RESEARCH INTERESTS
BIODIVERSITY & GLOBAL CHANGE DRIVERS
Understanding the patterns of global change and the potential consequences for biodiversity
As the rate and magnitude of the current biodiversity crisis accelerate, a better understanding of the threatening processes impacting biodiversity is needed to develop effective conservation strategies. To address this challenge, I investigate how threats co-occur and interact with biodiversity and what impact they may have on the different dimensions of biodiversity (i.e. taxonomic, functional, and phylogenetic diversity).
Selected publications:
Leclerc et al. (2022). Divers. Distrib. 28 (12): 2754-2764. $|$ 
Leclerc et al. (2020). Divers. Distrib. 26 (4): 402-414. $|$ 
Leclerc et al. (2018). Sci. Rep. 8:6393. $|$ 
Understanding biodiversity responses to global change
Understanding whether and how environmental conditions can affect biodiversity is central to predicting how biodiversity will respond to global change. To address this challenge, I investigate the influence of natural and anthropogenic environmental variables on biodiversity by addressing several research questions on the link between environmental factors and biodiversity.
Selected publications:
Leclerc et al. (2023) Glob. Chang. Biol., 29 (9): 2450-2465. 
Assessing the vulnerability of biodiversity to global change
As anthropogenic environmental change increasingly threatens biodiversity and ecosystem functioning worldwide, assessing the vulnerability (through exposure, sensitivity and adaptive capacity) of species and ecosystems to threats, particularly climate change, is a prerequisite for developing effective strategies for their conservation. To address this challenge, I assess the different vulnerability components (i.e. exposure, sensitivity and adaptive capacity) together or individually and apply biodiversity vulnerability approaches based on a combination of these components.
Selected publications:
Renault et al. (2022) Glob. Chang. Biol., 28 (20): 5914-5927. 
Marino et al. (2022) Glob. Chang. Biol., 28 (3): 1077-1090. $|$ 
Leclerc et al. (2020). Nat. Commun. 11: 4943. $|$ 