Bastien Papinot

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About Me

I am a PhD student focusing on the ecology of bryophytes in the Arctic ecosystems and how they can react to climate change and to different environmental parameters like sheep grazing or anthropic pressure. These pressures are particularly high in the Arctic tundra and bryophytes are a taxa that has been largely understudied despite the fact that they are a great model group for predicting the small and large-scale environmental changes. That is why my main focus is on the responses of bryophytes and particularly mosses to climate change and the eco-evolutionary mechanisms behind it.

I have been working on very different model taxa, from the plant-lemur mutualistic interactions in Madagascar, to the population dynamics of shorebirds in the Arctic as I am particularly in the ecological processes and interactions that shaped and are shaping the evolutionary trajectories of species.

My main research interests with bryophytes are now focused on understanding the whole food web network linked with the bryosphere species composition and their responses to a changing climate and sheep grazing pressure in Arctic environments. Besides of that, I am also interested in the bryophyte species composition in different ecosystems across the whole Arctic, associated with the different moss species traits and their ecological functions. On the side, I am also publishing a series of publications called “Babou and the mosses” to raise awareness about the importance of bryophytes in every type of ecosystems and try to teach in a relaxed and unformal way why bryophytes are a really important group for a deep understanding of all ecosystem processes. You can find it on my Twitter account linked here or on Instagram!