Welcome
I am Maître de Conférences (i.e. Associate Professor) in the Ocean Observatory of Villefranche-sur-Mer, in Southern France. So far, my research has been focused on the impact of larval behaviour on the connectivity patterns between adult fish populations. On this website you can find previews of this research work but also information about my education, the teaching charges I am or used to be responsible for, and scientific illustrations for a book on the phylogeny of Metazoa.
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Dissertation
My PhD work is best presented in my dissertation.
The Editions Universitaires Européennes were kind enough to publish it as a paperback book under the title “Behavioural approach to larval dispersal in the ocean — The journey of a coral reef fish larva”. It is a slightly improved and corrected version, still bilingual (introduction and conclusion in French, chapters in English), and available for purchase on Amazon.com pr Amazon.fr for example.
In addition, the older version, presented to the jury, as well as the slides of the defence, are available for download below, under a Creative Commons License.
Dissertation - Web: low resolution bitmap images [3.8M]
Dissertation - HQ: high resolution and vector images [24M]
Slides - Web: low resolution bitmap images [2.3M]
Slides - HQ: high resolution and vector images [15.9M]
Publications
Journal articles
Lett C, Ayata S, Huret M, Irisson J-O. Biophysical modelling to investigate the effects of climate change on marine populations dispersal and connectivity Progress in Oceanography, in press.
Hubert N, Delrieu-Trottin E, Irisson J-O, Meyer C, Planes S. Identifying coral reef fish larvae through DNA barcoding: a test case with the families Acanthuridae and Holocentridae. Molecular Phylogenetics and Evolution, Vol. 55, No. 3, pp. 1195-203, 2010. [PDF]
Irisson J-O, Paris CB, Guigand C, Planes S. Ontogenetic vertical “migration” in fish larvae: description and consequences for dispersal. Limnology & Oceanography, Vol. 55, No. 2, pp. 909-919, 2010. [PDF]
Irisson J-O, Paris CB, Guiguand C, Fisher R. Detection and quantification of marine larvae orientation in the pelagic environment. Limnology & Oceanography: Methods, Vol. 7, pp. 664-672, 2009 [PDF]
Irisson J-O, Lecchini D. In situ observation of settlement behaviour in larvae of coral reef fishes at night. Journal of Fish Biology, Vol. 72, pp. 2707-2713, 2008 [PDF]
Irisson J-O, LeVan A, de Lara M, Planes S. Strategies and trajectories of coral reef fish larvae optimizing self-recruitment. Journal of Theoretical Biology, Vol. 227, pp. 205-218, 2004 [PDF]
Dercole F, Irisson J-O, Rinaldi S. Bifurcation analysis of a prey predator coevolution model. SIAM Journal on Applied Mathemathics, Vol. 63, No. 4, pp. 1378-1391, 2003 [PDF]
Peer-reviewed proceedings
Paris CB, Irisson J-O, Lacroix G, Fiksen O, Leis JM, Mullon C. Application 2: connectivity. In: Manual of Recommended Practices for Modelling Physical-Biological Interactions in Fish Early-Life History, North E, Gallego A, Petigas P (eds). ICES Cooperative Research Reports, Nº 295, 2009 [PDF]
Irisson J-O, Leis J M, Paris C B, Browman H. Larval behaviour and settlement. In: Manual of Recommended Practices for Modelling Physical-Biological Interactions in Fish Early-Life History, North E, Gallego A, Petigas P (eds). ICES Cooperative Research Reports, Nº 295, 2009 [PDF]
Paris CB, Guigand C, Irisson J-O, Fisher R, D’Allessandro E. Orientation with No Frame of Reference (OWNFOR): A novel system to observe and quantify orientation in reef fish larvae. Caribbean Connectivity: Implications for Marine Protected Area Management. Proceedings of a Special Symposium, 9-11 November 2006, 59th Annual Meeting of the Gulf and Caribbean Fisheries Institute, Belize City, Belize, pp. 52-62, 2008 [PDF]
