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Nathalie Machon is affiliated with the Centre national de la recherche scientifique (CNRS) in France. Their research primarily focuses on Environmental Science and Agricultural and Biological Sciences. Their work encompasses several subfields including Global and Planetary Change, Ecology, Evolution, Behavior and Systematics, Plant Science, Nature and Landscape Conservation, and Health, Toxicology and Mutagenesis.

Their scientific contributions cover key topics such as Land Use and Ecosystem Services, Ecology and Vegetation Dynamics Studies, Urban Green Space and Health, Plant and Animal Studies, Species Distribution and Climate Change, Wildlife-Road Interactions and Conservation, and Animal and Plant Science Education.

Frequent coauthors collaborating with Machon include Chloé Thierry, Benoît Pisanu, Jeanne Vallet, Gabrielle Martin, and Tanguy Louis-Lucas.

Machon has published in a range of scientific venues, notably:

  • Zenodo (CERN European Organization for Nuclear Research)
  • Conservation Letters
  • Frontiers in Ecology and Evolution
  • Urban forestry & urban greening
  • Research Ideas and Outcomes

Among their recent papers are:

  • "Urbanization Effects on Biodiversity Revealed by a Two-Scale Analysis of Species Functional Uniqueness vs. Redundancy" (2020) in Frontiers in Ecology and Evolution
  • "Role of green roofs in urban connectivity, an exploratory approach using landscape graphs in the city of Paris, France" (2022) in Urban forestry & urban greening
  • "ConservePlants: An integrated approach to conservation of threatened plants for the 21st Century" (2021) in Research Ideas and Outcomes
  • "Surviving in southern refugia: the case of Veronica aragonensis, a rare endemic from the Iberian Peninsula" (2021) in Alpine Botany
  • "Remote sensing for assessing vegetated roofs with a new replicable method in Paris, France" (2021) in Journal of Applied Remote Sensing

Machon is also an author of a book published by éditions Quae eBooks titled Écologie urbaine. Connaissances, enjeux et défis de la biodiversité en ville, scheduled for publication in 2025.

Best Publications

  • Effects of Colonization Processes on Genetic Diversity: Differences Between Annual Plants and Tree Species

    Frédéric Austerlitz;Stéphanie Mariette;Nathalie Machon;Pierre-Henri Gouyon

  • Green roofs as habitats for wild plant species in urban landscapes: First insights from a large-scale sampling

    Frédéric Madre;Alan Vergnes;Nathalie Machon;Philippe Clergeau

  • A comparison of 3 types of green roof as habitats for arthropods

    Frédéric Madre;Alan Vergnes;Nathalie Machon;Philippe Clergeau

  • Colonization with long-distance seed dispersal and genetic structure of maternally inherited genes in forest trees: a simulation study

    Valérie Le Corre;Nathalie Machon;Rémy J. Petit;Antoine Kremer

  • The Role of Urban Structures in the Distribution of Wasteland Flora in the Greater Paris Area, France

    Audrey Muratet;Nathalie Machon;Frédéric Jiguet;Jacques Moret

  • Local gardening practices shape urban lawn floristic communities

    Alzira Politi Bertoncini;Nathalie Machon;Sandrine Pavoine;Audrey Muratet

  • The Influence of Low Intensities of Light Pollution on Bat Communities in a Semi-Natural Context

    Aurelie Lacoeuilhe;Nathalie Machon;Jean-François Julien;Agathe Le Bocq

  • Relationship between genetic structure and seed and pollen dispersal in the endangered orchid Spiranthes spiralis.

    Nathalie Machon;Philippe Bardin;Susan J. Mazer;Jacques Moret

  • Does the invasive species Reynoutria japonica have an impact on soil and flora in urban wastelands

    Noëlie Maurel;Sandrine Salmon;Jean-François Ponge;Nathalie Machon

  • Do railway edges provide functional connectivity for plant communities in an urban context

    Caterina Penone;Nathalie Machon;Romain Julliard;Isabelle Le Viol

  • Potential contributions of green spaces at business sites to the ecological network in an urban agglomeration: The case of the Ile-de-France region, France

    Hortense Serret;Richard Raymond;Jean-Christophe Foltête;Philippe Clergeau

  • Building biodiversity: Vegetated façades as habitats for spider and beetle assemblages

    Frédéric Madre;Philippe Clergeau;Nathalie Machon;Alan Vergnes

  • Plant and spider communities benefit differently from the presence of planted hedgerows in highway verges

    Isabelle Le Viol;Romain Julliard;Christian Kerbiriou;Louis de Redon

  • Evaluation of floristic diversity in urban areas as a basis for habitat management

    Audrey Muratet;Emmanuelle Porcher;Vincent Devictor;Gérard Arnal

  • Urbanization Effects on Biodiversity Revealed by a Two-Scale Analysis of Species Functional Uniqueness vs. Redundancy

    Anna Kondratyeva;Sonja Knapp;Walter Durka;Ingolf Kühn

  • Landscape disturbance causes small-scale functional homogenization, but limited taxonomic homogenization, in plant communities.

    Jean‐Claude Abadie;Nathalie Machon;Audrey Muratet;Emmanuelle Porcher

  • Does the invasive species Ailanthus altissima threaten floristic diversity of temperate peri-urban forests?

    Eric Motard;Audrey Muratet;Danielle Clair-Maczulajtys;Nathalie Machon

  • Re-establishment trials in endangered plants: A review and the example of Arenaria grandiflora, a species on the brink of extinction in the Parisian region (France)

    Lorraine Bottin;Solenn Le Cadre;Angélique Quilichini;Philippe Bardin

  • High genetic diversity with moderate differentiation in Juniperus excelsa from Lebanon and the eastern Mediterranean region.

    Bouchra Douaihy;Giovanni G. Vendramin;Adam Boratyński;Nathalie Machon

  • Genetic variability in wild cherry populations in France. Effects of colonizing processes

    S. Mariette;M. Lefranc;P. Legrand;D. Taneyhill

  • Pollination success of Lotus corniculatus (L.) in an urban context

    Vincent Pellissier;Audrey Muratet;Fabien Verfaillie;Nathalie Machon

Frequent Co-Authors

Christian Kerbiriou
Christian Kerbiriou Sorbonne University
Susan J. Mazer
Susan J. Mazer University of California, Santa Barbara
Sandrine Pavoine
Sandrine Pavoine French National Museum of Natural History
Vincent Devictor
Vincent Devictor University of Montpellier
Frédéric Jiguet
Frédéric Jiguet French National Museum of Natural History
Frédéric Austerlitz
Frédéric Austerlitz Université Paris Cité
Romain Julliard
Romain Julliard Centre national de la recherche scientifique, CNRS
Sarah Samadi
Sarah Samadi French National Museum of Natural History
Philippe Grandcolas
Philippe Grandcolas French National Museum of Natural History
Pierre-Henri Gouyon
Pierre-Henri Gouyon French National Museum of Natural History

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