Mickaël Henry - Bees and Bats research home page
My main research topics focus on bee and bat foraging ecology, and implications in species conservation and distribution patterns at landscape scale.
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Researcher: Behavioral Ecology & Spatial Ecology
INRA (Institut National de la Recherche Agronomique)
Research Unit 406 - Bees & Environnement
Site Agroparc
F-84914 Avignon Cedex 9
FRANCE
Bee research unit, INRA Avignon - UR406 Abeilles & Environnement
Main publications
Alaux, C., Allier, F., Decourtye, A., Odoux, J.-F., Tamic, T., Chabirand, M., Delestra, E., Decugis, F., Conte, Y.L., Henry, M., 2017. A ‘Landscape physiology’ approach for assessing bee health highlights the benefits of floral landscape enrichment and semi-natural habitats. Sci. Rep. 7, 40568. https://doi.org/10.1038/srep40568
Geslin, B., Gauzens, B., Baude, M., Dajoz, I., Fontaine, C., Henry, M., Ropars, L., Rollin, O., Thébault, E., Vereecken, N.J., 2017. Massively introduced managed species and their consequences for plant–pollinator interactions. Advances in Ecological Research 57, 147–199. https://doi.org/10.1016/bs.aecr.2016.10.007
Henry, M., Becher, M.A., Osborne, J.L., Kennedy, P.J., Aupinel, P., Bretagnolle, V., Brun, F., Grimm, V., Horn, J., Requier, F., 2017. Predictive systems models can help elucidate bee declines driven by multiple combined stressors. Apidologie 48, 328–339. https://doi.org/10.1007/s13592-016-0476-0
Requier, F., Odoux, J.-F., Henry, M., Bretagnolle, V., 2017. The carry-over effects of pollen shortage decrease the survival of honeybee colonies in farmlands. J Appl Ecol 54, 1161–1170. https://doi.org/10.1111/1365-2664.12836
Decourtye, A., Vidau, C., Rollin, O., Requier, F., Rüger, C., Allier, F., Le Féon, V., Kretzschmar, A., Devillers, J., Henry, M., Odoux, J.-F., 2016. Presence of wild and managed bees in the agricultural crops: overview of available data to reduce pesticide risk. Cah. Agric. 25, 44001. https://doi.org/10.1051/cagri/2016025
Féon, V.L., Henry, M., Guilbaud, L., Coiffait-Gombault, C., Dufrêne, E., Kolodziejczyk, E., Kuhlmann, M., Requier, F., Vaissière, B.E., 2016. An expert-assisted citizen science program involving agricultural high schools provides national patterns on bee species assemblages. J Insect Conserv 1–14. https://doi.org/10.1007/s10841-016-9927-1
Fortel, L., Henry, M., Guilbaud, L., Mouret, H., Vaissière, B.E., 2016. Use of human-made nesting structures by wild bees in an urban environment. J Insect Conserv 20, 239–253. https://doi.org/10.1007/s10841-016-9857-y
Charreton, M., Decourtye, A., Henry, M., Rodet, G., Sandoz, J.-C., Charnet, P., Collet, C., 2015. A locomotor deficit induced by sublethal doses of pyrethroid and neonicotinoid insecticides in the honeybee Apis mellifera. PLoS ONE 10, e0144879. https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0144879
Henry, M., Cerrutti, N., Aupinel, P., Decourtye, A., Gayrard, M., Odoux, J.-F., Pissard, A., Rüger, C., Bretagnolle, V., 2015. Reconciling laboratory and field assessments of neonicotinoid toxicity to honeybees. Proc. R. Soc. B 282, 20152110. https://doi.org/10.1098/rspb.2015.2110
Kleijn, D., Winfree, R., Bartomeus, I., Carvalheiro, L.G., Henry, M., Isaacs, R., Klein, A.-M., Kremen, C., M’Gonigle, L.K., Rader, R., Ricketts, T.H., Williams, N.M., Lee Adamson, N., Ascher, J.S., Báldi, A., Batáry, P., Benjamin, F., Biesmeijer, J.C., Blitzer, E.J., Bommarco, R., Brand, M.R., Bretagnolle, V., Button, L., Cariveau, D.P., Chifflet, R., Colville, J.F., Danforth, B.N., Elle, E., Garratt, M.P.D., Herzog, F., Holzschuh, A., Howlett, B.G., Jauker, F., Jha, S., Knop, E., Krewenka, K.M., Le Féon, V., Mandelik, Y., May, E.A., Park, M.G., Pisanty, G., Reemer, M., Riedinger, V., Rollin, O., Rundlöf, M., Sardiñas, H.S., Scheper, J., Sciligo, A.R., Smith, H.G., Steffan-Dewenter, I., Thorp, R., Tscharntke, T., Verhulst, J., Viana, B.F., Vaissière, B.E., Veldtman, R., Westphal, C., Potts, S.G., 2015. Delivery of crop pollination services is an insufficient argument for wild pollinator conservation [HIGHLY CITED PAPER]. Nat Commun 6. https://doi.org/10.1038/ncomms8414
Meyer, C.F.J., Aguiar, L.M.S., Aguirre, L.F., Baumgarten, J., Clarke, F.M., Cosson, J.-F., Estrada Villegas, S., Fahr, J., Faria, D., Furey, N., Henry, M., Jenkins, R.K.B., Kunz, T.H., Cristina MacSwiney González, M., Moya, I., Pons, J.-M., Racey, P.A., Rex, K., Sampaio, E.M., Stoner, K.E., Voigt, C.C., von Staden, D., Weise, C.D., Kalko, E.K.V., 2015. Species undersampling in tropical bat surveys: effects on emerging biodiversity patterns. J Anim Ecol 84, 113–123. https://doi.org/10.1111/1365-2656.12261
Requier, F., Odoux, J.-F., Tamic, T., Moreau, N., Henry, M., Decourtye, A., Bretagnolle, V., 2015. Honey bee diet in intensive farmland habitats reveals an unexpectedly high flower richness and a major role of weeds [HIGHLY CITED PAPER]. Ecol. Appl. 25, 881–890. https://doi.org/10.1890/14-1011.1
Rollin, O., Bretagnolle, V., Fortel, L., Guilbaud, L., Henry, M., 2015. Habitat, spatial and temporal drivers of diversity patterns in a wild bee assemblage. Biodivers Conserv 1–20. https://doi.org/10.1007/s10531-014-0852-x
Avila-Cabadilla, L.D., Stoner, K.E., Nassar, J.M., Espírito-Santo, M.M., Alvarez-Añorve, M.Y., Aranguren, C.I., Henry, M., González-Carcacía, J.A., Dolabela Falcão, L.A., Sanchez-Azofeifa, G.A., 2014. Phyllostomid bat occurrence in successional stages of neotropical dry forests. PLoS ONE 9, e84572. https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0084572
Deguines, N., Jono, C., Baude, M., Henry, M., Julliard, R., Fontaine, C., 2014. Large-scale trade-off between agricultural intensification and crop pollination services. Frontiers in Ecology and the Environment 12, 212–217.
Fortel, L., Henry, M., Guilbaud, L., Guirao, A.L., Kuhlmann, M., Mouret, H., Rollin, O., Vaissière, B.E., 2014. Decreasing abundance, increasing diversity and changing structure of the wild bee community (Hymenoptera: Anthophila) along an urbanization gradient. PLoS ONE 9, e104679. https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0104679
Fournier, A., Rollin, O., Le Féon, V., Decourtye, A., Henry, M., 2014. Crop emptying rate and the design of pesticide risk assessment schemes in honey bee and wild bees (Hymenoptera: Apidae). J. Econ. Entomol. 107, 38–46. http://dx.doi.org/10.1603/EC13087
Henry, M., Bertrand, C., Le Féon, V., Requier, F., Odoux, J.-F., Aupinel, P., Bretagnolle, V., Decourtye, A., 2014. Pesticide risk assessment in free-ranging bees is weather and landscape dependent. Nat. Commun. 5, 4359. https://doi.org/10.1038/ncomms5359
Odoux, J.-F., Aupinel, P., Gateff, S., Requier, F., Henry, M., Bretagnolle, V., 2014. ECOBEE: a tool for long-term bee colony monitoring at landscape scale in West European intensive agrosystems. J. Api. Res. 53, 57–66.
Requier, F., Henry, M., Decourtye, A., 2014. The RFID chip flies to the aid of bees - Les puces RFID volent au secours des abeilles. Biofutur 357, 46–51.
Rodet, G., Henry, M., 2014. Analytic partitioning of honeybee (Apis mellifera L.) flight activity at nest entrance: adaptation and behavioural inertia in a changing environment. Ecological Research 29, 1043–1051.
Decourtye, A., Henry, M., Desneux, N., 2013. Environment: Overhaul pesticide testing on bees. Nature 497, 188–188. https://doi.org/10.1038/497188a
Henry, M., 2013. Assessing homing failure in honeybees exposed to pesticides. Front. Physiol. 4, 352. https://doi.org/10.3389/fphys.2013.00352
Henry, M., Decourtye, A., 2013. Ecological relevance in honeybee pesticide risk assessment: developing context-dependent scenarios to manage uncertainty. Front. Physiol. 4, 62. https://doi.org/10.3389/fphys.2013.00062
Le Féon, V., Burel, F., Chifflet, R., Henry, M., Ricroch, A., Vaissière, B.E., Baudry, J., 2013. Solitary bee abundance and species richness in dynamic agricultural landscapes. Agriculture, Ecosystems & Environment 166, 94–101. https://doi.org/16/j.agee.2011.06.020
Rollin, O., Bretagnolle, V., Decourtye, A., Michel, N., Vaissière, B.E., Henry, M., 2013. Differences of floral resource use between honey bees and wild bees in an intensive farming system. Agriculture, Ecosystems & Environment 179, 78–86.
Henry, M., Béguin, M., Requier, F., Rollin, O., Odoux, J.-F., Aupinel, P., Aptel, J., Tchamitchian, S., Decourtye, A., 2012a. Response to comment on “A common pesticide decreases foraging success and survival in honey bees.” Science 337, 1453–1453. https://doi.org/10.1126/science.1224930
Henry, M., Béguin, M., Requier, F., Rollin, O., Odoux, J.-F., Aupinel, P., Aptel, J., Tchamitchian, S., Decourtye, A., 2012b. A common pesticide decreases foraging success and survival in honey bees [HIGHLY CITED PAPER]. Science 336, 348–350. https://doi.org/10.1126/science.1215039
Henry, M., Fröchen, M., Maillet-Mezeray, J., Breyne, E., Allier, F., Odoux, J.-F., Decourtye, A., 2012c. Spatial autocorrelation in honeybee foraging activity reveals optimal focus scale for predicting agro-environmental scheme efficiency. Ecol. Model. 225, 103–114.
Henry, M., Stoner, K.E., 2011. Relationship between Spatial Working Memory Performance and Diet Specialization in Two Sympatric Nectar Bats. PLoS ONE 6, e23773. https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0023773
Meyer, C.F.J., Aguiar, L.M.S., Aguirre, L.F., Baumgarten, J., Clarke, F.M., Cosson, J.-F., Villegas, S.E., Fahr, J., Faria, D., Furey, N., Henry, M., Hodgkison, R., Jenkins, R.K.B., Jung, K.G., Kingston, T., Kunz, T.H., Cristina MacSwiney Gonzalez, M., Moya, I., Patterson, B.D., Pons, J.-M., Racey, P.A., Rex, K., Sampaio, E.M., Solari, S., Stoner, K.E., Voigt, C.C., von Staden, D., Weise, C.D., Kalko, E.K.V., 2011. Accounting for detectability improves estimates of species richness in tropical bat surveys. Journal of Applied Ecology 48, 777–787. https://doi.org/10.1111/j.1365-2664.2011.01976.x
Henry, M., Cosson, J.F., Pons, J.M., 2010. Modelling multi-scale spatial variation in species richness from abundance data in a complex neotropical bat assemblage. Ecological Modelling 221, 2018–2027. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.ecolmodel.2010.05.011
Meyer, C.F.J., Aguiar, L.M.S., Aguirre, L.F., Baumgarten, J., Clarke, F.M., Cosson, J.-F., Villegas, S.E., Fahr, J., Faria, D., Furey, N., Henry, M., Hodgkison, R., Jenkins, R.K.B., Jung, K.G., Kingston, T., Kunz, T.H., MacSwiney Gonzalez, M.C., Moya, I., Pons, J.-M., Racey, P.A., Rex, K., Sampaio, E.M., Stoner, K.E., Voigt, C.C., Staden, D. von, Weise, C.D., Kalko, E.K.V., 2010. Long-term monitoring of tropical bats for anthropogenic impact assessment: Gauging the statistical power to detect population change. Biological Conservation 143, 2797–2807. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.biocon.2010.07.029
Avila-Cabadilla, L.D., Stoner, K.E., Henry, M., Alvarez-Añorve, M.Y., 2009. Composition, structure and diversity of phyllostomid bat assemblages in different successional stages of a tropical dry forest. Forest Ecology and Management 258, 986–996. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.foreco.2008.12.011
Henry, M., 2008. 2008 Biotropica Award for Excellence in Tropical Biology and Conservation. Biotropica 40, 653–654.
Henry, M., Cosson, J.-F., Pons, J.-M., 2007. Abundance may be a misleading indicator of fragmentation-sensitivity: The case of fig-eating bats. Biological Conservation 139, 462–467. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.biocon.2007.06.024
Henry, M., Jouard, S., 2007. Effect of Bat Exclusion on Patterns of Seed Rain in Tropical Rain Forest in French Guiana. Biotropica 39, 510–518. https://doi.org/10.1111/j.1744-7429.2007.00286.x
Henry, M., Kalko, E.K.., 2007. Foraging strategy and breeding constraints of Rhinophylla pumilio (Phyllostomidae) in the Amazon lowlands. Journal of Mammalogy 88, 81–93.
Henry, M., Pons, J.-M., Cosson, J.-F., 2007. Foraging behaviour of a frugivorous bat helps bridge landscape connectivity and ecological processes in a fragmented rainforest. Journal of Animal Ecology 76, 801–813. https://doi.org/10.1111/j.1365-2656.2007.01258.x
Delaval, M., Henry, M., Charles-Dominique, P., 2005. Interspecific competition and niche partitioning: example of a Neotropical rainforest bat community. Revue d’écologie 60, 149–165.
Henry, M., Barrière, P., Gautier-Hion, A., Colyn, M., 2004. Species composition, abundance and vertical stratification of a bat community (Megachiroptera: Pteropodidae) in a West African rain forest. Journal of Tropical Ecology 20, 21–29.
Henry, M., Thomas, D.W., Vaudry, R., Carrier, M., 2002. Foraging Distances and Home Range of Pregnant and Lactating Little Brown Bats (Myotis lucifugus). Journal of Mammalogy 83, 767–774.
