Associate Research Fellow
Environment and Sustainability Institute - University of Exeter
My interests lie in understanding experimentally the traits linked to organism's success in a warming climate at various levels of biological organization. During my PhD, I was interested in the impacts of climate change in the common lizard from the individual level – which phenotypic traits are linked to individual success – to the population and community level. Now during my PostDoc I have moved to a more community-based framework, and to smaller study organisms, as I am investigating experimentally the traits linked to invasion success in different climatic conditions in phytoplankton communities.
NEWS
New email address: e.bestion@outlook.com
New articles:
Bestion E, Garcia-Carreras B, Schaum C-E, Pawar S, Yvon-Durocher G (2018). Metabolic traits predict the effects of warming on phytopnlankton competition. Ecology Letters (in press) doi:10.1111/ele.12932 - BiorXiv preprint version
Bestion E, Cote J (2018). Species Responses to Climate Change: Integrating Individual-Based Ecology Into Community and Ecosystem Studies. In: The Encyclopedia of the Anthropocene (eds. DellaSala, D.A. & Goldstein, M.I.). Elsevier, Oxford, pp. 139–147. doi: 10.1016/B978-0-12-809665-9.09801-3
Bestion E, Jacob S, Zinger L, Di Gesu L, Richard M, White J, Cote J (2017).Climate warming reduces gut microbiota diversity in a vertebrate ectotherm. Nature Ecology & Evolution, 1, 0161. doi:10.1038/s41559-017-0161
Research highlight: Science, Nature Climate Change
Media Coverage: The Scientist - Daily Mail - International Business Times - Popular Science - Nature Ecology and Evolution blog - Phys.org - Earth.com - EurekAlert - UPI (English) - CNRS - 20 minutes - Ouest France - La Depeche (French)
Schaum C-E, Barton S, Bestion E, Buckling A, Garcia-Carreras B, Lopez P, et al. (2017). Adaptation of phytoplankton to a decade of experimental warming linked to increased photosynthesis. Nature Ecology & Evolution, 1, 0094. doi: 10.1038/s41559-017-0094
Media Coverage: Nature Ecology and Evolution blog - Technology.org - Health Medicine Network - Phys.org - EurekAlert!
Conferences :
Poster at the "Ecology Across Border" Conference, Ghent, 2017. Metabolic traits predict the effects of warming on phytopnlankton competition. See poster
Outreach :
Publication of the book "Prix Le Monde de la recherche 2016" from Cedric Villani, Claire de March, Julien Jouganous, Barine Bézagu, Rémi Louf, Elvire Bestion. Eds Le Pommier, in which I have written a chapter entitled "Le futur incertain des lézards face au changement climatique"
Outreach article for secondary school teachers on planet-vie.ens.fr (in French): Étudier l’impact du changement climatique sur un vertébré ectotherme : de l’individu à la communauté
Interview on the radio show CQFD (Radio Television Suisse 1ere): Les effets du changement climatique sur le microbiote
Awards :
- Prix Le Monde de la Recherche Universitaire 2016
- Young Researchers Award 2016 from the Bettencourt Schueller Foundation
Recent blog posts:
- Phytoplankton fight! How climate change might change competition between species
- Étudier l’impact du changement climatique sur un vertébré ectotherme : de l’individu à la communauté
- Creating a monster through thermal adaptation
- Should we eat more yoghurt when it gets warm? In the case of lizards at least, climate change decreases gut microbiota diversity
- On the importance of fear in ecology (3) - Choosing a good mate
- On the importance of fear in ecology (2) - Did the snake get your tail?
- On the importance of fear in ecology (1)
New articles:
Bestion E, Garcia-Carreras B, Schaum C-E, Pawar S, Yvon-Durocher G (2018). Metabolic traits predict the effects of warming on phytopnlankton competition. Ecology Letters (in press) doi:10.1111/ele.12932 - BiorXiv preprint version
Bestion E, Cote J (2018). Species Responses to Climate Change: Integrating Individual-Based Ecology Into Community and Ecosystem Studies. In: The Encyclopedia of the Anthropocene (eds. DellaSala, D.A. & Goldstein, M.I.). Elsevier, Oxford, pp. 139–147. doi: 10.1016/B978-0-12-809665-9.09801-3
Bestion E, Jacob S, Zinger L, Di Gesu L, Richard M, White J, Cote J (2017).Climate warming reduces gut microbiota diversity in a vertebrate ectotherm. Nature Ecology & Evolution, 1, 0161. doi:10.1038/s41559-017-0161
Research highlight: Science, Nature Climate Change
Media Coverage: The Scientist - Daily Mail - International Business Times - Popular Science - Nature Ecology and Evolution blog - Phys.org - Earth.com - EurekAlert - UPI (English) - CNRS - 20 minutes - Ouest France - La Depeche (French)
Schaum C-E, Barton S, Bestion E, Buckling A, Garcia-Carreras B, Lopez P, et al. (2017). Adaptation of phytoplankton to a decade of experimental warming linked to increased photosynthesis. Nature Ecology & Evolution, 1, 0094. doi: 10.1038/s41559-017-0094
Media Coverage: Nature Ecology and Evolution blog - Technology.org - Health Medicine Network - Phys.org - EurekAlert!
Conferences :
Poster at the "Ecology Across Border" Conference, Ghent, 2017. Metabolic traits predict the effects of warming on phytopnlankton competition. See poster
Outreach :
Publication of the book "Prix Le Monde de la recherche 2016" from Cedric Villani, Claire de March, Julien Jouganous, Barine Bézagu, Rémi Louf, Elvire Bestion. Eds Le Pommier, in which I have written a chapter entitled "Le futur incertain des lézards face au changement climatique"
Outreach article for secondary school teachers on planet-vie.ens.fr (in French): Étudier l’impact du changement climatique sur un vertébré ectotherme : de l’individu à la communauté
Interview on the radio show CQFD (Radio Television Suisse 1ere): Les effets du changement climatique sur le microbiote
Awards :
- Prix Le Monde de la Recherche Universitaire 2016
- Young Researchers Award 2016 from the Bettencourt Schueller Foundation
Recent blog posts:
- Phytoplankton fight! How climate change might change competition between species
- Étudier l’impact du changement climatique sur un vertébré ectotherme : de l’individu à la communauté
- Creating a monster through thermal adaptation
- Should we eat more yoghurt when it gets warm? In the case of lizards at least, climate change decreases gut microbiota diversity
- On the importance of fear in ecology (3) - Choosing a good mate
- On the importance of fear in ecology (2) - Did the snake get your tail?
- On the importance of fear in ecology (1)