Yvon Le Maho Explained

Yvon Le Maho
Birth Date:	7 September 1947
Birth Place:	Goderville, Normandy, France
Employer:	University of Strasbourg
Known For:	Ecophysiology

Yvon Le Maho (born 7 September 1947 in Goderville^[1]) is a French ecophysiologist^[2] and research director at the CNRS at the University of Strasbourg.__TOC__

Biography

He was elected correspondent of the French Academy of sciences on 22 March 1993, then member (in the Integrative Biology section) on 28 October 1996.^[3] He was involved in the Grenelle de l'environnement and drafted a report on GMO maize^[4] in which he clearly expressed his opposition to GMOs, drawing in particular on the work of Gilles-Éric Séralini and Corinne Lepage of the CRII-GEN foundation.^[5]

Publications

• "Ecophysiology: Nature and function", Nature 416, 21 (2002)

In collaboration with

• A. Ancel, G.L. Kooyman, P.J. Ponganis, J.-P. Gendner, J. Lignon, X. Mestre, N. Huin, P.H. Thorson, P. Robisson, Y. Le Maho, « Foraging behaviour of emperor penguins as a resource detector in winter and summer », Nature, 360: 336-339 (1992)
• A. Ancel, H. Visser, Y. Handrich, D. Masman, Y. Le Maho, « Energy saving in huddling penguins », Nature, 385: 304-305 (1997).
• Y. Handrich, R. M. Bevan, J.-B. Charrassin, P. J. Butler, K. Putz, A. J. Woakes, J. Lage & Y. Le Maho., « Hypothermia in foraging king penguins », Nature 388, 64-67 (1997).
• M. Gauthier-Clerc, Y. Le Maho, Y. Clerquin, S. Drault, Y. Handrich, « Penguin fathers store food for their chicks », Nature, 408: 928-929 (2000).
• Luc Abbadie, Gilles Bœuf, Allain Bougrain-Dubourg, Claudine Cohen, Bruno David, Philippe Descola, Françoise Gaill, Jean Gayon, Thierry Hoquet, Philippe Janvier, Yvon Le Maho, Guillaume Lecointre, Valérie Masson-Delmotte, Armand de Ricqlès, Philippe Taquet, Stéphanie Thiébault et Frédérique Viard, Paris, Reliefs/MNHN, 2017, 80 p. .

Notes and References

1. http://www.cnrs.fr/comitenational/doc/annuaire/cv_csd/edd/LeMaho_N.pdf CV d'Yvon Le Maho
2. https://www.lemonde.fr/savoirs-et-connaissances/article/2002/10/21/yvon-le-maho-les-oiseaux-face-aux-contraintes-energetiques_295034_3328.html « Yvon Le Maho : Les oiseaux face aux contraintes énergétiques »
3. Web site: Yvon Le Maho. academie-sciences.fr. fr. 1993–1996. 16 February 2018. .
4. Web site: Production de maïs OGM : débat sur le moratoire français.. www.vie-publique.fr. 2009-02-13. 2016-09-15.
5. Web site: OGM : le mystérieux rapport d'Yvon Le Maho.. Rivière-Wekstein. Gil. Agriculture et Environnement. 2016-05-10.