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christine.meynard@inrae.fr

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Christine MEYNARD

Research Director, INRAE

Area(s)

2 - Population and community ecology

Collective responsibility(ies)

Head of Area 2
Scientific Animation Group
Member of the Scientific Committee SPE at INRAE
Member of the Scientific Evaluation Commission (CSS BPE) at INRAE
INRAE representative on the Regional Committee for Biodiversity (CRB) in Occitania
Deputy-Editor-in-Chief at Ecography (macroecology journal, IF = 5.9)

My research in the field of macroecology (the large-scale study of the relationships between biodiversity and the environment) focuses on two main areas:

the study and prediction of potential ranges for species of agricultural interest and
the study of the relationship between biodiversity and the environment, particularly in agricultural settings, at national level in France.

In both cases, the aim is to use statistical modelling to link biological data (occurrences, species richness, and the functional and phylogenetic diversity of communities) with environmental gradients, in order to better understand the effects of global changes (climate change, agricultural practices, land use) on biodiversity at a large scale and to be able to provide management recommendations for the field. I work with all types of organisms, in collaboration with taxonomic experts, although recently my analyses have focused on plant and insect communities. To better understand these large-scale effects, I draw on a combination of ecological theory, simulations (virtual ecology) and analyses of large datasets.

Keywords: biodiversity, ecology, agroecology, modelling, agriculture, global change.

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)

Henckel L., Fried G., Guillemin J.-P., Poinas* I., Meynard C. & Ricci B. 2026. Assessing the non-target effects of herbicides on field margin plant communities after controlling for soil, climate, local context and landscape metrics. Agriculture, Ecosystems & Environment 400 : 110190. (https://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.agee.2025.110190)

Genty L., Meynard C., Bopp M.C., Henckel L., Chayre A., Gibert C. & Fried G. 2026. Intensive agricultural practices negatively impact field margin ecosystem services indicators at both field and landscape levels. Ecological Applications 36 : e70161. (https://dx.doi.org/10.1002/eap.70161)

Poinas* I., Meynard C.N. & Fried G. 2025. Plant species better adapted to climate change need agricultural extensification to persist. Ecology Letters 28 : e70030. (https://dx.doi.org/10.1111.ele70030)

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)

Özgencil İ.K., Çolak M.A., Yılmaz G., Uslu A., Hasnain S., Korkmaz M., Amorim C.A., Soyluer M., Beklioğlu M., Meynard C., Akyürek Z., Özkan K. & Jeppesen E. 2025. Changes in diversity of wetland birds across spatial scales following 20 years of wetland degradation: A case study from central Türkiye. Inland Waters 15 : 2488655. (https://dx.doi.org/10.1080/20442041.2025.2488655)

Meynard C., Record S., Galiana N., Gravel D. & Araújo M.B. 2025. Emerging horizons in predictive biogeography. Ecography 2025 : e07910. (https://dx.doi.org/10.1111/ecog.07910)

Morris C.E., Radici A., Meynard C., Sauvion N., Nedellec C., Geniaux G. & Soubeyrand S. 2024. More than food: why restoring the cycle of organic matter in sustainable plant production is essential for the One Health nexus. CABI Reviews 19 : . (https://dx.doi.org/10.1079/cabireviews.2024.0008)

Soubeyrand S., Estoup A., Cruaud A., Malembic-Maher S., Meynard C., Ravigné V., Barbier M., Barrès B., Berthier K., Boitard S., Dallot S., Gaba S., Grosdidier M., Hannachi M., Jacques M.A., Leclerc M., Lucas P., Martinetti D., Mougel C., Robert C., Roques A., Rossi J.-P., Suffert F., Abad P., Auger-Rozenberg M.-A., Ay J.S., Bardin M., Bernard H., Bohan D.A., Candresse T., Castagnone-Sereno P., Danchin E.G.J., Delmas C.E.L., Ezanno P., Fabre F., Facon B., Gabriel E., Gaudin J., Gauffre B., Gautier M., Guinat C., Lavigne C., Lemaire O., Martinez C., Michel L., Moury B., Nam K., Nédellec C., Ogliastro M., Papaïx J., Parisey N., Poggi S., Radici A., Rasplus J.-Y., Reboud X., Robin C., Roche M., Rusch A., Sauvion N., Streito J.-C., Verdin E., Walker A.S., Xuéreb A., Thébaud G. & Morris C.E. 2024. Building integrated plant health surveillance: a proactive research agenda for anticipating and mitigating disease and pest emergence. CABI Agriculture and Bioscience 5 : 72. (https://dx.doi.org/10.1186/s43170-024-00273-8)

Poinas I., Meynard C. & Fried G. 2024. Functional trade-offs: exploring the effects of climate change and agricultural practices as drivers of field margin plant communities. PCI Ecology bioRxiv 530956, ver. 4 : peer-reviewed and recommended by PCI Ecology. (https://dx.doi.org/10.1101/2023.03.03.530956)