Alex Baumel

Lecturer

University Paul Cézanne

Institut Méditerranéen d'Ecologie et de Paléoécologie
Bâtiment Villemin

Europole de l'Arbois - BP 80
F 13545 Aix-en-Provence cedex 04
phone: (33) 442 908 453
fax:
(33) 442 908 448






Web site : http://www.imep-cnrs.com/


Arnenaria provincialis web page
http://www.imep-cnrs.com/sabline/index.htm

Teaching

Genetics
Population genetics and molecular ecology
Phylogenetics
Statistics in R
environment


Papers

In prep or submitted



- Diadema K, Baumel, A., Bretagnolle F., Juin M., Médail F. Geographical genetic structure in the narrow endemic plants Acis nicaeensis and Acis fabrei (Alliaceae) and implications for conservation.

- Youssef S, Baumel A, Médail F. Structure démographique d’Armeria arenaria (Plumbaginacée), espèce végétale bio-indicatrice de l'état de conservation de la flore littorale des Maures (Var, France). Submitted to Candollea



Published or in press

- Campagne P, Baumel A, Affre L, Juin M., Duong N., Roche P., Tatoni T 2009. Genetic signs of connectivity in Primula vulgaris (Primulaceae) in a hedgerow network landscape. CRAS 332:652-661.

- Youssef S., Baumel A., Médail F.2009. Analyse écologique des populations d’ Armeria arenaria, espèce végétale bio-indicatrice du piétinement de la flore littorale des Maures (Var, France). Scientific Reports of the Port-Cros National Park, 23 : 107-119

- Baumel A., Auda P., Torre F. & Médail F., 2009. Morphological polymorphism and rDNA ITS sequence variation in Armeria (Plumbaginaceae) from South-Eastern France. Botanical Journal of the Linnean Society. 159:255-267

- Campagne P., Buisson E., Varouchas G., Roche P., Baumel A., Tatoni T.,
2009. Modeling landscape structure constraints on species dispersal with a cellular automaton: are there convergences with empirical data? Ecological complexity 6:183-190

- Campagne P., Affre L., Baumel A., Roche P. & Tatoni T. 2009. Fine scale response to landscape structure in Primula vulgaris Huds.: Does hedgerow network connectedness ensure connectivity through gene flow? Population Ecology 51:209-219

- Baumel A., Affre L., Véla E., Auda P., Torre F., Youssef S. & Tatoni T. 2009. Ecological magnitude and fine scale dynamics of the mediterranean narrow endemic therophyte, Arenaria provincialis (Caryophyllaceae). Acta Botanica Gallica 156: 259-272

- Véla E, Auda P, Léger JF, Gonçalves V, Baumel A. 2008. Exemple d'une nouvelle évaluation du statut de menace suivant les critères de l’UICN version 3.1. : le cas de l’endémique provençale Arenaria provincialis Chater & Halliday (= Gouffeia arenarioides DC., Caryophyllaceae). Acta Botanica Gallica

- Ainouche ML, Baumel A, Salmon A, Yannic G 2004 Hybridization, polyploidy and speciation in Spartina (Poaceae). New Phytologist 161, 165-172.

- Ainouche ML, Baumel A, Salmon A 2004. Spartina anglica C. E. Hubbard: a natural model system for analysing early evolutionary changes that affect allopolyploid genomes. Biological Journal of the Linean Society 82, 475-484.

- Yannic G, Baumel A, Ainouche M 2004 Uniformity of the nuclear and chloroplast genomes of Spartina maritima (Poaceae), a salt-marsh species in decline along the Western European Coast. Heredity 93, 182-188.

- Diadema K., Baumel A., Lebris M. & Affre L. 2003. Genomic DNA isolation and amplification from callus culture in succulent plants, Carpobrotus species (Aizoaceae). Plant Molecular Biology Reporter, 21 : 1-5.

- Baumel A., Ainouche M.L., Misset M.T., Gourret J.P., Bayer R.J. 2003. Genetic evidence for hybridization between the native Spartina maritima and the introduced Spartina alterniflora (Poaceae) in South-West France: Spartina x neyrautii re-examined. Plant Systematics and Evolution, 237 : 87-97.

- Baumel A., Ainouche M.L., Bayer R.J., Ainouche A.K., Misset M.T. 2002. Molecular Phylogeny of Hybridizing Species from the Genus Spartina Schreb. (Poaceae). Molecular Phylogenetics and Evolution, 22 : 303-314.

- Baumel A., Ainouche M.L., Kalendar R., Schulman A.H. 2002. Retrotransposons and Genomic Stability in Populations of the Young Allopolyploid Species Spartina anglica C.E. Hubbard (Poaceae). Molecular Biology and Evolution, 19 : 1218-1227.

- Baumel A., Ainouche M.L., Levasseur J.E. 2001. Molecular investigations in populations of Spartina anglica C.E. Hubbard (Poaceae) invading coastal Brittany (France). Molecular Ecology, 10: 1689-1701.
Key words of my research

Evolution, Ecology, Population genetics, Phyloegenetics, Phylogeography, Persistence of Mediterranean flora