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Jérôme Spitz is affiliated with the University of La Rochelle in France. Their research primarily focuses on environmental science, with significant contributions in the field associated with ecology, global and planetary change, health, toxicology and mutagenesis, oceanography, and atmospheric science. The scientist's work spans across multiple specialized subfields, reflecting a multidisciplinary approach to marine and environmental studies.

The main topics covered in their research include:

  • Marine animal studies overview
  • Marine and fisheries research
  • Isotope analysis in ecology
  • Mercury impact and mitigation studies
  • Coral and marine ecosystems studies
  • Arctic and Antarctic ice dynamics
  • Marine bivalve and aquaculture studies

Jérôme Spitz has published extensively in the following venues:

  • Frontiers in Marine Science (6 publications)
  • Ecology and Evolution (4 publications)
  • The Science of The Total Environment (3 publications)
  • HAL (Le Centre pour la Communication Scientifique Directe) (3 publications)
  • Environmental Pollution (2 publications)

Recent selected papers include:

  • "Setting the scene for Mediterranean litterscape management: The first basin-scale quantification and mapping of floating marine debris," 2020, Environmental Pollution
  • "Primary production and depth drive different trophic structure and functioning of fish assemblages in French marine ecosystems," 2020, Progress In Oceanography
  • "Composition of cetacean communities worldwide shapes their contribution to ocean nutrient cycling," 2023, Nature Communications
  • "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

Frequent co-authors who have collaborated with Jérôme Spitz are:

  • Tiphaine Chouvelon
  • Matthieu Authier
  • Olivier Van Canneyt
  • Florence Caurant
  • Willy Dabin

Best Publications

  • FOOD AND FEEDING ECOLOGY OF THE COMMON DOLPHIN (DELPHINUS DELPHIS) IN THE OCEANIC NORTHEAST ATLANTIC AND COMPARISON WITH ITS DIET IN NERITIC AREAS

    Claire Pusineri;Véronique Magnin;Laureline Meynier;Jérôme Spitz

  • Diet overlap between harbour porpoise and bottlenose dolphin: An argument in favour of interference competition for food?

    Jérôme Spitz;Jérôme Spitz;Yann Rousseau;Vincent Ridoux

  • Proximate composition and energy content of forage species from the Bay of Biscay: high- or low-quality food?

    Jérôme Spitz;Emeline Mourocq;Valérie Schoen;Vincent Ridoux

  • Cost of Living Dictates what Whales, Dolphins and Porpoises Eat: The Importance of Prey Quality on Predator Foraging Strategies

    Jérôme Spitz;Andrew W. Trites;Vanessa Becquet;Anik Brind'Amour

  • Intraspecific dietary variation in the short-beaked common dolphin Delphinus delphis in the Bay of Biscay: importance of fat fish

    Laureline Meynier;Claire Pusineri;Jérôme Spitz;M. Begoña Santos

  • 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

  • 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

  • Prey preferences among the community of deep-diving odontocetes from the Bay of Biscay, Northeast Atlantic

    Jérôme Spitz;Yves Cherel;Stéphane Bertin;Jeremy Kiszka

  • Lower trophic levels and detrital biomass control the Bay of Biscay continental shelf food web: Implications for ecosystem management

    G. Lassalle;J. Lobry;F. Le Loc'h;Paco Bustamante

  • Large amounts of marine debris found in sperm whales stranded along the North Sea coast in early 2016.

    Bianca Unger;Elisa L. Bravo Rebolledo;Rob Deaville;Andrea Gröne

  • Prey selection by the common dolphin: Fulfilling high energy requirements with high quality food

    Jérôme Spitz;Emeline Mourocq;Jean-Pierre Leauté;Jean-Claude Quéro

  • Let's go beyond taxonomy in diet description: testing a trait-based approach to prey-predator relationships.

    Jérôme Spitz;Jérôme Spitz;Vincent Ridoux;Anik Brind'Amour

  • Stable isotopes document the trophic structure of a deep-sea cephalopod assemblage including giant octopod and giant squid

    Yves Cherel;V. Ridoux;J. Spitz;Patrick Richard

  • 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

  • An ecosystem approach for the assessment of fisheries impacts on marine top predators: the Bay of Biscay case study

    Géraldine Lassalle;Didier Gascuel;François Le Loc'h;Jérémy Lobry

  • Dietary plasticity of the oceanic striped dolphin, Stenella coeruleoalba, in the neritic waters of the Bay of Biscay

    J. Spitz;J. Spitz;E. Richard;L. Meynier;L. Meynier;C. Pusineri

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

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

  • PREDATOR AND PREY BODY SIZES IN MARINE FOOD WEBS

    C. Barnes;D.M. Bethea;R.D. Brodeur;J. Spitz

Frequent Co-Authors

Vincent Ridoux
Vincent Ridoux University of La Rochelle
Paco Bustamante
Paco Bustamante University of La Rochelle
Graham J. Pierce
Graham J. Pierce Spanish National Research Council
Ángel F. González
Ángel F. González Spanish National Research Council
Pierre Petitgas
Pierre Petitgas French Research Institute for Exploitation of the Sea
Yves Cherel
Yves Cherel Centre national de la recherche scientifique, CNRS
Andrew W. Trites
Andrew W. Trites University of British Columbia
François Le Loc'h
François Le Loc'h Laboratoire des Sciences de l'Environnement Marin
Marcelo U. Ferreira
Marcelo U. Ferreira Universidade de São Paulo
Jeremy J. Kiszka
Jeremy J. Kiszka Florida International University

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