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Pierre Petitgas is affiliated with the French Research Institute for Exploitation of the Sea in France. Their research primarily focuses on topics within environmental science with significant contributions to marine and fisheries research.

Their work spans several subfields including global and planetary change, general health professions, ecology, oceanography, and philosophy. The main topics covered in their publications include:

  • Marine and fisheries research
  • Isotope analysis in ecology
  • Marine bivalve and aquaculture studies
  • Hermeneutics and narrative identity
  • Aging, elder care, and social issues
  • Health, medicine and society
  • Marine and coastal ecosystems

Pierre Petitgas has published in various scientific venues, with frequent publications in:

  • Archimer (Ifremer)
  • Fisheries Oceanography
  • Progress In Oceanography
  • HAL (Le Centre pour la Communication Scientifique Directe)
  • Fisheries Research

The recent papers include:

  • Contrasted spatio-temporal changes in the demersal fish assemblages and the dominance of the environment vs fishing pressure, in the Bay of Biscay and Celtic Sea (2022, Progress In Oceanography)
  • Hydrology and small pelagic fish drive the spatio-temporal dynamics of springtime zooplankton assemblages over the Bay of Biscay continental shelf (2022, Progress In Oceanography)
  • Determinants of growth and selective mortality in anchovy and sardine in the Bay of Biscay (2021, Fisheries Research)
  • Different mechanisms underpin the decline in growth of anchovies and sardines of the Bay of Biscay (2023, Evolutionary Applications)
  • Analysing Temporal Variability in Spatial Distributions Using Min-Max Autocorrelation Factors: Sardine Eggs in the Bay of Biscay (2020, Mathematical Geosciences)

They frequently collaborate with several researchers including Martin Huret, Jean-Baptiste Romagnan, Nina Grandrémy, Christine Dupuy, and Mathieu Doray.

Best Publications

  • Understanding what controls the spatial distribution of fish populations using a multi-model approach

    Benjamin Planque;Christophe Loots;Pierre Petitgas;Ulf LINDSTRøM

  • Geostatistics for fish stock assessments: a review and an acoustic application

    Pierre Petitgas

  • Impacts of climate change on the complex life cycles of fish

    Pierre Petitgas;Adriaan D. Rijnsdorp;Mark Dickey-Collas;Georg H. Engelhard

  • Modeling fish growth and reproduction in the context of the Dynamic Energy Budget theory to predict environmental impact on anchovy spawning duration

    Laure Pecquerie;Pierre Petitgas;Sebastiaan A.L.M. Kooijman

  • Indices for capturing spatial patterns and their evolution in time, with application to European hake (Merluccius merluccius) in the Bay of Biscay

    Mathieu Woillez;Jean Charles Poulard;Jacques Rivoirard;Pierre Petitgas

  • Geostatistics in fisheries survey design and stock assessment: models, variances and applications

    Pierre Petitgas

  • Stock collapses and their recovery: mechanisms that establish and maintain life-cycle closure in space and time

    Pierre Petitgas;Dave H. Secor;Ian McQuinn;Geir Huse

  • Historical fluctuations in spawning location of anchovy (Engraulis encrasicolus) and sardine (Sardina pilchardus) in the Bay of Biscay during 1967-73 and 2000-2004

    Edwige Bellier;Benjamin Planque;Pierre Petitgas

  • Anchovy population expansion in the North Sea

    Pierre Petitgas;Juergen Alheit;Myron A. Peck;Kristina Raab

  • Notes on survey-based spatial indicators for monitoring fish populations

    Mathieu Woillez;Jacques Rivoirard;Pierre Petitgas

  • Biomass-dependent dynamics of fish spatial distributions characterized by geostatistical aggregation curves

    P. Petitgas

  • 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

  • The selection process from larval to juvenile stages of anchovy (Engraulis encrasicolus) in the Bay of Biscay investigated by Lagrangian simulations and comparative otolith growth

    Gwenhael Allain;Pierre Petitgas;Patrick Grellier;Pascal Lazure

  • Spatial organization of pelagic fish: echogram structure, spatio-temporal condition, and biomass in Senegalese waters

    Pierre Petitgas;Jean Jacques Levenez

  • Dispersal kernels and their drivers captured with a hydrodynamic model and spatial indices: A case study on anchovy (Engraulis encrasicolus) early life stages in the Bay of Biscay

    Martin Huret;Pierre Petitgas;Mathieu Woillez

  • Standard protocols for the analysis of school based data from echo sounder surveys

    D Reid;C Scalabrin;P Petitgas;J Masse

  • Biophysical modelling of larval drift, growth and survival for the prediction of anchovy (Engraulis encrasicolus) recruitment in the Bay of Biscay (NE Atlantic)

    Gwenhael Allain;Pierre Petitgas;Pascal Lazure;Patrick Grellier

  • The influence of mesoscale ocean processes on anchovy (Engraulis encrasicolus) recruitment in the Bay of Biscay estimated with a three-dimensional hydrodynamic mode

    G. Allain;P. Petitgas;P. Lazure

  • Introduction: status and future of modelling physical-biological interactions during the early life of fishes

    Alejandro Gallego;Elizabeth W. North;Pierre Petitgas

  • Sampling variance of species identification in fisheries-acoustic surveys based on automated procedures associating acoustic images and trawl hauls

    Pierre Petitgas;Jacques Massé;Pierre Beillois;Emilie Lebarbier

  • On the relation between schools, clusters of schools, and abundance in pelagic fish stocks

    P. Petitgas;D. Reid;P. Carrera;M. Iglesias

  • Combining sensitivity and uncertainty analysis to evaluate the impact of management measures with ISIS–Fish: marine protected areas for the Bay of Biscay anchovy (Engraulis encrasicolus) fishery

    Sigrid Lehuta;Stéphanie Mahévas;Pierre Petitgas;Dominique Pelletier

Frequent Co-Authors

Pascal Lazure
Pascal Lazure French Research Institute for Exploitation of the Sea
Jérôme Spitz
Jérôme Spitz University of La Rochelle
David G. Reid
David G. Reid Memorial University of Newfoundland
Vincent Ridoux
Vincent Ridoux University of La Rochelle
Benjamin Planque
Benjamin Planque Norwegian Institute of Marine Research
Mark Dickey-Collas
Mark Dickey-Collas Technical University of Denmark
Thomas Pohlmann
Thomas Pohlmann Universität Hamburg
Stylianos Somarakis
Stylianos Somarakis Hellenic Centre for Marine Research
Myron A. Peck
Myron A. Peck Royal Netherlands Institute for Sea Research
Nathalie Niquil
Nathalie Niquil Université de Caen Normandie

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