Joël ROBIN

Professor and researcher. PhD in Analysis and Modeling, Aquatic Ecosystems

Expertise

Study of algal population dynamics, determinism of cyanobacterial blooms, trophic functioning of water bodies, analysis of biodiversity in small water bodies

Research unit

Agroecology and the environment

Keywords

Phytoplankton, algae, cyanobacteria, pond, swimming, fish farming, fishing, eutrophication, pollution.

Ongoing or recently completed projects

PONDERFUL : POND Ecosystems for Resilient Future Landscapes in a Changing Climate (European H2020 Project)
SEPURE : New strategies for building and operating pond production systems for sustainable fish farming (European EMFF Project)
FISH ACTION : Experiments to optimize biological and fish farming productivity in ponds and development of a decision-making tool
AGROECOLOGIE ETANGS : Defining agroecological practices to maintain ecosystem services and conserve biodiversity in fish ponds
CYANOTOX : Determinism of the development and toxicity of cyanobacterial biofilms in rivers

Teaching activities

Head of the Animal Biology Teaching Unit, 1st year engineering program
Ecology Teacher, 2nd Year Engineering Program
Head of the “Water and Environment” module, 4th year engineering program
Head of the MAESTRO optional module (professional work experience supervised by a teacher), 4th year engineering program
Summer School speaker (welcoming foreign students)
Coordinator of a specialization in Ecology, 5th year engineering program
Lecturer in various areas of specialization (aquaculture, ecology), fifth year of engineering program
Lecturer in the MASTER BEEB program, Bioassessment of Ecosystems and Biodiversity Expertise, University of Lyon 1.

Professional experience and education

From 1998 to the present day : Lecturer and researcher at ISARA-Lyon, affiliated with the Agroecology and Environment Research Unit, ISARA.
2017 : Habilitation to Direct Research. Subject: Dynamics of phytoplankton communities in fish farming systems: in search of functional equilibrium. Claude Bernard University – Lyon 1 (2017).
1999 : Doctorate in “Analysis and Modeling of Biological Systems.” Subject: “Seasonal dynamics of phytoplankton populations.” Claude Bernard University – Lyon I (1999).

Dernières publications

2025

Article dans une revue

Emmanuel Guisepelli, Jacques-Aristide Perrin, Joël Robin. Les représentations et usages des étangs en Isère : des conflits à la concertation ?. Annales de géographie, 2025, 765 (6), pp.56-84.

Parinaz Rashidi, Sopan Patil, Jan Kuiper, Thora Tenbrink, Jacques-Aristide Perrin, et al.. Stakeholder perspectives on pondscapes: a multinational analysis using storylines and the Nature Futures Framework. Ecosystems and People, 2025, 21 (1),

Charlotte Robichon, Delphine Latour, Fanny Perrière, Sylvain Dolédec, Joël Robin. Determinism of anatoxin-a production in Phormidium-dominated biofilms of a regulated river (Ain, France). Harmful Algae, 2025, 148, pp.102912.

2024

Sylvain Dolédec, Joël Robin, Charlotte Robichon, Delphine Latour, Fanny Perriere. Les cyanobactéries benthiques : facteurs de prolifération et risques écologiques dans les eaux continentales. Cahiers Scientifiques de la Fondation Pierre Vérots, 2024, 10.

Léo Girard, Thomas A Davidson, Vincent Tolon, Tuba Bucak, Soraya Rouifed, et al.. The balance of carbon emissions versus burial in fish ponds: The role of primary producers and management practices. Aquaculture Reports, 2024, 39, pp.102456.

Léo Girard, Alexander Wezel, Joël Robin. Drying out fish ponds, for an entire growth season, as an agroecological practice: maintaining primary producers for fish production and biodiversity conservation. Open Research Europe, 2024, 3, pp.125.

Jacques-Aristide Perrin, Emmanuel Guisepelli, Joël Robin. Gouverner un territoire d’étangs en déprise par le lancement d’une filière locale de pisciculture extensive : cas d’étude en Isère (France). VertigO : La revue électronique en sciences de l’environnement, 2024, 24-1,

2023

M. Cuenca-Cambronero, M. Blicharska, Jacques-Aristide Perrin, T. A. Davidson, B. Oertli, et al.. Challenges and opportunities in the use of ponds and pondscapes as Nature-based Solutions. Hydrobiologia, 2023, pp.1-15.

Adeline Fontanilles, Alexander Wezel, Soraya Rouifed, Mathieu Guérin, Marie Vanacker, et al.. Disturbance and resilience of aquatic plant communities in fish ponds after temporary dry periods. Aquatic Ecology, 2023,

Charlotte Robichon, Joël Robin, Sylvain Dolédec. Relative effect of hydraulics, physico-chemistry and other biofilm algae on benthic cyanobacteria assemblages in a regulated river. Science of the Total Environment, 2023, 872, pp.162142.

2022

Benoit Sarrazin, Alexander Wezel, Mathieu Guerin, Joël Robin. Pesticide contamination of fish ponds in relation to crop area in a mixed farmland-pond landscape (Dombes area, France). Environmental Science and Pollution Research, 2022,

2021

Sylvain Dolédec, Laurent Simon, Jérémie Blemus, Amandine Rigal, Joël Robin, et al.. Multiple stressors shape invertebrate assemblages and reduce their trophic niche: A case study in a regulated stream. Science of the Total Environment, 2021, 773, pp.145061.

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