FRE Lab
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About FRELab
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The research in my laboratory focuses on broad-scale ecological processes in coral reefs and on the functional importance of reef organisms to the resilience of this ecosystem – We aim to understand how individual characteristics of reef organisms could influence their response to stressors, and how environmental changes could shape functions of the coral reef ecosystem and the services they provide to human society. Therefore, we develop a trait-based approach centered on the description of species performance and their role in the ecosystem. We have a specific interest on reef organisms from marginal community, i.e. species successfully colonizing and/or expanding in suboptimal environments. In particular, species expanding from shallow tropical locations to mesophotic zones and high-latitude areas may have developed specific features to survive a wide range of environmental conditions and could be the keys species for the future of the coral reefs. Overall, our work consists in analyzing how current human and climatic-modifications could reconfigure the coral reefs in the future and the functional consequences of these changes.
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Our Team
Vianney Denis, Ph.D.
Assistant Professor
Functional Reef Ecology Lab
Institute of Oceanography, Room 406
National Taiwan University
Taipei, TAIWAN
Keyword: Coral reefs, Ecosystem resilience, Functional ecology, Acclimatization and adaptation abilities, Anthropogenic disturbances, Environmental changes
Tel: +886.920.270.950
email: vianney.denis(at)gmail(dot)com
skype: vianney.denis
Scholar profile: Vianney Denis
Functional Reef Ecology Lab
Institute of Oceanography, Room 406
National Taiwan University
Taipei, TAIWAN
Keyword: Coral reefs, Ecosystem resilience, Functional ecology, Acclimatization and adaptation abilities, Anthropogenic disturbances, Environmental changes
Tel: +886.920.270.950
email: vianney.denis(at)gmail(dot)com
skype: vianney.denis
Scholar profile: Vianney Denis
orcid.org/0000-0002-0914-5586Positions held
2015-Current: Assistant Professor, Institute of Oceanography, National Taiwan University
2011-2015: Post-Doctoral Researcher, CREEG Lab, Biodiversity Research Centre, Academia Sinica, Taiwan
2009-2010: Temporary Teacher and Researcher, Department of Biology, University of Reunion, France
2006: Research Assistant, Laboratory of Marine Ecology, University of Reunion, France
2004: Research Assistant (summer), Laboratory of Benthic Ecology, CNRS, Biological Station of Roscoff, France
2011-2015: Post-Doctoral Researcher, CREEG Lab, Biodiversity Research Centre, Academia Sinica, Taiwan
2009-2010: Temporary Teacher and Researcher, Department of Biology, University of Reunion, France
2006: Research Assistant, Laboratory of Marine Ecology, University of Reunion, France
2004: Research Assistant (summer), Laboratory of Benthic Ecology, CNRS, Biological Station of Roscoff, France
Our Assistant
Yen-Li Liu
Administrative Assistant Make our lab smooth |
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Our Students
(2nd year Master)
Qi (Hua Hua) Chen
Coral Physiology Delineate coral species niches for assessing their tolerance to changes |
Vicky Yu Ting Lin
Benthic Ecology Diversity and structure of mesophotic coral assemblages in Taiwan |
(1st year Master)
Bill Ching-Wei Wang
Soft Coral Physiology & Ecology Adaptive strategies in soft corals |
Eric Hsieh
Coral Physiology, Isotopes Plasticity in coral diet and trophic ecology |
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(3rd year Bachelor)
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(3st year Bachelor - part time assistant)
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Heidi Annala
Coral Physiology & Ecology Diversity of coral associated Symbiodinium across habitats |
Clement Chua
3D coral scanning & digital museum Defining coral morphologies by photogrammetry |
(Our ghosts - not there anymore but still haunting the lab)
Nicolas Sturaro, Ph.D.
Post-Doctoral researcher student (2016-2017) Coral trophic ecology |
Jian-Wen Chen
Master student (2015-2017) Regional and depth differences in the ecological role of reef fish in Taiwan |