Dr Loïc Van Audenhaege

Biography

Dr Loïc Van Audenhaege is a marine ecologist primarily working with seabed images to derive ecological knowledge on deep-sea benthic communities of abyssal plains, underwater canyons and chemosynthetic environments. Loïc's research draw particular attention on developing imaging and analytical methods to unravel scale dependency of ecological patterns in space and time; to detect ecological patterns in natural conditions or the effect of anthropogenic disturbance. As part of his engineering background, Loïc also aims to develop solutions to facilitate the use of image datasets provided by deep-sea observatories and remote underwater vehicles (e.g., ROV, AUV).

Full list of publications available at ORCID and ResearchGate

Projects

Seabed Mining And Resilience To EXperimental impact (SMARTEX)

Integrated Assessment of Atlantic Ecosystems in Space and Time (iAtlantic)

Pipelines for supporting AI for biodiversity monitoring from imagery (PAIDIVER)

 

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Publications

Authors

Van Audenhaege, Loïc; Sarrazin, Jozée; Ramière, Annah; Borremans, Catherine; Marcillat, Marin; Soto Vega Pedro, Juan; Cannat, Mathilde; Marticorena, Julien; Colaço, Ana; Matabox, Marjolaine. 2026 The role of habitat mosaics on biological communities at hydrothermal vents and their periphery. Scientific Reports, 16 (1). 10.1038/s41598-026-39544-x

Publication year

2026

Publication type

Article

Authors

Susini, Irene; Van Audenhaege, Loïc; Price, David M.; Pearman, Tabitha R. R.; Mitchell, Emily G.; Huvenne, Veerle A. I. ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0001-7135-6360. 2025 Fine-scale spatial organisation of deep-sea sea pens in a NE atlantic submarine canyon conservation area. Scientific Reports, 15 (1). 10.1038/s41598-025-13327-2

Publication year

2025

Publication type

Article

Authors

Jones, Daniel O.B. ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0001-5218-1649; Arias, Maria Belen; Van Audenhaege, Loïc ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-3973-029X; Blackbird, Sabena ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-0942-6836; Boolukos, Corie; Bribiesca-Contreras, Guadalupe ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0001-8163-8724; Copley, Jonathan T. ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-3333-4325; Dale, Andrew ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-9256-7770; Evans, Susan ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-1756-0568; Fleming, Bethany F.M. ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-6608-2841; Gates, Andrew R. ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-2798-5044; Grant, Hannah; Hartl, Mark G.J. ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-1208-2050; Huvenne, Veerle A.I. ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0001-7135-6360; Jeffreys, Rachel M.; Josso, Pierre; King, Lucas D.; Simon-Lledó, Erik ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0001-9667-2917; Le Bas, Tim ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-2545-782X; Norman, Louisa; O’Malley, Bryan; Peacock, Thomas ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-7639-0194; Shimmield, Tracy; Stewart, Eva C.D.; Sweetman, Andrew K. ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-9547-9493; Wardell, Catherine ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-5069-7905; Aleynik, Dmitry ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-2066-1960; Glover, Adrian G. ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-9489-074X. 2025 Long-term impact and biological recovery in a deep-sea mining track. Nature, 642. 112-118. 10.1038/s41586-025-08921-3

Publication year

2025

Publication type

Article

Authors

Simon-Lledó, Erik ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0001-9667-2917; Baselga, Andrés; Gómez-Rodríguez, Carola; Metaxas, Anna; Amon J., Diva; Bribiesca-Contreras, Guadalupe; Durden, Jennifer M.; Fleming, Bethany; Mejía-Saenz, Alejandra; Taboada, Sergi; Van Audenhaege, Loïc; Jones, Daniel O. B. ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0001-5218-1649. 2025 Marked variability in distance-decay patterns suggests contrasting dispersal ability in abyssal taxa. Global Ecology and Biogeography, 34 (1), 13956. 10.1111/geb.13956

Publication year

2025

Publication type

Article

Authors

Yánez-Suárez, Ana Belén; Van Audenhaege, Loïc; Eddy, Tyler D.; Robert, Katleen. 2024 Fine-scale variability in habitat selection and niche differentiation between sponges and cold-water corals on vertical walls of the Charlie-Gibbs Fracture Zone. Deep Sea Research Part II: Topical Studies in Oceanography, 219, 105437. 1, pp. 10.1016/j.dsr2.2024.105437

Publication year

2024

Publication type

Article

Authors

Borremans, Catherine; Durden, Jennifer ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-6529-9109; Schoening, Timm; Curtis, Emma; Adams, Luther; Branzan Albu, Alexandra; Arnaubec, Aurélien; Ayata, Sakina-Dorothée; Baburaj, Reshma; Bassin, Corinne; Beck, Miriam; Bigham, Katharine; Boschen-Rose, Rachel; Collett, Chad; Contini, Matteo; Correa, Paulo; Dominguez-Carrió, Carlos; Dreyfus, Gautier; Duncan, Graeme; Ferrera, Maxime; Foulon, Valentin; Friedman, Ariell; Gaikwad, Santosh; Game, Chloe; Gaytán-Caballero, Adriana; Girard, Fanny; Giusti, Michela; Hanafi-Portier, Mélissa; Howell, Kerry; Hulevata, Iryna; Itiowe, Kiamuke; Jackett, Chris; Jansen, Jan; Karthäuser, Clarissa; Katija, Kakani; Kernec, Maxime; Kim, Gabriel; Kitahara, Marcelo; Langenkämper, Daniel; Langlois, Tim; Lanteri, Nadine; Jianping Li, Claude; Li, Qi-Ran; Liabot, Pierre-Olivier; Lindsay, Dhugal; Loulidi, Ali; Marcon, Yann; Marini, Simone; Marranzino, Ashley; Massot-Campos, Miquel; Matabos, Marjolaine; Menot, Lenaick; Moreno, Bernabé; Morrissey, Marcus; Nakath, David; Nattkemper, Tim; Neufeld, Monika; Obst, Matthias; Olu, Karine; Parimbelli, Alexa; Pasotti, Francesca; Pelletier, Dominique; Perhirin, Margaux; Piechaud, Nils; Pizarro, Oscar; Purser, Autun; Rodrigues, Clara; Ceballos Romero, Elena; Schlining, Brian; Song, Yifan; Sosik, Heidi; Sourisseau, Marc; Taormina, Bastien; Taucher, Jan; Thornton, Blair; Van Audenhaege, Loïc; von der Meden, Charles; Wacquet, Guillaume; Williams, Jack; Witting, Kea; Zurowietz, Martin. 2024 Report on the Marine Imaging Workshop 2022. Pensoft Publishers.

Publication year

2024

Publication type

Monograph

Authors

Vega, Pedro Juan Soto; Papadakis, Panagiotis; Matabos, Marjolaine; Van Audenhaege, Loïc; Ramiere, Annah; Sarrazin, Jozée; da Costa, Gilson Alexandre Ostwald Pedro. 2024 Convolutional neural networks for hydrothermal vents substratum classification: An introspective study. Ecological Informatics, 80, 102535. 10.1016/j.ecoinf.2024.102535

Publication year

2024

Publication type

Article

Authors

Van Audenhaege, Loïc; Sarrazin, Jozée; Legendre, Pierre; Perrois, Garance; Cannat, Mathilde; Arnaubec, Aurélien; Matabos, Marjolaine. 2024 Monitoring ecological dynamics on complex hydrothermal structures: A novel photogrammetry approach reveals fine‐scale variability of vent assemblages. Limnology and Oceanography. 10.1002/lno.12486

Publication year

2024

Publication type

Article

Authors

Van Audenhaege, Loïc; Mahamadaly, Vincent; Price, David; Sneessens, Alexandre; Cawthra, Hayley; Delamare, Clément; Danet, Valentin; Delsol, Simon; Devillers, Rodolphe; Gazis, Iason-Zois; Urbina-Barreto, Isabel. 2023 Workshop on 3D mapping of habitats and biological communities with underwater photogrammetry. Research Ideas and Outcomes, 9. 10.3897/rio.9.e115796

Publication year

2023

Publication type

Article