Postdoctoral Researcher
Station d’Ecologie Théorique et Expérimentale – Université Paul Sabatier
My interests lie in experimentally understanding the traits linked to organisms' success in a warming climate at various levels of biological organization. During my PhD, I was interested in the impacts of climate change on common lizards 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 competition between species in different climatic conditions in phytoplankton communities, and to how climate and habitat fragmentation shape phytoplankton and zooplankton communities.
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New articles:
Bestion E, Schaum C-E, Yvon‐Durocher G. 2018. Nutrient limitation constrains thermal tolerance in freshwater phytoplankton. Limnology and Oceanography Letters. doi:10.1002/lol2.10096
García FC, Bestion E, Warfield R, Yvon-Durocher G. 2018. Changes in temperature alter the relationship between biodiversity and ecosystem functioning. PNAS. 201805518. doi:10.1073/pnas.1805518115
Pellerin F, Cote J, Bestion E, Aguilée R. 2018. Matching habitat choice promotes species persistence under climate change. Oikos. doi:10.1111/oik.05309
García-Carreras B, Sal S, Padfield D, Kontopoulos D-G, Bestion E, Schaum C-E, Yvon-Durocher G, Pawar S. 2018. Role of carbon allocation efficiency in the temperature dependence of autotroph growth rates. PNAS. 201800222. doi:10.1073/pnas.1800222115
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 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
Conferences :
Poster at the Evolution Conference, Montpellier, France, 2018. Phenotypic plasticity mediates responses to climate change: a semi-natural experimental approach.
Outreach :
Rencontres eXploreur Foix 2019: Conference on the impact of climate change on common lizards
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"
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)
