Preprint
2024
44. Worsley, S. F., Mazel, F., Videvall, E., Harrison, X. A., Björk, J. R., & Wanelik, K. M. (2024). Probing the functional significance of wild animal microbiomes using omics data. Preprint EcoRXiv https://ecoevorxiv.org/repository/view/6707/
Peer reviewed articles
2023
43. Twist, B. A., Mazel, F., Zaklan Duff, S., Lemay, M. A., Pearce, C. M., & Martone, P. T. (2023). Kelp and sea urchin settlement mediated by biotic interactions with benthic coralline algal species. Journal of Phycology.
42. Mazel, F., Guisan, A., Parfrey. L. Transmission mode and dispersal trait correlate to host specificity in mammalian gut microbiota. 2023 Molecular Ecology.
41. Mazel, F., Pitteloud, C., Guisan, A., & Pellissier, L. (2024). Contrasted host specificity of gut and endosymbiont bacterial communities in alpine grasshoppers and crickets. ISME communications, 4(1), ycad013.
2022
39. Roy, J., Mazel, F., Dumack, K., Bonkowski, M., & Rillig, M. C. (2022). Hierarchical phylogenetic community assembly of soil protists in a temperate agricultural field. Environmental Microbiology, 24(11), 5498-5508.
38. Sarton-Loheac, G., Nunes da Silva, C. G., Mazel, F., Baud, G., de Bakker, V., Das, S., ... & Engel, P. (2022). Deep divergence and genomic diversification of gut symbionts of neotropical stingless bees. Accepted in MBio
37. Mazel, F., Malard, L., Niculita‐Hirzel, H., Yashiro, E., Mod, H. K., Mitchell, E. A., ... & Guisan, A. (2021). Soil protist function varies with elevation in the Swiss Alps (doi:10.1111/1462-2920.15686). Environmental Microbiology..
2021
36. Davis, K. M., Mazel, F., & Parfrey, L. W. (2021). The microbiota of intertidal macroalgae Fucus distichus is site‐specific and resistant to change following transplant. Environmental Microbiology, 23(5), 2617-2631.
35. Ficetola, G. F., Mazel, F., Falaschi, M., Marta, S., & Thuiller, W. (2021). Determinants of zoogeographical boundaries differ between vertebrate groups. Global Ecology and Biogeography, 30(9), 1796-1809.
34. Louca, S., Mazel, F., Doebeli, M., & Parfrey, L. W. (2021). Response to “Vast (but avoidable) underestimation of global biodiversity”. PLoS biology, 19(8), e3001362.
33. Dill-McFarland, K. A., Koenig S., Mazel, F. et al. (2020). An integrated, modular approach to data science education in the life sciences PloS Computational Biology
2020
32. Groussin*, M., Mazel*, F., & Alm, E. J. (2020). Co-evolution and co-speciation of host-gut Bacteria systems. Cell Host & Microbe, 28(1), 12-22.
*co-first authors
31. Lemay*, M. A., Chen*, M. Y., Mazel*, F. et al . (2020). Morphological complexity affects the diversity of marine microbiomes. The ISME Journal, 1-15.
*co-first authors
30. Münkemüller, T., [..], Mazel, F., et al. (2020). Do’s and don'ts when inferring assembly rules from diversity patterns. Global Ecology and Biogeography.
29. Song, S.J., [..], Mazel, F., et al. (2020). Comparative analyses of vertebrate gut microbiomes reveal convergence between birds and bats. Mbio 11 (1)
2019
28. Louca, S., Mazel, F., Doebeli, M., & Parfrey, L. W. (2019). A census-based estimate of Earth's bacterial and archaeal diversity. PLoS biology, 17(2), e3000106.
27. Roy, J., Mazel, F., et al. (2019). The relative importance of ecological drivers of arbuscular mycorrhizal fungal distribution varies with taxon phylogenetic resolution. New Phytologist, 224(2), 936-948.
26. Mann, A. E., Mazel, F., et al (2019). Biodiversity of protists and nematodes in the wild nonhuman primate gut. The ISME journal, 1-14.
25. Mazel, F. (2019). Living the high life: could gut microbiota matters for adaptation to high altitude? Molecular ecology, 28 (9) 2119-2121.
24. Thuiller, W., Gravel, D., Ficetola, G.F., Lavergne, S., Münkemüller, T., Pollock, L.J., Zimmermann, N.E. & Mazel, F. (2019). Productivity begets less phylogenetic diversity but higher uniqueness than expected. Journal of Biogeography
23. Tucker, C., Aze, T., Cadotte, M. W., [..], Mazel, F., [..], Mooers, A. Assessing the utility of conserving evolutionary history. Biological reviews, 2019.
22. Cantalapiedra, J., Aze, T., Cadotte, M. W., Dalla Riva, G. V., Huang, D., Mazel, F., Pennell, M. W., Mooers, A. (2019) Conserving evolutionary history does not result in greater diversity over geological timescales. Proceedings B., 286(1904), 20182896
21. Mazel, F., Pennell, M. W., Cadotte, M. W., Diaz, S., Dalla Riva, G. V., Grenyer, R., ... & Pearse, W. D. (2019). Reply to:“Global conservation of phylogenetic diversity captures more than just functional diversity”. Nature communications, 10(1), 858.
2018
20. Mazel, F., Davis, K. M., Loudon, A., Kwong, W. K., Groussin, M., & Parfrey, L. W. (2018). Is Host Filtering the Main Driver of Phylosymbiosis across the Tree of Life? mSystems, 3(5), e00097-18.
19. Vonaesch, P., Morien, E., Andrianonimiadana, L., Sanke, H., Mbecko, J. R., Huus, K. E., Mazel,F., […] & Sansonetti, P. (2018). Stunted childhood growth is associated with decompartmentalization of the gastrointestinal tract and overgrowth of oropharyngeal taxa. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, 115 (36), E8489-E8498.
18. Olhmann M.*, Mazel, F., Chalmandrier, L., Bec, S., Coissac, E., Gielly, L., Pansu, J., Taberlet, P., Zinger, L., Chave, J. & Thuiller, W. (2018). Mapping the imprint of biotic interactions on β‐diversity. Ecology letters, 21 (11), 1660-1669. *supervised student
17. Louca, S., Polz, M. F., Mazel, F.,, Albright, M. B. N., Huber, J. A., O'Connor, M. I., Ackermann, M., Hahn, A. S., Srivastava, D. S., Crowe, S. A., Doebeli, M., Parfrey, L. W. (2018) - Function and functional redundancy in microbial systems Nature Ecology & Evolution.
DOI:10.1038/s41559-018-0519-1
16. Mazel, F., Pennell, M., Cadotte, M., Diaz, S.,Dalla Riva G.V., Grenyer, R., Leprieur, F., Mooers, A., Mouillot, D., Tucker, D., & Pearse, W. (2018) .Prioritizing phylogenetic diversity captures functional diversity unreliably. Nature communications, 2018,9 (1), 2888.
2017
15. Mazel, F., Wüest, R. O., Lessard, J.P., Renaud, J., Ficetola, G.F., Lavergne S. & Thuiller W. Global patterns of β diversity through phylogenetic time-scales and the legacy of plate tectonics Global Ecology and Biogeography 26 (10), 1211-1221.
14. Mazel, F., Wüest, R. O., Renaud, J., Ficetola, G.F., Lavergne S. & Thuiller W. The geography of non-neutral functional trait evolution in mammals. Current Biology, 27, 1-6
Commentary from Luke Harmon
13. Mazel, F., Mooers, A., Dalla Riva G.V., Pennel, M.W. Conserving Phylogenetic Diversity can be a poor strategy for Conserving Functional Diversity. Systematic Biology 66(6), 1019-1027
12. Groussin* M., Mazel* F., Sanders J., Smillie C., Lavergne S., Thuiller, W. & Alm E. Unravelling the processes shaping mammalian gut micro biomes over evolutionary time. Nature Communications, 8, 14319. *co-first authors
11. Ficetola, G.F., Mazel, F. & Thuiller, W. Global determinants of zoogeographical boundaries. Nature Ecology & Evolution, 1, 0089.
Press releases: National Geographic and Radio Canada
Commentary from Alexandre Antonelli
10. Tucker, C. M., Cadotte, M. W., Carvalho, S. B., Davies, T. J., Ferrier, S., Fritz, S. A., Grenyer, R., Helmus, M. R., Jin, L. S., Mooers, A. O., Pavoine, S., Purschke, O., Redding, D. W., Rosauer, D. F., Winter, M. and Mazel, F. (2016). A guide to phylogenetic metrics for conservation, community ecology and macroecology. Biol Rev. doi:10.1111/brv.12252
2016
9. Mazel, F., Davies, T. J., Georges, D., Lavergne, S., Thuiller, W. and Peres-Neto, P. R. (2016), Improving phylogenetic regression under complex evolutionary models. Ecology, 97: 286–293. doi:10.1890/15-0086.1
8. Mazel, F., Davies, T. J., Gallien, L., Renaud, J., Groussin, M., Münkemüller, T. and Thuiller, W. (2015), Influence of tree shape and evolutionary time-scale on phylogenetic diversity metrics. Ecography. doi:10.1111/ecog.01694
2015 [My PhD thesis can be found here]
7. Mazel F., Renaud J., Guilhaumon F., Mouillot D., Gravel D. & Thuiller W. Mammalian phylogenetic diversity area relationships at a continental scale. Ecology, 96(10):2814-22
6. Thuiller, W., Maiorano, L., Mazel, F., Guilhaumon, F., Ficetola, G.F., Lavergne, S., Renaud, J., Roquet, C. and Mouillot, D. Conserving the functional and phylogenetic trees of life of European tetrapods. (2015). Phil. Trans. of the Royal Society of London B: Biological Sciences, 370(1662), 20140005.
5. Gallien, L., Mazel, F., Lavergne, S., Renaud, J., Douzet, R. & Thuiller, W. Contrasting the effects of environment, dispersal and biotic interactions to explain the distribution of invasive plants in alpine communities. (2014) Biological invasions, 17, 1407-1423.
2014
4. Redding, D.W., Mazel, F., and. A.O. Mooers. Measuring evolutionary isolation for conservation. (2014). PLoS One 9(12), e113490.
3.. Mazel, F., Guilhaumon, F., Mouquet, N., Devictor, V., Gravel, D., Renaud, J., Cianciaruso, M.V., Loyola, R.D., Diniz-Filho, J.A.F., Mouillot, D. & Thuiller, W. (2014) Multifaceted diversity-area relationships reveal global hotspots of mammalian species, trait and lineage diversity. (2014). Global Ecology and Biogeography, 23, 836–847.
2013
2. Chalmandrier, L., Münkemüller, T., Gallien, L., de Bello, F., Mazel, F., Lavergne, S., Thuiller, W. A family of null models to distinguish between habitat filtering and biotic interactions in functional diversity patterns. (2013) Journal of Vegetation Science, 24: 853–86.
1. Bello, F. D., Lavorel, S., Lavergne, S., Albert, C. H., Boulangeat, I., Mazel, F., & Thuiller, W. (2012). Hierarchical effects of environmental filters on the functional structure of plant communities: a case study in the French Alps. Ecography 36(3), 393-402.
Outreach
1. Groussin* M., Mazel* F. (2017). Evolution des microbiomes intestinaux de mammifères et impacts sur la santé humaine. Médecine/sciences, 33. *: these authors equally contributed to this work.
Book chapter
1. Mazel, F. and Thuiller, W. Functional and Phylogenetic Diversity–Area Relationships. The Species-Area Relationship: Theory and Application, 107.
Preprint
1. Mazel, F., C Tucker, M Cadotte, S Carvalho, J Davies, S Fritz, R Grenyer et al. Preprint bioRxiv, 06346.
2024
44. Worsley, S. F., Mazel, F., Videvall, E., Harrison, X. A., Björk, J. R., & Wanelik, K. M. (2024). Probing the functional significance of wild animal microbiomes using omics data. Preprint EcoRXiv https://ecoevorxiv.org/repository/view/6707/
Peer reviewed articles
2023
43. Twist, B. A., Mazel, F., Zaklan Duff, S., Lemay, M. A., Pearce, C. M., & Martone, P. T. (2023). Kelp and sea urchin settlement mediated by biotic interactions with benthic coralline algal species. Journal of Phycology.
42. Mazel, F., Guisan, A., Parfrey. L. Transmission mode and dispersal trait correlate to host specificity in mammalian gut microbiota. 2023 Molecular Ecology.
41. Mazel, F., Pitteloud, C., Guisan, A., & Pellissier, L. (2024). Contrasted host specificity of gut and endosymbiont bacterial communities in alpine grasshoppers and crickets. ISME communications, 4(1), ycad013.
2022
39. Roy, J., Mazel, F., Dumack, K., Bonkowski, M., & Rillig, M. C. (2022). Hierarchical phylogenetic community assembly of soil protists in a temperate agricultural field. Environmental Microbiology, 24(11), 5498-5508.
38. Sarton-Loheac, G., Nunes da Silva, C. G., Mazel, F., Baud, G., de Bakker, V., Das, S., ... & Engel, P. (2022). Deep divergence and genomic diversification of gut symbionts of neotropical stingless bees. Accepted in MBio
37. Mazel, F., Malard, L., Niculita‐Hirzel, H., Yashiro, E., Mod, H. K., Mitchell, E. A., ... & Guisan, A. (2021). Soil protist function varies with elevation in the Swiss Alps (doi:10.1111/1462-2920.15686). Environmental Microbiology..
2021
36. Davis, K. M., Mazel, F., & Parfrey, L. W. (2021). The microbiota of intertidal macroalgae Fucus distichus is site‐specific and resistant to change following transplant. Environmental Microbiology, 23(5), 2617-2631.
35. Ficetola, G. F., Mazel, F., Falaschi, M., Marta, S., & Thuiller, W. (2021). Determinants of zoogeographical boundaries differ between vertebrate groups. Global Ecology and Biogeography, 30(9), 1796-1809.
34. Louca, S., Mazel, F., Doebeli, M., & Parfrey, L. W. (2021). Response to “Vast (but avoidable) underestimation of global biodiversity”. PLoS biology, 19(8), e3001362.
33. Dill-McFarland, K. A., Koenig S., Mazel, F. et al. (2020). An integrated, modular approach to data science education in the life sciences PloS Computational Biology
2020
32. Groussin*, M., Mazel*, F., & Alm, E. J. (2020). Co-evolution and co-speciation of host-gut Bacteria systems. Cell Host & Microbe, 28(1), 12-22.
*co-first authors
31. Lemay*, M. A., Chen*, M. Y., Mazel*, F. et al . (2020). Morphological complexity affects the diversity of marine microbiomes. The ISME Journal, 1-15.
*co-first authors
30. Münkemüller, T., [..], Mazel, F., et al. (2020). Do’s and don'ts when inferring assembly rules from diversity patterns. Global Ecology and Biogeography.
29. Song, S.J., [..], Mazel, F., et al. (2020). Comparative analyses of vertebrate gut microbiomes reveal convergence between birds and bats. Mbio 11 (1)
2019
28. Louca, S., Mazel, F., Doebeli, M., & Parfrey, L. W. (2019). A census-based estimate of Earth's bacterial and archaeal diversity. PLoS biology, 17(2), e3000106.
27. Roy, J., Mazel, F., et al. (2019). The relative importance of ecological drivers of arbuscular mycorrhizal fungal distribution varies with taxon phylogenetic resolution. New Phytologist, 224(2), 936-948.
26. Mann, A. E., Mazel, F., et al (2019). Biodiversity of protists and nematodes in the wild nonhuman primate gut. The ISME journal, 1-14.
25. Mazel, F. (2019). Living the high life: could gut microbiota matters for adaptation to high altitude? Molecular ecology, 28 (9) 2119-2121.
24. Thuiller, W., Gravel, D., Ficetola, G.F., Lavergne, S., Münkemüller, T., Pollock, L.J., Zimmermann, N.E. & Mazel, F. (2019). Productivity begets less phylogenetic diversity but higher uniqueness than expected. Journal of Biogeography
23. Tucker, C., Aze, T., Cadotte, M. W., [..], Mazel, F., [..], Mooers, A. Assessing the utility of conserving evolutionary history. Biological reviews, 2019.
22. Cantalapiedra, J., Aze, T., Cadotte, M. W., Dalla Riva, G. V., Huang, D., Mazel, F., Pennell, M. W., Mooers, A. (2019) Conserving evolutionary history does not result in greater diversity over geological timescales. Proceedings B., 286(1904), 20182896
21. Mazel, F., Pennell, M. W., Cadotte, M. W., Diaz, S., Dalla Riva, G. V., Grenyer, R., ... & Pearse, W. D. (2019). Reply to:“Global conservation of phylogenetic diversity captures more than just functional diversity”. Nature communications, 10(1), 858.
2018
20. Mazel, F., Davis, K. M., Loudon, A., Kwong, W. K., Groussin, M., & Parfrey, L. W. (2018). Is Host Filtering the Main Driver of Phylosymbiosis across the Tree of Life? mSystems, 3(5), e00097-18.
19. Vonaesch, P., Morien, E., Andrianonimiadana, L., Sanke, H., Mbecko, J. R., Huus, K. E., Mazel,F., […] & Sansonetti, P. (2018). Stunted childhood growth is associated with decompartmentalization of the gastrointestinal tract and overgrowth of oropharyngeal taxa. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, 115 (36), E8489-E8498.
18. Olhmann M.*, Mazel, F., Chalmandrier, L., Bec, S., Coissac, E., Gielly, L., Pansu, J., Taberlet, P., Zinger, L., Chave, J. & Thuiller, W. (2018). Mapping the imprint of biotic interactions on β‐diversity. Ecology letters, 21 (11), 1660-1669. *supervised student
17. Louca, S., Polz, M. F., Mazel, F.,, Albright, M. B. N., Huber, J. A., O'Connor, M. I., Ackermann, M., Hahn, A. S., Srivastava, D. S., Crowe, S. A., Doebeli, M., Parfrey, L. W. (2018) - Function and functional redundancy in microbial systems Nature Ecology & Evolution.
DOI:10.1038/s41559-018-0519-1
16. Mazel, F., Pennell, M., Cadotte, M., Diaz, S.,Dalla Riva G.V., Grenyer, R., Leprieur, F., Mooers, A., Mouillot, D., Tucker, D., & Pearse, W. (2018) .Prioritizing phylogenetic diversity captures functional diversity unreliably. Nature communications, 2018,9 (1), 2888.
2017
15. Mazel, F., Wüest, R. O., Lessard, J.P., Renaud, J., Ficetola, G.F., Lavergne S. & Thuiller W. Global patterns of β diversity through phylogenetic time-scales and the legacy of plate tectonics Global Ecology and Biogeography 26 (10), 1211-1221.
14. Mazel, F., Wüest, R. O., Renaud, J., Ficetola, G.F., Lavergne S. & Thuiller W. The geography of non-neutral functional trait evolution in mammals. Current Biology, 27, 1-6
Commentary from Luke Harmon
13. Mazel, F., Mooers, A., Dalla Riva G.V., Pennel, M.W. Conserving Phylogenetic Diversity can be a poor strategy for Conserving Functional Diversity. Systematic Biology 66(6), 1019-1027
12. Groussin* M., Mazel* F., Sanders J., Smillie C., Lavergne S., Thuiller, W. & Alm E. Unravelling the processes shaping mammalian gut micro biomes over evolutionary time. Nature Communications, 8, 14319. *co-first authors
11. Ficetola, G.F., Mazel, F. & Thuiller, W. Global determinants of zoogeographical boundaries. Nature Ecology & Evolution, 1, 0089.
Press releases: National Geographic and Radio Canada
Commentary from Alexandre Antonelli
10. Tucker, C. M., Cadotte, M. W., Carvalho, S. B., Davies, T. J., Ferrier, S., Fritz, S. A., Grenyer, R., Helmus, M. R., Jin, L. S., Mooers, A. O., Pavoine, S., Purschke, O., Redding, D. W., Rosauer, D. F., Winter, M. and Mazel, F. (2016). A guide to phylogenetic metrics for conservation, community ecology and macroecology. Biol Rev. doi:10.1111/brv.12252
2016
9. Mazel, F., Davies, T. J., Georges, D., Lavergne, S., Thuiller, W. and Peres-Neto, P. R. (2016), Improving phylogenetic regression under complex evolutionary models. Ecology, 97: 286–293. doi:10.1890/15-0086.1
8. Mazel, F., Davies, T. J., Gallien, L., Renaud, J., Groussin, M., Münkemüller, T. and Thuiller, W. (2015), Influence of tree shape and evolutionary time-scale on phylogenetic diversity metrics. Ecography. doi:10.1111/ecog.01694
2015 [My PhD thesis can be found here]
7. Mazel F., Renaud J., Guilhaumon F., Mouillot D., Gravel D. & Thuiller W. Mammalian phylogenetic diversity area relationships at a continental scale. Ecology, 96(10):2814-22
6. Thuiller, W., Maiorano, L., Mazel, F., Guilhaumon, F., Ficetola, G.F., Lavergne, S., Renaud, J., Roquet, C. and Mouillot, D. Conserving the functional and phylogenetic trees of life of European tetrapods. (2015). Phil. Trans. of the Royal Society of London B: Biological Sciences, 370(1662), 20140005.
5. Gallien, L., Mazel, F., Lavergne, S., Renaud, J., Douzet, R. & Thuiller, W. Contrasting the effects of environment, dispersal and biotic interactions to explain the distribution of invasive plants in alpine communities. (2014) Biological invasions, 17, 1407-1423.
2014
4. Redding, D.W., Mazel, F., and. A.O. Mooers. Measuring evolutionary isolation for conservation. (2014). PLoS One 9(12), e113490.
3.. Mazel, F., Guilhaumon, F., Mouquet, N., Devictor, V., Gravel, D., Renaud, J., Cianciaruso, M.V., Loyola, R.D., Diniz-Filho, J.A.F., Mouillot, D. & Thuiller, W. (2014) Multifaceted diversity-area relationships reveal global hotspots of mammalian species, trait and lineage diversity. (2014). Global Ecology and Biogeography, 23, 836–847.
2013
2. Chalmandrier, L., Münkemüller, T., Gallien, L., de Bello, F., Mazel, F., Lavergne, S., Thuiller, W. A family of null models to distinguish between habitat filtering and biotic interactions in functional diversity patterns. (2013) Journal of Vegetation Science, 24: 853–86.
1. Bello, F. D., Lavorel, S., Lavergne, S., Albert, C. H., Boulangeat, I., Mazel, F., & Thuiller, W. (2012). Hierarchical effects of environmental filters on the functional structure of plant communities: a case study in the French Alps. Ecography 36(3), 393-402.
Outreach
1. Groussin* M., Mazel* F. (2017). Evolution des microbiomes intestinaux de mammifères et impacts sur la santé humaine. Médecine/sciences, 33. *: these authors equally contributed to this work.
Book chapter
1. Mazel, F. and Thuiller, W. Functional and Phylogenetic Diversity–Area Relationships. The Species-Area Relationship: Theory and Application, 107.
Preprint
1. Mazel, F., C Tucker, M Cadotte, S Carvalho, J Davies, S Fritz, R Grenyer et al. Preprint bioRxiv, 06346.