Researcher
Nathalie GAUTHIER, entomologist, biologist and geneticist of populations, is a research fellow at the Institut de Recherche pour le Développement (IRD) and has been working at the Centre de Biologie pour la Gestion des Populations (Montferrier sur Lez, France) since 2001. Throughout her academic training [University & Institute of Research on Insect Biology (Tours, France), Department of Biology, Silwood Park (Ascot, U.K.), CNRS (Gif sur Yvette, France)] and since her recruitment to IRD, N. Gauthier is interested in insects of agronomic interest either because of the damage, direct and/or indirect, they cause to crops (ie. invasive or native crop pests) or because of their ability to control crop pest populations (ie. natural enemies such as parasitoids or predators). Her research aims to obtain fundamental and applied knowledge useful in pest population management through the characterization of the bio-ecology and genetic diversity of species communities, species and their populations at several spatio-temporal scales (e.g. focuses on: search for native natural enemies, population and damage dynamics, biotic and abiotic structuring factors, etc.). In the framework of bioinvasions, the preferred routes of introduction and dispersal of the invasive populations are also investigated.
Email: nathalie.gauthier@ird.fr
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