Alienor Jeliazkov

Bio

I work as a community ecologist in a lab of freshwater ecology at the French National Institute of Research in Agriculture and Environment (INRAE). I have a PhD in ecology and conservation sciences on the scale-dependence of biodiversity-environment relationships.

I love studying streams because of their mystery, freshness, beauty and poetry. Though I even like even more to work on both aquatic and terrestrial ecosystems and their interactions because I can only see the ecological functioning as a continuum.

My research interests are biodiversity-environment relationships across scales, metacommunity dynamics and their role in ecosystem functioning, using concepts and tools from spatial ecology, landscape ecology, functional ecology, and statistical modeling on empirical data.

My involvement in COSAR as co-leader of WP3 and WP1 mainly recruits my expertise in community ecology and landscape ecology to study the response of freshwater metacommunities to restoration projects and its dependence on the landscape context.

Publications

Jeliazkov, A., & Chase J. M. (2023). When do traits tell more than species about a metacommunity? A synthesis across ecosystems and scales. The American Naturalist, in press.

Jeliazkov, A., Gavish, Y., Marsh, C. J., Geschke, J., Brummitt, N., Rocchini, D., ... & Henle, K. (2022). Sampling and modelling rare species: Conceptual guidelines for the neglected majority. Global change biology, 28(12), 3754-3777.

Jeliazkov, A., Lorrillière, R., Besnard, A., Garnier, J., Silvestre, M., & Chiron, F. (2019). Cross-scale effects of structural and functional connectivity in pond networks on amphibian distribution in agricultural landscapes. Freshwater Biology, 64(5), 997‑1014. https://doi.org/10.1111/fwb.13281