François Rigal

Email: frantz.rigal@hotmail.fr
Web References: Personal Site, <a href="http://www.scopus.com/authid/detail.url?authorId=55924714000" target="_blank">Scopus, <a href="http://scholar.google.pt/citations?user=hXlEcUsAAAAJ&hl=en&oi=sra" target="_blank">Google Scholar, Orcid
Research Group: <a href="/research/research-groups/ecology-and-conservation-across-scales/island-biodiversity-biogeography-conservation">Island Biodiversity, Biogeography & Conservation

External Collaborator

After accomplishing a Master in Evolution and a PhD on marine invasive species (University Pierre et Marie Curie, France), I joined the Azorean Biodiversity Group (http://www.gba.uac.pt/) in the CE3C as a post-doctoral research fellow in 2010.

My research currently spans a number of different subjects from community ecology, functional diversity to conservation biogeography. During these last years, I focused particularly on how human activities (mainly land-use changes and biological invasions) affect native species assemblages using Azorean arthropods as models.

In September 2015 I am starting a new job as Professor in the University of Pau and Pays de l'Adour. I am keeping my collaboration with cE3c, mainly with my forner colleagues in Azores.