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François Mesléard

Director of Research
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Department: Ecosystems

Position at the Tour du Valat : Director of Research & Associate Professor at the University of Avignon (Mediterranean Institute of marine and terrestrial Biodiversity and Ecology – IMBE)

Contact: e-mail | Ph. +33 (0)4 90 97 29 52

Joined our team: March 1989

Research Gate profile: www.researchgate.net/profile/Francois_Mesleard

Research interests

  • Vegetation dynamics in disturbed habitats
  • Restoration ecology
  • Interactions between agriculture and the environment
  • Herbivory
  • Invasive species

Fields of expertise

  • Mediterranean plant community ecology
  • Wetlands ecology
  • Restoration ecology
  • Pastoralism

Projects carried out at the Tour du Valat

Ecological restauration

Education

  • Accreditation to supervise research (HDR), Aix-Marseille University, 1999
  • Ph.D. in biology, University of Montpellier, 1987

Supervision of PhD students

  • Fontes Hugo, 2018. Écosystèmes de référence : quelle pertinence pour la création d’écosystèmes aquatiques temporaires en Camargue. Co-direction P. Grillas (Tour du valat) & T. Dutoit (IMBE)
  • Arslan Dilara, 2018 Étude comparative de la biodiversité entre les milieux naturel, agricole intensif et extensif dans le delta du Gediz, Turquie. Co-direction A. Béchet (Tour du Valat ) & L. Ernoul (Tour du Valat)
  • De Almedia Tania, 2017. Restauration : utiliser les fourmis comme ingénieures des écosystèmes pour restaurer les espaces dégradés en Provence. Co-direction O Blight (Avignon Université, IMBE) & Thierry Dutoit (CNRS, IMBE)
  • Hess manon, 2017. Restauration écologique des communautés végétales après éradicaion des espèces invasives Codirection. Élise Buisson (Avignon université, IMBE ). CIFRE scholarship – company NGE/Guintoli
  • Moinardeau Cannelle, 2015-2018. Impacts du pastoralisme sur les communautés végétales des digues artificielles du Rhône. Co-direction T. Dutoit (CNRS, IMBE)
  • Masson Solène 2014-2016. Restauration écologique des écosystèmes dégradés par pilotage in situ des régimes de perturbation et des ressources trophiques. Codirection T. Dutoit (CNRS, IMBE), funded by the Ministry of Research
  • Muller Isabelle 2013-2017. Réhabilitation de marais temporaires et de pelouses méso-xériques à partir d’anciennes rizières : Rôle respectif des filtres dans l’assemblage des communautés. Codirection E. Buisson (Avignon Université, IMBE), funded by the PACA Region

Publications

Find below the most recent publications of François Mesléard, or see the full list on the Tour du Valat’s documentary web portal:

  • Key issues in Northwestern Mediterranean dry grassland restoration
    de Elise Buisson, Tania De Almeida, Aure Durbecq, André J. Arruda, Christel Vidaller, Jean-François Alignan, Tiago S. P. Toma, Manon C. M. Hess, Daniel Pavon, Francis Isselin‐Nondedeu, et al. In Restoration Ecology, On line (October, 2020) En ligne : onlinelibrary.wiley.com[...] Dry grasslands of the Northwestern Mediterranean Basin are ... read more
  • Key issues in North-western Mediterranean dry grassland restoration
    de Elise Buisson, Tania De Almeida, Aure Durbecq, André J. Arruda, Christel Vidaller, Jean-François Alignan, Tiago Shizen P. Toma, Manon C. M. Hess, Daniel Pavon, Francis Isselin‐Nondedeu, et al. In Restoration Ecology, Online (August, 2020), rec.13258 En ligne : onlinelibrary.wiley.com[...] Dry grasslands of the North-western Mediterranean Basin are ... read more
  • Restaurer la nature, un travail de fourmis ?
    de François Mesléard, Olivier Blight, Tania de Almeida, Thierry Dutoit In The Conversation, 142750 (27/09/2020) En ligne : theconversation.com[...] Après la marée noire dans la plaine de la Crau, en 2009, des fourmis ont été introduites dans les sols pour restaurer les écosystèmes du site pollué. Des premiers ... read more
  • Above- and below-ground effects of an ecosystem engineer ant in Mediterranean dry grasslands
    de Tania De Almeida, François Mesléard, M. Santonja, Raphael Gros, Thierry Dutoit, O. Blight In Proceedings of the Royal Society B: Biological Sciences, 287(1935) (September, 2020), 10 En ligne : royalsocietypublishing.org[...] Within a local assemblage, ecosystem engineers can have major impacts on population dynamics, community composition and ecosystem ... read more
  • Extensive horse grazing improves grassland vegetation diversity, seed bank and forage quality of artificial embankments (Rhône River – southern France): Influence of extensive horse grazing on artificial embankments
    de Cannelle Moinardeau, François Mesléard, Hervé Ramone, Thierry Dutoit In Journal for Nature Conservation, Online (June, 2020), 125865 En ligne : www.sciencedirect.com[...] Grazing by herds of herbivores modifies plant communities in different ways, depending on the herbivore species. Horse grazing is already known to be effective in increasing ... read more
  • Giving recipient communities a greater head start and including productive species boosts early resistance to invasion
    de Manon Célia Morgane Hess, Elise Buisson, Hugo Fontes, Léo Bacon, Florent Sabatier, François Mesléard, Rob Marrs In Applied Vegetation Science, Online (June, 2020), avsc.12502 En ligne : onlinelibrary.wiley.com[...] Methods: In a pot experiment, we simulated invasion by three major invasive species (Ambrosia artemisiifolia, Bothriochloa barbinodis, and Cortaderia ... read more
  • L’écopastoralisme comme outil de gestion des digues artificielles : le cas de la réserve de chasse et de faune sauvage de Donzère-Mondragon
    de Cannelle Moinardeau, Thierry Dutoit, François Mesléard, Bruna Romanini, Virginie Croquet, Romain Brusson In Sciences Eaux & Territoires, HS 63 (Mai 2020), 7 L'écopastoralisme est une pratique de gestion écologique en plein essor, dont les bienfaits pour le maintien ou la restauration des milieux naturels ont été largement ... read more
  • Harvester ants as ecological engineers for Mediterranean grassland restoration: Impacts on soil and vegetation
    de Tania De Almeida, Olivier Blight, François Mesléard, Adeline Bulot, Erick Provost, Thierry Dutoit In Biological Conservation, 245 (May, 2020), 8 En ligne : linkinghub.elsevier.com[...] Although not widely used, ecosystem engineers represent a promising and sustainable tool in nature-based ecosystem management and restoration. In grassland ecosystems, a few ... read more
  • Using limiting similarity to enhance invasion resistance: Theoretical and practical concerns
    de Manon C. M. Hess, Elise Buisson, Renaud Jaunatre, François Mesléard, Inderjit Singh In Journal of Applied Ecology, Online (December, 2019), 7 En ligne : onlinelibrary.wiley.com[...] The control of invasive species is a central topic of both applied and theoretical research. Understanding how and which ecological theories can ... read more
  • Using mechanical clearing and goat grazing for restoring understorey plant diversity of embankments in the Rhône valley (Southern France)
    de Cannelle Moinardeau, François Mesléard, Hervé Ramone, Thierry Dutoit In Plant Biosystems, Online (October, 2019), 1-11 En ligne : doi.org[...] Consumption by animals remains one of the key points to assess the effectiveness of grazing impacts in woodland for increasing understorey plant diversity. To limit the spread of ... read more
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