Grégory Sonnier, Ph.D.
Assistant Research Biologist
Grégory is a plant ecologist whose research encompasses plant ecophysiology, community ecology, and functional ecology. In 2016, he became a post-doctoral fellow at Archbold Biological Station agroecology program and was later promoted to Assistant Research Biologist. Here, he studies the effect of ranching management practices on multiple ecosystem services provided by grasslands and wetlands including plant diversity, and provisioning services. He also assesses the success of wetland restoration in multiple wetland restoration easements located at Archbold.
Grégory's past research focused on describing, understanding, and predicting patterns of biodiversity at local and regional scales and in response to various environmental gradients and land use changes (e.g., forest fragmentation). He obtained his PhD from the University of Sherbrooke (Québec, Canada) in partnership with Montpellier SupAgro (France). He then completed two postdocs at the University of Picardie Jules Verne (Amiens, France) and in the department of Botany at UW-Madison (Wisconsin, USA).
If you are more interested in his research, you can find more information here (https://gsonnier.weebly.com/) and here (https://www.researchgate.net/profile/Gregory-Sonnier).