Publications
Marchand T., Pey B., Pautot C., Lecerf A. (2024) Mechanical traits as drivers of trophic interaction between macrodetritivores and leaf litter. Oecologia in press
Rota T., Jabiol J., Lamothe S., Lambrigot D., Chauvet E., Lecerf A. (2024) Phenotypes of predator individuals underpin contrasting ecosystem effects. Freshwater Biology in press
Rota T., Lecerf A., Chauvet E., Pey B. (2022) The importance of intraspecific variation in litter consumption rate of aquatic and terrestrial macro-detritivores. Basic and Applied Ecology 63:175-185 https://doi.org/10.1016/j.baae.2022
Réveillon T., Rota T., Chauvet E., Lecerf A., Sentis A. (2022) Energetic mismatch induced by warming decreases leaf litter decomposition by aquatic detritivores. Journal of Animal Ecology https://doi.org/10.1111/1365-2656.13710. Research featured in the Highlight Paper « Heat it up to slow it down: Individual energetics reveal how warming reduces stream decomposition » (Jochum M., Journal of Animal Ecology https://doi.org/10.1111/1365-2656.13775 )
Lecerf A., Cebron A., Gilbert F., Danger M., Roussel H., Maunoury-Danger F. (2021) Using plant litter decomposition as an indicator of ecosystem response to soil contamination. Ecological Indicators 125: 107554
Lecerf A. (2021) The construction of plant litter decomposition curves. in Swan, C.M., L. Boyero & C. Canhoto (editors). The Ecology of Plant Litter Decomposition in Stream Ecosystems. Springer. ISBN 978-3-030-72854-0
Jabiol J., Gossiaux A., Lecerf A., Rota T., Guérold F., Danger M., Poupin P., Gilbert F., Chauvet E. (2020) Variable temperature effects between heterotrophic stream processes and organisms. Freshwater Biology 65:1543-1554
LeRoy C., Hipp A., Lueders K., Follstad Shah J., Kominoski J., Ardón M., Dodds W.K., Gessner M.O. , Griffiths N., Lecerf A., Manning D., Sinsabaugh R.L., Webster J. (2020) Plant phylogenetic history explains in‐stream decomposition at a global scale. Journal of Ecology 108:17:35
Artru M., Lecerf A. (2019). Slow degradation of compostable plastic carrier bags in a stream and its riparian area. International Journal of Limnology 55:18
Réveillon T., Rota T., Chauvet E., Lecerf A., Sentis A. (2019) Repeatable inter-individual variation in the thermal sensitivity of metabolic rate. Oikos 128:1633-1640
Jabiol J., Lecerf A., Lamothe S., Gessner M.O., Chauvet E. (2019) Litter quality modulates effects of dissolved nitrogen on leaf decomposition by stream microbial communities. Microbial Ecology 77:959-966
Evangelista C., Olden J.D., Lecerf A., Cucherousset J. (2019) Scale-dependent patterns of intraspecific trait variations in two globally invasive species. Oecologia 189:1083-1094
Evangelista C., Cucherousset J., Lecerf A. (2019) Contrasting ecological impacts of geographically close invasive population. Oecologia 189:529-536
Pey B., Tran C., Cruz P., Hedde M., Jouany C., Laplanche C., Nahmani J., Chauvet E., Lecerf A. (2019) Nutritive value and physical and chemical deterrents of forage grass litter explain feeding performance of two soil macro detritivore. Applied Soil Ecology 133:81-88
Rota T., Jabiol J., Chauvet E., Lecerf A. (2018) Phenotypic determinants of inter-individual variability of litter consumption rate in a detritivore population. Oikos 127:1670-1678
Lagrue C., Besson A.A., Lecerf A. (2018) Small alteration – big impacts: effect of small-scale riparian management on host-parasite dynamics in streams. Journal of Helminthology 92:64-73
Raffard A., Lecerf A., Cote J., Buoro M., Lassus R., Cucherousset J. (2017) The functional syndrome: linking individual trait variability to ecosystem functioning. Proceedings of the Royal Society B.
Lecerf A. (2017) Methods for estimating the effect of litterbag mesh size on decomposition. Ecological Modelling 362:65-68
Jackson M.C., Evangelista C., Lecerf A., Britton J., Cucherousset J. (2017) Between lake variation in the trophic ecology of an invasive crayfish. Freshwater Biology 62:1501-1510
Evangelista C., Lecerf A., Britton J.R., Cucherousset J. (2017) Resource composition mediates the effects of intraspecific variability in nutrient recycling on ecosystem processes. Oikos 126:1439-1450
Follstad Shah J.J., Kominoski J.S., Ardón M., Dodds W.K., Gessner M.O., Griffiths N.A., Hawkins C.P., Johnson S.L., Lecerf A., LeRoy C.J., Manning D.W.P., Rosemond A.D., Sinsabaugh R.L., Swan C.M., Webster J.R., Zeglin L.H. (2017) Global synthesis of the temperature sensitivity of leaf litter breakdown in streams and rivers. Global Change Biology 23:3064-3075
Yeung A.C.Y., Lecerf A., Richardson J.S. (2017) Assessing the long-term ecological effects of riparian management practices on headwater streams in a coastal temperate rainforest. Forest Ecology and Management 384:100-109
Chauvet E., Ferreira V., Giller P.S., McKie B.G., Tiegs S.D., Woodward G., Elosegi A., Dobson M., Fleituch T., Graça M.A.S., Gulis V., Hladyz S., Lacoursiere J.O., Lecerf A., Pozo J., Preda E., Riipinen M., Risnoveanu G., Vadineanu A., Vought L.B.M., Gessner M.O. (2016) Litter decomposition as an indicator of stream ecosystem functioning at local-to-continental scales: Insights from the European RivFunction project. Advances in Ecological Research 55:99-182
Lecerf A., Evangelista C., Cucherousset J., Boiché A. (2016) Riparian overstory-understory interactions and their implications for forest-stream linkages. Forest Ecology and Management 367:112-119
Alp M., Cucherousset J., Buoro M., Lecerf A. (2016) Phenological response of a key ecosystem function to biological invasion. Ecology Letters 19:519-527
Lagrue C., Besson A., Lecerf A. (2015) Interspecific differences in antipredator strategies determine the strength of non-consumptive predator effects on stream detritivores. Oikos 124:1589-1596
Majdi N., Boiché A., Traunspurger W., Lecerf A. (2015) Community patterns and ecosystem processes in forested headwater streams along a gradient of riparian canopy openness. Fundamental and Applied Limnology 187:63-78
Lucisine P., Lecerf A., Danger M., Felten V., Aran D., Auclerc A., Gross E.M., Huot H., Morel J.-L., Muller S., Nahmani J., Maunoury-Danger F. (2015). Litter chemistry prevails over litter consumers in mediating effects of past steel industry activities on leaf litter decomposition. Science of the Total Environment. 537:213-224
Majdi N., Traunspurger W., Richardson J.S., Lecerf A. (2015). Small stonefly predators affect micro- and meiobenthic communities in stream leaf packs. Freshwater Biology 60:1930-1943
Lagrue C., Podgorniak T., Lecerf A., Bollache L. (2014) An invasive species may be better than none: invasive signal and native noble crayfish have similar community effets. Freshwater Biology 59:1982-195
Evangelista C., Boiché A., Lecerf A., Cucherousset J. (2014) Ecological opportunities and intraspecific competition alter trophic niche specialization in an opportunistic stream predator. Journal of Animal Ecology 83: 1025-1034
De Nadaï-Monoury E., Gilbert F., Lecerf A. (2014) Forest canopy cover determines invertebrate diversity and ecosystem process rates in depositional zones of headwater streams. Freshwater Biology 59: 1532-1545
Majdi N., Boiché A., Traunspurger W., Lecerf A. (2014) Predator effects on a detritus-based food web are primarily mediated by nontrophic interactions. Journal of Animal Ecology. 83:953-962
De Nadaï-Monoury E., Lecerf A.,Canal C., Buisson L., Laffaille P., Gilbert F. (2013) A cost-effective method to quantify biological surface reworking. Hydrobiologia 713: 115-125
Danger M., Cornut J., Chauvet E., Chavez P., Elger A., Lecerf A. (2013) Benthic algae stimulate leaf litter decomposition in detritus-based headwater streams: a case of aquatic priming effect? Ecology 94: 1604-1613
Lecerf A., Baudoin J.M., Besson A., Lamothe S., Lagrue C. (2012) Is smaller necessary better? Effects of small riparian forest harvesting on stream ecosystems. International Journal of Limnology 48:401-409
Woodward, G., Gessner M.O., Giller P., Gulis V., Hladyz S., Lecerf A., Malmqvist B., McKie B.G., Tiegs S.D., Cariss H., Dobson M., Elosegi A., Ferreira V. Graça M.A.S., Fleituch T., Lacoursière J., Nistorescu M., Pozo, J., Risnoveanu G., Schindler M., Vought L.B.M., Chauvet E. (2012) Continental-scale effects of nutrient loading and eutrophication on stream ecosystem functioning. Science 336: 1438-1440
Lagrue C., Kominoski J. S., Danger M., Baudoin J.M., Lamothe S., Lambrigot D., Lecerf A. (2011) Experimental shading alters litter breakdown in streams of contrasting riparian canopy cover. Freshwater Biology 56:2059-2069
Hladyz S., Ǻbjörnsson K., Cariss H., Chauvet E., Dobson M., Elosegi A., Ferreira V., Fleituch T., Gessner M.O., Giller P.S., Graça M.A.S., Gulis V., Hutton S.A.,Lacoursière J., Lamothe S., Lecerf A., Malmqvist B., McKie B.G., Nistorescu M., Preda E., Riipinen M.P., Rîşnoveanu G., Schindler M., Tiegs S.D., Vought L.B.M., Woodward, G. (2011) Stream ecosystem functioning in an agricultural landscape: the importance of terrestrial-aquatic linkages. Advances in Ecological Research 44: 211-276
Lagrue C., Azémar F., Besson A., Lamothe S., Lecerf A. (2011) Novel ligature methods to study sublethal effects of sit-and-wait predators: Description and test using Cordulegaster boltonii (Donovan, 1807) larvae (Anisoptera: Cordulegastridae).Odonatologica 40: 95-103
Lecerf A., Richardson J.S. (2011) Assessing the functional importance of large-bodied invertebrates in experimental headwater streams. Oikos 120: 950-960
Lecerf A., Marie G., Kominoski J.S., LeRoy C.J., Bernadet C, Swan C. (2011) Incubation time, functional litter diversity and habitat characterists predict litter mixing effects on decomposition. Ecology 92:160-169
Lecerf.A., Kominoski J.S. (2010) Functional leaf traits and biodiversity effects on litter decomposition in a stream: COMMENT [Comment]. Ecology 91:1867-1869
Lecerf A., Richardson J.S. (2010) Litter decomposition can detect effects of high and moderate levels of forest disturbance on stream condition. Forest Ecology and Management 259:2433-2443
Mialet B., Azémar F., Maris T., Sossou C., Ruiz P., Lionard M., Van Damme S., Lecerf A., Muylaert K., Toumi N., Meire P., Tackx M. (2010). Spatial spring distribution of the copepod Eurytemora affinis (Copepoda, Calanoida) in a restoring estuary, the Scheldt (Belgium). Estuarine, Coastal and Shelf Science 88:116-124
Lecerf A., Richardson J.S. (2010) Biodiversity-ecosystem function research: Insights gained from streams [Special issue paper]. River Research and Applications 26:45-54
Richardson J.S., Hoover T., Lecerf A. (2009) Coarse organic matter dynamics in small streams: Linking function to structural changes caused by catchment landuses [Special issue paper]. Freshwater Biology 54:2116-2126
Sanpera Calbet I., Lecerf A., Chauvet E. (2009) Leaf diversity influences in-stream litter decomposition through effects on shredders. Freshwater Biology 54:1671-1982
Lecerf A., Chauvet E. (2008) Diversity and functions of leaf-associated fungi in human-altered streams. Freshwater Biology 53:1658-1672
Lecerf A., Chauvet E. (2008) Intra-specific variability in leaf traits strongly affects alder leaf decomposition in a stream. Basic and Applied Ecology 9:598-607
Lecerf A., Hampel H., Hong Y., Nijs J., Hellings L. & Tackx M. (2008) Decomposition of willow (Salix triandra L.) leaves in the Schelde estuary (Belgium). Verh. Internat. Verein. Limnol. 30: 603-606
Lecerf A., Padfield D., Boiché A., Riipinen M., Chauvet E. & Dobson M. (2007) Stream ecosystems respond to riparian invasion by Japanese knotweed (Fallopia japonica). Canadian Journal of Fisheries and Aquatic Sciences 64:1273-1283
Lecerf A., Risnoveanu G., Popescu C., Gessner M.O. & Chauvet E. (2007) Decomposition of diverse litter mixtures in streams. Ecology 88:219-227
Lecerf A., Usseglio-Polatera P., Charcosset J.Y., Lambrigot D., Bracht B. & Chauvet E. (2006) Assessment of functional integrity of eutrophic streams using litter breakdown and benthic macroinvertebrates. Archiv für Hydrobiologie 165:105-126
Lecerf A., Dobson M., Dang C.K. & Chauvet E. (2005) Riparian plant species loss alters trophic dynamics in detritus-based stream ecosystems. Oecologia 146: 432-442
Piscart C., Lecerf A., Usseglio-Polatera P., Moreteau J.C. & Beisel J.N. (2005) Biodiversity patterns along a salinity gradient: The case of net-spinning caddisflies. Biodiversity and Conservation. 14:2235-2249
