Pellissier, Loïc
Professor
Department of Environmental Systems Science
Swiss Federal Institute of Technology Zurich
Switzerland
Biography
Loïc Pellissier has been Assistant Professor (with Tenure Track) of Landscape Ecology at the Institute of Terrestrial Ecosystems at ETH Zurich and at WSL since July 2015. He was born in Martigny, Switzerland, in 1984. Loïc Pellissier studied at the University of Lausanne and completed his PhD in 2012. He then led a postdoctoral research project at the Arctic Research Center (Roskilde), which is affiliated to Aarhus University in Denmark. From 2013 to 2015 he was research group leader at the University of Fribourg.
Research Interest
Loïc Pellisier’s research focuses on understanding and modelling past and future landscape dynamic and its link to biodiversity. He uses the fundamental knowledge in ecology and evolution of landscape biodiversity patterns provided by his research to improve sustainable management of natural resources. One of his research interests is the interaction between species, and how species assemblages respond to climate change. He also investigates the impact of climate change on ecosystems including the Arctic tundra and the marine realm. His current research objectives are to improve methods of modelling biodiversity across landscapes and to track change in the landscape more accurately with remote sensing technologies.
Publications
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Combining modelling tools to evaluate a goose management scheme. Baveco JM, Bergjord AK, Bjerke JW, Chudzińska ME, Pellissier L, Simonsen CE, Madsen J, Tombre IM, Nolet BA. Ambio. 2017 Mar;46(Suppl 2):210-223. doi: 10.1007/s13280-017-0899-5.
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Responses of coral reef fishes to past climate changes are related to life-history traits. Ottimofiore E, Albouy C, Leprieur F, Descombes P, Kulbicki M, Mouillot D, Parravicini V, Pellissier L. Ecol Evol. 2017 Feb 26;7(6):1996-2005. doi: 10.1002/ece3.2800. eCollection 2017 Mar.
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Climatic niche evolution is faster in sympatric than allopatric lineages of the butterfly genus Pyrgus. Pitteloud C, Arrigo N, Suchan T, Mastretta-Yanes A, Vila R, Dincă V, Hernández-Roldán J, Brockmann E, Chittaro Y, Kleckova I, Fumagalli L, Buerki S, Pellissier L, Alvarez N. Proc Biol Sci. 2017 Apr 12;284(1852). pii: 20170208. doi: 10.1098/rspb.2017.0208.
