I am currently working on the conservation value of skeleton forests. I am focusing on how different types of spruce bark beetle-killed trees influence the composition of saproxylic communities, and especially Coleoptera, parasitic wasps and fungi. These results are needed by government agencies and forest companies to improve the conservation of forest biodiversity.
I am also involved in scientific mediation. I love sharing scientific knowledge with the general public and showing them the importance of science and insects. For example, I present a part of my thesis project in the comic "Sciences en bulles" (link in French only). I am also a member of the editorial committee of "L'Entomologiste – a magazine for and by insect enthusiasts" (also only in French).
Le Souchu, E., Cours, J., Cochenille, T., Bouget, C., Bankhead-Dronnet, S., Braet, Y., Burguet, P., Gabard, C., Galkowski, C., Gereys, B., Herbrecht, F., Joncour, B., Marhic, E., Michez, D., Buhl, P. N., Noblecourt, T., Notton, D. G., Penigot, W., Rasplus, J.-Y., Robert, T., Staverlokk, A., Vincent-Barbaroux, C., Sallé, A. Responses of the hyper-diverse community of canopy-dwelling Hymenoptera to oak decline. Insect Conservation and Diversity. https://resjournals.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/icad.12708
Le Souchu, E., Bouget, C., Sallé, A., 2023. Environmental drivers of local and temporal variations in the community of oak-associated borers (Coleoptera: Buprestidae). European Journal of Forest Research. https://link.springer.com/10.1007/s10342-023-01644-y
Cours, J., Bouget, C., Barsoum, N., Horák, J., Le Souchu, E., Leverkus, A.B., Pincebourde, S., Thorn, S., Sallé, A., 2023. Surviving in changing forests: abiotic disturbance legacy effects on arthropod communities of temperate forests. Curr. Forestry Rep. https://doi.org/10.1007/s40725-023-00187-0
Sallé, A., Cours, J., Le Souchu, E., Lopez-Vaamonde, C., Pincebourde, S., Bouget, C., 2021. Climate Change Alters Temperate Forest Canopies and Indirectly Reshapes Arthropod Communities. Front. For. Glob. Change 4, 8. https://doi.org/10.3389/ffgc.2021.710854