Dr Patrice Pottier
Areas of expertise
- Animal Physiological Ecology 310907
- Comparative Physiology 310912
- Biogeography And Phylogeography 310402
- Biological Adaptation 310403
- Evolutionary Impacts Of Climate Change 310406
- Life Histories 310408
- Ecological Physiology 310303
- Evolutionary Ecology 310405
- Phylogeny And Comparative Analysis 310410
Research interests
While my interests are broad, I am primarily interested in the responses of animals to rapid environmental change. Particularly, I strive to understand what drives the variation in plasticity and adaptation to changing temperatures. My research is question-driven rather than organism-driven, and I enjoy working with a broad range of organisms. I use a combination of data synthesis, meta-analysis, and laboratory experiments to address my questions in various species.
I am also an advocate for Open Science and a member of the board of directors of The Society for Open, Reproducible, and Transparent Ecology and Evolutionary Biology (SORTEE).
Biography
I am an early-career researcher interested in quantifying animal responses to changing environments. I did a BSc. And MSc. at the University of Tours (France) where I first studied why tiny wasps fight over resources. I then moved to the University of Alabama and swapped wasps for fish to study how pollutants mess with their lives. Feeling burned out from busy experiments, I shifted gears to work with data rather of animals, embarking on a PhD at the University of New South Wales with Shinichi Nakagawa, Szymon Drobniak, and Tracey Rogers. During my PhD, I used meta-analysis and comparative studies to quantify the plasticity and resilience of ectothermic animals to climate change.
I am now a postdoctoral researcher working with Daniel Noble, using meta-analysis to quantify the importance of phenotypic plasticity on population persistence. I am also an advocate for Open Science and a board member of The Society for Open, Reproducible, and Transparent Ecology and Evolutionary Biology (SORTEE).
Researcher's projects
Quantifying the impact of phenotypic plasticity on population persistence (FT220100276)