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Overview

Sébastien Villéger is affiliated with the Centre national de la recherche scientifique (CNRS) in France. Their research primarily falls within the field of Environmental Science, with a focus on Ecology, Nature and Landscape Conservation, Global and Planetary Change, Molecular Biology, and Aquatic Science.

The main topics addressed in their work include:

  • Coral and Marine Ecosystems Studies
  • Marine and fisheries research
  • Fish Ecology and Management Studies
  • Fish biology, ecology, and behavior
  • Identification and Quantification in Food
  • Microbial Community Ecology and Physiology
  • Marine animal studies overview

Their recent scholarly publications showcase a broad engagement with global biodiversity, functional diversity, and ecological data analysis. These include:

  • "Human impacts on global freshwater fish biodiversity," 2021, Science
  • "mFD: an R package to compute and illustrate the multiple facets of functional diversity," 2021, Ecography
  • "Ranking the biases: The choice of OTUs vs. ASVs in 16S rRNA amplicon data analysis has stronger effects on diversity measures than rarefaction and OTU identity threshold," 2022, PLoS ONE
  • "Meeting fisheries, ecosystem function, and biodiversity goals in a human-dominated world," 2020, Science
  • "The dimensionality and structure of species trait spaces," 2021, Ecology Letters

Frequent co-authors collaborating with Villéger include:

  • David Mouillot
  • Thomas Claverie
  • Valériano Parravicini
  • Nicolas Loiseau
  • Camille Magneville

Most publications by Sébastien Villéger have appeared in these venues:

  • Global Ecology and Biogeography
  • Zenodo (CERN European Organization for Nuclear Research)
  • Diversity and Distributions
  • Proceedings of the Royal Society B Biological Sciences
  • Science

Best Publications

  • New multidimensional functional diversity indices for a multifaceted framework in functional ecology.

    Sébastien Villéger;Norman W. H. Mason;David Mouillot

  • A functional approach reveals community responses to disturbances

    David Mouillot;David Mouillot;Nicholas A.J. Graham;Sébastien Villéger;Sébastien Villéger;Norman W.H. Mason

  • Functional diversity measures: an overview of their redundancy and their ability to discriminate community assembly rules

    Maud A. Mouchet;Sébastien Villéger;Norman W. H. Mason;David Mouillot

  • Defining and measuring ecological specialization

    Vincent Devictor;Vincent Devictor;Joanne Clavel;Romain Julliard;Sébastien Lavergne

  • Contrasting changes in taxonomic vs. functional diversity of tropical fish communities after habitat degradation.

    Sébastien Villéger;Julia Ramos Miranda;Domingo Flores Hernández;David Mouillot

  • Functional over-redundancy and high functional vulnerability in global fish faunas on tropical reefs.

    David Mouillot;David Mouillot;Sébastien Villéger;Valeriano Parravicini;Michel Kulbicki

  • Functional Structure of Biological Communities Predicts Ecosystem Multifunctionality

    David Mouillot;Sébastien Villéger;Michael Scherer-Lorenzen;Norman W. H. Mason

  • Functional ecology of fish: current approaches and future challenges

    Sébastien Villéger;Sébastien Brosse;Maud Mouchet;David Mouillot

  • How many dimensions are needed to accurately assess functional diversity? A pragmatic approach for assessing the quality of functional spaces

    Eva Maire;Gaël Grenouillet;Sébastien Brosse;Sébastien Villéger

  • Human impacts on global freshwater fish biodiversity.

    Guohuan Su;Maxime Logez;Jun Xu;Shengli Tao

  • Rare species contribute disproportionately to the functional structure of species assemblages

    Rafael P. Leitão;Jansen Zuanon;Sébastien Villéger;Stephen E. Williams

  • Decomposing functional β-diversity reveals that low functional β-diversity is driven by low functional turnover in European fish assemblages

    Sébastien Villéger;Gaël Grenouillet;Sébastien Brosse

  • mFD: an R package to compute and illustrate the multiple facets of functional diversity

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  • Global functional diversity of freshwater fish is concentrated in the Neotropics while functional vulnerability is widespread

    A. Toussaint;N. Charpin;S. Brosse;S. Villéger

  • Disentangling the pathways of land use impacts on the functional structure of fish assemblages in Amazon streams

    Rafael P. Leitão;Jansen Zuanon;David Mouillot;David Mouillot;Cecília G. Leal

  • The multidimensionality of the niche reveals functional diversity changes in benthic marine biotas across geological time.

    Sébastien Villéger;Sébastien Villéger;Sébastien Villéger;Philip M. Novack-Gottshall;David Mouillot;David Mouillot

  • Homogenization patterns of the world’s freshwater fish faunas

    Sébastien Villéger;Simon Blanchet;Olivier Beauchard;Thierry Oberdorff

  • A Deep learning method for accurate and fast identification of coral reef fishes in underwater images

    Sébastien Villon;David Mouillot;Marc Chaumont;Emily S. Darling

  • Partitioning Beta Diversity into Turnover and Nestedness Components [R package betapart version 1.5.2]

    Andres Baselga;David Orme;Sebastien Villeger;Julien De Bortoli

  • Toward a loss of functional diversity in stream fish assemblages under climate change

    Laëtitia Buisson;Laëtitia Buisson;Gaël Grenouillet;Gaël Grenouillet;Sébastien Villéger;Sébastien Villéger;Julie Canal;Julie Canal

  • Towards a consensus for calculating dendrogram-based functional diversity indices

    Maud Mouchet;François Guilhaumon;Sébastien Villéger;Norman W. H. Mason

Frequent Co-Authors

David Mouillot
David Mouillot University of Montpellier
Sébastien Brosse
Sébastien Brosse Paul Sabatier University
Gaël Grenouillet
Gaël Grenouillet Paul Sabatier University
Nicholas A. J. Graham
Nicholas A. J. Graham Lancaster University
Fabien Leprieur
Fabien Leprieur University of Montpellier
Julien Cucherousset
Julien Cucherousset Paul Sabatier University
Nicolas Mouquet
Nicolas Mouquet University of Montpellier
Michel Kulbicki
Michel Kulbicki Institut de Recherche pour le Développement
Thierry Bouvier
Thierry Bouvier University of Montpellier
Valeriano Parravicini
Valeriano Parravicini University of Perpignan

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