Timothée Poisot, Ph.D.
Computational Ecologist
firstname.lastname@umontreal.ca
Computational Ecologist
firstname.lastname@umontreal.ca
General information
Appointments
Education
Academic citizenship
Professional memberships
MonarQ (Compute Québec quantum computer)
Steering committee member
Since Jan. 2023
Steering committee member
Since Jan. 2023
Québec Centre for Biodiversity Science
Research axis co-leader (predictive and forecasting models)
Since Apr. 2021
Research axis co-leader (predictive and forecasting models)
Since Apr. 2021
VERENA consortium for viral emergence
Computational ecologist
Since Sep. 2020
Computational ecologist
Since Sep. 2020
Canadian Institute for Ecology & Evolution
Scientific board member
Since Jun. 2018
Scientific board member
Since Jun. 2018
Groupe de Recherche en Limnologie et Environnement Aquatique
Associate member
From Jul. 2017 to Nov. 2019
Associate member
From Jul. 2017 to Nov. 2019
Compute Québec
Scientific board member
Since Mar. 2017
Scientific board member
Since Mar. 2017
Québec Centre for Biodiversity Sciences
Regular member
Since Jan. 2015
Regular member
Since Jan. 2015
Editorial duties
Ecography
Guest Editor-in-Chief
Special issue on the macroecology of diseases
From May. 2022 to Jun. 2023
Guest Editor-in-Chief
Special issue on the macroecology of diseases
From May. 2022 to Jun. 2023
Ecology Letters
Subject editor
Since May. 2019
Subject editor
Since May. 2019
PLOS Biology
Guest academic editor
Handling of submissions on ecological networks
From Jun. 2017 to Jun. 2017
Guest academic editor
Handling of submissions on ecological networks
From Jun. 2017 to Jun. 2017
[Re]Science
Subject editor
Since Feb. 2016
Subject editor
Since Feb. 2016
Functional Ecology
Guest Editor-in-Chief
Virtual issue on ecological networks
From Jan. 2016 to Jun. 2016
Guest Editor-in-Chief
Virtual issue on ecological networks
From Jan. 2016 to Jun. 2016
PLOS Computational Biology
Sofware editor
From Mar. 2015 to Sep. 2020
Sofware editor
From Mar. 2015 to Sep. 2020
Methods in Ecology & Evolution
Sofware editor
Since Feb. 2015
Sofware editor
Since Feb. 2015
Biodiversity Data Journal
Subject editor
From Jun. 2014 to Jul. 2016
Subject editor
From Jun. 2014 to Jul. 2016
Publications
108. (2023)
Mismatch between IUCN range maps and species interactions data illustrated using the Serengeti food web; PeerJ.
107. (2023)
The missing link: discerning true from false negatives when sampling species interaction networks; .
106. (2022)
Predicting metawebs: transfer of graph embeddings can help alleviate spatial data deficiencies; .
105. (2022)
Optimising predictive models to prioritise viral discovery in zoonotic reservoirs; The Lancet Microbe.
104. (2022)
Guidelines for the validation of machine learning predictions of species interactions; .
103. (2022)
Dissimilarity of species interaction networks: quantifying the effect of turnover and rewiring; Peer Community Journal.
101. (2022)
What constrains food webs? A maximum entropy framework for predicting their structure with minimal biases; .
99. (2022)
Evaluating ecological uniqueness over broad spatial extents using species distribution modelling; Oikos.
98. (2022)
The Global Virome in One Network (VIRION): an Atlas of Vertebrate-Virus Associations; mBio.
97. (2022)
Food web reconstruction through phylogenetic transfer of low‐rank network representation; Methods in Ecology and Evolution.
96. (2021)
[Re] The Evolution of Virulence in Pathogens with Vertical and Horizontal Transmission; [Re]Science.
95. (2021)
A roadmap towards predicting species interaction networks (across space and time); Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society B: Biological Sciences.
94. (2021)
SimpleSDMLayers.jl and GBIF.jl: A Framework for Species Distribution Modeling in Julia; Journal of Open Source Software.
93. (2021)
Environment–host–microbial interactions shape the Sarracenia purpurea microbiome at the continental scale; Ecology.
91. (2021)
SVD Entropy Reveals the High Complexity of Ecological Networks; Frontiers in Ecology and Evolution.
88. (2021)
Computers Can Help us Find Raccoons and Other Living Creatures; Frontiers for Young Minds.
87. (2021)
Mangal.jl and EcologicalNetworks.jl: Two complementary packages for analyzing ecological networks in Julia; Journal of Open Source Software.
86. (2021)
Imputing the mammalian virome with linear filtering and singular value decomposition; arXiv:2105.14973 [q-bio].
84. (2021)
Beta and phylogenetic diversities tell complementary stories about ecological networks biogeography; Parasitology.
81. (2020)
Omnidirectional and omnifunctional connectivity analyses with a diverse species pool; bioRxiv.
80. (2020)
Testing predictability of disease outbreaks with a simple model of pathogen biogeography; Royal Society Open Science.
79. (2020)
Novel application of Convolutional Neural Networks for the meta-modeling of large-scale spatial data; AI for earth sciences workshop at advances in neural information processing systems (NeurIPS).
76. (2020)
Food web structure alters ecological communities top-heaviness with little effect on the biodiversity-functioning relationship.; bioRxiv.
75. (2019)
Ecogeographical rules and the macroecology of food webs; Global Ecology and Biogeography.
74. (2019)
Artificial Intelligence for Ecological and Evolutionary Synthesis; Frontiers in Ecology and Evolution.
68. (2019)
Data-based, synthesis-driven: Setting the agenda for computational ecology; Ideas in Ecology and Evolution.
64. (2018)
Complex Ecological Networks; Reference Module in Earth Systems and Environmental Sciences.
63. (2018)
Homogenization of species composition and species association networks are decoupled; Global Ecology and Biogeography.
61. (2018)
Bringing Elton and Grinnell together: a quantitative framework to represent the biogeography of ecological interaction networks; Ecography.
59. (2018)
Identifying a common backbone of interactions underlying food webs from different ecosystems; Nature Communications.
57. (2018)
Management, Archiving, and Sharing for Biologists and the Role of Research Institutions in the Technology-Oriented Age; BioScience.
56. (2017)
Network structure and local adaptation in coevolving bacteria-phage interactions; Molecular Ecology.
53. (2017)
Wind drives microbial eukaryote communities in a temperate closed lagoon; Aquatic Microbial Ecology.
52. (2017)
Using Peer Review to Support Development of Community Resources for Research Data Management; Journal of eScience Librarianship.
51. (2017)
paco: implementing Procrustean Approach to Cophylogeny in R; Methods in Ecology and Evolution.
50. (2017)
Hosts, parasites and their interactions respond to different climatic variables; Global Ecology and Biogeography.
49. (2017)
Simulations of biomass dynamics in community food webs; Methods in Ecology and Evolution.
48. (2017)
Linear filtering reveals false negatives in species interaction data; Scientific Reports.
47. (2017)
Compositional turnover in host and parasite communities does not change network structure; Ecography.
45. (2016)
BiMAT: a MATLAB package to facilitate the analysis and visualization of bipartite networks; Methods in Ecology and Evolution.
41. (2016)
Synthetic datasets and community tools for the rapid testing of ecological hypotheses; Ecography.
39. (2016)
Describe, understand and predict: why do we need networks in ecology?; Functional Ecology.
38. (2015)
Temperature and trophic structure are driving microbial productivity along a biogeographical gradient; Ecography.
37. (2015)
The spread of a novel behavior in wild chimpanzees: New insights into the ape cultural mind; Communicative & integrative biology.
36. (2015)
Connecting people and ideas from around the world: global innovation platforms for next-generation ecology and beyond; Ecosphere.
35. (2015)
Bacteriophage richness reduces bacterial niche overlap in experimental microcosms; PeerJ PrePrints.
32. (2015)
When is co-phylogeny evidence of coevolution?; Parasite Diversity and Diversification: Evolutionary Ecology Meets Phylogenetics.
30. (2015)
The next generation of action ecology: novel approaches towards global ecological research; Ecosphere.
29. (2015)
Best publishing practices to improve user confidence in scientific software; Ideas in Ecology and Evolution.
28. (2014)
When is an ecological network complex? Connectance drives degree distribution and emerging network properties; PeerJ.
27. (2014)
Lack of quantitative training among early-career ecologists: a survey of the problem and potential solutions; PeerJ.
26. (2014)
Using neutral theory to reveal the contribution of meta-community processes to assembly in complex landscapes; Journal of Limnology.
24. (2014)
Dispersal and spatial heterogeneity allow coexistence between enemies and protective mutualists; Ecology and Evolution.
23. (2014)
Social network analysis shows direct evidence for social transmission of tool use in wild chimpanzees; PLoS biology.
22. (2013)
Inferring food web structure from predator-prey body size relationships; Methods in Ecology and Evolution.
20. (2013)
Moving toward a sustainable ecological science: don't let data go to waste!; Ideas in Ecology and Evolution.
18. (2013)
Trophic complementarity drives the biodiversity-ecosystem functioning relationship in food webs; Ecology Letters.
16. (2013)
Facultative and obligate parasite communities exhibit different network properties; Parasitology.
12. (2012)
A comparative study of ecological specialization estimators; Methods in Ecology and Evolution.
10. (2012)
Terminal investment induced by a bacteriophage in a rhizosphere bacterium; F1000Research.
6. (2011)
Morphological and molecular evolution are not linked in Lamellodiscus (Plathyhelminthes, Monogenea); PloS One.
5. (2011)
Trophic network structure emerges through antagonistic coevolution in temporally varying environments; Proceedings of the Royal Society of London B: Biological Sciences.
4. (2010)
Putative speciation events in Lamellodiscus (Monogenea: Diplectanidae) assessed by a morphometric approach; Biological Journal of the Linnean Society.
3. (2010)
Resource availability affects the structure of a natural bacteria--bacteriophage community; Biology letters.
2. (2010)
Putative effects of recreational fishing of Paracentrotus lividus on populations of sea urchins in Mediterranean shallow water; Vie et milieu.
1. (2009)
Interactions between immunocompetence, somatic condition and parasitism in the chub Leuciscus cephalus in early spring; Journal of Fish Biology.