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95

Overview

Sylvain Dolédec is affiliated with Claude Bernard University Lyon 1 in France and conducts research primarily in the field of Environmental Science. Their work spans several subfields including Ecology, Nature and Landscape Conservation, Environmental Chemistry, Ecological Modeling, and Ecology, Evolution, Behavior and Systematics.

The main topics of their research focus on:

  • Freshwater macroinvertebrate diversity and ecology
  • Fish Ecology and Management Studies
  • Aquatic Invertebrate Ecology and Behavior
  • Ecology and Vegetation Dynamics Studies
  • Aquatic Ecosystems and Phytoplankton Dynamics
  • Hydrology and Sediment Transport Processes
  • Species Distribution and Climate Change

They have published multiple papers in notable journals. Recent publications include:

  • "Multiple stressors shape invertebrate assemblages and reduce their trophic niche: A case study in a regulated stream," 2021, The Science of The Total Environment
  • "Effects of anthropogenic pollution and hydrological variation on macroinvertebrates in Mediterranean rivers: A case-study in the upper Tagus river basin (Spain)," 2020, The Science of The Total Environment
  • "A global database for metacommunity ecology, integrating species, traits, environment and space," 2020, Scientific Data
  • "Unravelling the effects of multiple stressors on diatom and macroinvertebrate communities in European river basins using structural and functional approaches," 2020, The Science of The Total Environment
  • "Microhabitat selection by macroinvertebrates: generality among rivers and functional interpretation," 2020, Journal of Ecohydraulics

Frequent co-authors contributing to their research outputs include:

  • Joël Robin
  • Roel van Klink
  • Florian Mermillod-Blondin
  • Charlotte Robichon
  • Aliénor Jeliazkov

Their studies have been published mainly in the following venues:

  • The Science of The Total Environment
  • River Research and Applications
  • Scientific Data
  • SSRN Electronic Journal
  • Journal of Ecohydraulics

Best Publications

  • Co‐inertia analysis: an alternative method for studying species–environment relationships

    Sylvain Dolédec;Daniel Chessel

  • Matching species traits to environmental variables: a new three-table ordination method

    S. Dolédec;D. Chessel;C.J.F. ter Braak;S. Champely

  • NICHE SEPARATION IN COMMUNITY ANALYSIS: A NEW METHOD

    Sylvain Dolédec;Daniel Chessel;Clémentine Gimaret-Carpentier

  • The intermediate disturbance hypothesis, refugia, and biodiversity in streams

    Colin R. Townsend;Mike R. Scarsbrook;Sylvain Dolédec

  • Functional traits as indicators of biodiversity response to land use changes across ecosystems and organisms

    Marie Vandewalle;Marie Vandewalle;Francesco de Bello;Francesco de Bello;Matty P. Berg;Thomas Bolger

  • Combining the fourth-corner and the RLQ methods for assessing trait responses to environmental variation.

    Stéphane Dray;Philippe Choler;Sylvain Dolédec;Pedro R. Peres-Neto

  • Taxonomic and biological trait differences of stream macroinvertebrate communities between mediterranean and temperate regions: implications for future climatic scenarios

    Núria Bonada;Sylvain Dolédec;Bernhard Statzner

  • Effect of land disturbance and stress on species traits of ground beetle assemblages

    Ignacio Ribera;Sylvain Dolédec;Iain S. Downie;Garth N. Foster

  • Species traits in relation to temporal and spatial heterogeneity in streams: a test of habitat templet theory

    Colin Townsend;Sylvain Dolédec;Mike Scarsbrook

  • The influence of scale and geography on relationships between stream community composition and landscape variables: description and prediction

    Colin R. Townsend;Sylvain Dolédec;Richard Norris;Kathi Peacock

  • Perspectives for biomonitoring at large spatial scales: a unified measure for the functional composition of invertebrate communities in European running waters

    Bernhard Statzner;Barbara Bis;Sylvain Dolédec;Philippe Usseglio-Polatera

  • Species traits for future biomonitoring across ecoregions: patterns along a human-impacted river

    Sylvain Dolédec;Bernhard Statzner;Michel Bournard

  • Biological traits of stream macroinvertebrate communities: effects of microhabitat, reach, and basin filters

    Nicolas Lamouroux;Sylvain Dolédec;Sebastien Gayraud

  • Comparison of structural and functional approaches to determining landuse effects on grassland stream invertebrate communities

    Sylvain Dolédec;Ngaire Phillips;Mike Scarsbrook;Ralph H. Riley

  • Quantifying disturbance in streams: alternative measures of disturbance in relation to macroinvertebrate species traits and species richness

    Colin R. Townsend;Mike R. Scarsbrook;Sylvain Dolédec

  • Rythmes saisonniers et composantes stationnelles en milieu aquatique. I: Description d'un plan d'observation complet par projection de variables

    S Doledec;D Chessel

  • Biological trait composition of European stream invertebrate communities: assessing the effects of various trait filter types

    Bernhard Statzner;Sylvain Dolédec;Bernard Hugueny

  • Hydraulic requirements of stream communities: a case study on invertebrates

    S. Mérigoux;S. Dolédec

  • Managing the effects of multiple stressors on aquatic ecosystems under water scarcity. The GLOBAQUA project

    Alícia Navarro-Ortega;Vicenç Acuña;Alberto Bellin;Peter Burek

  • Functional diversity: a review of methodology and current knowledge in freshwater macroinvertebrate research

    Dénes Schmera;Jani Heino;János Podani;János Podani;Tibor Erős

  • Invertebrate traits for the biomonitoring of large European rivers: an assessment of specific types of human impact

    Sylvain Dolédec;Bernhard Statzner

Frequent Co-Authors

Bernhard Statzner
Bernhard Statzner Claude Bernard University Lyon 1
Núria Bonada
Núria Bonada University of Barcelona
Nicolas Lamouroux
Nicolas Lamouroux Compagnie Nationale du Rhône
Patrick Lavelle
Patrick Lavelle Sorbonne University
Maria João Feio
Maria João Feio University of Coimbra
Christoph F. J. Meyer
Christoph F. J. Meyer University of Salford
Colin R. Townsend
Colin R. Townsend University of Otago
Adrià López-Baucells
Adrià López-Baucells Museu de Ciències Naturals de Granollers
Thibaud Decaëns
Thibaud Decaëns University of Montpellier
Isabel Muñoz
Isabel Muñoz University of Barcelona

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