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PEER-REVIEWED JOURNALS
Adam M, Fréville H, Alami S, Marrou H, Pot D, Ricci S, Thomas M, Guichardaz A, et al (2026) Embracing new practices in plant breeding for agroecological transition: A diversity-driven research agenda. Plants People Planet, 8: 38–48. https://doi.org/10.1002/ppp3.70072
Plessis C, Rocher A, Compan F, Romiguier J, David J*, Fréville H* (2025) A la carte seed harvesting: Messor barbarus ants select durum wheat genotypes. Ecology and Evolution 15:e72251. https://doi.org/10.1002/ece3.72251. (* These authors contributed equally to this work).
Lemoine T, Fort F, Vasseur F, Gonzalez EA, Fréville H, Violle C (2025) Experimental demonstration of allometric invariance of plant response to density over the course of wheat domestication. Proceedings of the Royal Society B, 292: 20251098. http://doi.org/10.1098/rspb.2025.1098
Montazeaud G, Roumet P, Lamboeuf M, Jeudy C, Ecarnot M, Malicet-Chebbah L, Salon C, Fréville H (2025) Mixing varieties mitigates early root competition in wheat under water and nutrient limitation. Journal of Experimental Botany, 76: 4171–4184. https://doi.org/10.1093/jxb/eraf163
Lemoine T, Violle C, Gonzalez EA, Gaubert M, Rocher A, Fréville H, Fort F (2025) Unravelling the impact of domestication on competitive ability in durum wheat: a phenotypic plasticity perspective. Journal of Experimental Botany 76: 1300–1313. https://doi.org/10.1093/jxb/erae480
Alaux PL, Courty PE, Fréville H, David J, Rocher A, Taschen E (2024) Wheat dwarfing reshapes plant and fungal development in arbuscular mycorrhizal symbiosis. Mycorrhiza 34: 351–360. https://doi.org/10.1007/s00572-024-01150-y
Lemoine T, Violle C, Montazeaud G, Isaac M, Rocher A, Fréville H, Fort F (2023) Plant trait relationships are maintained within a major crop species: lack of artificial selection signal and potential for improved agronomic performance. New Phytologist 240: 2227–2238. https://doi.org/10.1111/nph.19279
Pélissier R, Ballini E, Temple C, Ducasse A, Colombo M, Frouin J, Qin X, Huang H, David J, Fort F, Fréville H, Violle C, Morel J-B (2023) The genetic identity of neighboring plants in intraspecific mixtures modulates disease susceptibility of both wheat and rice. PLOS Biology 21(9): e3002287. https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pbio.3002287
The International PLANTCOM network, Becker C, Berthomé R, Delavault P, Flutre T, Fréville H, Gibot-Leclerc S, Le Corre V, Morel J-B, Moutier N, Muños S, Richard-Molard C, Westwood J, Courty P-E, de Saint-Germain A, Louarn G, Roux F (2022) The ecologically relevant genetics of plant-plant interactions. Trends in Plant Science. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.tplants.2022.08.014
de Tombeur F, Lemoine T, Violle C, Fréville H, Thorne S, Hartley S, Lambers H, Fort F (2022) Nitrogen availability and plant–plant interactions drive leaf silicon concentration in wheat genotypes. Functional Ecology 36: 2833–2844. DOI: 10.1111/1365-2435.14170
Fréville H, Montazeaud G, Forst E, David J, Papa R, Tenaillon M (2022) Shift in beneficial interactions during crop evolution. Evolutionary Applications 15, 905–918. https://doi.org/10.1111/eva.13390
Colombo M, Montazeaud G, Viader V, Ecarnot M, Prosperi J-M, David J, Fort F, Violle C, Fréville H (2022) A genome-wide analysis suggests pleiotropic effects of Green Revolution genes on shade avoidance in wheat. Evolutionary Applications 15, 1594–1604. DOI: 10.1111/eva.13349
Montazeaud G, Flutre T, Ballini E, Morel J-B, David J, Girodolle J, Rocher A, Ducasse A, Violle C, Fort F, Fréville H (2022) From cultivar mixtures to allelic mixtures: opposite effects of allelic richness between genotypes and genotype richness in wheat. New Phytologist 233, 2573–2584. http://doi.org/10.1111/nph.17915
Vialatte A, Tibi A, Alignier A, Angeon V, Bedoussac L et al (2022) Promoting crop pest control by plant diversification in agricultural landscapes : a conceptual framework for analysing feedback loops between agro-ecological and socio-economic effects. Advances in Ecological Research 65, 133–165. https://doi.org/10.1016/bs.aecr.2021.10.004
Montazeaud G, Violle C, Roumet P, Rocher A, Ecarnot M, Compan F, Maillet G, Fort F*, Fréville H* (2020) Multifacted functional diversity for multifaceted crop yield: towards ecological assembly rules for varietal mixtures. Journal of Applied Ecology 57, 2285–2295. https://doi.org/10.1111/1365-2664.13735. (* These authors contributed equally to this study).
Montazeaud G, Rousset F, Fort F, Violle C, Fréville H*, Gandon S* (2020) Farming plant cooperation in crops. Proceedings of the Royal Society B 287, 20191290. http://dx.doi.org/10.1098/rspb.2019.1290 (* These authors contributed equally to this study).
Fréville H, Roumet P, Rode NO, Rocher A, Latreille M, Muller M-H, David J (2019) Preferential helping to relatives: a potential mechanism responsible for lower yield of crop variety mixtures? Evolutionary Applications 12, 1837–1849. https://doi.org/10.1111/eva.12842.
Hadjou Belaid A, Maurice S, Fréville H, Carbonell D, Imbert E (2018) Predicting population viability of the narrow endemic Mediterranean plant Centaurea corymbosa under climate change. Biological Conservation 223, 19–33.
Montazeaud G, Violle C, Fréville H, Luquet D, Ahmadi N, Courtois B, Bouhaba I, Fort F (2017) Crop mixtures: does niche complementarity hold for belowground resources? An experimental test using rice genotypic pairs. Plant and Soil, 1–16.
Manna F, Pradel R, Choquet R, Fréville H, Cheptou P.-O (2017) Disentangling the role of seed bank and dispersal in plant metapopulation dynamics using patch occupancy surveys. Ecology 98, 2662-2672.
Andrieu E, Besnard A, Fréville H, Vaudey V, Gauthier P, Thompson JD, Debussche M. (2017) Population dynamics of Paeonia officinalis in relation to forest closure: from model predictions to practical conservation management. Biological Conservation 215, 51-60.
Turner K, Fréville H, Rieseberg L (2015) Phenotypic plasticity and niche expansion in an invasive thistle. Ecology and Evolution 5, 3183-3197.
Ducatez S, Humeau A, Congretel M, Fréville H, Baguette M (2014) Butterfly species differing in mobility show different structures of dispersal-related syndromes in the same fragmented landscape. Ecography 37, 378-389.
Cursach J, Besnard A, Rita J, Fréville H (2013) Demographic variation and conservation of the narrow endemic plant Ranunculus weyleri. Acta Oecologica 53, 102-109.
Fréville H, Choquet R, Pradel R, Cheptou P.-O (2013) Inferring seed bank from hidden Markov models: new insights into metapopulation dynamics in plants. Journal of Ecology 101, 1572-1580.
Ducatez S, Baguette M, Trochet A, Chaput-Bardy A, Legrand D, Stevens V, Fréville H (2013) Flight capacity and heating rate vary with both latitude and habitat connectivity in a butterfly species. Oikos 122, 601-611.
Andrieu E, Fréville H, Besnard A, Vaudey V, Gauthier P, Thompson JD, Debussche M. (2013) Forest-cutting rapidly improves the demographic status of Paeonia officinalis, a species threatened by forest closure. Population Ecology 55, 147-158.
Ducatez S, Baguette M, Stevens VM, Legrand D, Fréville H (2012) Complex interactions between paternal and maternal effects: parental experience and age at reproduction affect fecundity and offspring performance in a butterfly. Evolution 66, 3558-3569 (Faculty of 1000 Recommended: http://f1000.com/717953416).
Ducatez S, Legrand D, Chaput-Bardy A, Stevens V, Fréville H, Baguette M (2012) Inter-individual variation in movement: is there a mobility syndrome in the large white butterfly Pieris brassicae ? Ecological Entomology 37, 377-385.
Girod C, Vitalis R, Leblois R, Fréville H (2011) Assessing demographic changes from microsatellite variation: a simulation test of the MSVAR Bayesian method. Genetics 188, 165-179.
Girod C, Tollon-Cordet C, Pfunder M, Sarrazin E, Samadi S, Boisselier-Dubayle MC, Lambourdière J, Riéra B, Leblois R, Sarthou C, Charles-Dominique P, Fréville H (2010) Characterization of 11 microsatellites in the palm Astrocaryum sciophilum. Molecular Ecology Resources 10, 1098-1105 (MER44216-MER44226).
Colas B, Kirchner F, Riba M, Olivieri I, Mignot A, Imbert E, Beltrame C, Carbonell D, Fréville H (2008) Restoration demography: a ten-year demographic comparison between introduced and natural populations of endemic Centaurea corymbosa (Asteraceae). Journal of Applied Ecology 45, 1468-1476.
Fréville H, McConway K, Dodd M, Silvertown J (2007) Prediction of extinction in plants: interaction of extrinsic threats and life history traits. Ecology 88, 2662-2672 (Featured in Editors' Choice Science 2007, 318: 361).
Riba M, Mignot A, Fréville H, Colas B, Imbert E, Vile D, Virevaire M, Olivieri I (2005) Variation in dispersal traits in a narrow-endemic plant species Centaurea corymbosa Pourret (Asteraceae). Evolutionary Ecology 19, 241-254.
Fréville H, Silvertown J (2005) Analysis of inter-specific competition in perennial plants using Life Table Response Experiments. Plant Ecology 176(1), 69-78.
Hardy O, González-Martinez S, Colas B, Fréville H, Mignot A, Olivieri I (2004) Fine-scale genetic structure and gene dispersal in Centaurea corymbosa (Asteraceae). II. Correlated paternity within and among sibships. Genetics 168, 1601-1614.
Hardy O, González-Martinez S, Fréville H, Boquien G, Mignot A, Colas B, Olivieri I (2004) Fine-scale genetic structure and gene dispersal in Centaurea corymbosa (Asteraceae). I. Pattern of pollen dispersal. Journal of Evolutionary Biology 17(4), 795-806.
Fréville H, Colas B, Riba M, Mignot A, Imbert I, Caswell H, Olivieri I (2004) Spatial and temporal demographic variability in the endemic plant species, Centaurea corymbosa (Asteraceae). Ecology 85(3), 694-703.
Hardy O, Charbonnel N, Fréville H, Heuertz M (2003) Microsatellite allele sizes: a simple test to assess their significance on genetic differentiation. Genetics 163, 1467-1482.
Fréville H, Justy F, Olivieri I (2001) Comparative allozyme and microsatellite structure in a narrow endemic species, Centaurea corymbosa Pourret (Asteraceae). Molecular Ecology 10: 879-890.
Petit C, Fréville H, Mignot A, Colas B, Riba M, Imbert E, Hurtrez-Boussès S, Virevaire M, Olivieri I (2001) Gene flow and local adaptation in two endemic species. Biological Conservation 100: 21-34.
Fréville H, Imbert E, Justy F, Vitalis R, Olivieri I (2000) Isolation and characterization of microsatellites in the endemic species Centaurea corymbosa Pourret (Asteraceae) and other related species. Molecular Ecology 9: 1671-1672.
Savolainen O, Langley CH, Lazzaro BP, Fréville H (2000) Contrasting patterns of nucleotide polymorphism at the alcohol dehydrogenase locus in the outcrossing Arabidopsis lyrata and the selfing Arabidopsis thaliana. Molecular Biology and Evolution 17(4), 645-655.
Fréville H, Colas B, Ronfort J, Riba M, Olivieri I (1998) Predicting endemism from population structure of a widespread species: case study in Centaurea maculosa Lam. (Asteraceae). Conservation Biology 12: 1269-1278.
BOOK CHAPTERS
Baguette M, Legrand D, Fréville H, van Dyck H, Ducatez S (2012) Evolutionary ecology of dispersal in fragmented landscape. In: Michel Baguette, Tim Benton, James Bullock and Jean Clobert (eds) Dispersal. Oxford University Press.
Fréville H, Scotti-Saintagne C (2010) Rôle des variations climatiques passées et de la spécialisation écologique dans la distribution des espèces tropicales : apport des approches génétiques - Projet Clips. In ‘Amazonie : une aventure scientifique et humaine du CNRS’, Eds Alain Pavé et Gaëlle Fornet. Editions Galaade, Paris.