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Louis Deharveng is affiliated with the French National Museum of Natural History in France. Their research spans multiple disciplines within biological and earth sciences, with a particular emphasis on ecology, taxonomy, and biodiversity.

Their main fields of study include Agricultural and Biological Sciences and Earth and Planetary Sciences, with notable focus on the subfields of Ecology, Evolution, Behavior and Systematics, Oceanography, Paleontology, Ecology, and Global and Planetary Change. Their scientific work covers core topics such as Collembola Taxonomy and Ecology Studies, Study of Mite Species, Marine and Environmental Studies, Subterranean Biodiversity and Taxonomy, Invertebrate Taxonomy and Ecology, Hemiptera Insect Studies, and Plant and Animal Studies.

Deharveng has contributed frequently alongside a set of collaborators, including Sopark Jantarit, Katthaleeya Surakhamhaeng, Charlene Janion-Scheepers, Mikhail Potapov, and Anne Bedòs. These coauthors have appeared in their publications with varying frequency, indicating ongoing collaborative research efforts.

The scientist's publication record includes several recent notable papers, such as:

  • "Fundamental research questions in subterranean biology" (2020) published in Biological reviews/Biological reviews of the Cambridge Philosophical Society
  • "Towards a global synthesis of Collembola knowledge - challenges and potential solutions" (2020) in HAL (Le Centre pour la Communication Scientifique Directe)
  • "Globally invariant metabolism but density-diversity mismatch in springtails" (2023) in Nature Communications
  • "Towards evidence-based conservation of subterranean ecosystems" (2022) in Biological reviews/Biological reviews of the Cambridge Philosophical Society
  • "A conservation roadmap for the subterranean biome" (2021) in Conservation Letters

The frequent publication venues for their work include Zenodo (CERN European Organization for Nuclear Research), Diversity, ZooKeys, Global Biodiversity Information Facility, and Biological reviews/Biological reviews of the Cambridge Philosophical Society. These venues reflect a spectrum of platforms for disseminating research on biodiversity, taxonomy, and ecological studies.

Best Publications

  • Subterranean Ecosystems: A Truncated Functional Biodiversity

    Janine Gibert;Louis Deharveng

  • New Caledonia: a very old Darwinian island?

    Philippe Grandcolas;Jérôme Murienne;Tony Robillard;Laure Desutter-Grandcolas

  • Scientists' Warning on the Conservation of Subterranean Ecosystems

    Stefano Mammola;Pedro Cardoso;David C Culver;Louis Deharveng

  • The mid-latitude biodiversity ridge in terrestrial cave fauna

    David C. Culver;Louis Deharveng;Anne Bedos;Julian J. Lewis

  • Current use of and future needs for soil invertebrate functional traits in community ecology

    Benjamin Pey;Johanne Nahmani;Apolline Auclerc;Yvan Capowiez

  • Linking species, traits and habitat characteristics of Collembola at European scale

    Sandrine Salmon;Jean-François Ponge;Sophie Gachet;Louis Deharveng

  • Groundwater biodiversity in Europe.

    L. Deharveng;F. Stoch;J. Gibert;A. Bedos

  • Recent advances in Collembola systematics

    Louis Deharveng

  • New Species in the Old World: Europe as a Frontier in Biodiversity Exploration, a Test Bed for 21st Century Taxonomy

    Benoît Fontaine;Kees van Achterberg;Miguel Angel Alonso-Zarazaga;Rafael Araujo

  • Assessing and conserving groundwater biodiversity: synthesis and perspectives

    Janine Gibert;David C. Culver;Marie-Jose Dole-Olivier;Florian Malard

  • The European union’s 2010 target: Putting rare species in focus

    B. Fontaine;P. Bouchet;K. van Achterberg;A.M.T. Bongers

  • Globally invariant metabolism but density-diversity mismatch in springtails

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  • A molecular phylogeny shows the single origin of the Pyrenean subterranean Trechini ground beetles (Coleoptera: Carabidae)

    Arnaud Faille;Ignacio Ribera;L. Deharveng;Charles Bourdeau

  • Systematic revision of Entomobryidae (Collembola) by integrating molecular and new morphological evidence

    Feng Zhang;Louis Deharveng

  • Challenging species delimitation in Collembola: cryptic diversity among common springtails unveiled by DNA barcoding

    D. Porco;A. Bedos;Penelope Greenslade;C. Janion

  • Fundamental research questions in subterranean biology

    Stefano Mammola;Stefano Mammola;Isabel R Amorim;Maria E Bichuette;Paulo A V Borges

  • Biological invasions in soil: DNA barcoding as a monitoring tool in a multiple taxa survey targeting European earthworms and springtails in North America

    David Porco;David Porco;Thibaud Decaëns;Louis Deharveng;Samuel W. James;Samuel W. James

  • Coupling non-destructive DNA extraction and voucher retrieval for small soft-bodied Arthropods in a high-throughput context: the example of Collembola.

    David Porco;Rodolphe Rougerie;Louis Deharveng;Paul Hebert

  • Towards a global synthesis of Collembola knowledge – challenges and potential solutions

    Anton M Potapov;Bruno Cavalcante Bellini;Steven L Chown;Louis Deharveng

  • DNA barcodes for soil animal taxonomy

    Rodolphe Rougerie;Thibaud Decaëns;Louis Deharveng;David Porco

  • Cryptic Diversity in the Ubiquist Species Parisotoma notabilis (Collembola, Isotomidae): A Long-Used Chimeric Species?

    David Porco;Mikhail Potapov;Anne Bedos;Galina Busmachiu

  • Response of Soil Fauna to Landscape Heterogeneity: Determining Optimal Scales for Biodiversity Modeling

    G. Chust;G. Chust;J. L. Pretus;D. Ducrot;A. Bedòs

Frequent Co-Authors

David C. Culver
David C. Culver American University
Steven L. Chown
Steven L. Chown Monash University
Janine Gibert
Janine Gibert Claude Bernard University Lyon 1
Florian Malard
Florian Malard Claude Bernard University Lyon 1
Stefano Mammola
Stefano Mammola National Research Council (CNR)
Paul D. N. Hebert
Paul D. N. Hebert University of Guelph
Thibaud Decaëns
Thibaud Decaëns University of Montpellier
Jean-François Ponge
Jean-François Ponge French National Museum of Natural History
Diana M. P. Galassi
Diana M. P. Galassi University of L'Aquila
Christian Griebler
Christian Griebler University of Vienna

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