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
(in English) "Ecophysiology: Nature and function", Nature 416, 21 (2002)
In collaboration with
(in English) 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)
(in English) A. Ancel, H. Visser, Y. Handrich, D. Masman, Y. Le Maho, « Energy saving in huddling penguins », Nature, 385: 304-305 (1997).
(in English) 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).
(in English) 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. (
ISBN978-2-8565-3811-1).