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. Gaps in global alien plant trait data and how to fill them. EcoEvoRxiv (submitted), 2024.

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. Forecasting potential invaders to prevent future biological invasions worldwide. Global Change Biology, 2024.

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. State of the World’s Plants and Fungi. Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew, 2023.

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. The ecological causes of functional distinctiveness in communities. Ecol. Lett., 2023.

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. The big four of plant taxonomy - a comparison of global checklists of vascular plant names. New Phytologist, 2023.

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R Packages

You can find a list of the packages I heavily contributed on my R-universe.

Package Name Package Status Description
funrar funrar CRAN badge Compute functional rarity indices (see more at https://rekyt.github.io/funrar/)
fundiversity fundiversity CRAN badge Fast and modular computation of functional diversity indices
funbiogeo Lifecycle: maturing A package to help functional biogeography analyses
ecolottery ecolottery CRAN badge an R package to simulate community assembly using coalescent theory
rtaxref rtaxref CRAN badge R client to the French Taxonomic Reference (see more at https://rekyt.github.io/rtaxref)
rromeo Archived package on CRAN (outdated API)   rromeo rOpenSci badge R client to SHERPA/RoMEO the database on journal archival policies
bnfimage bnfimage CRAN badge R client to the French National Library (BnF) Image API

Projects

Functional Diversity

Studying the distribution of species attribute diversity

Macroecology

Large-scale study of biodiversity to achieve generalization

Tools for Biodiversity Science

Create and contribute to new tools to advance biodiversity science

Functional Rarity: an additional biodiversity facet

What are the ecological and evolutionary mechanisms explaining functional rarity and functional originality?

Teaching

I’ve taught about 130 hours of courses at the different universities I’ve worked in:

Course name Level Total time
Descriptive Statistics
with R (UM)		 Bachelor’s
(2nd yr)		 50h
Functional Biogeography
with R (UM, material)		 Master’s
(2nd yr)		 8h
Practical Session on Functional Ecology (UM) Bachelor’s
(2nd yr)		 15h
Guest Lecture
on Biodiversity Facets (UL)		 Master’s
(1st yr)		 6h
Biodiversity Facets
with R (UL, material)		 Master’s
(1st yr)		 12h
Group project
on Biodiversity Facets (UL)		 Master’s
(1st yr)		 20h
Introduction to git and GitHub
(UL/iDiv, material)		 PhD students
and postdocs		 10h
Workshop on functional diversity and rarity
(CESAB, website)		 Master’s-Reseachers 4h
Guest Lecture
on Taxonomic Harmonization (NFDI4Biodiversity Winter School)		 Master’s and PhDs 2h

UM: University of Montpellier; UL: University of Leipzig

I am a certified Instructor for The Carpentries, focusing on R programming (especially for ecology) and Data Visualization.

I also founded the R User Group at the Center for Functional and Evolutionary Ecology in Montpellier. There, I organized regular 1h meet-ups on various R topics (plotting with ggplot2, mapping with sf, project organization with RStudio, workflow organization with drake, parallelization with future). I’m also a co-founding and active member of iCode, the coding club of iDiv.

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