Jean-François Arnoldi

The attacking poles of my life-pendulum are mountains and science, physical and adventurous goals vs the intellectual pursuit to understand nature. My scientific approach consist in transforming questions about the natural world into abstract geometrical puzzles. My approach to mountains is to climb, hike, run, ski, and fly over them. My focus is ecological communities, their self-organisation and dynamical response to perturbations. My technical specialities are rock climbing and mathematics.

  1. J. Arnoldi, S. Coq, S. Kéfi, S. Ibanez, "Positive plant–soil feedback trigger tannin evolution by niche construction: A spatial stoichiometric model". Journal of Ecology (2019) .
    https://doi.org/10.1111/1365-2745.13234
  2. Y. Zelnik, J. Arnoldi, M. Loreau, "The Three Regimes of Spatial Recovery". Ecology (2019) 100, e02586.
    https://doi.org/10.1002/ecy.2586
  3. J. Arnoldi, M. Loreau, B. Haegeman, "The variability spectrum of ecological communities: How common and rare species shape stability patterns". Ecology Letters (2019) .
    http://doi.org/10.1111/ele.13345
  4. J. Arnoldi, A. Bideault, M. Loreau, B. Haegeman, "How Ecosystems Recover from Pulse Perturbations: A Theory of Short- to Long-Term Responses". J. Theor. Biol. (2018) 436, 79-92.
    https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jtbi.2017.10.003
  5. Y. Zelnik, J. Arnoldi, M. Loreau, "The Impact of Spatial and Temporal Dimensions of Disturbances on Ecosystem Stability". Front. Ecol. Evol. (2018) 6.
    https://doi.org/10.3389/fevo.2018.00224
  6. M. Barbier, J. Arnoldi, G. Bunin, M. Loreau, "Generic assembly patterns in complex ecological communities". Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences (2018) 115, 2156--2161.
    https://doi.org/10.1073/pnas.1710352115
  7. S. Wang, M. Loreau, J. Arnoldi, J. Fang, K. A. Rahman, S. Tao, C. d. Mazancourt, "An Invariability-Area Relationship Sheds New Light on the Spatial Scaling of Ecological Stability". Nat. Commun. (2017) 8, 15211.
    https://doi.org/10.1038/ncomms15211
  8. J. Arnoldi, F. Faure, T. Weich, "Asymptotic spectral gap and Weyl law for Ruelle resonances of open partially expanding maps". Ergodic Theory and Dynamical Systems (2017) 37, 1--58.
  9. J. Arnoldi, M. Loreau, B. Haegeman, "Resilience, Reactivity and Variability: A Mathematical Comparison of Ecological Stability Measures". J. Theor. Biol. (2016) 389, 47-59.
    https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jtbi.2015.10.012
  10. J. Arnoldi, B. Haegeman, "Unifying Dynamical and Structural Stability of Equilibria". Proc. R. Soc. Math. Phys. Eng. Sci. (2016) 472, 20150874.
    https://doi.org/10.1098/rspa.2015.0874
  11. J. Arnoldi, "Fractal Weyl law for skew extensions of expanding maps". Nonlinearity (2012) 25, 1671.