BOURDONNE A

axel.bourdonne@gmail.com

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Axel BOURDONNÉ

FTC, INRAE

Area(s)

1- Characterisation and evolution of biodiversity

Technical platform(s)

Collections

Topic: ANR AgroBiodiv and Ecophyto II projects, plus the GT STEP 500 ENI 2 project on the links between agricultural practices and biodiversity along the edges of farmland
Dates : 1 February 2022 – 30 September 2026
CBGP managers: C. Meynard, J. Haran & G. Kergoat

Axel is continuing his work as part of the ANR (PRC AgroBiodiv project) and Ecophyto II+ (GTP-STEP project) initiatives, focusing on the links between agricultural practices and biodiversity at the edges of farmland. He is responsible for receiving, sorting and cataloguing in the laboratory’s database beetle samples from the edges of agricultural plots across France. These samples (species communities) will be photographed and prepared for molecular metabarcoding analyses.

At the same time, Axel is involved in building barcode databases by photographing reference specimens (vouchers) and preparing them for inclusion in the reference collections. He is also responsible for linking molecular identifications to individual abundances based on photographs of the communities.

Penel* B., Genty L., Marty C., Bourdonné A., Clamens A.-L., Benoit L., Soldati L., Migeon A., Kergoat G.J., Haran J., Fried G. & Meynard C. 2026. Beetle communities in agricultural landscapes: relative influences of climate, landscape, plant communities and agricultural practices. Agriculture, Ecosystems & Environment 400 : 110252. (https://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.agee.2026.110252)

Penel* B., Meynard C.N., Benoit L., Bourdonné A., Clamens A.-L., Soldati L., Migeon A., Chapuis M.-P., Piry S., Kergoat G.J. & Haran J. 2025. The best of two worlds: toward large-scale monitoring of biodiversity combining COI metabarcoding and optimized parataxonomic validation. Ecography 2025 : e07699. (https://dx.doi.org/10.1111/ecog.07699)