People
Audrey Valls
Ph.D., Zoology
2011-2014 Junior Research Fellow (University of British Columbia)
Audrey Valls’s doctoral research explored methods for understanding, modeling and predicting feeding relationships between marine species. She proposed a novel index, using a mathematical model to represent food webs and identify ecologically important species. She also looked at how to use knowledge in fish feeding behavior to predict fish diet composition. Her research highlighted the usefulness of digital and open-access information repositories in marine ecology and fisheries science. Audrey is now working on coupled human-nature systems models at the Centre for Biodiversity Theory and Modelling.
Publications
Prato G., Gascuel D., Valls A., Francour P., 2014, Balancing complexity and feasibility in Mediterranean coastal food-web models: uncertainty and constraints., Marine Ecosystem, Marine Ecology Progress Series, 512, 71-78, DOI 10.3354/meps10988, link
Colléter M., Valls A., Guitton J., Gascuel D., Pauly D., Christensen V., 2015, Global overview of the applications of the Ecopath with Ecosim modeling approach using the EcoBase models repository, Marine Ecosystem, Biodiversity, Ecological Modelling, Volume 302, Pages 42–53, link
Valls A., Coll M., Christensen V., 2015, Keystone species: toward an operational concept for marine biodiversity conservation, Marine Ecosystem, Biodiversity, Ecological Monographs, Volume 85, Pages 29–47, link
Colleter, M., Valls, A., Christensen, V., Coll, M., Gascuel, D., Guitton, J., Piroddi, C., Steenbeek, J., Buszowski, J., Pauly, D., 2016, Modelling the Global Oceans with the Ecopath Software Suite: A Brief Review and Application Example, Fisheries, Global database, Global Atlas of Marine Fisheries , link
Coll M., Cury P., Azzurro E., Bariche M., Bayadas G., Bellido J.M., Chaboud C., Claudet J., El-Sayed A.F., Gascuel D., Knittweis L., Pipitone C., Samuel-Rhoads Y., Taleb S., Tudela S., Valls A., Participants, 2013, The scientific strategy needed to promote a regional ecosystem-based approach to fisheries in the Mediterranean and Black Seas., Marine Ecosystem, Fisheries Management, Reviews in Fish Biology and Fisheries, 23, 415-434, DOI 10.1007/s11160-013-9305-y, link
