I am interested in the mechanisms underlying species distribution and the evolution of interspecific interactions. With social insects as study systems and especially ants, current projects focus on the processes affecting community assembly rules in leaf-litter ants, the evolution of specific, multipartite interactions and the diversity and evolution of venom peptides in ants.

tél. : (+594) 5 94 32 92 96

fax : (+594) 5 94 32 43 02

email : jerome.orivel at cnrs.fr

Positions

Current research projects

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Associate Editor

Since 2008. Insect Conservation & Diversity (Home Page)

Postdoc
Axel Touchard. Biochemistry and proteomics of ant venom peptides.

Hadrien Lalagüe. Genomics and Transcriptomics of ant venoms.

PhD

Axel Cerdan. Diversité des invertébrés d’eau douce de Guyane. Cosupervisor: Jérôme Murienne

Alumni

Postdoc

Fabrice Marger. 2011-2013. Electrophysiology and pharmacology of venom toxins.

Mario Xavier Ruiz-Gonzalez. 2008-2009. Molecular ecology of an ant-fungus interaction.

PhD

Mélanie Fichaux. Disentangling drivers of amazonian ant community structure across geographic and environmental gradients.

Alex Salas-Lopez. Trophic diversity and quantification of ecosystem processes in ants.

Axel Touchard. Biodiversity, biochemistry and pharmocology of bioactive peptides from ant venoms. Cosupervisor: Pierre Escoubas

Jérémie Lauth. Tripartism in a mutualistic interaction between ants, plants and fungi. Cosupervisors: Alain Dejean & Céline Leroy.

Pierre Jean Malé. 2007-2011. Molecular ecology of an ant-plant association. Co-supervisor: Angélique Quilichini

Julien Grangier. 2004-2008. Evolutionary stability in an obligate and specific ant-plant mutualism. Co-supervisor: Alain Dejean

Articles in international journals

P-150. Salas-Lopez A, Violle C, Munoz F, Menzel F, Orivel j. 2022. Effects of habitat and competition on niche partitioning and community structure in Neotropical ants. Frontiers in Ecology and Evolution, 10: 863080.

P-149. Campos Barros LA, Chaul JCM, Teixeira GA, Lod RB, Orivel J, de Aguiar HJAC. 2022. First report of the tramp ant Technomyrmex vitiensis Mann, 1921 (Formicidae: Dolichoderinae) in Brazil with cytogenetic and sperm structure data and an updated key to Brazilian Dolichoderinae genera. Zoological Studies, 61: 28.

P-148. Romero GQ, Gonçalves-Souza T, Roslin T, Marquis RJ, Marino NA, Novotny V, Cornelissen T, Orivel J, Sui S, Aires G, Antoniazzi R, Dáttilo W, Breviglieri CP, Busse A, Gibb H, Izzo TJ, Kadlec T, Kemp V, Kersch-Becker M, Knapp M, Kratina P, Luke R, Majnarić S, Maritz R, Mateus Martins P, Mendesil E, Michalko J, Mrazova A, Novais S, Pereira CC, Perić MS, Petermann JS, Ribeiro SP, Sam K, Trzcinski KM, Vieira C, Westwood N, Bernaschini ML, Carvajal V, González E, Jausoro M, Kaensin S, Ospina F, Cristobal-Perez J, Quesada M, Rogy P, Srivastava D, Szpryngiel S, Tack AJ, Teder T, Videla M, Viljur M-L, Koricheva J. 2022. Climate variability and aridity modulate the role of leaf shelters for arthropods: a global experiment. Global Change Biology, 28: 3694-3710

P-147. Cardoso Pereira C, Novais S, Barbosa M, Negreiros D, Gonçalves-Souza T, Roslin T, Marquis R, Marino N, Novotny V, Orivel J, Sui S, Aires G, Antoniazzi R, Dáttilo W, Breviglieri C, Busse A, Gibb H, Izzo T, Kadlec T, Kemp V, Kersch-Becker M, Knapp M, Kratina P, Luke R, Majnarić S, Maritz R, Martins PM, Mendesil E, Michalko J, Mrazova A, Sertić Perić M, Petermann J, Ribeiro S, Sam K, Trzcinski MK, Vieira C, Westwood N, Bernaschini M, Carvajal V, González E, Jausoro M, Kaensin S, Ospina F, Pérez JC, Quesada M, Rogy P, Srivastava DS, Szpryngiel S, Tack A, Teder T, Videla M, Viljur ML, Koricheva J, Fernandes GW, Romero GQ, Cornelissen T. 2021. Subtle structures with not-so-subtle functions: a dataset of arthropod constructs and their host plants. Ecology, 103: e3639.

P-146. Peguero G, Ferrín CM, Sardans J, Verbruggen E, Ramírez-Rojas I, Van Langenhove L, Verryckt LT, Murienne J, Iribar A, Zinger L, Grau O, Orivel J, Stahl C, Courtois EA, Asensio D, Gargallo-Garriga A, Llusià J, Margalef O, Ogaya R, Richter A, Janssens IA, Peñuelas J. 2022. Decay of similarity across tropical forest communities: integrating spatial distance with soil nutrients. Ecology, 103: e03599

P-145. Maggia ME, Decaëns T, Lapied E, Dupont L, Roy V, Schimann H, Orivel J, Murienne J, Baraloto C, Cottenie C, Steinke D. 2021. At each site its diversity: DNA barcoding reveals remarkable earthworm diversity in neotropical rainforests of French Guiana. Applied Soil Ecology, 164: 103932

P-144. Campos Barros LA, Chaul JCM, Orivel J, de Aguiar HJAC. 2021. Cytogenetics of Strumigenys louisianae Roger, 1863 (Formicidae: Myrmicinae) from North-eastern Amazonia shed light on a difficult species complex. Zoologischer Anzeiger, 294: 100-105

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