INRAE Lyon, Research Director
RiverLy, EcoFlowS
Tel: +334 7220 8732
herve.capra@inrae.fr
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The life of fish in their habitat
Fish sampling strategy
– long term monitoring (trout populations; fish communities)
– Large scale sampling by snorkeling
– acoustic telemetry
Fish population dynamics
– population dynamics models
– habitat time series (discharge, temperature, habitat)
– density dependent factors
Fish habitat models
– hydraulics and temperature modeling
– fish habitat preference models
Fish behavior
– Fish habitat selection
– Trajectory modeling
Publications
ORCID iD = 0000-0002-3965-4314
Papers in international journals
[1] Capra H., Breil P., & Souchon Y. 1995. A new tool to interpret magnitude and duration of fish habitat variations. Regulated Rivers : Research and Management 10 : 281-289. doi:10.1002/rrr.3450100221
[2] Capra H., Valentin S., & Breil P. 1995. Chroniques d’habitat et dynamique de population de truite. P. 337-344. In Symposium international « Relations entre le poisson et son habitat », Villeurbanne 6-8 décembre 1994. Bulletin Français de la Pêche et de la Pisciculture 337/338/339. doi:10.1051/kmae:1995038
[3] Pouilly M., Valentin S., Capra H., Ginot V., & Souchon Y. 1995. Méthode des microhabitats : principes et protocoles d’application. Bulletin Français de la Pêche et de la Pisciculture 336 : 41-54. doi:10.1051/kmae:1995004
[4] Statzner B., Capra H., Highler L., & Roux A.L. 1997. Focusing environmental management budgets on non-linear system responses: potential for significant improvements to freshwater ecosystems. Freshwater Biology 37 : 463-472. doi:10.1046/j.1365-2427.1997.00162.x
[5] Lamouroux N., Capra H., & Pouilly M. 1998. Predicting habitat suitability for lotic fish: Linking statistical hydraulic models with multivariate habitat use models. Regulated Rivers : Research and Management 14 : 1-11. doi:10.1002/(SICI)1099-1646(199801/02)14:1<1::AID-RRR472>3.0.CO;2-D
[6] Souchon Y., Valentin S., & Capra H. 1998. Peut-on rendre plus objective la détermination des débits réservés par une approche scientifique ? Houille Blanche 8: 41-45. doi:10.1051/lhb/1998092
[7] Lamouroux N., Capra H., Pouilly M. & Souchon Y. 1999. Fish habitat preferences in large streams of southern France. Freshwater Biology 42 : 673-687. doi:10.1046/j.1365-2427.1999.00521.x
[8] Cattanéo F., Lamouroux N., Breil P. & Capra H. 2002. The influence of hydrological and biotic processes on brown trout population dynamics. Canadian Journal of Fisheries and Aquatic Sciences 59 : 12-22. doi:10.1139/f01-186
[9] Lamouroux N. & Capra H. 2002. Simple predictions of instream habitat model outputs for target fish populations. Freshwater Biology 47 : 1543-1556. doi:10.1046/j.1365-2427.2002.00879.x
[10] Souchon Y., Andriamahefa H., Breil P., Albert M. B., Capra H. & Lamouroux N. 2002. Couplage physique-biologie dans les cours d’eau : vers une hydroécologie plus quantitative. Nature Sciences Sociétés. 10 (suppl. 1) : 26-41. doi:10.1016/S1240-1307(02)80132-7
[11] Capra H., Sabaton C., Gouraud V., Souchon Y., and Lim P. 2003. A population dynamics model and habitat simulation as a tool to predict brown trout demography in natural and bypassed stream reaches. River Research and Applications 19 : 551-568. doi:10.1002/rra.729
[12] Daufresne M., Roger M.C., Capra H., and Lamouroux N. 2003. Long-term changes within the invertebrate and fish communities of the Upper Rhône River: effects of climatic factors. Global Change Biology 10 : 124-140. doi:10.1046/j.1529-8817.2003.00720.x
[13] Daufresne M., Capra H., and Gaudin P. 2005. Downstream displacement of post-emergent brown trout: effects of development stage and water velocity. Journal of Fish Biology 67 : 599-614. doi:10.1111/j.0022-1112.2005.00759.x
[14] Lamouroux N., Olivier J.M., Capra H., Zylberblat M., Chandesris A., Roger P. 2006. Fish community changes after minimum flow increase: testing quantitative predictions in the Rhône River at Pierre-Bénite, France. Freshwater Biology 51 : 1730-1743. doi:10.1111/j.1365-2427.2006.01602.x
[15] Ovidio M., Capra H., Philippart J.C. 2007. Field protocol for assessing small obstacles to migration of brown trout Salmo trutta, and European grayling Thymallus thymallus: a contribution to the management of free movement in rivers. Fisheries Management and Ecology 14 : 41-50. doi:10.1111/j.1365-2400.2006.00522.x
[16] Ovidio M., Capra H., Philippart J.C. 2008. Regulated discharge produces substantial demographic changes on four typical fish species of a small salmonid stream. Hydrobiologia. 609 : 59-70. doi:10.1007/s10750-008-9399-8
[17] Sabaton C., Souchon Y., Capra H., Gouraud V., Lascaux J. M., Tissot L., 2008. Long-term brown trout populations responses to flow manipulation. River Research and Applications 24 : 476-505. doi:10.1002/rra.1130
[18] Gouraud V., Capra H., Sabaton C., Tissot L., Lim P., Vandewalle F., Fahrner G., Souchon Y., 2008. Long-term simulations of the dynamics of trout populations on river reaches bypassed by hydroelectric installations – analysis of the impact of different hydrological scenarios. River Research and Applications 24 : 1185-1205. doi:10.1002/rra.1129
[19] Piffady J., Souchon Y., Capra H., & Parent E. 2010. Quantifying the effects of temperature and flow regimes on cyprinid recruitment using Bayesian hierarchical modelling on a 26-year dataset: the example of the upper Rhône River. Freshwater Biology 55 : 2359–2374. doi:10.1111/j.1365-2427.2010.02453.x
[20] Lamouroux N., Mérigoux S., Capra H., Dolédec S., Jowett I. G., & Statzner B. 2010. The generality of abundance-environment relationships in microhabitats: a comment on Lancaster and Downes (2009). River Research and Applications 26 : 915-920. doi:10.1002/rra.1366
[21] Poirel A., Gailhard J., & Capra H. 2010. Influence des barrages reservoirs sur la température de l’eau : exemple d’application au bassin versant de l’Ain. La Houille Blanche 4 : 72-79. doi :10.1051/lhb/2010044
[22] Capra H., McNeil E., Bouillon M.C., Pella H., & Alfaro C. 2011. Intérêt d’un modèle hydrodynamique en deux dimensions pour interpréter le comportement des poissons dans les grands cours d’eau. La Houille Blanche 6 : 28-33. doi :10.1051/lhb/2011058
[23] Bergé J., Capra H., Pella P., Steig S., Ovidio M., Bultel E. & Lamouroux N. 2012. Probability of detection and positioning error of a hydro acoustic telemetry system in a fast-flowing river: Intrinsic and environmental determinants. Fisheries Research 125-126 : 1-13. doi:10.1016/j.fishres.2012.02.008
[24] Daufresne M., Veslot J., Capra H., Carrel G., Poirel A., Olivier J.-M., & Lamouroux, N. 2015. Fish community dynamics (1985–2010) in multiple reaches of a large river subjected to flow restoration and other environmental changes. Freshwater Biology 60 : 1176–1191. doi:10.1111/fwb.12546
[25] Bret V., Bergerot B., Capra H., Gouraud V., & Lamouroux N., 2016. Influence of discharge, hydraulics, water temperature, and dispersal on density synchrony in brown trout populations (Salmo trutta). Canadian Journal of Fisheries and Aquatic Sciences 73 : 319-329. doi:10.1139/cjfas-2015-0209
[26] Plichard L., Capra H., Mons R., Pella H. & Lamouroux N. 2016. Comparing electrofishing and snorkeling for characterizing fish assemblages over time and space. Canadian Journal of Fisheries and Aquatic Science 74 : 75-86. doi:10.1139/cjfas-2015-0578
[27] Tissot L., Bret V., Capra H., Baran P. & Gouraud V. 2017. Main potential drivers of trout population dynamics in bypassed stream sections. Ecology of Freshwater Fish 26 : 336-346. doi:10.1111/eff.12295
[28] Capra H., Plichard L., Bergé J., Pella H., Ovidio M., McNeil E. & Lamouroux N. 2017. Fish habitat selection in a large hydropeaking river: strong individual and temporal variations revealed by telemetry. Science of the Total Environment 578: 109–120. doi: 10.1016/j.scitotenv.2016.10.155
[29] Bret V., Capra H., Gouraud V., Lamouroux N., Piffady J., Tissot L. & Rivot E. 2017. Understanding inter-reach variation in brown trout (Salmo trutta) mortality rates using a hierarchical Bayesian state-space model. Canadian Journal of Fisheries and Aquatic Sciences 74: 1612–1627. doi: 10.1139/cjfas-2016-0240
[30] Capra H., Pella H. & Ovidio M. 2018. Individual movements, home-ranges and habitat use by native rheophilic cyprinids and non-native catfish in a large regulated river. Fisheries Management and Ecology 25: 136-149. doi: 10.1111/fme.12272
[31] Cauvy-Fraunié S., Trenkel V. M., Daufresne M., Maire A., Capra H., Olivier J.-M., Lobry J., Cazelles B., Lamouroux N. Accepted. Interpretation of interannual variability in long-term aquatic ecological surveys. Canadian Journal of Fisheries and Aquatic Sciences doi: 10.1139/cjfas-2019-0146 ; IF=2.683
[32] Alp, M., Batalla, R.J., Bejarano, M.D., Boavida, I., Capra, H., Carolli, M., Casas-Mulet, R., Costa, M.J., Halleraker, J.H., Hauer, C., Hayes, D.S., Harby, A., Noack, M., Palau, A., Schneider, M., Schönfelder, L., Tonolla, D., Vanzo, D., Venus, T., Vericat, D., Zolezzi, G., & Bruno, M.C. 2022. Introducing HyPeak: An international network on hydropeaking research, practice, and policy. River Research and Applications, 1– 9. https://doi.org/10.1002/rra.3996
Papers in technical journals
[1] Valentin S., Capra H., Ginot V. & Souchon Y. 1998. De l’eau pour les poissons! Aide à la détermination des débits réservés. Eaux libres 25 : 46-47.
[2] Pella H., Capra H., Foulard S.. 2007. Développement d’un MNT du haut Rhône à partir de relevés bathymétriques réalisés avec un sondeur multi-faisceaux. Revue Française de Photogrammétrie et de Télédétection. 186: 81-86
[3] Souchon Y. & Capra H. 2004. Aquatic habitat modelling: biological validations of IFIM/Phabsim methodology and new perspectives. Hydroécologie Appliquée 14 : 9-25. doi:10.1051/hydro:2004002
[4] Gouraud V., Sabaton C. & Capra H. 2004. Role of habitat variability in trout population dynamics: application of a dynamic population model to three French rivers. Hydroécologie Appliquée 14 : 221-244.doi:10.1051/hydroecol:2004013
[5] Sabaton C., Souchon Y., Lascaux J.M., Vandewalle F., Baran P., Baril D., Capra H., Gouraud V., Lauters F., Lim P., Merle G. & Paty G. 2004. The “Guaranteed Flow Working Group”: a French evaluation of microhabitat component. Hydroécologie Appliquée 14 : 245-270. doi:10.1051/hydro:2004014
[6] Gouraud V., Baran P., Bardonnet A., Beaufrère C., Capra H., Caudron A., Delacoste M., Lascaux J.M., Naura M., Ovidio M., Poulet N., Tissot L., Sabaton C., & Baglinière J.L. 2014. Sur quelles connaissances se baser pour évaluer l’état de santé des populations de truite commune (Salmo trutta)? Hydroécologie Appliquée 18 : 111-13. doi :10.1051/hydro/2014001
[7] Lamouroux N., Augeard B., Baran P., Capra H., Le Coarer Y., Girard V., Gouraud V., Navarro L., Prost O., Sagnes P., Sauquet E. & Tissot L. 2016. Débits écologiques : la place des modèles d’habitat hydraulique dans une démarche intégrée. Hydroécologie Appliquée 20: 1-26. doi: 10.1051/hydro/2016004
