Marine Biology

Best Publications

  • Microplastic pollution in the Greenland Sea: Background levels and selective contamination of planktivorous diving seabirds.

    F. Amélineau;D. Bonnet;O. Heitz;V. Mortreux

  • Climate change and the ecology and evolution of Arctic vertebrates

    Olivier Gilg;Olivier Gilg;Kit M. Kovacs;Jon Aars;Jérôme Fort

  • Thermodynamic modelling predicts energetic bottleneck for seabirds wintering in the northwest Atlantic

    Jérôme Fort;Jérôme Fort;Warren P Porter;David Grémillet;David Grémillet

  • Ecological insights from three decades of animal movement tracking across a changing Arctic

    Sarah C. Davidson;Sarah C. Davidson;Sarah C. Davidson;Gil Bohrer;Eliezer Gurarie;Eliezer Gurarie;Scott LaPoint;Scott LaPoint

  • Spatial ecotoxicology: migratory Arctic seabirds are exposed to mercury contamination while overwintering in the northwest Atlantic.

    Jérôme Fort;Gregory J. Robertson;David Grémillet;David Grémillet;Gwendoline Traisnel

  • Global phenological insensitivity to shifting ocean temperatures among seabirds

    Katharine Keogan;Francis Daunt;Sarah Wanless;Richard A. Phillips

  • Mercury contamination and potential health risks to Arctic seabirds and shorebirds.

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  • Meta-population evidence of oriented chain migration in northern gannets (Morus bassanus)

    Jérôme Fort;Emeline Pettex;Yann Tremblay;Svein-Håkon Lorentsen

  • Little auks buffer the impact of current Arctic climate change

    David Grémillet;Jorg Welcker;Nina J. Karnovsky;Wojciech Walkusz;Wojciech Walkusz

  • Using blood and feathers to investigate large-scale Hg contamination in Arctic seabirds: A review

    Céline Albert;Marina Renedo;Paco Bustamante;Jérôme Fort

  • Linking pollution and cancer in aquatic environments: A review

    Ciara Baines;Adelaide Lerebours;Frederic Thomas;Jerome Fort

  • Sympatric breeding auks shift between dietary and spatial resource partitioning across the annual cycle.

    Jannie Fries Linnebjerg;Jérôme Fort;Tim Guilford;Anna Reuleaux

  • Multispecies tracking reveals a major seabird hotspot in the North Atlantic

    Tammy E. Davies;Ana P.B. Carneiro;Marguerite Tarzia;Ewan Wakefield

  • Adverse foraging conditions may impact body mass and survival of a high Arctic seabird

    Ann M. A. Harding;Ann M. A. Harding;Jorg Welcker;Harald Steen;Keith C. Hamer

  • Multicolony tracking reveals potential threats to little auks wintering in the North Atlantic from marine pollution and shrinking sea ice cover

    Jérôme Fort;Børge Moe;Hallvard Strøm;David Grémillet;David Grémillet

  • Importance of coastal Marine Protected Areas for the conservation of pelagic seabirds: The case of Vulnerable yelkouan shearwaters in the Mediterranean Sea

    Clara Péron;David Grémillet;David Grémillet;Aurélien Prudor;Emeline Pettex

  • Energetic consequences of contrasting winter migratory strategies in a sympatric Arctic seabird duet

    Jérôme Fort;Harald Steen;Hallvard Strøm;Yann Tremblay

  • Arctic warming: nonlinear impacts of sea-ice and glacier melt on seabird foraging

    David Grémillet;David Grémillet;Jérôme Fort;Francoise Amélineau;Elena Zakharova

  • Arctic climate change and pollution impact little auk foraging and fitness across a decade

    Françoise Amélineau;Françoise Amélineau;David Grémillet;David Grémillet;Ann M. A. Harding;Wojciech Walkusz;Wojciech Walkusz

  • Does temporal variation of mercury levels in Arctic seabirds reflect changes in global environmental contamination, or a modification of Arctic marine food web functioning?

    Jérôme Fort;David Grémillet;Gwendoline Traisnel;Françoise Amélineau

  • Abundance and species diversity hotspots of tracked marine predators across the North American Arctic

    David J. Yurkowski;Marie Auger-Méthé;Mark L. Mallory;Sarah N. P. Wong

  • Where to forage in the absence of sea ice? Bathymetry as a key factor for an arctic seabird

    Françoise Amélineau;David Grémillet;David Grémillet;Delphine Bonnet;Tangi Le Bot

Frequent Co-Authors

David Grémillet
David Grémillet Centre national de la recherche scientifique, CNRS
Paco Bustamante
Paco Bustamante University of La Rochelle
Hallvard Strøm
Hallvard Strøm Norwegian Polar Institute
Mark L. Mallory
Mark L. Mallory Acadia University
Anders Mosbech
Anders Mosbech Aarhus University
Sébastien Descamps
Sébastien Descamps Norwegian Polar Institute
Warren P. Porter
Warren P. Porter University of Wisconsin–Madison
Børge Moe
Børge Moe Norwegian Institute for Nature Research
Kjell Einar Erikstad
Kjell Einar Erikstad Norwegian Institute for Nature Research
William A. Montevecchi
William A. Montevecchi Memorial University of Newfoundland

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