Hugo FONTES

Themes: Management and restoration of Natural and Agricultural ecosystems | Wetland Dynamics and Water Management

Contact: e-mail | +33 (0)4 90 97 29 57

Joined our team: September 2016

Thesis subject

Reference ecosystem(s): what relevance for the creation of temporary aquatic ecosystems in the Camargue?

PhD supervised by the Tour du Valat and the Mediterranean Institute of marine and terrestrial Biodiversity and Ecology (IMBE).

Education:

• MSc Ecology and Biodiversity Management, University of Montpellier, 2012
• BSc Population and Ecosystem Biology, Aix-Marseille University, 2010
• PhD thesis, Avignon University, co-supervision Tour du Valat and Mediterranean Institute of marine and terrestrial Biodiversity and Ecology (IMBE), since 2018.

Research interests and expertise

Areas of research:

• Restoration ecology
• Conservation/management of flora and habitats
• Invasive alien species
  

Expertise:

• Plant naturalist
• I am very knowledgeable about Mediterranean wetlands, including how they function, conservation issues in them, and the threats they face
• I also provide training and lead workshops on the conservation of Mediterranean plants.
  

Current & past projects carried out at The Tour du Valat

Publications

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

• Plant evenness improves forage mineral content in semi-natural grasslands
  de Cian Blaix, Didier Alard, Olivier Chabrerie, Sylvain Diquelou, Thierry Dutoit, Hugo Fontes, Servane Lemauviel-Lavenant, Grégory Loucougaray, Alice Michelot-Antalik, Anne Bonis In Agriculture, Ecosystems & Environment, 387 (August, 2025), 109622 En ligne : www.sciencedirect.com[...] Compared to intensive grasslands, semi-natural grasslands host species-rich and functionally diversified plant communities, and ... read more
• Virome release of an invasive exotic plant species in southern France
  de Oumaima Moubset, Denis Filloux, Hugo Fontes, Charlotte Julian, Emmanuel Fernandez, Serge Galzi, Laurence Blondin, Selim Ben Chehida, Jean-Michel Lett, François Mesléard, et al. In Virus evolution, 10(1) (April, 2024), veae025 En ligne : academic.oup.com[...] The increase in human-mediated introduction of plant species to new regions has resulted ... read more
• Environmental drivers of plant diversity of chalk grasslands in north-western France (2021)
  de Antoine Tardif, Pauline Boubert, Méghan Boulembert, Loan Madej, Maxime Burst, Manuella Catterou, Françoise Dubois, Frédéric Dubois, Jérôme Lacoux, Romain Ulmer, et al. [S.l.] : Proceedings, 2021 En ligne : hal.univ-lorraine.fr[...] In Europe, chalk grasslands are considered as biodiversity hotspots, hosting rare species (e.g. orchid and endemic species). However, since the mid 20th ... read more
• Identifying generic proxies for assessing ecosystem properties and conservation status of semi-natural grasslands
  de Marine Pacé, Anne Bonis, Didier Alard, Cian Blaix, Maxime Burst, Manuella Catterou, Sylvain Diquelou, Thierry Dutoit, Hugo Fontes, Servane Lemauviel-Lavenant, et al. In Ecological Indicators, 158 (January, 2024), 111586 En ligne : www.sciencedirect.com[...] Despite the recommendations of the 1992 European Habitat Directive regarding the evaluation of the ... read more
• Comparison of the Virome of Quarantined Sugarcane Varieties and the Virome of Grasses Growing near the Quarantine Station
  de Jean H. Daugrois, Denis Filloux, Charlotte Julian, Lisa Claude, Romain Ferdinand, Emmanuel Fernandez, Hugo Fontes, Philippe C. Rott, Philippe Roumagnac In Viruses, 13(5) (2021), 17 En ligne : www.mdpi.com[...] Visacane is a sugarcane quarantine station located in the South of France, far away from sugarcane growing areas. ... read more
• Nanovirus-alphasatellite complex identified in Vicia cracca in the Rhône delta region of France
  de Romain Gallet, Simona Kraberger, Denis Filloux, Serge Galzi, Hugo Fontes, Darren P. Martin, Arvind Varsani, Philippe Roumagnac In Archives of Virology, 163(3) (2018), 695-700 En ligne : link.springer.com[...] Nanoviruses are multi-component plant-infecting single-stranded DNA viruses. Using a viral metagenomics-informed approach, a new nanovirus and two associated alphasatellite ... read more