Regis Ferriere

About

Regis Ferriere is an Associate Professor at the University of Arizona since 2012 and has held a position as Professor at the Ecole Normale Superieure in Paris since 2006. His educational background includes a B.S. and M.S. in Mathematics, an Agrégation in Mathematics, a Doctorate in Ecology, and an Habilitation in Ecology, all obtained in Paris. His research interests focus on the interplay of ecological and evolutionary processes, specifically how ecological interactions influence selection on individual traits and how adaptive traits evolution impacts population dynamics, community structure, diversity, and ecosystem function. Ferriere's work involves developing mathematical foundations of eco-evolutionary modeling, applying these theories to major questions in ecology and evolution—such as the evolution of cooperative interactions, life history evolution, and responses to environmental change—and connecting the theory to empirical systems. He is involved in the development of the CNRS-ENS Ecotron in Paris and collaborates with Biosphere 2 at the University of Arizona to promote large-scale experiments on complex ecological systems under controlled environmental conditions.

Research topics

• Biology
• Ecology
• Environmental science
• Meteorology
• Artificial Intelligence
• Astrobiology
• Computer Science
• Geography
• Geology
• Earth science

Selected publications

• Bayesian analysis of Enceladus’s plume data to assess methanogenesis

  Nature Astronomy · 2021 · 57 citations

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• Co-evolution of primitive methane-cycling ecosystems and early Earth’s atmosphere and climate

  Nature Communications · 2020 · 49 citations

  Senior authorCorresponding

  atmospheric ratio emerges as a robust signature of simple methane-cycling ecosystems on a globally reduced planet such as the late Hadean/early Archean Earth.

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• Early Mars habitability and global cooling by H2-based methanogens

  Nature Astronomy · 2022-10-10 · 27 citations

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• Coevolutionary transitions from antagonism to mutualism explained by the Co-Opted Antagonist Hypothesis

  Nature Communications · 2021 · 27 citations

  Senior authorCorresponding

  There is now good evidence that many mutualisms evolved from antagonism; why or how, however, remains unclear. We advance the Co-Opted Antagonist (COA) Hypothesis as a general mechanism explaining evolutionary transitions from antagonism to mutualism. COA involves an eco-coevolutionary process whereby natural selection favors co-option of an antagonist to perform a beneficial function and the interacting species coevolve a suite of phenotypic traits that drive the interaction from antagonism to…

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• Eco-evolutionary responses of the microbial loop to surface ocean warming and consequences for primary production

  The ISME Journal · 2021-12-04 · 25 citations

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  Predicting the response of ocean primary production to climate warming is a major challenge. One key control of primary production is the microbial loop driven by heterotrophic bacteria, yet how warming alters the microbial loop and its function is poorly understood. Here we develop an eco-evolutionary model to predict the physiological response and adaptation through selection of bacterial populations in the microbial loop and how this will impact ecosystem function such as primary production.…

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Frequent coauthors

• Amaury Lambert

  Université Paris Sciences et Lettres

  112 shared

• Fanny Gascuel

  Institut de Biologie de l'École Normale Supérieure

  112 shared

• Robin Aguilée

  Université Toulouse III - Paul Sabatier

  108 shared

• Jean‐François Le Galliard

  Université Paris Sciences et Lettres

  98 shared

• Sylvie Méléard

  Centre de Mathématiques Appliquées

  71 shared

• Sylvain Billiard

  Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique

  59 shared

• Thomas N. Tully

  Louisiana State University

  51 shared

• Jean‐Baptiste André

  Institut Jean Nicod

  50 shared

Awards & honors

• 2013 Annual award from La Recherche popular science magazine…

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