Research department
Plant Sciences and Agronomy Department
Subjects taught
- Agronomy
- Crop production
- Market gardening
Training
- PhD in Agroecology, AgroParisTech (ABIES Doctoral School)
- European Master in Applied Ecology (Erasmus Mundus) – Poitiers (France) / Norwich (UK) / Kiel (Germany)
Professional experience
- 2022–2023: Market gardening and garlic advisor, Haute-Garonne Chamber of Agriculture
- 2020–2021: DECIlég Project Manager, Le Rheu
- 2015–2019: ISARA Lyon thesis – “Intra- and intercrop diversification in cereal cropping and its effect on pest control”
- 2015: FAO Consultant, Rome (Italy) – State of biodiversity for food and agriculture worldwide
Publications
- Mansion-Vaquié, Agathe & Ferrer, Aurelie & Ramon-Portugal, Felipe & Wezel, A. & Magro, Alexandra. (2019). Intercropping impacts the host location behaviour and population growth of aphids. Entomologia Experimentalis et Applicata. 168. 10.1111/eea.12848.
- Mansion-Vaquié, Agathe & Wezel, A. & Ferrer, Aurelie. (2019). Wheat genotypic diversity and intercropping to control cereal aphids. Agriculture Ecosystems & Environment. 285. 10.1016/j.agee.2019.106604.
- Mansion-Vaquié, Agathe & Ferrante, Marco & SM, Cook & JK, Pell & Lövei, Gábor. (2017). Manipulating field margins to increase predation intensity in fields of winter wheat (Triticum aestivum). Journal of Applied Entomology. 141. 600–611. 10.1111/jen.12385.
- Begg, Graham & Cook, Samantha & Dye, Richard & Ferrante, Marco & Franck, Pierre & Lavigne, Claire & Lövei, Gábor & Mansion-Vaquie, Agathe & Pell, Judith & Petit, Sandrine & Quesada, Nora & Ricci, Benoît & Wratten, Stephen & Birch, A. (2017). A functional overview of conservation biological control. Crop Protection. 97. 145–158. 10.1016/j.cropro.2016.11.008.