Simon Blanchet

This study develops and validates an environmental RNA (eRNA) method to detect and quantify specific life stages of Schistosoma mansoni in water samples, outperforming environmental DNA (eDNA) in sensitivity and stage discrimination.

This study shows that a few genes, not genome-wide diversity, drive ecological impacts of a freshwater fish on food webs and ecosystem functions.

This study shows that warming and predation drive rapid evolution of ecosystem functioning but not functional traits in Asellus aquaticus over two years.

This study meta-analyzes over a thousand effect sizes to show that trait variability within populations influences ecological responses more strongly for physiology and behavior than morphology.

This study investigates how ethanol affects grapevine cells' response to heat stress, finding ethanol-induced upregulation of heat shock proteins and enhanced heat tolerance.

The paper examines how genetic and species diversity affect ecosystem functions across trophic levels, finding they have opposite impacts.

The paper uses eDNA and niche modeling to show that environmental stressors, not just parasite abundance, drive disease emergence in wild salmonids.