I am a tropical forest scientist. I have wide research interests, but my current research focused on the effects of global changes (both climate-driven and land-use changes) on the structure, dynamics, composition, functioning of tropical forests as well as on the induced consequences on the ecosystem services they actually provide to humanity. I welcome enquiries from well-qualified graduate students interested in working in these areas.

Modelling the Dynamics of Tropical Forests

An important objective in tropical forest science is to understand how biological traits determine species performance and species sorting across environmental gradients. We work on Bayesian modelling approaches predicting tropical tree vital rates from traits, both hard- and soft-, and including ontogenetic variation in tropical tree performance. Developing general trait-based dynamic models is especially important for diverse tropical forests where many species occur in densities too low to parametrize species-specific dynamic models. In doing so, we hope to bridge the gap between individual-based and community-level statistical models with little parameter inflation.

Impact of Climate Changes on Rainforests

Climate changes are expected to continue all over the world. Below the tropics, temperatures are expected to rise while dry periods and extreme rain events are expected to be stronger and longer. As we already identified some climate variables as key drivers of tropical forest dynamics, we are now using forest simulators to explore the forest trajectory over the next coming decades under different climate scenarios. Climate-driven processes observed at the tree scale are not directly transposable at the community level because of factors such as compensatory effects between demographic processes (growth, mortality) or non-linear response with ontogeny. We are therefore working to scale our models to be able to go beyond the analytical studies of our current semi-empirical models.

Modelling land-use change through the Guiana shield

Modelling deforestation to identify the main socio-economic and biophysical drivers of land-use change is a complex and multidisciplinary field, involving economic issues as well as geographical tools and environmental sciences. Until the late 90’s, non-spatially explicit models of deforestation were more common than models integrating spatial variables in their framework even if the deforestation process is a fully spatial process. The development of more and more powerful computers, associated to the widespread uses of Geographic Information Systems and to available land cover data from satellite images, have democratized deforestation models taking into account spatial factors. We work on modelling framework for building spatially explicit models of deforestation upon a radical distinction between purely geographic factors influencing the spatial contagion and socio-economic factors influencing the process intensity.

Towards new compromises between ecosystem services

We aim to predict impacts of various global change scenarios of both climate and land-use changes changes on biodiversity, other ecosystem services (carbon stocks, water resources) as well as on economical goods productions of the various tropical forest ecosystems. We will model the future of forest-derived goods and services under different scenarios in order to provide guidelines for sustainable uses. Altogether, we aim to provide optimal development trajectories, key areas for conservation as well as priority efforts to be made for forest ecosystem restoration.

• Associate Editor, PLOS ONE (2012-2015 )

Position

• Since 2012

Researcher, UMR EcoFoG, Centre de Coopération Internationale en Recherche Agronomique pour le Développement

• 2007-2012

Assistant Professor, UMR EcoFoG, Université des Antilles et de la Guyane (France)

• 2006-2007

Post-Doctoral Researcher, UMR EcoFoG, Institut National de la Recherche Agronomique (France)

• 2005-2006

Lecturer, Centre d’Ecologie Végétale et d’Hydrologie, Université de Strasbourg (France)

• 2002-2005

PhD Student, Département des Sciences de l’Environnement, Université de Liège (Belgique)

Training

• 2011

‘Habilitation’ Degree, University of Antilles-Guyane (France)

Rebuilding community ecology from functional traits

• 2005

Ph.D., University of Liège (Belgium)

Ecological communities in fragmented forests: relative influence of historical, local and regional factors

• 2001

M.Sc., International Livestock Research Institute (Niger) & University of Lille (France)

Soil seed bank and vegetation dynamics in Sahelian fallows

• Undergraduate studies in University of Poitiers.

Articles

in press

2016

• Bonal D, Burban B, Stahl C, Wagner F, Hérault B, 2016. The response of tropical rainforests to drought—lessons from recent research and future prospects. Annals of Forest Science 73(1): 27-44.
• Dejean A, Orivel J, Azémar F, Hérault B, Corbara B, 2016. A cuckoo-like parasitic moth leads African weaver ant colonies to their ruin. Scientific Reports 6: 23778.
• Denis T, Hérault B, Jaouen G, Brunaux O, Guitet S, Richard-Hansen C, 2016. Black Curassow habitat relationships in terra firme forests of the Guiana Shield: a multiscale approach. The Condor 118: 253-273.
• Fargeon H, Aubry-Kientz M, Brunaux O, Descroix L, Gaspard R, ..., Herault B, 2016. Vulnerability of commercial tree species to water stress in logged forests of the Guiana shield. Forests, 7(105): 1:21.
• Fayad I, Baghdadi N, Bailly JS, Barbier N, Gond V, ..., Perrin J, 2016. Regional scale rain-forest height mapping using Regression-Kriging of Spaceborne and Airborne LiDAR data: Application on French Guiana. Remote Sensing, 8(3): 240.
• Fayad I, Baghdadi N, Guitet S, Bailly JS, Herault B, ..., Tong Minh DH, 2016. Aboveground biomass mapping in French Guiana by combining remote sensing, forest inventories and environmental data. International Journal of Applied Earth Observation and Geoinformation 52: 502-514.
• Goulamoussene Y, Bedeau C, Descroix L, Deblauwe V, Linguet L, Hérault B. 2016. Weak environmental controls of tropical forest canopy height in the Guiana Shield. Remote Sensing 8: 747.
• Goulamoussene Y, Bedeau C, Descroix L, Linguet L, Hérault B. 2016. Environmental control of natural gap size distribution in tropical forests. Biogeosciences Discussions 1-18.
• Kunstler G, Falster D, Coomes DA, Hui F, Kooyman RM, ..., Westoby M. 2016. Plant functional traits have globally consistent effects on competition. Nature 529: 204-207.
• Lamarre G, Hérault B, Fine PVA, Vedel V, Lupoli R, ..., Baraloto C, 2016. Taxonomic and Functional Composition of Arthropod Assemblages across contrasting Amazonian forests. Journal of Animal Ecology 85(1): 227-239.
• Piponiot C, Cabon A, Descroix L, Dourdain A, Mazzei L, ..., Herault B. A methodological framework to assess the carbon balance of tropical managed forests. Carbon Balance and Management 11(1) 15.
• Rutishauser E, Herault B, Petronelli P, Sist P, 2016. Tree height reduction after selective logging in a tropical forest. Biotropica 48: 285-289.
• Wagner F, Hérault B, Bonal D, Stahl C, Anderson LO, ..., Aragao L, 2016. Climate seasonality limits leaf carbon assimilation and wood productivity in tropical forests. Biogeosciences 13: 2537-2562.

2015

• Aubry-Kientz M, Boreux JJ, Rossi V, Herault B, 2015. A joint individual-based model coupling growth and mortality reveals that tree vigour is a key component of tropical forest dynamics. Ecology and Evolution 5(12): 2457–2465
• Aubry-Kientz M, Rossi V, Wagner F, Hérault B, 2015. Identifying climatic drivers of tropical forest dynamics. Biogeosciences 12: 5583-5596
• Brienen RJW, Phillips OL, Feldpausch TR, Gloor E, Baker TR, ..., Vilanova E, Vos VA, Zagt RJ, 2015. Long-term decline of the Amazon carbon sink. Nature 519: 344–348
• Dejean A, Groc S, Hérault B, Rodriguez-Pérez H, Touchard A, ..., Corbara B, 2015. Bat aggregation mediates the functional structure of ant assemblages. Comptes Rendus Biologies 338: 688-695
• Fauset S, Johnson MO, Gloor M, Baker TR, Monteagudo AM, ..., Phillips OL, 2015. Hyperdominance in Amazonian forest carbon cycling. Nature Communications 6: 6857
• Guitet S, Hérault B, Molto Q, Brunaux O, Couteron P, 2015. Spatial structure of above-ground biomass at the landscape scale limits the accuracy of carbon mapping in rainforest. Plos One 10(9): e0138456
• Lamarre G, Bénéluz F, Decaens T, Hérault B, Mendoza I, Rougerie R, 2015. Stay out (almost) all night: contrasting responses in flight activity among tropical moth assemblages. Neotropical Entomology 44(2): 109-115
• Marcon E, Herault B, 2015. Entropart, an R package to measure and partition diversity. Journal of Statistical Software 67(8): 1:26
• Marcon E, Herault B, 2015. Decomposing phylodiversity. Methods in Ecology and Evolution 6(3): 333–339.
• Rossi V, Dolley T, Cornu G, Guitet S, Herault B, 2015. GuyaSim : un outil d’aide à la décision pour l’aménagement d’un territoire forestier, la Guyane. Bois & Forêts des Tropiques 326(4): 67-78.
• Rutishauser E, Hérault B, Baraloto C, Blanc L, Descroix L, ..., Sist P, 2015. Rapid tree carbon stock recovery in Amazonian managed forests. Current Biology 25(18): R787-788
• Sist P, Rutihauser E, Peña-Claros M, Shenkin A, Hérault B, ..., Vidal E, Wortel V, Yamada T, 2015. The Tropical managed Forests Observatory: addressing the future of tropical logged forests. Applied Vegetation Science 18(1): 171-174
• Talaga S, Delabie JHC, Dézerald O, Salas-Lopez A, Petitclerc F, ..., Dejean A, 2015. A bromeliad species reveals invasive ant presence in urban areas of French Guiana. Ecological Indicators 58(11): 1-7

2014

• Flores O, Herault B, Delcamp M, Garnier E, Gourlet-Fleury S, 2014. Functional traits help predict post-disturbance demography of tropical trees. Plos One 9(9): e105022
• Guitet S, Sabatier D, Brunaux O, Herault B, Aubry-Kientz M, Molino J-F, Baraloto C, 2014. Estimating tropical tree diversity indices from forestry surveys: a method to integrate taxonomic uncertainty. Forest Ecology & Management 328: 270-281
• Hénaut Y, Corbara B, Pélozuelo l, Azémar F, Céréghino R, Herault B, Dejean A, 2014. A Tank Bromeliad Favors Spider Presence in a Neotropical Inundated Forest. Plos One 9(12): e114592
• Laurans M, Herault B, Vieilledent G, Vincent G, in press. Vertical stratification reduces competition for light in dense tropical forests. Forest Ecology & Management 329: 79-88
• Marcon E, Scotti I, Herault B, Rossi V, Lang G, 2014. Generalization of the partitioning of Shannon diversity. Plos One 9(3): e90289
• Molto Q, Herault B, Boreux JJ, Daullet M, Rousteau A, Rossi V, 2014. Predicting tree heights for biomass estimates in tropical forests. Biogeosciences 11: 3121-3130
• Réjou-Mechain M, Muller-Landau HC, Detto M, Thomas SC, Le Toan T, ..., Chave J, 2014. Local spatial structure of forest biomass and its consequences for remote sensing of carbon stocks. Biogeosciences 11: 6827-6840
• Wagner F, Rossi V, Aubry-Kientz M, Bonal D, Dalitz H, ..., Herault B, 2014. Pan-tropical analysis of climate effects on seasonal tree growth. Plos One 9(3): e92337
• Wagner F, Rossi V, Baraloto C, Bonal D, Stahl C, Herault B, 2014. Are commonly measured functional traits involved in tropical tree responses to climate? International Journal of Ecology: 389409

2013

• Aubry-Kientz M, Herault B, Ayotte-Trepanier C, Baraloto C, Rossi V, 2013. Toward trait-based mortality models for tropical forests. Plos One 8(5): e63678
• Baraloto C, Molto Q, Rabaud S, Herault B, Valencia R, Blanc L, Fine P, Thompson J, 2013. Rapid simultaneous estimation of aboveground biomass and tree diversity across neotropical forests: a comparison of field inventory methods. Biotropica 45: 288-298
• Stahl C, Herault B, Rossi V, Burban B, Brechet C, Bonal D, 2013. Depth of soil water uptake by tropical rainforest trees during dry periods: does tree dimension matter? Oecologia 173: 1191-1201
• Wagner F, Rossi V, Stahl C, Bonal D, Herault B, 2013. Asynchronism in leaf and wood production in tropical forests: a study combining satellite and ground-based measurements. Biogeosciences 10: 7307-7321

2012

• Baraloto C, Herault B, Paine CET, Massot H, Blanc L, ..., Sabatier D, 2012. Contrasting taxonomic and functional responses of a tropical tree community to selective logging. Journal of Applied Ecology 49: 861-870
• Marcon E, Herault B, Baraloto C, Lang G, 2012. The decomposition of Shannon’s entropy and a confidence interval for Beta Diversity. Oikos 121: 516-522
• Royer M, Rodriguez AM, Stien D, Herbette G, Herault B, Beauchene J, Espindola LS, Thibaut B, 2012. Efficacy of Bagassa guianensis Aubl. extract against wood decay and human pathogenic fungi. International Biodeterioration & Biodegradation 70: 55-59
• Wagner F, Rossi V, Stahl C, Bonal D, Herault B, 2012. Water availability is the main climatic driver of neotropical tree growth. Plos One 7(4): e34074

2011

• Baraloto C, Rabaud S, Molto Q, Blanc L, Fortunel C, ..., Fine P, 2011. Disentangling stand and environmental correlates of aboveground biomass in Amazonian forests. Global Change Biology 17: 2677-2688
• Bonal D, Ponton S, LeThiec D, Richard B, Ningre N, ..., Guehl J-M, 2011. Leaf functional response to increasing atmospheric CO2 concentrations over the last century in two northern Amazonian tree species: an historical d13C and d18O approach using herbarium samples. Plant, Cell & Environment 34: 1332-1344
• Dejean A, Cereghino R, Carpenter JM, Corbara B, Herault B, ..., Bonal D, 2011. Climate change impact on Neotropical social wasps. PLoS ONE 6: e27004
• Hérault B, Bachelot B, Poorter L, Rossi V, Bongers F, ..., Baraloto C, 2011. Functional traits shape ontogenetic growth trajectories among rain forest tree species. Journal of Ecology 99: 1431-1440
• Paine CET, Baraloto C, Chave J, Hérault B, 2011. Functional traits of individual trees reveal ecological constraints on community assembly in tropical rain forests. Oikos 120: 720-727
• Wagner F, Hérault B, Stahl C, Bonal D, Rossi V, 2011. Modeling water availability for trees in tropical forests. Agricultural and Forest Meteorology 151: 1202-1213

2010

• Baraloto C, Paine CET, Patiño S, Bonal D, Hérault B, Chave J, 2010. Functional trait variation and sampling strategies in species-rich plant communities. Functional Ecology 24: 208-216
• Baraloto C, Paine CET, Poorter L, Beauchêne J, Bonal D, ..., Chave J, 2010. Decoupling leaf and stem economics among neotropical trees. Ecology Letters 13: 1338-1347
• Coste S, Baraloto C, Leroy C, Marcon E, Renaud A, ... Hérault B, 2010. Assessing foliar chlorophyll contents with the SPAD-502 chlorophyll meter: a calibration test with thirteen tree species of tropical rainforest in French Guiana. Annals of Forest Science 67: 607
• Dejean A, Leroy C, Corbara B, Céréghino R, Roux O, ..., Boulay R, 2010. A temporary social parasite of tropical plant-ants improves the fitness of a myrmecophyte. Naturwissenschaften 97: 925-934
• Hérault B, Beauchêne J, Muller F, Wagner F, Baraloto C, Blanc L, Martin JM, 2010. Modeling decay rates of dead wood in a neotropical forest. Oecologia 164: 243-251
• Hérault B, Ouallet J, Blanc L, Wagner F, Baraloto C, 2010. Growth responses of neotropical trees to logging gaps. Journal of Applied Ecology 47: 821:831
• Rutishauser E, Wagner F, Hérault B, Nicolini EA, Blanc L, 2010. Contrasting above-ground biomass balances in a Neotropical rainforest. Journal of Vegetation Science 21: 672-682
• Wagner F, Blanc L, Rutishauser E, Hérault B, 2010. Effects of plot size and census interval on descriptors of forest structure and dynamics. Biotropica 42: 664-671

2009

• Blanc L, Echard M, Hérault B, Bonal D, Marcon E, Chave J, Baraloto C, 2009. Dynamics of aboveground carbon stocks in a selectively logged tropical forest. Ecological Applications 19: 1397-1404
• Hérault B, Thoen D, 2009. How habitat area, local and regional factors shape plant assemblages in isolated closed depressions. Acta Oecologica 35: 385-392
• Trémolières M, Noël V, Hérault B, 2009. Phosphorus and nitrogen allocation in Allium ursinum on an alluvial floodplain (Eastern France). Is there an effect of flooding history? Plant and Soil 324: 279-289

2008

• Hérault B, Bornet A, Trémolières M, 2008. Redundancy and niche differentiation among the European invasive Elodea species. Biological Invasions 10: 1099-1107
• Hérault B, Thoen D, 2008. Diversity of plant assemblages in isolated depressional wetlands from central-western Europe. Biodiversity and Conservation 17: 2169-2183

2007

• Hérault B, 2007. Reconciling niche and neutrality through the Emergent Group approach. Perspectives in Plant Ecology, Evolution and Systematics 9: 71-78
• Hérault B, Honnay O, 2007. Using life-history traits to achieve a functional classification of habitats. Applied Vegetation Science 10: 75-82

2005

• Hérault B, Honnay O, 2005. The relative importance of local, regional and historical factors determining the distribution of plants in fragmented riverine forests - an emergent group approach. Journal of Biogeography 32: 2069-2081
• Hérault B, Honnay O, Thoen D, 2005. Evaluation of the ecological restoration potential of plant communities in Norway spruce plantations using a life-trait based approach. Journal of Applied Ecology 42: 536-545

2004

• Hérault B, Bouxin G, Thoen D, 2004. Comparison of the regeneration patterns of woody species between Norway spruce plantations and deciduous forests on alluvial soils. Belgian Journal of Botany 137: 36-46
• Hérault B, Hiernaux P, 2004. Soil seed bank and vegetation dynamics in Sahelian fallows; the impact of past cropping and current grazing treatments. Journal of Tropical Ecology 20: 683-691
• Hérault B, Thoen D, Honnay O, 2004. Assessing the potential of natural woody species regeneration for the conversion of Norway spruce plantations on alluvial soils. Annals of Forest Science 61: 711-719

Book Chapters

• Hérault B, Gourlet-Fleury S. 2016. Will Tropical Rainforests Survive Climate Change? In Climate Change and Agriculture Worldwide (Eds Torquebiau E), pp 183-196. Springer Netherlands.
• Blanfort V, Stahl C, Klumpp K, Falcimagne, R, Burban B, ..., Lecomte P. 2015. Les systèmes herbagers issus de déforestation en Amazonie française (Guyane). In Empreinte Carbone: Evaluer et Agir (eds Bourges B, Broc JS, Gourdon T), pp 155-170. Presses des Mines, Paris.
• Hérault B, Gourlet-Fleury S. 2015. Les forêts tropicales humides résisteront elles au changement climatique? In Changement climatique et agricultures du monde (Eds Torquebiau E), pp 171-184. Quae, Versailles.
• Hérault B, Pétronelli P, 2015. Le dispositif expérimental de Paracou, une station de recherche exceptionnelle consacrée à l’étude du fonctionnement de l’écosystème forestier amazonien. In Nature guyanaise – 50 ans de progrès et de souvenirs (Eds Sanite L), pp 102-107. Orphie, Paris.
• Honnay O, Hérault B, Bossuyt B, 2009. Opportunities and constraints of using understorey plants to set forest restoration and conservation priorities. In Setting conservation targets for managed forest landscapes (eds Jonsson BG, Villard MA), pp 227-243. Conservation Biology Series, Cambridge University Press, Cambridge.
• Thoen D, Hérault B, 2007. Plant species richness and regenerating potentialities in deciduous forests and spruce plantations of the Semois ardennaise floodplain (Belgium; France). In Floodplain protection, restoration, management: Why and How? (eds Trémolières M, Schnitzler A, Silan P), pp 137-145. Lavoisier SAS, Paris.

Conference Proceedings

• Goulamoussène Y, Linguet L, Hérault B, 2014. Detection and Distribution of Natural Gaps in Tropical Rainforest. In American Geophysical Union, Fall Meeting 2014.
• Wagner FH, Hérault B, Anderson LO, Rossi V, Aragão LE, 2014. Quantifying and Modelling the Seasonality of Pantropical Forest Net Primary Production Using Field Observations and Remote Sensing Data. In American Geophysical Union, Fall Meeting 2014.
• Hérault B, Hiernaux P, 2003. Dynamic of annual rangelands in the Sahel: soil seed stock and germination pattern. In Proceedings of the VIIth International Rangeland Congress (eds Allsopp N, Palmer AR, Milton SJ, Kirkman KP, Kerley GIH, Hurt CR, Brown CJ), pp 2048-2050. Document Transformation Technologies, Durban
• Hiernaux P, Hérault B, 2003. Influence of grazing regime by cattle on the soil seed stock and germination pattern in the annual rangelands of the Sahel. In Proceedings of the VII International Rangelands Congress (eds Allsopp N, Palmer AR, Milton SJ, Kirkman KP, Kerley GIH, Hurt CR, Brown CJ), pp 356-358. Document Transformation Technologies, Durban

Other Papers

• Thoen D, Hérault B, 2006. Flore, groupes socio-écologiques et typologie des mardelles forestières de Lorraine belge et luxembourgeoise. Bulletin de la Société des Naturalistes luxembourgeois 107: 3-25
• Hérault B, Cucherat X, Parmentier E, 2003. Communautés végétales et curiosités botaniques de chemins creux de la vallée de la Dyle au sud-ouest de Leuven (Belgique). Dumortiera 80: 29-34
• Hérault B, 2001. Serapias vomeracea (N. L. Burman) Briquet 1910 réapparaît en Charente. Bulletin de la Société Botanique du Centre-Ouest 32: 179-184

Software

• Marcon E, Hérault B, 2014. Entropart: Entropy Partitioning to Measure Diversity

PhD

Camille Piponiot-Laroche, 2015-2018, "Towards new compromises between ecosystem services in Amazonian production forests", Université de Montpellier 2, Co-Sup: Plinio Sist

Ariane Mirabel, 2015-2018, "Learning from ecosystem trajectories to predict diversity in post-logging tropical forests", Université de la Guyane, Co-Sup: Eric Marcon

Camille Dezécache, 2013-2016, "Modeling land-use change scenarios through the Guiana Shield", Université des Antilles et de la Guyane, Co-Sup: Jean-Michel Salles

Thomas Denis, 2013-2016, "From niche-modeling to distribution maps for large guianan fauna", Université des Antilles et de la Guyane, Co-Sup: Cécile Richard-Hansen

Youven Goulamoussène, 2012-2015, "Using very high resolution satellite imagery to detect mechanisms of forest disturbance and succession across French Guiana", Université des Antilles et de la Guyane, Co-Sup: Laurent Linguet

Mélaine Aubry-Kientz, 2011-2014, "Integrating highly-diverse community dynamics and climate variations into a single forest simulator in order to explore in silico the consequences of the climate scenarios on the future of tropical forests", Université des Antilles et de la Guyane, Co-Sup: Vivien Rossi

Quentin Molto, 2009-2012, "Estimates of tropical forest biomass: towards an integrated error propagation model", Université des Antilles et de la Guyane, Co-Sup: Vivien Rossi

Stéphanie Barthe, 2009-2012, "Past demographical changes among neotropical tree species", Université des Antilles et de la Guyane, Co-Sup: Ivan Scotti

Fabien Wagner, 2008-2011, "Linking demographic rates to climate change variables in tropical forests", Université des Antilles et de la Guyane, Co-Sup: Vivien Rossi

PostDocs

Oriol Grau, 2014-2015, "Nutrient controls on tropical forest dynamics under climate change", Imbalance-P

Alana Moore, 2011-2012, "Mitigating risks of climate and land-use change to ecosystem services in French Guianan rainforests", European Structural Funds, GUYASIM project

Fabien Wagner, 2012-2013, "Inferring the future of ecosystem services through forest dynamic models", FRB Funding, CLIMFOR project

Master

Aurélie Cuvelier, 2016, "Learning from a large-scale competition-manipulation experiment to infer new forest management rules in a water-stressed world", Co-Sup: Laurent Descroix

Marianne Jounieaux, 2016, "Quantifying light-limitation in juvenile tree dynamics with Lidar technology", Co-Sup: Stéphane Traissac

Miléna Bruno, 2015, "Fingerprints of pre-columbian human settlements on the diversity and composition of French Guianan tropical forests", Co-Sup: Guillaume Odonne

Camille Piponiot-Laroche, 2015, "Disentangling demographical processes responsible for biomass accumulation in logged tropical forests", Co-Sup Plinio Sist

Emmanuel Faure, 2015, "Modeling gold-mining induced deforestation to identify key drivers across the guiana shield", Co-Sup Camille Dezécache

Matthias Grenié, 2015, "Linking intraspecific trait-variability to species performance in tropical forests", Co-Sup Romain Gaspard

Hélène Fargeon, 2014, "Vulnerability of commercial tree species to drought", Co-Sup Mélaine Aubry-Kientz

Romain Gaspard, 2014, "Integrating competition variables into a growth-mortality coupled forest dynamic model", Co-Sup Mélaine Aubry-Kientz

Sophie Lefèvre, 2013, "Comparative analysis of drought sensitivity in African and Amazonian forests", Co-Sup Sylvie Gourlet-Fleury & Frédéric Mortier

Anaïs Gorel, 2013, "Modeling post-logging sapling demography in contrasted local environements", Co-Sup Christopher Baraloto

Armelle Maurice, 2012, "Forest managers, decison-makers and practitioners: how do they value the current French Guianan protected network", Co-Sup: Alana Moore

Maxime Burst, 2011, "Did landscape characteristics influence pre-columbian human settlements in French Guiana?", Co-Sup: Stéphanie Barthe

Charles Ayotte-Trépanier, 2011, "Multi-variable selection procedures in hierarchical bayesian models", Co-Sup: Vivien Rossi

Bénédicte Bachelot, 2009, "Integrating limiting similarity into community growth models"

Félix Muller, 2008, "Modeling decay rates of dead wood in a neotropical forest", Co-Sup: Jacques Beauchêne

Julia Ouallet, 2007, "Modeling post-logging growth rates using a spatially-explicit approach", Co-Sup: Lilian Blanc

• Courses

Ecological Theories, Master Level, (2010- )

Biological Conservation, Master Level (2010-2014)

Statistics for Biologists, Bachelor Level (2007-2012)

General Ecology, Bachelor Level (2007-2012)

Population Biology, Bachelor Level (2007-2012)

• I instigated and coordinated the Master 2 Ecology of Tropical Forests (2010-2012)

Courtesy by Tim Paine