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Carapa.org - Members
Lab Associates
Pierre-Michel Forget (MNHN). Use large-seeded Carapa tree species to protect and save biodiversity of tropical rainforests in Africa and America. WebEditor of Tropicalbio.org and Past-President of the Association for Tropical Biology and Conservation (2007-2009). Organizers of three International Meetings in 2008 in Suriname, 2010 in France, and 2012 in Brazil. Editor of Seed Fate and Nouragues Books. Author of more than 100 papers in peer-reviewed journals, edited books and special volumes, popular magazins, chronicles, plus other Media activities
François Feer (CNRS). Responsible of BIOTROP. Homepage. He's also a writer and a illustrator. Bestiaire Amazonien and Les Poissons sont Indomptables published by Le Dilettante. Neotropical Rainforest Mammals. A Field Guide. (Co-)authors of papers with P-M. Forget on frugivores and seed removal and predation by rodents. Co-organizer of the 5th Symposium on Frugivores and Seed Dispersal in Montpellier, June 2010. Website
Odile Poncy (CNRS, PAR herbarium). Contribute to tree sampling and taxonomy. Co-author of the description of the Carapa akuri species in Guyana. Co-author of the Report "Mission d’expertise réalisée du 3 au 7 décembre 2007 dans le cadre d’une mission d’inspection sur le projet d’exploitation aurifère de camp caïman (CBJ Cambior) sur la montagne de Kaw."
Current Graduate Students
Contact : pierre-michel.forget at mnhn dot fr
Field & Laboratory Research Team
Patrick Chatelet (CNRS, Nouragues). Responsible for phenology data sampling fruit collection at Nouragues, French Guiana.
Adeline Caubère (CNRS, Brunoy). Responsible for identification of fruit-seed sample of the the phenology program at Brunoy. Homepage. RETIRED
Isabelle Hardy (CNRS, Brunoy). Database expert. Homepage
Lab Alumni and Visitors
Irene Mendoza, former Post-Doctoral researcher (2009-2011). Granted by Fundacion Caja Madrid and Spanish Ministry of Education. She analysed 10-year (2001-2011) data on tree phenology from Nouragues Field Station, and co-supervised Ph D students in the lab. She has expertise in animal-plant relationships and forest dynamics in relation to climate change. mendoza[at]mnhn.fr - Curriculum Vitae [pdf]. She is currently Post-doc at Morellato's Lab and her project is about "Phenological responses of woody plants to climate change: a comparative analysis across the neotropics"
Aisha Nyiramana, former Ph D Student, Muséum national d'Histoire naturelle. She defended her doctoral thesis Production de fruits, dissémination et devenir des graines de Carapa grandilfora (Meliaceae) dans le parc National de Nyungwe, Rwanda (Fruit crop, dispersal and fate of seeds of Carapa grandilfora (Meliaceae) dans le parc National de Nyungwe, Rwanda) on 9th october 2012 at MNHN.
Olivier Boissier, former Ph D Student, Muséum national d'Histoire naturelle. He defended his doctoral thesis Impact des pressions anthropiques sur les communaute?s de frugivores et la dispersion des graines en fore?t guyanaise" (Impacts of hunting and logging on the structure of frugivore communities in a Neotropical rain forest: consequences for seed dispersal) on 7th December 2012 at MNHN.
Gabrielle Martin (MNHN & Université Pierre et Marie Curie-UPMC Paris 6). Topic: Variations inter-annuelles de la production et dissémination des graines de balata (Manilkara spp., Sapotaceae) en forêt guyanaise.
Axelle Bouiges. (Master 2, Orsay). Impact of anthropogenic pressures on dispersal of yayamadous (Virola michelii et V. kwatae, Myristicaceae) in French Guiana. (2009). Now Ph D Student at UMR OSEB - EPHE.
Clément Lermyte (Mastere ENGREF-Ecofog). Rapid assessment of dispersal failure and seedling recruitment of large-seeded non-timber forest products trees in a tropical rainforest. (2006-2007) ONF Trois-Rivières, Guadeloupe.
Sébastien Jésel (DEA + Ph. D. INAP-G) Ecology and recruitment dynamics of Dicorynia guianensis Amshoff, (Caesalpiniaceae) a timber species in a Guianan forest. (2005) Website. Projet Capsis (2004-7) at CIRAD. Now based at Association Clairondegambe.fr
Nicolas Guillemot (Stage INAPG-MNHN 2004 - first version of carapa.org). Diplôme d'ingénieur agro-halieute, AgroParisTech (2005); Doctorat en Halieutique, Agrocampus Ouest / Université Européenne de Bretagne (2006-2009). Now at Consultant : Environnement marin & Halieutique
Sandra Ratiarison (DEA + Thesis Veterinary + Ph. D. Paris 6). Fruiting strategies and fruit consumption in the canopy of a rainforest: a comparative study in French Guiana (2003). Website. Now Directrice de Projet in Younadé, Cameroun for the Zoological Society of London. sandra.ratiarison[a]zsl.org - Curriculum Vitae [pdf]
Natalia Norden (former DEA Paris 6). Seed rain and tree recruitment in French Guiana. (2003). Then prepared her Ph D thesis in Toulouse (Chave's Lab). Effet de la limitation dans la dispersion des graines sur la régénération de la forêt tropicale humide en Guyane française. (2006) (Post-doc Univ. Connecticut (Chazdon Lab). Now Assistant Professor, Departamento de Estudios Ambientales y Rurales, Pontificia Universidad Javeriana, Bogota, Colombia. (photo : Natalia Reading F. Feer's book). Homepage
François Morneau (DEA, ENGREF). Effect of tree density on natural recruitment of wacapou (Vouacapoua americana Aubet, Casalpiniaceae) in French Guiana. (2002). Now based at Inventaire Forestier National (IFN).
Steven Brewer (Post-Doc EGIDE-Chateaubriand, 2001). Worked on post-dispersal seed predation of Manilkara spp. (Sapotaceae) at Nouragues (2001). Now at Coppenhead Consulting.
Stéphanie Chauvet (DEA + Ph. D. Paris 6). Facteurs écologiques de la régénération des arbres en forêt tropicale. Effets majeurs des rongeurs sur la survie des graines de deux Sapotacées en Guyane française. (1997). Effect of forest fragmentation on animal-plant relationships: consequences for recruitment (2001). Now based at Tela Botanica
Julien Engel (Maîtrise BOP) Université des Sciences et techniques de Lille. Impact de la fragmentation du milieu forestier sur la prédation et la dispersion des graines par les rongeurs caviomorphes. Cas du barrage de Petit-saut en Guyane française. (1999). Now Botanist at Ecofog in French Guiana.