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.
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New articles:
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!
Bestion E, Cote J. 2017. Species responses to climate change: integrating individual-based ecology into community and ecosystem studies. Reference Module in Earth Systems and Environmental Sciences. doi:10.1016/B978-0-12-409548-9.09801-8
Cote J, Bestion E, Jacob S, Travis J, Legrand D, and M Baguette. 2017. Evolution of dispersal strategies, phenotypic traits and their covariation and dispersal syndromes in fragmented landscapes. Ecography. doi: 10.1111/ecog.02538
Awards:
- Prix Le Monde de la Recherche Universitaire 2016
- Young Researchers Award 2016 from the Bettencourt Schueller Foundation
Others:
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
Recent blog posts:
- 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)
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!
Bestion E, Cote J. 2017. Species responses to climate change: integrating individual-based ecology into community and ecosystem studies. Reference Module in Earth Systems and Environmental Sciences. doi:10.1016/B978-0-12-409548-9.09801-8
Cote J, Bestion E, Jacob S, Travis J, Legrand D, and M Baguette. 2017. Evolution of dispersal strategies, phenotypic traits and their covariation and dispersal syndromes in fragmented landscapes. Ecography. doi: 10.1111/ecog.02538
Awards:
- Prix Le Monde de la Recherche Universitaire 2016
- Young Researchers Award 2016 from the Bettencourt Schueller Foundation
Others:
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
Recent blog posts:
- 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)
