Hugo Fontes

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

Publications

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

• 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
• Heterogeneous forest structures favor persistence of the grassland Mediterranean geophyte Gagea lacaitae
  de 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 approach
  de 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 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