INRAE PACA

UR 406 Abeilles et Environnement
Site Agroparc, Domaine Saint-Paul
84914 AVIGNON Cedex 9, France
mickael.henry@inrae.fr

Directeur de l’UR 406 Abeilles et Environnement, INRAE

 Research topics

•  Honey bees and native bees
•  Central place foragers
•  Spatial and behavioral ecology
•  Downscaling global change effects
•  Field monitoring

Research

My main research topic focuses on bee foraging ecology. As central place foragers, bees face major behavioural constraints. Spatial constraints emerge from the need to find suitable nesting and foraging places close to each other, while temporal constraints emerge from the need to repeatedly commute among those places to sustain current food intake. I investigate those potentially limiting constraints in the context of global changes in natural and human-dominated systems.

 Publications

1. Henry, M., Rodet, G., 2020. The apiary influence range: A new paradigm for managing the cohabitation of honey bees and wild bee communities. Acta Oecologica 105, 103555. https://authors.elsevier.com/a/1a%7Em9,Q4YJR9E
2. Requier, F., Henry, M., Decourtye, A., Brun, F., Aupinel, P., Rebaudo, F., Bretagnolle, V., 2020. Measuring ontogenetic shifts in central-place foraging insects: a case study with honey bees. J. Anim. Ecol. In Press. https://doi.org/10.1101/2020.03.31.017582
3. Requier, F., Rome, Q., Villemant, C., Henry, M., 2020. A biodiversity-friendly method to mitigate the invasive Asian hornet’s impact on European honey bees. J Pest Sci 93, 1–9. https://doi.org/10.1007/s10340-019-01159-9
4. Wintermantel, D., Odoux, J.-F., Decourtye, A., Henry, M., Allier, F., Bretagnolle, V., 2020. Neonicotinoid-induced mortality risk for bees foraging on oilseed rape nectar persists despite EU moratorium. Science of The Total Environment 704, 135400. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.scitotenv.2019.135400
5. Decourtye, A., Alaux, C., Le Conte, Y., Henry, M., 2019. Toward the protection of bees and pollination under global change: present and future perspectives in a challenging applied science. Curr. Opin. Insect Sc. 35, 123–131. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.cois.2019.07.008
6. Rollin, O., Pérez-Méndez, N., Bretagnolle, V., Henry, M., 2019. Preserving habitat quality at local and landscape scales increases wild bee diversity in intensive farming systems. Agriculture, Ecosystems & Environment 275, 73–80. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.agee.2019.01.012
7. Monchanin, C., Henry, M., Decourtye, A., Dalmon, A., Fortini, D., Bœuf, E., Dubuisson, L., Aupinel, P., Chevallereau, C., Petit, J., Fourrier, J., 2019. Hazard of a neonicotinoid insecticide on the homing flight of the honeybee depends on climatic conditions and Varroa infestation. Chemosphere. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.chemosphere.2019.02.129
8. Requier, F., Rome, Q., Chiron, G., Decante, D., Marion, S., Menard, M., Muller, F., Villemant, C., Henry, M., 2018. Predation of the invasive Asian hornet affects foraging activity and survival probability of honey bees in Western Europe. J Pest Sci. https://doi.org/10.1007/s10340-018-1063-0
9. Henry, M., Rodet, G., 2018. Controlling the impact of the managed honeybee on wild bees in protected areas. Scientific Reports 8, 9308. https://doi.org/10.1038/s41598-018-27591-y
10. Alaux, C., Allier, F., Decourtye, A., Odoux, J.-F., Tamic, T., Chabirand, M., Delestra, E., Decugis, F., Conte, Y.L., Henry, M., 2017. A ‘Landscape physiology’ approach for assessing bee health highlights the benefits of floral landscape enrichment and semi-natural habitats. Sci.Rep. 7, 40568. https://doi.org/10.1038/srep40568
11. Geslin, B., Gauzens, B., Baude, M., Dajoz, I., Fontaine, C., Henry, M., Ropars, L., Rollin, O., Thébault, E., Vereecken, N.J., 2017. Massively introduced managed species and their consequences for plant–pollinator interactions. Advances in Ecological Research 57, 147–199.https://doi.org/10.1016/bs.aecr.2016.10.007
12. Henry, M., Becher, M.A., Osborne, J.L., Kennedy, P.J., Aupinel, P., Bretagnolle, V., Brun, F., Grimm, V., Horn, J., Requier, F., 2017. Predictive systems models can help elucidate bee declines driven by multiple combined stressors. Apidologie 48, 328–339. https://doi.org/10.1007/s13592-016-0476-0
13. Requier, F., Odoux, J.-F., Henry, M., Bretagnolle, V., 2017. The carry-over effects of pollen shortage decrease the survival of honeybee colonies in farmlands. J Appl Ecol 54, 1161–1170. https://doi.org/10.1111/1365-2664.12836
14. Decourtye, A., Vidau, C., Rollin, O., Requier, F., Rüger, C., Allier, F., Le Féon, V., Kretzschmar, A., Devillers, J., Henry, M., Odoux, J.-F., 2016. Presence of wild and managed bees in the agricultural crops: overview of available data to reduce pesticide risk. Cah. Agric. 25, 44001. https://doi.org/10.1051/cagri/2016025
15. Féon, V.L., Henry, M., Guilbaud, L., Coiffait-Gombault, C., Dufrêne, E., Kolodziejczyk, E., Kuhlmann, M., Requier, F., Vaissière, B.E., 2016. An expert-assisted citizen science program involving agricultural high schools provides national patterns on bee species assemblages. J Insect Conserv 1–14. https://doi.org/10.1007/s10841-016-9927-1
16. Fortel, L., Henry, M., Guilbaud, L., Mouret, H., Vaissière, B.E., 2016. Use of human-made nesting structures by wild bees in an urban environment. J Insect Conserv 20, 239–253. https://doi.org/10.1007/s10841-016-9857-y
17. Charreton, M., Decourtye, A., Henry, M., Rodet, G., Sandoz, J.-C., Charnet, P., Collet, C., 2015. A locomotor deficit induced by sublethal doses of pyrethroid and neonicotinoid insecticides in the honeybee Apis mellifera. PLoS ONE 10, e0144879. https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0144879
18. Henry, M., Cerrutti, N., Aupinel, P., Decourtye, A., Gayrard, M., Odoux, J.-F., Pissard, A., Rüger, C., Bretagnolle, V., 2015. Reconciling laboratory and field assessments of neonicotinoid toxicity to honeybees. Proc. R. Soc. B 282, 20152110. https://doi.org/10.1098/rspb.2015.2110
19. Kleijn, D., Winfree, R., Bartomeus, I., Carvalheiro, L.G., Henry, M., Isaacs, R., Klein, A.-M., Kremen, C., M’Gonigle, L.K., Rader, R., Ricketts, T.H., Williams, N.M., Lee Adamson, N., Ascher, J.S., Báldi, A., Batáry, P., Benjamin, F., Biesmeijer, J.C., Blitzer, E.J., Bommarco, R., Brand, M.R., Bretagnolle, V., Button, L., Cariveau, D.P., Chifflet, R., Colville, J.F., Danforth, B.N., Elle, E., Garratt, M.P.D., Herzog, F., Holzschuh, A., Howlett, B.G., Jauker, F., Jha, S., Knop, E., Krewenka, K.M., Le Féon, V., Mandelik, Y., May, E.A., Park, M.G., Pisanty, G., Reemer, M., Riedinger, V., Rollin, O., Rundlöf, M., Sardiñas, H.S., Scheper, J., Sciligo, A.R., Smith, H.G., Steffan-Dewenter, I., Thorp, R., Tscharntke, T., Verhulst, J., Viana, B.F., Vaissière, B.E., Veldtman, R., Westphal, C., Potts, S.G., 2015. Delivery of crop pollination services is an insufficient argument for wild pollinator conservation [HIGHLY CITED PAPER]. Nat Commun 6. https://doi.org/10.1038/ncomms8414
20. Meyer, C.F.J., Aguiar, L.M.S., Aguirre, L.F., Baumgarten, J., Clarke, F.M., Cosson, J.-F., Estrada Villegas, S., Fahr, J., Faria, D., Furey, N., Henry, M., Jenkins, R.K.B., Kunz, T.H., Cristina MacSwiney González, M., Moya, I., Pons, J.-M., Racey, P.A., Rex, K., Sampaio, E.M., Stoner, K.E., Voigt, C.C., von Staden, D., Weise, C.D., Kalko, E.K.V., 2015. Species undersampling in tropical bat surveys: effects on emerging biodiversity patterns. J Anim Ecol 84, 113–123. https://doi.org/10.1111/1365-2656.12261
21. Requier, F., Odoux, J.-F., Tamic, T., Moreau, N., Henry, M., Decourtye, A., Bretagnolle, V., 2015. Honey bee diet in intensive farmland habitats reveals an unexpectedly high flower richness and a major role of weeds [HIGHLY CITED PAPER]. Ecol. Appl. 25, 881–890. https://doi.org/10.1890/14-1011.1
22. Rollin, O., Bretagnolle, V., Fortel, L., Guilbaud, L., Henry, M., 2015. Habitat, spatial and temporal drivers of diversity patterns in a wild bee assemblage. Biodivers Conserv 1–20. https://doi.org/10.1007/s10531-014-0852-x
23. Avila-Cabadilla, L.D., Stoner, K.E., Nassar, J.M., Espírito-Santo, M.M., Alvarez-Añorve, M.Y., Aranguren, C.I., Henry, M., González-Carcacía, J.A., Dolabela Falcão, L.A., Sanchez-Azofeifa, G.A., 2014. Phyllostomid bat occurrence in successional stages of neotropical dry forests. PLoS ONE 9, e84572. https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0084572
24. Deguines, N., Jono, C., Baude, M., Henry, M., Julliard, R., Fontaine, C., 2014. Large-scale trade-off between agricultural intensification and crop pollination services. Frontiers in Ecology and the Environment 12, 212–217.
25. Fortel, L., Henry, M., Guilbaud, L., Guirao, A.L., Kuhlmann, M., Mouret, H., Rollin, O., Vaissière, B.E., 2014. Decreasing abundance, increasing diversity and changing structure of the wild bee community (Hymenoptera: Anthophila) along an urbanization gradient. PLoS ONE 9, e104679. https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0104679
26. Fournier, A., Rollin, O., Le Féon, V., Decourtye, A., Henry, M., 2014. Crop emptying rate and the design of pesticide risk assessment schemes in honey bee and wild bees (Hymenoptera: Apidae). J. Econ. Entomol. 107, 38–46. http://dx.doi.org/10.1603/EC13087
27. Henry, M., Bertrand, C., Le Féon, V., Requier, F., Odoux, J.-F., Aupinel, P., Bretagnolle, V., Decourtye, A., 2014. Pesticide risk assessment in free-ranging bees is weather and landscape dependent. Nat. Commun. 5, 4359. https://doi.org/10.1038/ncomms5359
28. Odoux, J.-F., Aupinel, P., Gateff, S., Requier, F., Henry, M., Bretagnolle, V., 2014. ECOBEE: a tool for long-term bee colony monitoring at landscape scale in West European intensive agrosystems. J. Api. Res. 53, 57–66.
29. Requier, F., Henry, M., Decourtye, A., 2014. The RFID chip flies to the aid of bees - Les puces RFID volent au secours des abeilles. Biofutur 357, 46–51.
30. Rodet, G., Henry, M., 2014. Analytic partitioning of honeybee (Apis mellifera L.) flight activity at nest entrance: adaptation and behavioural inertia in a changing environment. Ecological Research 29, 1043–1051.
31. Decourtye, A., Henry, M., Desneux, N., 2013. Environment: Overhaul pesticide testing on bees. Nature 497, 188–188. https://doi.org/10.1038/497188a
32. Henry, M., 2013. Assessing homing failure in honeybees exposed to pesticides. Front. Physiol. 4, 352. https://doi.org/10.3389/fphys.2013.00352
33. Henry, M., Decourtye, A., 2013. Ecological relevance in honeybee pesticide risk assessment: developing context-dependent scenarios to manage uncertainty. Front. Physiol. 4, 62. https://doi.org/10.3389/fphys.2013.00062
34. Le Féon, V., Burel, F., Chifflet, R., Henry, M., Ricroch, A., Vaissière, B.E., Baudry, J., 2013. Solitary bee abundance and species richness in dynamic agricultural landscapes. Agriculture, Ecosystems & Environment 166, 94–101. https://doi.org/16/j.agee.2011.06.020
35. Rollin, O., Bretagnolle, V., Decourtye, A., Michel, N., Vaissière, B.E., Henry, M., 2013. Differences of floral resource use between honey bees and wild bees in an intensive farming system. Agriculture, Ecosystems & Environment 179, 78–86.
36. Henry, M., Béguin, M., Requier, F., Rollin, O., Odoux, J.-F., Aupinel, P., Aptel, J., Tchamitchian, S., Decourtye, A., 2012a. Response to comment on “A common pesticide decreases foraging success and survival in honey bees.” Science 337, 1453–1453. https://doi.org/10.1126/science.1224930
37. Henry, M., Béguin, M., Requier, F., Rollin, O., Odoux, J.-F., Aupinel, P., Aptel, J., Tchamitchian, S., Decourtye, A., 2012b. A common pesticide decreases foraging success and survival in honey bees [HIGHLY CITED PAPER]. Science 336, 348–350. https://doi.org/10.1126/science.1215039
38. Henry, M., Fröchen, M., Maillet-Mezeray, J., Breyne, E., Allier, F., Odoux, J.-F., Decourtye, A., 2012c. Spatial autocorrelation in honeybee foraging activity reveals optimal focus scale for predicting agro-environmental scheme efficiency. Ecol. Model. 225, 103–114.
39. Henry, M., Stoner, K.E., 2011. Relationship between Spatial Working Memory Performance and Diet Specialization in Two Sympatric Nectar Bats. PLoS ONE 6, e23773. https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0023773
40. Meyer, C.F.J., Aguiar, L.M.S., Aguirre, L.F., Baumgarten, J., Clarke, F.M., Cosson, J.-F., Villegas, S.E., Fahr, J., Faria, D., Furey, N., Henry, M., Hodgkison, R., Jenkins, R.K.B., Jung, K.G., Kingston, T., Kunz, T.H., Cristina MacSwiney Gonzalez, M., Moya, I., Patterson, B.D., Pons, J.-M., Racey, P.A., Rex, K., Sampaio, E.M., Solari, S., Stoner, K.E., Voigt, C.C., von Staden, D., Weise, C.D., Kalko, E.K.V., 2011. Accounting for detectability improves estimates of species richness in tropical bat surveys. Journal of Applied Ecology 48, 777–787. https://doi.org/10.1111/j.1365-2664.2011.01976.x
41. Henry, M., Cosson, J.F., Pons, J.M., 2010. Modelling multi-scale spatial variation in species richness from abundance data in a complex neotropical bat assemblage. Ecological Modelling 221, 2018–2027. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.ecolmodel.2010.05.011
42. Meyer, C.F.J., Aguiar, L.M.S., Aguirre, L.F., Baumgarten, J., Clarke, F.M., Cosson, J.-F., Villegas, S.E., Fahr, J., Faria, D., Furey, N., Henry, M., Hodgkison, R., Jenkins, R.K.B., Jung, K.G., Kingston, T., Kunz, T.H., MacSwiney Gonzalez, M.C., Moya, I., Pons, J.-M., Racey, P.A., Rex, K., Sampaio, E.M., Stoner, K.E., Voigt, C.C., Staden, D. von, Weise, C.D., Kalko, E.K.V., 2010. Long-term monitoring of tropical bats for anthropogenic impact assessment: Gauging the statistical power to detect population change. Biological Conservation 143, 2797–2807. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.biocon.2010.07.029
43. Avila-Cabadilla, L.D., Stoner, K.E., Henry, M., Alvarez-Añorve, M.Y., 2009. Composition, structure and diversity of phyllostomid bat assemblages in different successional stages of a tropical dry forest. Forest Ecology and Management 258, 986–996. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.foreco.2008.12.011
44. Henry, M., 2008. 2008 Biotropica Award for Excellence in Tropical Biology and Conservation. Biotropica 40, 653–654.
45. Henry, M., Cosson, J.-F., Pons, J.-M., 2007. Abundance may be a misleading indicator of fragmentation-sensitivity: The case of fig-eating bats. Biological Conservation 139, 462–467. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.biocon.2007.06.024
46. Henry, M., Jouard, S., 2007. Effect of Bat Exclusion on Patterns of Seed Rain in Tropical Rain Forest in French Guiana. Biotropica 39, 510–518. https://doi.org/10.1111/j.1744-7429.2007.00286.x
47. Henry, M., Kalko, E.K.., 2007. Foraging strategy and breeding constraints of Rhinophylla pumilio (Phyllostomidae) in the Amazon lowlands. Journal of Mammalogy 88, 81–93.
48. Henry, M., Pons, J.-M., Cosson, J.-F., 2007. Foraging behaviour of a frugivorous bat helps bridge landscape connectivity and ecological processes in a fragmented rainforest. Journal of Animal Ecology 76, 801–813. https://doi.org/10.1111/j.1365-2656.2007.01258.x
49. Delaval, M., Henry, M., Charles-Dominique, P., 2005. Interspecific competition and niche partitioning: example of a Neotropical rainforest bat community. Revue d’écologie 60, 149–165.
50. Henry, M., Barrière, P., Gautier-Hion, A., Colyn, M., 2004. Species composition, abundance and vertical stratification of a bat community (Megachiroptera: Pteropodidae) in a West African rain forest. Journal of Tropical Ecology 20, 21–29.
51. Henry, M., Thomas, D.W., Vaudry, R., Carrier, M., 2002. Foraging Distances and Home Range of Pregnant and Lactating Little Brown Bats (Myotis lucifugus). Journal of Mammalogy 83, 767–774.

 Book Chapters

1. Henry, M., Odoux, J.-F., Requier, F., Rollin, O., Tamic, T., Toullet, C., Le Mogne, C., Peyra, E., Decourtye, A., Aupinel, P. & Bretagnolle, V. (2015) Abeilles domestiques dans une plaine céréalière intensive : la composition du paysage influence la dynamique des colonies. Abeilles et paysages: enjeux apicoles et agricoles, Update Sciences & technologies, Quae (eds E. Maire & D. Laffly).
2. Thomas, D.W. & Henry, M. (2013a) Eidolon helvum African Straw-coloured Fruit Bat. Mammals of Africa, Bloomsbury Publishing, Bloomsbury Publishing (eds M. Happold & D.C.D. Happold), pp. 232–234. London, UK.
3. Thomas, D.W. & Henry, M. (2013b) Epomops buettikoferi Büttikofer’s Epauletted Fruit Bat. Mammals of Africa, Bloomsbury Publishing, Bloomsbury Publishing (eds M. Happold & D.C.D. Happold), pp. 253–255. London, UK.
4. Thomas, D.W. & Henry, M. (2013c) Micropteropus pusillus Peter’s Lesser Epauletted Fruit Bat. Mammals of Africa, Bloomsbury Publishing, Bloomsbury Publishing (eds M. Happold & D.C.D. Happold), pp. 270–272. London, UK.
5. Thomas, D.W. & Henry, M. (2013d) Myonycteris torquata Little Collared Fruit Bat. Mammals of Africa, Bloomsbury Publishing, Bloomsbury Publishing (eds M. Happold & D.C.D. Happold), pp. 275–276. London, UK.
6. Decourtye, A., Alaux, C., Odoux, J.-F., Henry, M., Vaissière, B.E. & Le Conte, Y. (2011) Why Enhancement of Floral Resources in Agro-Ecosystems Benefit Honeybees and Beekeepers? Ecosystems Biodiversity, InTech,  Available from: http://www.intechopen.com/articles/show/title/why-enhancement-of-floral-resources-in-agro-ecosystems-benefit-honeybees-and-beekeepers- (eds O. Grillo & G. Verona) InTech,  Available from: http://www.intechopen.com/articles/show/title/why-enhancement-of-floral-resources-in-agro-ecosystems-benefit-honeybees-and-beekeepers-.
7. Stoner, K.E. & Henry, M. (2008) Seed dispersal and frugivory in tropical ecosystems. Encyclopedia of Life Support Systems (EOLSS), Tropical Biology And Natural Resourses, UNESCO.