LÉONIE GRATACAP
Research department
Environmental and Digital Sciences Department
Laboratories / platforms
Physical and chemical analysis, microbiology and molecular biology laboratories
Subjects taught
- Community ecology
- Landscape ecology
- Microbiology
Areas of Research / Development / Consulting
My research work follows on from my internships at PURPAN Engineering School, during which I studied the bacterial and fungal communities of forest soils using molecular tools (i.e., environmental DNA and metabarcoding), in collaboration with biodiversity management and conservation players such as the ONF (French Forestry Commission), nature reserve managers and mycologists from the CBN Midi-Pyrénées botanical conservatory.
My thesis work is part of an interdisciplinary “BioForGrap” project in collaboration with a second PhD student in soil sciences, based at the Toulouse Environment Geoscience (GET) laboratory. In this project, I am pursuing my study of soil microbial communities by moving beyond forests to explore the dynamics of these communities at landscape level. The overall aim of this project is to assess the contribution of forest soils to biodiversity and the resilience of nearby agricultural soils, by targeting winegrowing systems in Occitania and developing collaborations with a network of winegrowers.
ORCID ID: 0009-0000-0446-1988
Responsibility
Supervision of internships and occasional participation in ecology courses.
Training
Graduated from the University of Toulouse in 2024 with a Master’s Degree in Biology, Ecology and Evolution, Ecosystem and Anthropization course. Currently working on a PhD (01/2025-01/2028), in the Environment and Digital Sciences Department, attached to the UMR Dynafor (Dynamics and Ecology of Agriforestry Landscapes) Joint Research Unit and supervised by Antoine Brin (PURPAN Engineering School), Alexis Carteron (PURPAN Engineering School) and Mélanie Roy (University of Toulouse, IRD delegation at the IFAECI).
Publications
Raimbault, A., Brin, A., Manzi, S., Savoie, J-M., Gandois, L., Oliva, P., Fogliani, O., Roy-Camille, C., Gratacap, L., Roy, M. (2024) Influence of habitat fragmentation and habitat amount on soil fungi communities in ancient forests. Landscape Ecology 39, 19 https://doi.org/10.1007/s10980-024-01821-3
UMR (Joint Research Unit)
DYNAFOR (Dynamics and Ecology of Agriforestry Landscapes), INRAE (National Agricultural, Food and Environment Research Institute), Castanet-Tolosan, France