Department : Ecosystems
Position: Applied Research Scientist – Plant Ecology
Contact: e-mail | +33 (0)4 90 97 29 57
Joined our team: September 2016
Education:
- MSc Ecology and Biodiversity Management, University of Montpellier, 2012
- BSc Population and Ecosystem Biology, Aix-Marseille University, 2010
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
| Ecological restoration | Estimate of the resilience of Mediterranean wetlands ecological’s function |
Publications
Find below the most recent publications of Hugo Fontes, or see the full list on the Tour du Valat’s documentary web portal:
- Heterogeneous forest structures favor persistence of the grassland Mediterranean geophyte Gagea lacaitaede Hugo Fontes, Antoine Gazaix, Guillaume Papuga In Botany Letters, 166:4 (October, 2019), 487-498 En ligne : www.tandfonline.com[...] Land use changes in the northern Mediterranean basin threaten our ability to conserve its habitats and species. Reduced grazing has led to local declines in grassland species and colonization by ... read more
- Estimating biodiversity changes in the Camargue wetlands: An expert knowledge approachde Sara Fraixedas, Thomas Galewski, Sofia Ribeiro-Lopes, Jonathan Loh, Jacques Blondel, Hugo Fontes, Patrick Grillas, Philippe Lambret, Delphine Nicolas, Anthony Olivier, et al. In PLOS ONE, 14:10 (24 oct. 2019), e0224235 En ligne : journals.plos.org[...] Mediterranean wetlands are critical strongholds for biodiversity and the provision of ecosystem functions ... read more
- Nanovirus-alphasatellite complex identified in Vicia cracca in the Rhône delta region of Francede 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
