Invertebrate Zoology
Malacology and Marine Invertebrates
François Michonneau,
PhD Student
Contact informations
- E-mail: fmichon flmnh.ufl.edu (replace space with @)
- Postal address:
Division of Malacology
Dickinson Hall
Florida Museum of Natural History
PO Box 117800
University of Florida
Gainesville, FL 32611-7800, USA
Research Statement
I'm broadly interested in the generation and maintenance of marine invertebrate biodiversity (systematics, speciation, biogeography and community ecology). I've started my PhD in August 2006 as a trainee of the PEET project "Sea cucumbers on coral reefs: systematics of aspidochirotid holothurians". This project aims to revise the order Aspidochirotida thanks to a collaborative effort by using morphological and molecular systematics.
Link to the PEET project
Selected publications
Articles provided below should be considered as personnal copies for research or educational purposes.
- Irz P., Michonneau F., Oberdorff T., Whittier T.R., Lamouroux N., Mouillot D., Argillier C. 2007. Fish community comparisons along environmental gradients in lakes of France and north-east USA. Global Ecology and Biogeography 16(3):350-366. DOI: 10.1111/j.1466-8238.2006.00290.x PDF (local) | PDF (permanent)
- Irz P., De Bortoli J., Michonneau F., Whittier T.R., Oberdorff T., Argillier C. 2007. Controlling for natural variability in assessing the response of fish metrics to human pressures for lakes in north-east USA Aquatic Conservation. DOI: 10.1002/aqc.859 PDF (local) | PDF (permanent)::
Softwares
I believe in open source softwares so I use:
- Ubuntu instead of Microsoft Windows
- Firefox instead of Microsoft Internet Explorer
- Thunderbird instead of Microsoft Outlook
- Gimp instead of Adobe Photoshop
- Inkscape instead of Adobe Illustrator
- OpenOffice instead of Microsoft Office
I also use R to analyze and visualize my data. I like to type my code in Emacs with ESS
