Dr Camille Mellin

Biography/ Background

Dr Camille Mellin is a Research Associate in the Environment Institute working with Professor Corey Bradshaw on the predictive modeling of coral reef biodiversity patterns. Camille is employed by the Australian Institute of Marine Science (AIMS) as a postdoctoral fellow working with Julian Caley within the National Environment Research Program (NERP) Marine Biodiversity Hub.

 

Camille is a quantitative ecologist with a background in marine and coral reef ecology. She developed strong interests in statistics and ecological modeling during her studies and PhD. She is currently working on the spatially-explicit, statistical predictive modeling of biodiversity patterns on Australian coral reefs (Great Barrier Reef, Torres Strait, Ningaloo and Scott Reefs) from physical habitat characteristics.

 

Camille completed her PhD in Oceanology and Marine Biology at the University Pierre & Marie Curie, Paris VI, in December 2007. Camille performed her PhD at the Institut de Recherche pour le Développement (IRD) of Nouméa, New Caledonia, under the supervision of Professors D. Ponton and R. Galzin.

 

Qualifications

• Postdoctoral fellowship (Ecological Modelling), Australian Institute of Marine Science, supervised by J. Caley (AIMS), M. Meekan (AIMS) & C. Bradshaw (University of Adelaide), ongoing.

• Postdoctoral fellowship (Ecological Modelling), Institut de Recherche pour le Développement of Nouméa, New Caledonia supervised by S. Andréfouët, two months.

• PhD Thesis, University Pierre & Marie Curie (UPMC, Paris VI) and Ecole Pratique des hautes Etudes (EPHE), performed at Institut de Recherche pour le Développement (IRD) of Nouméa, New Caledonia, supervised by D. Ponton & R. Galzin. Obtained on 2007, Dec 11th with the Highest Grade.

• Master’s Thesis in Oceanology and Marine Environment, UPMC Paris VI. 2004.

• Engineering diploma in Food and Life Sciences, AgroParisTech, previously Institut National Agronomique de Paris-Grignon (INA P-G). 2004.

Scuba diving : ADAS Part I, HSE Scuba Diver, CMAS 4*, CAH (Institut National de Plongée Professionnelle)

Publications

Peer-reviewed articles

• Fordham DA, Brook BW, Caley MJ, Bradshaw CJA, Mellin C (in press) Conservation management and sustainable harvest quotas are sensitive to choice of climate modelling approach for two marine gastropods. Diversity & Distributions (accepted 21 Feb 2013)
  
• Sequeira A, Mellin C, Delean S, Meekan MG, Bradshaw CJA (in press) Spatial and temporal predictions of inter-decadal trends in Indian Ocean whale sharks. Mar Ecol Prog Ser doi: 10.3354/meps10166 (accepted 12 Nov 2012)
• Williams AJ, Loeun K, Nicol SJ, Chavance P, Ducrocq M, Harley SJ, Pilling GM, Allain V, Mellin C, Bradshaw CJA (2013) Population biology and vulnerability to fishing of deep-water Eteline snappers. Journal of Applied Ichthyology doi:10.1111/jai.12123 (accepted 10 Sep 2012)
• Sequeira A, Mellin C, Meekan MG, Sims DW, Bradshaw CJA (2013). Inferred global connectivity of whale shark populations. J Fish Biol 82:367–389 (accepted 7 Nov 2012)
• Russell BD, Connell SC, Mellin C, Brook BW, Burnell OW, Fordham DA (2012) Predicting the distribution of commercially viable invertebrate stocks under future climate. PLoS ONE 7(12): e46554
• Mellin C, Parrott L, Andrefouet S, Bradshaw CJA, MacNeil MA, Caley MJ (2012) Multi-scale marine biodiversity patterns inferred efficiently from habitat image processing. Ecological Applications 22:792-803.
• Mellin C, Russell BD, Connell SC, Brook BW, Fordham DA (2012) Geographic range determinants of two commercially important marine molluscs. Diversity and Distributions 18: 133-146.
• Sequeira A, Mellin C, Rowat D, Meekan MG, Bradshaw CJA (2012) Ocean-scale prediction of whale shark distribution. Diversity and Distributions 18:504-518
• Planes S, Lecchini D, Mellin C, Charton JC, Harmelin-Vivien M, Kulbicki M, Mou-Tham G, Galzin R (2012) Environmental determinants of coral reef fish diversity across several French Polynesian atolls. Comptes Rendus Biologie 335: 417-423.
  
• Fordham DA, Akçakaya HR, Araújo MB, Elith J, Keith D, Pearson R, Auld TD, Mellin C, Morgan JW, Regan TJ, Tozer M, Watts MJ, White M, Wintle B, Yates C and Brook BW (2012) Plant extinction risk under climate change: are forecast range shifts alone a good indicator of species vulnerability to global warming? Global Change Biology 18:1357-1371.
• Watts MJ, Li Y, Russell BD, Mellin C, Connell SD, Fordham DA (2011) A novel method for mapping reefs and subtidal rocky habitats using artificial neural networks. Ecological Modelling 222:2606-2614.
• Mellin C, Delean S, Caley MJ, Edgar GJ, Meekan MG, Pitcher CR, Przeslawski R, Williams A, Bradshaw CJA (2011) Effectiveness of Biological Surrogates for Predicting Patterns of Marine Biodiversity : a Global Meta-Analysis. PLoS ONE 6(6): e20141.
• Mellin C, Huchery C, Caley MJ, Meekan MG, Bradshaw CJA (2010) Reef size and isolation determine the temporal stability of coral reef fish populations. Ecology 91:3138-3145.
  
• McArthur, M.A., Brooke, B.P., Przeslawski, R., Ryan, D.A., Lucieer, V.L., Nichol, S., McCallum, A.W., Mellin, C., Cresswell, I.D., Radke, L.C. (2010). On the use of abiotic surrogates to describe marine benthic biodiversity. Estuarine, Coastal and Shelf Science 88:21-32.
  
• Mellin C, Bradshaw CJA, Meekan MG, Caley MJ (2010) Environmental and spatial predictors of species richness and abundance in coral reef fishes. Global Ecology and Biogeography 19:212-222.
• Mellin C, Ponton D (2009) Assemblages of reef fish settling on artificial substrates: the effect of habitat over two temporal scales. Marine and Freshwater Research 60:1-13.
• Mellin C (2009) Habitat selection at settlement and post-settlement dynamics in juvenile fish communities in the New Caledonia lagoon. Cybium 33:96-96
• Mellin C, Galzin R, Ponton D, Vigliola L (2009) Detecting age-structured effects in growth performance of coral reef fish juveniles. Aquatic Biology, 6:31-39.
• Mellin C, Andréfouët S, Kulbicki M, Dalleau M, Vigliola L (2009) Remote sensing and fish-habitat relationships in coral reef ecosystems: review and pathways for systematic multi-scale hierarchical research. Marine Pollution Bulletin, 58:11-19.
• Carassou L, Mellin C, Ponton D (2009) Assessing the diversity and abundances of larvae and juveniles of coral reef fish: a synthesis of six sampling techniques. Biodiversity and Conservation 18:355-371
• Mellin C, Ferraris J, Galzin R, Harmelin-Viven M, Kulbicki M, Lison de Loma T (2008) Natural and anthropogenic influences on the diversity structure of reef fish communities in the Tuamotu Archipelago (French Polynesia). Ecological Modelling 218: 182-187.
• Carassou L, Ponton D, Mellin C, Galzin R (2008) Predicting the structure of larval fish assemblages by a hierarchical classification of meteorological and water column forcing factors. Coral Reefs 27:867-880.
• Mellin C, Andréfouët S, Ponton D (2007) Spatially-explicit modelling of Indo-Pacific juvenile fish communities in a coral reef environment. Coral Reefs 26: 895-907.
• Mellin C, Kulbicki M, Ponton D (2007) Seasonal and ontogenetic patterns of habitat use in coral reef fish juveniles. Estuarine, Coastal and Shelf Science 75: 481-491.
• Mellin C, Ferraris J, Galzin R, Kulbicki M, Ponton D (2006) Diversity of coral reef fish assemblages: modelling of the species richness spectra from multi-scale environmental variables in the Tuamotu Archipelago (French Polynesia). Ecological Modelling 198: 409-425.

 

Oral presentations and posters

• Mellin C, Venables WN, Fordham DAF, Caley MJ, Meekan MG, Bradshaw CJA (2009) A conceptual approach to investigate the spatial sensitivity of species distribution models. International Society for Ecological Modelling, Quebec (Canada).
• Mellin C, Bradshaw CJA, Meekan MG, Caley MJ (2009) Oceanographic conditions and spatial context predict biogeographic patterns of coral reef fish diversity and abundance. Australian Marine Sciences Association, Adelaide (Australia).
• Mellin C, Bradshaw CJA, Meekan MG, Caley MJ (2009) Confronting the coral reef crisis: predictive mapping of coral reef fish susceptibility to climate change. 10th Inernational Congress on Ecology, Brisbane (Australia).
• Mellin C, Bradshaw CJA, Caley MJ, Pitcher CR, Meekan MG (2008) Oceanographic factors, spatial context and the predictive modelling of species richness of coral reef fishes. ASLO Aquatic Sciences Meeting 2009, Nice (France).
• Mellin C, Ferraris J, Galzin R, Harmelin-Vivien M, Kulbicki M, Lison de Loma T (2007) Natural and anthropogenic influences on the diversity structure of reef fish communities in the Tuamotu archipelago (French Polynesia). 6th European Conference on Ecological Modelling, Trieste (Italy).
• Mellin C, Ponton D (2006) What are the environmental factors that predict species richness and abundance of juvenile reef fishes? 1st Asia Pacific Coral Reef Symposium, Hong Kong.
• Carassou L, Mellin C, Ponton D (2006) La biodiversité des poissons de Nouvelle-Calédonie vue par leurs larves et leurs juvéniles. Forum Biodiversité des Ecosystèmes Coralliens, Nouméa (Nouvelle-Calédonie).
• Lison de Loma T, Chabanet P, Mellin C, Ferraris J, Galzin R (2005) Long term spatio-temporal variations of reef fish communities in the lagoon of Tikehau (French Polynesia), an extensively fished atoll. 7th Indo Pacific Fish Conference, Taipei (Taïwan).

 

Thesis

• Mellin C (2007) Habitat selection at settlement and post-settlement dynamics in juvenile fish communities in the New Caledonia lagoon. PhD Thesis, Pierre & Marie Curie University, Paris.

Entry last updated: Thursday, 21 Mar 2013