Dr Patrice Pottier

PhD University of New South Wales (Australia); MSc University of Tours (France)
Postdoctoral researcher
ANU College of Science

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)

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