Lea Mouton
About me
About me
My name is Lea Mouton. I am assistant to Nicolas Magain in the Evolution and Conservation Biology Unit at the University of Liège, which is part of the InBioS Research Center and the Department of Biology, Ecology and Evolution (BEE). I am also doing a PhD with Alain Vanderpoorten about the distribution of epiphytic bryophytes used to assess past and present environmental changes and thus predict future distributions according to environment evolution, in the context of climate change and anthropization of the landscape.
My work
After presenting my master's thesis on the horizontal and vertical variation of Beta diversity in epiphytic pteridophyte communities in a subtropical forest of China, I was interested to continue working on Beta diversity and epiphytes for a PhD. I first focused my work on the drivers and variations of Beta diversity with spatial scale among land plant taxa in Macaronesia. Currently, I am working on the distribution of epiphytic bryophytes in Wallonia. Using past and present records of their distribution together with past and present air pollution, pesticides and climatic data, we are looking which environmental change has the most impact on bryophytes distribution. In a context of anthropization of the landscape, the next step will be to correlate species distribution with forest management types and future climate scenarios in order to identify species associated with old-growth and highly natural forests in order to identify a suitable forest management. To do so, we use Beta diversity, Variation partitioning and SDM (species distribution modelling). As part of my thesis, I am involved in the EPIFOR project.
Publications
Disentangling the roles of chance, abiotic factors and biotic interactions among epiphytic bryophyte communities in a tropical rainforest (Yunnan, China)
2023. Shen T., Song L., Corlett R.T., Guisan A., Wang J., Ma W.-Z., Mouton L., VanderpoortenA., Collart F. Plant BiologyORBI Journal Website
Patterns and drivers of beta diversity across geographic scales and lineages in the Macaronesian flora
2023. Lea Mouton, Jairo Patiño, Mark Carine, Fred Rumsey, Miguel Menezes de Sequeira, Juana María González-Mancebo, Rosalina Maria de Almeida Gabriel, Olivier J. Hardy, Manuela Sim-Sim, J. Alfredo Reyes-Betancort, Flavien Collart, Alain Vanderpoorten. Journal of BiogeographyORBI Journal Website
Disentangling climate change from air pollution effects on epiphytic bryophytes
2023. Virginie Hutsemékers, Lea Mouton, Hannah Westenbohm, Flavien Collart, Alain Vanderpoorten. Global Change BiologyJournal Website
Microclimatic variations in tropical canopies: a glimpse into the processes of community assembly in epiphytic bryophyte communities
2022. Ting Shen,Richard Corlett,Flavien Collart,Thibault Kasprzyk,Xin-Lei Guo,Jairo Patiño,Yang Su,Olivier Hardy,Wen-Zhang Ma,Jian Wang,Yu-Mei Wei,Léa Mouton,Yuan Li,Liang Song, Alain Vanderpoorten AuthoreaJournal Website