Céline Le Pichon

Bio

Céline works as an aquatic ecologist in a lab of freshwater ecology at the French National Institute of Research in Agriculture and Environment (INRAE). After an education in horticulture, biodiversity and evolution, she joined the lab in 2000 and developed methods and tools for applying landscape ecology to rivers with the aim to better understand the complex interrelationships between fish and their environment impacted by human activities.

Rivers, streams have always been fascinating for her because it represents life for all organisms in our planet and also because she is fond of swimming, due to the feeling of serenity and the way to discover a fascinating world. In addition, fish are also mysterious and passionate organisms to study, do to their complex behavior and adaptation to our impacted rivers.

Her research interests are fish-environment relationships across scales, especially connectivity between functional habitats during their life cycle. She is using concepts and tools from riverscape ecology and spatial analysis with GIS.

She is involved in COSAR as co-leader of WP2 studying the correlations between societal and ecological outcomes from restoration, and participates to discussions on other WP.

Publications

Torgersen C.E., Le Pichon C., Fullerton A.H., Dugdale S.J., Duda J.J., Giovannini F., Tales É., Belliard J., Branco P., Bergeron N. E., Roy M.L., Tonolla D., Lamouroux N., Capra H. et Baxter C.V. 2022. Riverscape approaches in practice: perspectives and applications. Biological Reviews 97(2), 481-504. online

Le Pichon C., Lestel L., Courson E., Merg M-L., Tales É. et Belliard J. 2020. Historical Changes in the Ecological Connectivity of the Seine River for Fish: A Focus on Physical and Chemical Barriers Since the Mid-19th Century. Water 12(5), 1352. hal-02989845

Le Pichon C., Coustillas J., Zahm A., Bunel M., Gazeau-Nadin C., Rochard E. 2017a. Summer use of the tidal freshwaters of the River Seine by three estuarine fish: Coupling telemetry and GIS spatial analysis. Estuarine, Coastal and Shelf Science 196: 83-96.