Timothée Poisot

Assistant Professor,
Université de Montréal
Département de sciences biologiques
E-mail: timothee.poisot@umontreal.ca
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Education

  • Post-doctorate studies in biogeography at UQAR
  • Post-doctorate studies in evolutionary ecology at the University of Canterbury
  • Ph.D in evolutionary ecology at Université de Montpellier II
  • M.Sc in ecology and epidemiology of parasitism at Université de Montpellier I
  • B.Sc in life sciences at Université d'Évry Val d'Essonne
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    Research

    My central research questions are:
  • How the spatio-temporal variation of biotic interactions contribute to the spatial distribution of ecosystem properties
  • How to integrate the variability of interactions in the approach to conservation and management (namely risk of infection)
  • How to integrate different domains of ecology to develop numerical methods which can allow the prediction of the structure of interactions between species, knowing that empirical observations are hard/expensive/rare


    • Prizes and honours

  • QCBS Excellence Award - 2014/04
  • French Society of Ecology: Young scientist prize - best doctoral work - 2012/07
  • QCBS Excellence Award - 2012/04
  • Outstanding academic achievements - 2008/06


    • QCBS students

    Andrew MacDonald

    Postdoctoral fellow
    (Start: 2019)

    Francis Banville

    Ph.D.
    (Start: 2019)
    Other QCBS (co-)supervisor: Dominique Gravel
    Réseaux d’interactions écologiques et changements climatiques : inférence et modélisation par des techniques d’apprentissage automatique

    Mathilde Besson

    Ph.D.
    (Start: 2016)
    Other QCBS (co-)supervisor: Dominique Gravel
    Adaptation locale des consommateurs à leurs prédateurs et leur environnement - modèle phage-bactérie

    Eva Delmas

    Ph.D.
    Other (co-)supervisor: Daniel Stouffer, University of Canterbury (New Zealand)
    (Start: 2015)
    Influence of trophic network structure on ecosystem functioning.

    Gracielle Higino

    Ph.D.
    (Start: 2017, End: 2021)
    Interspecific interactions dynamics in predictive biodiversity models

    Tanya Strydom

    Ph.D.
    (Start: 2020)
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    Steve Vissault

    Ph.D.
    Other (co-)supervisor: Matt Talluto
    (Start: 2019, End: 2022)
    Other QCBS (co-)supervisor: Dominique Gravel
    Role of alternative stable states in the sugar maple range shift in reaction to climate change
    Link to thesis (pdf)
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    Zachary Bélisle

    M.Sc.
    (Start: 2018)
    Other QCBS (co-)supervisor: Colin Favret

    Gabriel Dansereau

    M.Sc.
    (Start: 2019, End: 2021)
    Other QCBS (co-)supervisor: Pierre Legendre
    Identification of beta-diversity hotspots using species distribution models

    Dominique Caron

    B.Sc.
    (Start: 2016)
    Description des données de biodiversité disponibles au Québec et des zones nécessitant un plus grand effort d'échantillonnage

    Previous students (since 2009)

    Amélie Muller

    M.Sc.
    (Start: 2014, End: 2015)
    Accounting for the variability of species interactions in the conservation of plant-animals communities

    Stéphanie Préfontaine

    M.Sc.
    (Start: 2017, End: 2018)
    Other QCBS (co-)supervisor: Dominique Gravel

    Kiri Stern

    M.Sc.
    (Start: 2019, End: 2020)
    Other QCBS (co-)supervisor: Jesse Shapiro

    Cynthia Guéveneux-Julien

    B.Sc.
    (Start: 2015, End: 2015)
    Variability of hosts--parasites interactions at the margins of distributions areas

    Examples of species studied

    Paracentrotus lividus
    Monogenea
    Diplectanidae
    Leuciscus cephalus


    Publications

    78- Key Questions for Next-Generation Biomonitoring
    Makiola A , Compson Z G , Baird D J , Barnes M A , Boerlijst S P , Bouchez A , Brennan G , Bush A , Canard E , Cordier T , Creer S , Curry R A , David P , Dumbrell A J , Gravel D , Hajibabaei M , Hayden B , van der Hoorn B , Jarne P , Jones J I , Karimi B , Keck F , Kelly M , Knot I E , Krol L , Massol F , Monk W A , Murphy J , Pawlowski J , Poisot T , Porter T M , Randall K C , Ransome E , Ravigné V , Raybould A , Robin S , Schrama M , Schatz B , Tamaddoni-Nezhad A , Trimbos K B , Vacher C , Vasselon V , Wood S , Woodward G , Bohan D A ,
    2020 Frontiers in Environmental Science (Date Added: 2020-02-02)

    77- Testing predictability of disease outbreaks with a simple model of pathogen biogeography
    Dallas T A , Carlson C J , Poisot T ,
    2019 Royal Society Open Science (Date Added: 2019-12-24)

    76- Artificial Intelligence for Ecological and Evolutionary Synthesis
    Desjardins-Proulx P , Poisot T , Gravel D ,
    2019 Frontiers in Ecology and Evolution (Date Added: 2019-12-01)

    75- Revealing biases in the sampling of ecological interaction networks
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    2019 PeerJ (Date Added: 2019-11-08)

    74- EcologicalNetworks.jl: analysing ecological networks of species interactions
    Poisot T , Bélisle Z , Hoebeke L , Stock M , Szefer P ,
    2019 Ecography (Date Added: 2019-11-04)

    73- Functional Diversity: An Epistemic Roadmap
    Malaterre C , Dussault A C , Rousseau-Mermans S , Barker G , Beisner B E , Bouchard F , Desjardins E , Handa I T , Kembel S W , Lajoie G , Maris V , Munson A D , Odenbaugh J , Poisot T , Shapiro B J , Suttle C A ,
    2019 BioScience (Date Added: 2019-10-25)

    72- The marine fish food web is globally connected
    Albouy C , Archambault P , Appeltans W , Araújo M B , Beauchesne D , Cazelles K , Cirtwill A R , Fortin M , Galiana N , Leroux S J , Pellissier L , Poisot T , Stouffer D B , Wood S A , Gravel D ,
    2019 Nature Ecology and Evolution (Date Added: 2019-08-07)

    71- Ecogeographical rules and the macroecology of food webs
    Baiser B , Gravel D , Cirtwill A R , Dunne J A , Fahimipour A K , Gilarranz L J , Grochow J A , Li D , Martinez N D , McGrew A , Poisot T , Romanuk T N , Stouffer D B , Trotta L B , Valdovinos F S , Williams R J , Wood S A , Yeakel J D ,
    2019 Global Ecology and Biogeography (Date Added: 2019-06-02)

    70- Ecological Data Should Not Be So Hard to Find and Reuse
    Poisot T , Bruneau A , Gonzalez A , Gravel D , Peres-Neto P ,
    2019 Trends in Ecology and Evolution (Date Added: 2019-05-09)

    69- Analysing ecological networks of species interactions
    Delmas E , Besson M , Brice M , Burkle L A , Dalla Riva G V , Fortin M , Gravel D , Guimarães P R , Hembry D H , Newman E A , Olesen J M , Pires M M , Yeakel J D , Poisot T ,
    2019 Biological Reviews (Date Added: 2019-01-26)

    68- Inferring predator–prey interactions in food webs
    Pomeranz J P F , Thompson R M , Poisot T , Harding J S ,
    2018 Methods in Ecology and Evolution (Date Added: 2018-12-20)

    67- Homogenization of species composition and species association networks are decoupled
    Li D , Poisot T , Waller D M , Baiser B ,
    2018 Global Ecology and Biogeography (Date Added: 2018-11-07)

    66- Bringing Elton and Grinnell together: a quantitative framework to represent the biogeography of ecological interaction networks
    Gravel D , Baiser B , Dunne J A , Kopelke J , Martinez N D , Nyman T , Poisot T , Stouffer D B , Tylianakis J M , Wood S A , Roslin T ,
    2018 Ecography (Date Added: 2018-10-10)

    65- Identifying a common backbone of interactions underlying food webs from different ecosystems
    Mora B B , Gravel D , Gilarranz L J , Poisot T , Stouffer D B ,
    2018 Nature Communications (Date Added: 2018-07-19)

    64- Management, Archiving, and Sharing for Biologists and the Role of Research Institutions in the Technology-Oriented Age
    Renaut S , Budden A E , Gravel D , Poisot T , Peres-Neto P ,
    2018 BioScience (Date Added: 2018-06-26)

    63- Compositional turnover in host and parasite communities does not change network structure
    Dallas T , Poisot T ,
    2018 Ecography (Date Added: 2018-02-11)

    62-Analyzing ecological networks of species interactions
    Delmas, B
    2017 bioRxiv ( Date Added: 2018-05-22)

    61-Data-based, synthesis-driven: setting the agenda for computational ecology
    Timothee Poisot, Richard Labrie, Erin Larson, Anastasia Rahlin,
    2017 bioRxiv ( Date Added: 2018-05-22)

    60-Revealing biases in the sampling of ecological interaction networks
    Marcus de Aguiar, Erica A Newman, Mathias M Pires, Justin D Yeakel, David H Hembry, Carl Boettinger, Laura A Burkle, Dominique Gravel, Paulo R Guimaraes, James L O'Donnell, Timothee Poisot, Marie-Josee Fortin,
    2017 arXiv ( Date Added: 2018-05-22)

    59-Scientific Theories and Artificial Intelligence
    Philippe Desjardins-Proulx, Timothée Poisot, Dominique Gravel,
    2017 bioRxiv ( Date Added: 2018-05-22)

    58- Using Peer Review to Support Development of Community Resources for Research Data Management
    Soyka, H, Budden, A, Hutchison, V, Bloom, D, Duckles, J, Hodge, A, Mayernik, M, Poisot, T, Rauch, S, Steinhart, G, Wasser, L, Whitmire, A, Wright, S
    2017 Journal of eScience Librarianship (Date Added: 2018-05-22)

    57- Wind drives microbial eukaryote communities in a temperate closed lagoon
    Péquin, B, Mohit, V, Poisot, T, Tremblay, R, Lovejoy, C
    2017 Aquatic Microbial Ecology (Date Added: 2018-05-22)

    56- Simulations of biomass dynamics in community food webs
    Delmas E , Brose U , Gravel D , Stouffer D B , Poisot T ,
    2017 Methods in Ecology and Evolution (Date Added: 2018-05-16)

    55- Sustainable computational science: The ReScience Initiative
    Rougier N P , Hinsen K , Alexandre F , Arildsen T , Barba L A , Benureau F C , Brown C T , de Buyl P , Caglayan O , Davison A P , Delsuc M , Detorakis G , Diem A K , Drix D , Enel P , Girard B , Guest O , Hall M G , Henriques R N , Hinaut X , Jaron K S , Khamassi M , Klein A , Manninen T , Marchesi P , McGlinn D , Metzner C , Petchey O , Plesser H E , Poisot T , Ram K , Ram Y , Roesch E , Rossant C , Rostami V , Shifman A , Stachelek J , Stimberg M , Stollmeier F , Vaggi F , Viejo G , Vitay J , Vostinar A E , Yurchak R , Zito T ,
    2017 PeerJ Computer Science (Date Added: 2018-01-16)

    54- Interactions retain the co-phylogenetic matching that communities lost
    Poisot T , Stouffer D B ,
    2017 Oikos (Date Added: 2017-10-21)

    53- Ecological interactions and the Netflix problem
    Desjardins-Proulx P , Laigle I , Poisot T , Gravel D ,
    2017 PeerJ (Date Added: 2017-08-23)

    52- Hosts, parasites and their interactions respond to different climatic variables
    Poisot T , Guéveneux-Julien C , Fortin M , Gravel D , Legendre P ,
    2017 Global Ecology and Biogeography (Date Added: 2017-06-30)

    51- Simulations of biomass dynamics in community food webs
    Delmas E , Brose U , Gravel D , Stouffer D B , Poisot T ,
    2017 Methods in Ecology and Evolution (Date Added: 2017-05-09)

    50- Linear filtering reveals false negatives in species interaction data
    Stock M , Poisot T , Waegeman W , De Baets B ,
    2017 Scientific Reports (Date Added: 2017-04-20)

    49- paco: Implementing Procrustean Approach to Cophylogeny in R
    Hutchinson M C , Cagua E F , Balbuena J A , Stouffer D B , Poisot T ,
    2017 Methods in Ecology and Evolution (Date Added: 2017-03-11)

    48- Network structure and local adaptation in co-evolving bacteria-phage interactions
    Gurney J , Aldakak L , Betts A , Gougat-Barbera C , Poisot T , Kaltz O , Hochberg M E ,
    2017 Molecular Ecology (Date Added: 2017-03-01)

    47-How ecological networks evolve
    Poisot T , Stouffer D B ,
    2016 bioRxiv ( Date Added: 2018-05-22)

    46-Bringing Elton and Grinnell together: a quantitative framework to represent the biogeography of ecological interaction networks
    Dominique Gravel, Benjamin Baiser, Jennifer A Dune, Jens-Peter Kopelke, Neo D Martinez, Tommi Nyman, Timothee Poisot, Daniel B Stouffer, Jason M Tylianakis, Spencer A Wood, Tomas Roslin,
    2016 bioRxiv ( Date Added: 2018-05-22)

    45-Ecosystem functioning at the crossroads of climate change, biogeography and species interactions
    Gray, SG, Poisot, T, Harvey, E, Miller, TE, Mouquet, N, Gravel, D
    2016 Ecography ( Date Added: 2018-05-15)

    44-Species traits as drivers of food web structure: a new way to understand complex communities
    Desjardins-Proulx, P, Poisot, T, Gravel, D
    2016 PeerJ ( Date Added: 2018-05-15)

    43- Ten Simple Rules for Digital Data Storage
    Hart, EM, Barmby, P, LeBauer, D, Michonneau, F, Mount, S, Mulrooney, P, Poisot, T, Woo, KH, Zimmerman, NB, Hollister, JW
    2016 PLoS Computational Biology (Date Added: 2017-08-15)

    42- Describe, understand and predict: why do we need networks in ecology?
    Poisot T , Stouffer D B , Kéfi S ,
    2016 Functional Ecology (Date Added: 2017-02-15)

    41- Merging DNA metabarcoding and ecological network analysis to understand and build resilient terrestrial ecosystems
    Evans D M , Kitson J J N , Lunt D H , Straw N A , Pocock M J O ,
    2016 Functional Ecology (Date Added: 2017-02-15)

    40- A common framework for identifying linkage rules across different types of interactions
    Bartomeus I , Gravel D , Tylianakis J M , Aizen M A , Dickie I A , Bernard-Verdier M ,
    2016 Functional Ecology (Date Added: 2017-02-14)

    39- Synthetic datasets and community tools for the rapid testing of ecological hypotheses
    Poisot, T, Gravel, D, Leroux, S, Wood, SA, Fortin, M-J, Baiser, B, Cirtwill, AR, Araújo, MB, Stouffer, DB
    2016 Ecography (Date Added: 2016-11-28)

    38- Terrestrial Precipitation Analysis (TPA): A resource for characterizing long-term precipitation regimes and extremes
    Lemoine, NP, Sheffield, J, Dukes, JS, Knapp, AK, Smith, MD, Poisot, T
    2016 Methods in Ecology and Evolution (Date Added: 2016-11-28)

    37- inbreedR: anRpackage for the analysis of inbreeding based on genetic markers
    Stoffel, MA, Esser, M, Kardos, M, Humble, E, Nichols, H, David, P, Hoffman, JI, Poisot, T
    2016 Methods in Ecology and Evolution (Date Added: 2016-11-28)

    36- trapper: an open source web-based application to manage camera trapping projects
    Bubnicki, JW, Churski, M, Kuijper, DPJ, Poisot, T
    2016 Methods in Ecology and Evolution (Date Added: 2016-11-28)

    35- codyn: Anrpackage of community dynamics metrics
    Hallett, LM, Jones, SK, MacDonald, AAM, Jones, MB, Flynn, DFB, Ripplinger, J, Slaughter, P, Gries, C, Collins, SL, Poisot, T
    2016 Methods in Ecology and Evolution (Date Added: 2016-11-28)

    34- RClone: a package to identify MultiLocus Clonal Lineages and handle clonal data sets inr
    Bailleul, D, Stoeckel, S, Arnaud-Haond, S, Poisot, T
    2016 Methods in Ecology and Evolution (Date Added: 2016-11-28)

    33- Temperature and trophic structure are driving microbial productivity along a biogeographical gradient
    Gray, SM, Poisot, T, Harvey, E, Mouquet, N, Miller, TE, Gravel, D
    2016 Ecography (Date Added: 2016-11-23)

    32- boral- Bayesian Ordination and Regression Analysis of Multivariate Abundance Data inr
    Hui, FKC, Poisot, T
    2016 Methods in Ecology and Evolution (Date Added: 2016-07-11)

    31- mangal - making ecological network analysis simple
    Poisot, T, Baiser, B, Dunne, JA, Kéfi, S, Massol, F, Mouquet, N, Romanuk, TN, Stouffer, DB, Wood, SA, Gravel, D
    2016 Ecography (Date Added: 2016-07-06)

    30- The structure of probabilistic networks
    Poisot, T, Cirtwill, AR, Cazelles, K, Gravel, D, Fortin, M-J, Stouffer, DB, Vamosi, J
    2016 Methods in Ecology and Evolution (Date Added: 2016-06-20)

    29- The next generation of_action ecology_: novel approaches towards global ecological research
    White, RL, Sutton, AE, Salguero-Gómez, R, Bray, TC, Campbell, H, Cieraad, E, Geekiyanage, N, Gherardi, L, Hughes, AC, Jørgensen, PS, Poisot, T, DeSoto, L, Zimmerman, N
    2015 Ecosphere (Date Added: 2016-08-05)

    28- BiMat: aMATLABpackage to facilitate the analysis of bipartite networks
    Flores, CO, Poisot, T, Valverde, S, Weitz, JS, McInerny, G
    2015 Methods in Ecology and Evolution (Date Added: 2015-09-23)

    27- A continuum of specialists and generalists in empirical communities
    Poisot, T, Kefi, S, Morand, S, Stanko, M, Marquet, PA, Hochberg, ME
    2015 PloS one (Date Added: 2015-06-22)

    26- Connecting people and ideas from around the world: global innovation platforms for next-generation ecology and beyond
    Jørgensen, PS, Barraquand, F, Bonhomme, V, Curran, TJ, Cieraad, E, Ezard, TG, Gherardi, LA, Hayes, RA, Poisot, T, Salguero-Gómez, R, DeSoto, L, Swartz, B, Talbot, JM, Wee, B, Zimmerman, N
    2015 Ecosphere (Date Added: 2015-05-25)

    25- Beyond species: why ecological interaction networks vary through space and time
    Poisot, T, Stouffer, DB, Gravel, D
    2015 Oikos (Date Added: 2015-03-05)

    24- Dispersal and spatial heterogeneity allow coexistence between enemies and protective mutualists
    Poisot, T, Bever, JD, Thrall, PH, Hochberg, ME
    2014 Ecology and Evolution (Date Added: 2014-11-17)

    23- Social Network Analysis Shows Direct Evidence for Social Transmission of Tool Use in Wild Chimpanzees
    Hobaiter, C, Poisot, T, Zuberbühler, K, Hoppitt, W, Gruber, T
    2014 PLoS Biology (Date Added: 2014-10-03)

    22- Lack of quantitative training among early-career ecologists: A survey of the problemand potential solutions
    Barraquand, F, Ezard, TH, Jørgensen, PS, Zimmerman, N, Chamberlain, S, Salguero-?omez, R, Curran, TJ, Poisot, T
    2014 PeerJ (Date Added: 2014-10-01)

    21- Using neutral theory to reveal the contribution of meta-community processes to assembly in complex landscapes
    Gravel, D, Poisot, T, Desjardins-Proulx, P
    2014 Journal of Limnology (Date Added: 2014-08-05)

    20- When is an ecological network complex? Connectance drives degree distribution and emerging network properties
    Poisot, T, Gravel, D
    2014 PeerJ (Date Added: 2014-07-08)

    19- An a posteriori measure of network modularity
    Poisot, T
    2013 F1000Research (Date Added: 2014-12-15)

    18- Terminal investment induced by a bacteriophage in a rhizosphere bacterium
    Poisot, T, Bell, T, Martinez, E, Gougat-Barbera, C, Hochberg, ME
    2013 F1000Research (Date Added: 2014-10-01)

    17- Phage-bacteria infection networks
    Weitz, JS, Poisot, T, Meyer, JR, Flores, CO, Valverde, S, Sullivan, MB, Hochberg, ME
    2013 Trends in Microbiology (Date Added: 2014-10-01)

    16- Facultative and obligate parasite communities exhibit different network properties
    Poisot, T, Stanko, M, Miklisová, D, Morand, S
    2013 Parasitology (Date Added: 2014-10-01)

    15- Inferring food web structure from predator-prey body size relationships
    Gravel, D, Poisot, T, Albouy, C, Velez, L, Mouillot, D
    2013 Methods in Ecology and Evolution (Date Added: 2013-11-20)

    14- High-Throughput Sequencing: A Roadmap Toward Community Ecology
    Poisot, T, Péquin, B, Gravel, D
    2013 Ecology and Evolution (Date Added: 2013-11-08)

    13- Trophic complementarity drives the biodiversity-ecosystem functioning relationship in food webs
    Poisot, T, Mouquet, N, Gravel, D
    2013 Ecology Letters (Date Added: 2013-07-02)

    12- The Case for Open Preprints in Biology
    Desjardins-Proulx, P, White, EP, Adamson, JJ, Ram, K, Poisot, T, Gravel, D
    2013 PLoS Biology (Date Added: 2013-06-10)

    11- Trophic network structure emerges through antagonistic coevolution in temporally varying environments
    Poisot, T, Thrall, PH, Hochberg, ME
    2012 Proceedings of the Royal Society B: Biological Sciences (Date Added: 2014-10-01)

    10- A comparative study of ecological specialization estimators
    Poisot, T, Canard, E, Mouquet, N, Hochberg, ME
    2012 Methods in Ecology and Evolution (Date Added: 2014-10-01)

    9- The dissimilarity of species interaction networks
    Poisot, T, Canard, E, Mouillot, D, Mouquet, N, Gravel, D
    2012 Ecology Letters (Date Added: 2012-10-01)

    8- The digitize package: Extracting numerical data from scatterplots
    Poisot, T
    2011 R Journal (Date Added: 2014-10-01)

    7- Resource availability affects the structure of a natural bacteria-bacteriophage community
    Poisot, T, Lepennetier, G, Martinez, E, Ramsayer, J, Hochberg, ME
    2011 Biology Letters (Date Added: 2014-10-01)

    6- Morphological and molecular evolution are not linked in Lamellodiscus (plathyhelminthes, monogenea)
    Poisot, T, Verneau, O, Desdevises, Y
    2011 PLoS ONE (Date Added: 2014-10-01)

    5- A conceptual framework for the evolution of ecological specialisation
    Poisot, T, Bever, JD, Nemri, A, Thrall, PH, Hochberg, ME
    2011 Ecology Letters (Date Added: 2014-10-01)

    4- Putative effects of recreational fishing of Paracentrotus lividus on populations of sea urchins in Mediterranean shallow water
    Tessier, A, Poisot, T, Romans, P, Desdevises, Y
    2010 Vie et Milieu (Date Added: 2014-10-01)

    3- Putative speciation events in Lamellodiscus (Monogenea: Diplectanidae) assessed by a morphometric approach
    Poisot, T, Desdevises, Y
    2010 Biological Journal of the Linnean Society (Date Added: 2014-10-01)

    2- Interactions between immunocompetence, somatic condition and parasitism in the chub Leuciscus cephalus in early spring
    Poisot, T, Šimková, A, Hyršl, P, Morand, S
    2009 Journal of Fish Biology (Date Added: 2014-10-01)

    1- Making Scientific Content More Accessible
    Simon Goring, Kaitlin Stack Whitney, Aerin Jacob, Emilio Bruna, Timoth e Poisot,
    Authorea (Date Added: 2018-05-22)