Anne LORRAIN
Marine ecology / trophic ecology / stable isotopes / metals
IRD Ouest
Marine ecology / trophic ecology / stable isotopes / metals
IRD Ouest
LEMAR Laboratory
Discovery
+33 2 90 91 55 75
I am working on the trophic ecology of organisms in order to understand the functioning of marine ecosystems and to predict their responses to global changes.
I use marine organisms, and more specifically their chemical composition (stable isotopes C, N, Hg, and contaminants), as tools to understand the functioning of benthic and pelagic ecosystems, using invertebrates such as bivalves and corals and large predators such as tuna and seabirds.
Two main axes characterise the different facets of my research on large predators and invertebrates, showing in particular the feedback that seabirds feeding in the open sea can have on coastal ecosystems.
This work has been carried out mainly with Overseas Territories in the south-west Pacific but also in Peru and in the Indian Ocean and I am currently developing a global scale for the tuna studies.
Articles in peer reviewed journals (aka ACL in French) since 2010