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Mail : gaetane.le-provost@inrae.fr
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Expérience professionnelle et formation

• Since 2022 : Research scientist, INRAE, UMR SAVE (Santé et Agroécologie du Vignoble), Bordeaux, France.
• 2017 - 2022 : Postdoctoral researcher at the Senckenberg Gesellschaft für Naturforschung in the group Causes and Consequences of Biodiversity Change.
• 2013 - 2017 : PhD in Ecology defended in January 2017, University of La Rochelle, France. “Effects of land-use intensification on grassland functional biodiversity within agricultural landscapes”. Supervisors : Isabelle Badenhausser and Nicolas Gross.
• 2013 : Master “Ecology, Biodiversity and Evolution”, University of Paris-Saclay, France. Thesis : Plant-herbivore interactions in agricultural landscapes, Centre d’Etudes biologiques de Chizé. Supervisors : Isabelle Badenhausser, Luca Börger and Nicolas Gross.

Thèmes de recherche

My research examines the relationships between biodiversity, ecosystem functioning and ecosystem services, and the impact of global changes on these relationships. I’m particularly interested in (i) assessing the effects of land-use intensification, that operate at different spatial and temporal scales, across multiple taxonomic groups and trophic levels ; (ii) investigating the mechanisms underlying  biodiversity response, and particularly the role of trophic interactions ; (iii) evaluating how the landscape configuration of diversity and land-use intensity drives ecosystem functioning. More recently, I have broaden my research to the study of social-ecological systems, that includes a societal component.

Collaborations

• Senckenberg Gesellschaft für Naturforschung
• University of Bergen

Publications significatives

• Le Provost, G., Thiele, J., Westphal, C., Penone, C., Allan, E., Neyret, M., et al. (2021). Contrasting responses of above- and belowground diversity to multiple components of land-use intensity. Nature Communications, 12, 3918.

• Le Provost, G., Badenhausser, I., Violle, C., Requier, F., D’Ottavio, M., Roncoroni, M., et al. (2021). Grassland-to-crop conversion in agricultural landscapes has lasting impact on the trait diversity of bees. Landscape ecology, 36, 281-295.

• Le Provost, G., Badenhausser, I., Le Bagousse-Pinguet, Y., Clough, Y., Henckel, L., Violle, C., et al. (2020). Land-use history impacts functional diversity across multiple trophic groups. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, 117, 1573-1579.

• Le Provost, G., Gross, N., Börger, L., Deraison, H., Roncoroni, M., & Badenhausser, I. (2017). Trait‐matching and mass effect determine the functional response of herbivore communities to land‐use intensification. Functional Ecology, 31(8), 1600-1611.

• Neyret, M., Fischer, M., Allan, E., Hölzel, N., Klaus, V.H., Kleinebecker, T., Krauss, J., Le Provost, G., et al. (2021). Assessing the impact of grassland management on landscape multifunctionality. Ecosystem Services, 52, 101366.