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Forthcoming in 2012

• Plenary speech at the 42th Annual Meeting of the Ecological Society of Germany, Austria and Switzerland from 10 to 14 September 2012 at the Leuphana University of Lüneburg. Title :"Of Bats and Rats: Interplay Between Primary and Secondary Seed Dispersers of Small- and Large-Seeded Plants in Tropical Rainforests" by Pierre-Michel Forget¹ and Marco A. R. Mello². 1. Muséum National d'Histoire Naturelle, France and 2. Universität Ulm, Germany.

Breaking News 

• 22-25 June 2012. Pierre-Michel Forget and Olivier Boissier are attending the Annual Conference of the Society for Tropical Ecology (Gesellschaft für Tropenökologie, gtö) in Erlangen, Germany, focusing on the Islands in land- and seascape. www.gtoe-conference.de

• 14 February 2012. Dr Marco Mello from University of Ulm presented a seminar on animal-plant relationships network.

• 6 January 2012. France Info Info Science. Interview of P.-M. Forget by M.-O Monchicourt (photo) about our recent discovery of seed dispersal by Giant rats in Rwanda. (Listen to the interview - in French)

• 24 Novembre 2011. Conference of Pierre-Michel Forget at UCL (Université Catholique de Louvain) entitled : "Cut & Paste": every thing you always wanted to know about plagiarism in tropical ecology".

• Frugivores and Seed Dispersal: Mechanisms and Consequences of a Key Interaction for Biodiversity Edited by Pierre-Michel Forget, Katrin Böhning-Gaese, Pedro Jordano, Joanna E. Lambert, Anna Traveset and Joe S. Wright. Volume 37, Issue 6, Pages 517-682 (November-December 2011). It is dedicated to the Memory of Pr. Dr. Elisabeth "Eli" Kalko (1962-2011).

• Content at this website - at Science Direct
  
  Virtual plenary talks at FSD2010-Virtual.org (Registration is free but mandatory). (11 November 2011)

• Dr. Irene Mendoza (photo below from Canopy Crane in Panama) will give a presentation at the Smithsonian Tropical Research Institute on Monday 7 November at 12:00 in Panama. The title is "Evidence for seed dispersal by rodents in a tropical forest in Africa". She previously presented her post-doc study (see below) on 25th October at SIGEO/CTFS Science meeting at the Tupper center in Panama City.
  
   
• Our Research team and phenology project highlighted in the Newpaper Le Monde. In an article entitled "En Guyane, une "forêt témoin" pour étudier biodiversité et climat" (In French Guiana, a "control forest" to study biodiversity and climate), Laurent Marot, reporter in Guyane, describes our research project on forest phenology (Irene Mendoza's post-doc project - see below) and tree diversity (see below) during the last October mission in the Week End supplement Science & Techno (page 3) of  the edition dated 29 October 2011. (Photo : Julien Engel, Botanist at UMR ECofog-Kourou who contributed to the tree inventory at Nouragues Forest © P.-M. Forget, MNHN). (PDF available upon request).
   
• Caja Madrid Fondation supports Irene Mendoza : Irene Mendoza es licenciada en Biología por la Universidad de Sevilla en 2002. En 2003 recibió una beca de Formación de Profesorado Universitario para realizar su tesis doctoral sobre las limitaciones de la regeneración en un mosaico de degradación de hábitats mediterráneos, realizando parte de sus investigaciones en Brasil y Panamá. En 2009 obtuvo la beca de la Fundación Caja Madrid para completar su formación en el Museo de Historia Natural de Francia. ... Read more at El trabajo de una ecóloga: dos ejemplos recientes. Fundacion Caja Madrid.
   
• The International Year of Forests. Scientists at the Muséum national d'histoire Naturelle (MNHN) and foresters from Office National des Forêts (ONF) respond to the question : "What is a forest". Video at MNHN.fr (in french).

• ATBC2012. P.-M. Forget co-chairs the 49th Annual meeting of the Association for Tropical Biology and Conservation (ATBC) to be held between 19-22 June 2010 in Bonito, MS, Brazil. There, with Nicolas Hulot, he contributed to "Un jardin pour la planète" d'Ushuaia Nature in June 2001, which was released in 2002 ; it is now available on line. Bookmark your agenda for June 2012.
   

Recent News

• Back to the trees. Pierre-Michel Forget and his colleagues from MNHN-CNRS and treeclimbing.fr were in French Guiana (Nouragues Field Station) between 4-14 october to collect plants. Press release [pdf]. See Biodiversity in Guyane. (Photo: © P.-M. Forget, Nov. 2009.)
  
   
• Seminar by P.-M. Forget on 27 September 2011, at Brunoy "Copier-Coller" ou Tout ce que vous voulez savoir sur le plagiat en science sans jamais oser le demander (titre plagié de Woody Allen). Abstract: En me documentant sur les activités de l'auteur de plusieurs fraudes scientifiques dont j'ai été dernièrement à la fois l'objet et le témoin, j'ai fait la découverte d'une nouvelle forme de Science TGV. Au cours de ce séminaire, je décrirai comment le plagiaire - dans le but évident d'obtenir plusieurs références indéxées dans un minimum de temps - a utilisé des articles accessibles en ligne, les a adaptés, puis a publié ces plagiats dans diverses (e-)revues internationales à comité de lecture référencées par Web of Knowledge !
   
• Nyungwe National Park. A. Nyiramana and I. Mendoza visited Nyungwe National Park, Rwanda. See Rwanda Gallery at Picasa. (Photo. Aisha Nyiramana with C. grandiflora fruit in Bwindi Impenetrable National Park, Rushaga, Uganda. (c) P.-M. Forget).
   
• 18 June-24 June : A. Nyiramana, I. Mendoza & P.-M. Forget visited ITFC to evaluate the feasability of field work on the ecology of Carapa grandiflora in Bwindi Impenetrable National Park, Uganda. We went to Ruhija and Rushaga, and walked thru the forest seeking for trees and fruits (photo below (c) P.-M. Forget). We enjoyed the ITFC station facilities in Ruhija, and the UWA campsite at Rushaga. We succeeded in finding good sites for our research; Aisha Nyiramana will continue her doctoral studies during the peak season in October.
  
• 9 June-17 June 2011 - Association for Tropical Biology and Conservation.  I. Mendoza, A. Nyiramana & P.-M. Forget attended the ATBC-SCB Africa section joint meeting in Tanzania. Presentations : 1) Ten years (2001-2011) of fruiting phenology in a Neotropical forest: consequences for animals of ENSO-induced variability on fruit crops by Mendoza, I. et al. - 2) Evidence of secondary seed dispersal in a Afromontane rainforest in Rwanda by Nyiramana, A (Photo). et al. - 3) Are all frugivores needed to insure seed removal and dispersal in human-modified landscape?  a preliminary test in a neotropical forest by Forget, P.-M.  et al.
  
• 20-22 May : Members of the research group UMR CNRS-MNHN 7179 were at the Fête de la Nature at Jardin des Plantes of the Muséum National d'Histoire Naturelle. La Fête de la Nature welcomed 40.000 visitors were able to see how we climb to the canopy to capture insectes and collect plants such as Carapa herbaria. They also discovered the diversity of tropical insects, as well as the diversity of bats and the relationships they develop with agoutis, seed dispersers, the garderners of the forest. (See our photos at CAFOTROP)
  
• 10-24 April 2011-ATBC2008 Association. P.-M. Forget  has been invited by the  Gombe State University and the Forestry Research Institute of Nigeria to visit Nigeria between 9-24 April. The aim was to advise Ph. D. student of the Nigerian Montane Forest Project in Ngel Nyaki working on Carapa seed-seedling ecology in fragmented forests, and to explore the possibility of organizing a future Annual ATBC meeting in Western Africa. See ATBC-SCB Section Africa 2011. See Nigeria Gallery at Picasa. (Photo : Misa Zbiro (Yelwa), Manager of Ngel Nyaki Station,  and Hazel Chapman, head of the NMFP © Pierre-Michel Forget).
  

  

• 21 April 2011. P.-M. Forget gave a plenary presentation at Forestry Research Institute of Nigeria in Ibadan entitled "Carapa sans frontières : how a paleotropical tree enriched neotropical diversity".
• 8 April 2011. Marie-Odile Monchicourt (Info Science, France Info) interviewed Pierre-Michel Forget about Carapa akuri, a new tree species discovered in Guyana, and described in Brittonia. The interview is on line Here. More about Carapa akuri.
• 28-30 March 2011. I. Mendoza attended BES Annual Symposium in Cambridge, UK. Presentation : Plant phenology and climatic change: a case study from an Amazonian forest (Nouragues, French Guiana) by I. Mendoza, A. Caubère, P. Chatelet, I. Hardy & P.-M. Forget. (Poster).
   
• 16 and 19 February 2011.  Interview of P.-M. Forget by Teddy Follenfant, journalist responsible of Equateur on RCF radio. Guyane: Diversité de la forêt et l'orpaillage.  Focus on French Guiana and various threats on tropical forests.
• 02 February 2011. Interview of P.-M. Forget by 20minutes. Focus on reforestation during the International Year of Forests.

Recent Papers

• Acta Oecologica (2011) Preface: Frugivores and seed dispersal (1985–2010); the ‘seeds’ dispersed, established and matured by Forget, PM, et. Special Volume. (in press). Frugivores and Seed Dispersal: Mechanisms and Consequences of a Key Interaction for Biodiversity. Edited by Forget, Pierre-Michel, Böhning-Gaese, Katrin, University of Frankfurt, Jordano, Pedro, Lambert, Joanna E., Traveset, Anna & Wright, Joe S. Content
   
• Biotropica (2011) Evidence for Seed Dispersal by Rodents in Tropical Montane Forest in Africa by Nyiramana, A., Mendoza, I., Kaplin, Beth A. & Forget, P.-M. Early view. Abstract.
  
  Press release in french [pdf] Dated 31 october 2011.
  
  
   

• Integrative Zoology (2011) Fruit availability, frugivore satiation and seed removal in 2 primate-dispersed tree species by Ratiarison, S. & Forget, PM (2011) Integrative Zoology 6(3):178–194. Abstract. Special volume: Frugivory and seed dispersal: integrating patterns, mechanisms and consequences of a key animal–plant interaction by Tomás A. CARLO, Ahimsa CAMPOS-ARCEIZ, Michael A. STEELE and Wenhua XIONG. [Volume content]
   
• American Journal of Primatology (2011) Primates in 21st Century Ecosystems: Does Primate Conservation Promote Ecosystem Conservation? by Norconk, MA; Boinski, S; Forget, PM. American Journal of Primatology Volume: 73 Issue: 1 Pages: 3-8 2011 . Abstract.
  
  
  
   
• Biology Letters (2011). Frugivores and seed dispersal: mechanisms and consequences for biodiversity of a key ecological interaction by Pedro Jordano, Pierre-Michel Forget, Joanna E. Lambert, Katrin Böhning-Gaese, Anna Traveset, and S. Joseph Wright. Biol. Lett. 23 June 2011 vol. 7 no. 3 321-323. Abstract.
  
  
   
• Biotropica (2010). Bushmeat Hunting Alters Recruitment of Large-seeded Plant Species in Central Africa by Hadrien Vanthomme, Boris Bellé, and Pierre-Michel Forget. Abstract.
  
  
  
  
  
   
• Fruits (2010). L’huile de carapa (Carapa spp., Meliaceae) en Afrique de l’Ouest : utilisations et implications dans la conservation des peuplements naturels by Natalie Weber, Philippe Birnbaum, Pierre-Michel Forget, Mathieu Gueye et David Kenfack. Fruits 65, 343-354. Abstract.

Press release (in french)

2008 : Nomination de Pierre-Michel Forget à la Présidence de l'ATBC

Décembre 2009 : Découverte d'une nouvelle espèce d'arbre Andiroba au Guyana

Octobre 2011 : Les scientifiques partent inventorier les arbres de la forêt guyanaise

November 2011 : En Afrique, les rats géants peuvent aussi cacher et disperser les graines comme d’autres rongeurs d’Amérique, d’Europe ou d’Asie

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Pierre-Michel Forget, Muséum National d'Histoire Naturelle, France