CoForFunc
Toward a biome-scale monitoring of the COngo basin FORest FUNCtional composition
Project Summary
Expected strong climate, demographic and economic changes in Central Africa threaten the sustainability of ecological, social and economic services Congo Basin Forests (CBF), the second World’s largest rainforest, provide to humanity. In addition to deforestation, anthropogenic environmental impacts will lead to dramatic changes in forest tree functional composition with potential deleterious feedbacks on carbon and water cycles among other services. Through a unique European research partnership and transnational collaborations with Central african country experts, CoForFunc aims at developing an integrated approach for the monitoring of tree functional diversity of the CBF to support biome-scale assessment of their vulnerability to expected climate change and human-induced transformations.
The Team
Project Management Unit
• Raphaël
Pélissier, Tropical Forest Ecology, IRD-AMAP lab,
Montpellier University, France (coordinator)
• Grégory Duveiller, Remote Sensing, Max Planck Institute for Biogeochemistry, Jena, Germany
• Jordi
Martinez-Vilalta, Ecophysiology, Ecological and Forestry Applications Research Centre, Barcelona, Spain
• Jean-François Bastin, Forest Ecology, Gembloux Agro-Bio Tech, Liège University, Belgium
IRD-AMAP Team, France
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Nicolas Barbier, Tropical Forest Ecology and
Remote Sensing
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Pierre Couteron, Tropical Forest Ecology and
Remote Sensing
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Gilles Dauby, Biodiversity Conservation and Ecoinformatics
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Claire Fortunel, Tropical Forest Functional Ecology
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Stéphane Fourtier, Field Experimentation
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Vanessa Hequet, Botanist
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Patrick Heuret, Plant Architecture
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Dimitri Justeau-Allaire, Ecoinformatics and Modelling
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Hugo Leblanc, Field and Lab Assistant
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Isabelle Maréchaux, Tropical Forest Modelling
• Raphaël
Pélissier, Tropical Forest Ecology
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Pierre Ploton, Remote Sensing and Tropical Forest Ecology
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Maxime Réjou-Méchain, Tropical Forest Ecology and Remote Sensing
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Paul Tresson, Remote Sensing
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Philippe Verley, Computer Science
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Gaëlle Viennois, Geomatics and Remote Sensing
MPI-BGC Team, Germany
• Grégory Duveiller, Remote
Sensing
• Jens Kattge, Functional Ecology
• Javier Pacheco-Labrado, Remote Sensing
CREAF Team, Spain
• Oliver Binks, Tree and Forest Ecology
• Jordi
Martinez-Vilalta, Ecophysiology and Ecosystem Functioning
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Maurizio Mecuccini, Tree Ecophysyology
• Rafael Poyatos-Lopez, Plant Ecophysiology
Gembloux Agro-Bio Tech Team, Belgium
• Jean-François Bastin, Forest Ecology
• Adeline Fayolle, Tropical Forest Ecology
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Anaïs-Pasiphaé Gorel, Forest Ecology
• Jean-Louis Doucet, Tropical Forest Ecology
ENS Yaoundé Team, Cameroon
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Moses Libalah, Tropical Forest Ecology
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Bonaventure Sonké, Ecology and Systematics
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Murielle Simo-Droissart, Botanist
ENEF Team, Cameroon
• Germain Mbock, Forestry
• Daniéle Djomb, Forestry
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Ronald Kougue, Forestry
UDSN Team, Republic of Congo
• Gael Ulrich Bouka Dipelet, Plant Ecology
• Grace Jopaul Loubota Panzou, Forest Ecology