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Overview

Ludovic Gielly is affiliated with Grenoble Alpes University in France, conducting research primarily in Environmental Science. Their work covers a significant range of subfields, including Ecology, Atmospheric Science, Ecological Modeling, Molecular Biology, and Genetics.

The main topics addressed in Gielly's research include:

  • Environmental DNA in Biodiversity Studies
  • Microbial Community Ecology and Physiology
  • Species Distribution and Climate Change
  • Geology and Paleoclimatology Research
  • Polar Research and Ecology
  • Protist diversity and phylogeny
  • Climate change and permafrost

Gielly has contributed to numerous publications, with recent papers highlighting diverse ecological and environmental themes. Key publications include:

  • Topsoil organic matter build-up in glacier forelands around the world, 2020, Global Change Biology
  • Persistence of environmental DNA in cultivated soils: implication of this memory effect for reconstructing the dynamics of land use and cover changes, 2020, Scientific Reports
  • High resolution ancient sedimentary DNA shows that alpine plant diversity is associated with human land use and climate change, 2022, Nature Communications
  • A hole in the nematosphere: tardigrades and rotifers dominate the cryoconite hole environment, whereas nematodes are missing, 2020, Journal of Zoology
  • A 24,000-year ancient DNA and pollen record from the Polar Urals reveals temporal dynamics of arctic and boreal plant communities, 2020, Quaternary Science Reviews

The scientist frequently publishes in venues such as Scientific Reports, Molecular Ecology, Zenodo (CERN European Organization for Nuclear Research), Global Change Biology, and Quaternary Science Reviews.

Collaborations form an important part of Gielly's research output, with frequent coauthors including Wilfried Thuiller, Gentile Francesco Ficetola, Jérôme Poulenard, Alessia Guerrieri, and Roberto Ambrosini.

Best Publications

  • Universal primers for amplification of three non-coding regions of chloroplast DNA

    Pierre Taberlet;Ludovic Gielly;Guy Pautou;Jean Bouvet

  • Power and limitations of the chloroplast trnL(UAA) intron for plant DNA barcoding

    Pierre Taberlet;Eric Coissac;François Pompanon;Ludovic Gielly

  • Multiple maternal origins and weak phylogeographic structure in domestic goats.

    Gordon Luikart;Ludovic Gielly;Laurent Georges Louis Excoffier;Jean-Denis Vigne

  • Replication levels, false presences and the estimation of the presence/absence from eDNA metabarcoding data.

    Gentile F. Ficetola;Johan Pansu;Aurélie Bonin;Eric Coissac

  • Fifty thousand years of Arctic vegetation and megafaunal diet

    Eske Willerslev;John Davison;Mari Moora;Martin Zobel

  • The use of chloroplast DNA to resolve plant phylogenies: noncoding versus rbcL sequences.

    L Gielly;P Taberlet

  • New perspectives in diet analysis based on DNA barcoding and parallel pyrosequencing: the trnL approach

    Alice Valentini;Christian Miquel;Muhammad Ali Nawaz;Eva Bellemain

  • Long livestock farming history and human landscape shaping revealed by lake sediment DNA

    Charline Giguet-Covex;Johan Pansu;Fabien Arnaud;Pierre-Jérôme Rey

  • Soil sampling and isolation of extracellular DNA from large amount of starting material suitable for metabarcoding studies.

    Pierre Taberlet;Sophie M. Prud’Homme;Etienne Campione;Julien Roy

  • Analysing diet of small herbivores: the efficiency of DNA barcoding coupled with high-throughput pyrosequencing for deciphering the composition of complex plant mixtures

    Eeva M Soininen;Alice Valentini;Eric Coissac;Christian Miquel

  • DNA from soil mirrors plant taxonomic and growth form diversity

    N. G. Yoccoz;K. A. Bråthen;L. Gielly;J. Haile;J. Haile

  • Using next-generation sequencing for molecular reconstruction of past Arctic vegetation and climate.

    J. H. Sønstebø;L. Gielly;A. K. Brysting;R. Elven

  • History or ecology? Substrate type as a major driver of spatial genetic structure in Alpine plants

    Nadir Alvarez;Conny Thiel-Egenter;Andreas Tribsch;Rolf Holderegger

  • Using AFLP to resolve phylogenetic relationships in a morphologically diversified plant species complex when nuclear and chloroplast sequences fail to reveal variability.

    Laurence Després;Ludovic Gielly;Bénédicte Redoutet;Pierre Taberlet

  • Long-distance wolf recolonization of France and Switzerland inferred from non-invasive genetic sampling over a period of 10 years

    Nathaniel Valière;Luca Fumagalli;Ludovic Gielly;Christian Miquel

  • Impact of ice ages on circumpolar molecular diversity: insights from an ecological key species.

    I. G. Alsos;T. Engelskjon;L. Gielly;P. Taberlet

  • Genetic diversity in widespread species is not congruent with species richness in alpine plant communities.

    Pierre Taberlet;Niklaus E. Zimmermann;Thorsten Englisch;Andreas Tribsch

  • Plant DNA metabarcoding of lake sediments: How does it represent the contemporary vegetation.

    Inger Greve Alsos;Youri Lammers;Nigel Gilles Yoccoz;Tina Jørgensen

  • Broad-scale adaptive genetic variation in alpine plants is driven by temperature and precipitation

    Stéphanie Manel;Stéphanie Manel;Felix Gugerli;Wilfried Thuiller;Nadir Alvarez

  • Body size determines soil community assembly in a tropical forest.

    Lucie Zinger;Pierre Taberlet;Heidy Schimann;Aurélie Bonin

  • A phylogeny of the European gentians inferred from chloroplast trnL (UAA) intron sequences

    Ludovic Gielly;Pierre Taberlet

Frequent Co-Authors

Pierre Taberlet
Pierre Taberlet Grenoble Alpes University
Jérôme Poulenard
Jérôme Poulenard Université Savoie Mont Blanc
Fabien Arnaud
Fabien Arnaud Université Savoie Mont Blanc
Gentile Francesco Ficetola
Gentile Francesco Ficetola University of Milan
Eric Coissac
Eric Coissac Grenoble Alpes University
Mary E. Edwards
Mary E. Edwards University of Southampton
Philippe Choler
Philippe Choler Grenoble Alpes University
Lucie Zinger
Lucie Zinger École Normale Supérieure
Inger Greve Alsos
Inger Greve Alsos University of Tromsø - The Arctic University of Norway
Nigel G. Yoccoz
Nigel G. Yoccoz University of Tromsø - The Arctic University of Norway

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