Maëlle Connan

PhD University Pierre and Marie Curie - Paris VI (2005)

SANAP and MARE Post-doctoral Research Fellow

'phone +27 [0]46 603-8579
FAX +27 [0]46 622-8959
e-mail m.connan@ru.ac.za

Research interests

Southern Ocean Ecosystems
Effects of the environmental variability on top predators
Trophic studies of top predators
Dietary analyses by direct and indirect methods

Some recent publications

Connan M, Hanana H, Talarmin H, Droguet M, Dorange G. (In press). Cell cultures of bivalves as alternative method for ecotoxicology. Proceedings of the Conference of the French Group of Pesticides.

Connan M, Kelly CMR, McQuaid CD, Bonnevie BT, Barker NP (2011). Morphological versus molecular identification of Sooty and Light-mantled albatross chicks. Polar Biology. DOI 10.1007/s00300-010-0933-6

Connan M, Mayzaud P, Duhamel G, Bonnevie B, Cherel Y (2010) Fatty acid signature analysis documents the diet of five myctophid fish from the Southern Ocean. Marine Biology 157: 2303-2316.

Jaeger A, Connan M, Richard P, Cherel Y (2010) Stable isotopes in body feathers quantify seasonal changes in trophic niches and its level of individual specialisation in Procellariiform seabirds. Marine Ecology Progress Series 401: 269-277.

Connan M, Mayzaud P, Hobson KA, Weimerskirch H, Cherel Y (2010) Lipid biomarkers and stable isotopes document the diet of short-tailed shearwaters (Puffinus tenuirotris Temminck). Journal of Oceanography, Research and Data 3: 19-32.

Connan M, Mayzaud P, Trouvé C, Barbraud C, Cherel Y (2008) Inter-annual dietary changes and demographic consequences in breeding blue petrels from Kerguelen Islands. Marine Ecology Progress Series 373: 123-135.

Connan M, Cherel Y, Mabille G, Mayzaud P (2007) Trophic relationships of white-chinned petrels: combined stomach oil analysis and conventional dietary approach. Marine Biology 152: 95-107.

Connan M, Cherel Y, Mayzaud P (2007) Lipids from stomach oil of procellariiform seabirds document the importance of myctophid fish in the Southern Ocean. Limnology and Oceanography 52: 2445-2455.

Connan M, Mayzaud P, Boutoute M, Weimerskirch H, Cherel Y (2005) Lipid composition of stomach oil in a procellariiform seabird Puffinus tenuirostris: implications for food web studies. Marine Ecology Progress Series 290: 277-290.

Cherel Y, Hobson KA, Connan M, Mayzaud P (2005) Stable isotopes and lipids as trophic markers to investigate the feeding ecology of seabirds. Alauda 73: 219-220.