Marion Le Gall
Instructor, Global Locust Initiative, Global Institute of Sustainability and Innovation
School of Sustainability
Arizona State University
PO Box 875502
Tempe, AZ 85287-5502
Titles
- Instructor, Global Locust Initiative, Global Institute of Sustainability and Innovation
Biography
Marion Le Gall has always loved insects, and translated that interest into a career as a nutritional ecologist to study generalist herbivores. Her research seeks to understand how generalists solve the problem of balancing multiple and changing nutrient needs and how it affects their behavior and performance. She likes to use a physiological approach (the Geometric Framework) as a window into mechanisms underlying ecological patterns and processes. The overarching goal of her research is to use these insights to help establish sustainable management programs for herbivorous pests.
Education
- PhD, Entomology, Texas A&M University, 2014
- MS (with honors), Population Biology, François Rabelais University, 2008
- BS (with honors), Integrative and Evolutionary Biology, University of Western Brittany and François Rabelais University, 2006
Journal Articles
2021
Le Gall, M., M. L. Word Ries, A. Beye and A. J. Cease. 2021. Physiological status is a stronger predictor of nutrient selection than ambient plant nutrient content for a wild herbivore. Current Research in Insect Science 1:100004. DOI: 10.1016/j.cris.2020.100004. (link )
2020
Lawton, D., C. Waters, M. Le Gall and A. Cease. 2020. Woody vegetation remnants within pastures influence locust distribution: Testing bottom-up and top-down control. Agriculture, Ecosystems & Environment 296(Jul):106931. DOI: 10.1016/j.agee.2020.106931. (link )
Le Gall, M., M. L. Word Ries, N. Thompson, A. Beye and A. J. Cease. 2020. Nitrogen fertilizer decreases survival and reproduction of female locusts by increasing plant protein to carbohydrate ratio. Journal of Animal Ecology 89(10):2214-2221. DOI: 10.1111/1365-2656.13288. (link )
Le Gall, M., M. L. Word Ries, N. Thompson, B. Manneh, A. Beye and A. J. Cease. 2020. Linking land use and the nutritional ecology of herbivores: A case study with the Senegalese locust. Functional Ecology 34(1):167-181. DOI: 10.1111/1365-2435.13466. (link )
2019
Le Gall, M., R. Overson and A. Cease. 2019. A global review on locusts (Orthoptera: Acrididae) and their interactions with livestock grazing practices. Frontiers in Ecology and Evolution 7:263. DOI: 10.3389/fevo.2019.00263.