Jérôme Marty is a food web ecologist. During his Ph.D. (Université du Québec a Montreal) and post-doc (University of Waterloo), he studied the impacts of flow perturbations due to impoundments in Northern reservoirs and rivers. Based on stable isotopes, his research has looked at the connectivity between terrestrial and aquatic ecosystems and has shown the importance of algal carbon supporting the food web in systems whose carbon pools are dominated by terrestrial loading. Dr. Marty’s research also aims to relate characteristics of the flow regime of rivers to the functioning of the food web. Using a large scale in situ experiment, variations in ramping rate were found to be a key variable driving food web length in rivers impacted by hydro activities.

At the SLRI, Dr. Marty obtained a 2-year fellowship (NSERC-IRDF/ OCE) to develop research activities in the St Lawrence River in relation to flow regime variations. He is pursuing projects on smaller rivers in collaboration with the University of Waterloo and is leading a food web study on Hemimysis anomala, the latest invader of the Great Lakes, in collaboration with the Department of Fisheries and Oceans.

 

Publications and more details are available at: http://uwaterloo.academia.edu/JeromeMarty