Tropical forest biodiversity group
Our group studies the interactions among levels of ecological integration. Tropical forests have long served as a testing ground for ecological theories. We are combining field research, molecular biology, and mathematical modeling to explore the mechanisms proposed to explain biodiversity, biogeochemical cycling, and macroevolutionary patterns.

Jerome Chave

Directeur de Recherche CNRS
Publications on Google Scholar or see below
PhD in physics from Orsay University (1999) and engineer diploma from Ecole Centrale Paris (1995).
Director of Unit Evolution et Diversite Biologique UMR 5174 CNRS, Université Toulouse 3, IRD.
Coordinator of LabEx CEntre for the study of Biodiversity in Amazonia (Labex CEBA).
Scientific director of the Nouragues Ecological Research Station, CNRS, French Guiana.
• CV (French) • CV (English) •

Nouragues • Labex CEBA
Projects
Biomass and tropical tree allometry. Trees display a fascinating diversity in shape and architecture. We have compiled destructive harvest experiments across tropical forests where trees have been cut and their parts individually sampled. This dataset has been instrumental to develop novel allometric equations that are used worldwide to estimate aboveground carbon stocks in mixed-species tropical forests (Chave et al. Global Change Biology 2014). Our research includes attempts to better understand other allometric relationships (Paul et al. Global Change Biology 2016; Jucker et al. Global Change Biology 2016). • Pantropical allometry database •

Wood density. Wood density is an important functional trait in plants and it is easily measured across woody plants. Over years, we have assembled a global wood density database for tropical forest sites (Chave et al., Ecology Letters 2009). We have also produced a tutorial for wood density measurement, updated by the Rainfor and ForestGEO consortia. The global wood density database is now aggregated to the TRY database. • Wood density handbook • Wood density database •

Remote sensing of tropical forests. Novel Earth Observation techniques offer a sub-metric description of natural forest ecosystems (aerial and terrestrial lidar) and could also be used to map forest carbon stores globally (P-band radar technology). We have been involved in the preparation missions of the BIOMASS Earth Observation satellite, to be launched in 2022, and are contributing methods for algorithm training and production validation. • BIOMASS mission • Forest Observation System

Neutral theory of biodiversity. Theoretical community ecology has long been elaborated around the notion of the niche. In the early 2000s, the idea that community assembly is shaped more by the stochastic nature of demography and dispersal than by deterministic factors has come to the fore. The neutral theory of biodiversity and biogeography developed by SP Hubbell has two parameters (theta, a regional diversity parameter; and m an immigration rate). With Franck Jabot, we have developed software to infer the parameters of Hubbell's model. The first code, tetame, implements Rampal Etienne's method of statistical inference by maximum likelihood estimation. The second, parthy, infers the parameters in a non-neutral biodiversity model using Approximate Bayesian Inference. • TETAME • PARTHY •

Biodiversity theory and plant functional traits. Niche theory predicts that in a local community, each species possesses a unique combination of traits (the species niche), to avoid interspecific competition. In contrast, neutral theory of biodiversity ascribes no role to competition and niches for local species coexistence. This project has assembled a unique database combining ecological, physiological, and genetic information in several tropical forest tree communities of French Guiana and has tested existing theories of biodiversity by combining field data and novel modelling approaches. We sampled nine old-growth forest tree plots and measured many plant functional traits; we also produced a phylogenetic hypothesis for the tree species found in our plots (Baraloto et al. 2012). The plant functional trait database is now included in the TRY portal and freely accessible (ANR-funded BRIDGE project 2007-2011). • Functional trait database • BRIDGE project website •

Metabarcoding and environmental DNA biodiversity surveys. Sequencing technologies are evolving at a fast pace and offer unique opportunities to help improve biodiversity surveys. We combined concepts from metagenomics (analysis of cellular microbial DNA from the soil) and from DNA barcoding (use of small DNA fragments that serve to discriminate among species) and developed innovative protocols to standardize the acquisition of high-throughput biodiversity data. These protocols were tested in two large-scale experiments, including broadly different environmental conditions (alpine and tropical), and taxonomic groups (ANR project METABAR; 2012-2016; PI Pierre Taberlet ; ANR project GLOBNETS; 2018-2023; PI Wilfried Thuiller). • METABARCODING •

Phylogenetics from plant organelle genomes. Evolutionary relationships among species shed light on the pace of diversification and on major events that have underpinned the extant biodiversity of our planet. We used next-generation sequencing technology to assemble full chloroplast genomes of several lineages of tropical forest plants. Our first project has focused on the lesser known family Chrysobalanaceae, frequent as trees in Amazonian forests, and for which a recent systematic treatment is available (Prance and Sothers 2003). We produced sequence data for over 25% of the known species in this family and showed that the family originated from Asia but diversified mostly in Amazonia over the past 30 million years (Bardon et al., American Journal of Botany 2016; Chave et al., Bot J Linn Soc 2020). We are now extending this work to other families of Amazonian trees: Sapotaceae, Lecythidaceae, and Humiriaceae. • Bardon et al's paper •

Useful links • Networks: ForestGEO • ForestPlots.net (AfriTRON, RAINFOR) • Amazon Tree Diversity Network • Data resources: NASA Earthdata • Worldclim • ERA5-Land hourly data from 1950 to present • Harmonized World Soil Database • Angiosperm Phylogeny website • World Flora Online • Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew, databases • New York Botanical Garden • Missouri Botanical Garden, Tropicos • Software: QGIS • The Comprehensive R Archive Network •
Current group

Vincent Dehaye

Vincent is an engineer in charge of the terrestrial lidar scanning activity of the group. He holds and engineer degree from ISAE-ENSMA, Toulouse.

Iris-Amata Dion

Iris is the science coordinator of the GEOTREES initiative, funded by CNES. She holds a PhD in atmospheric sciences from CNRM and LEGOS labs in Toulouse (Ice injected up to the Tropical Tropopause Layer by Deep Convection). GEOTREES is supported by ESA, NASA, CNES and CEOS.

Gabriel Hes

Gabriel is a doctoral student co-supervised with Jerome Ogee in Bordeaux. His project is to explore and model the response of plants to the peculiar microenvironmental conditions of the forest understory. This project is related to the ANR projects ALT and MaccMic, and is funded by a fellowship of Ecole Normale Superieure.

Nicolas Labrière

Nicolas is a post-doctoral research associate funded by ESA. He holds a PhD from AgroParisTech, and during his PhD research he has extensively worked in the Bornean forests. Shortly thereafter, he lead a field survey at the Lopé field station in Gabon, as part of the ESA-funded campaign AfriSAR. He is contributing to the global effort of collecting in situ biomass data for the Forest Observation System. His current work is funded by ESA's Climate Change Initiative.

Julien Lamour

Nicolas is a post-doctoral research associate funded by the NGEE-Tropics projet. He is a plant ecophysiologist, and holds a PhD from Universite de Montpellier. He is interested in the response of photosynthesis to light and water availability.

Laetitia Plaisance

Laetitia is the science project manager for Labex CEBA. She holds a PhD from Perpignan University, where she studied the biogeography and phylogeny of lionfish in the Pacific Ocean. She then moved for post-doctoral fellowships at the National History Museum in Oslo, Norway, then at the Scripps Institute, San Diego, USA. From 2013, she was the coordinator og the Marine Biodiversity Program at the National History Museum, in Washington DC.
Group alumni
Léa Bardon (doctoral student 2011-2015) A former Msc student at Univ Toulouse, Léa worked on the phylogeny of a pantropical family of woody plants, Chrysobalanaceae. She applied plastid genome sequencing techniques to resolve the phylogenetic tree for this family, and used extant species to infer the ancestral areas for lineages. She is now a biology teacher.
Oskar Burger (postdoc 2008-2009) Oskar was involved in an NSF-funded project on Coupled Human-And-Environment System (CHANS) in Guyana, led by Jose Fragoso. He did another post-doc at the Max Planck Institute for Demographic Research in Germany, and held a position at University of Kent, UK. He is now program manager at University of Texas, Austin.
Guillem Chust (postdoc 2002-2004) Guillem conducted his PhD research at CESBIO in Toulouse. As a PDRA with us, he was funded by CNRS and worked on ordination methods for the study of betadiversity in tropical tree species. More recently, we collaborated of the neutral theory of biodiversity applied to planktonic marine samples. He is now Senior Researcher at ATZI, Bilbao
Elodie Courtois (doctoral student 2006-2010; postdoc 2014-2015) Elodie holds a Msc from INSA-Lyon and a PhD from Toulouse University in chemical ecology (PhD: The perfume of plant defense in Amazonian forests). After a post-doc in Moulis on the chytrid amphibian disease, she was PDRA in the group, hosted at CNRS-Guyane, and funded by the ANAEE-France project, then at University of Antwerp in Ivan Janssens' lab. She is now Research Engineer at CNRS in French Guiana.
Jessica Delhaye (Labex CEBA 2017-2019) Jessica was the science project manager for Labex CEBA. She did a PhD at Lausanne University on avian malaria. At CEBA she was instrumental in setting up the strategy for the CEBA2 project, post 2020.
Kyle Dexter (postdoc 2009-2011) Kyle graduated from Duke University on the ecology and biogeography of the Neotropical legume genus Inga. In the group, he contributed to the ANR-funded project BRIDGE, and developed large-scale analyses of traits across the Neotropics. He is now Lecturer at University of Edinburgh.
Julian Donald (postdoc 2018-2021) Julian was a post-doctoral research associate funded by the ANR-FRS funded project SECIL. His project was on patterns of endophytic community assembly in tropical leaves and roots. He completed his PhD at University of the West of England, Bristol on rainforest canopy science, and describes himself an a tropical ecologist. He now a lecturer at University of Exeter, UK.
Fabian Fischer (doctoral student 2016-2020) Fabian ws a PhD student from April 2016 to December 2019, funded by the Studienstiftung des deutschen Volkes e.V.. He holds degrees in literature, philosophy and physics from Ludwig-Maximilians-Universität, Munich, was a visiting student at University of California, Berkeley, Université de Paris, and the German International Climate Initiative (funded by the German Ministry of Environment). He was studying inverse modelling approaches using the individual-based forest simulator TROLL. He is now a postdoc at University of Bristol, UK.
Rosie Fisher (postdoc 2019-2021) Rosie was a NGEE-Tropics personnel, and modelling lead of the FATES model. She joined the group in 2019, to continue her work with the development of FATES, before accepting a senior researcher position at CICERO, Norway.
Mailyn Gonzalez (doctoral student 2005-2009) Mailyn holds a Msc from University of Lausanne. As a PhD student in the group, she spearheaded our first attempts to develop a functioning plant DNA barcode system for Amazonian trees, and studied the regeneration of trees in French Guiana. She is now Investigador at Instituto De Investigacion De Recursos Biologicos Alexander Von Humboldt in her homeland Colombia.
Amaia Iribar (Labex CEBA 2012-2018) Amaia holds a Msc in ecology and a PhD in environmental microbiology, both from Toulouse University. She was the science project manager for Labex CEBA, and is now appointed as CNRS Research Engineer at EDB, where whe coordinates the microbiology and molecular biology platform (B2M).
Franck Jabot (doctoral student 2005-2009) Franck holds a diploma from Ecole Polytechnique. During his PhD project he worked on improving inference methods for Hubbell's neutral theory of biodiversity. He developed new techniques based on the Approximate Bayesian Computation method. He is now staff researcher at INRAE, Clermont-Ferrand, and head of the LISC lab.
Coline Jaworski (doctoral student 2011-2015) Coline holds a diploma from Ecole de Physique Chimie de Paris, with a background in chemistry. Her PhD was on the eco-evolutionary dynamics of species interactions. She developed experiments at the Moulis experimental ecology station and field work in the Pyerenees to assess floral scent-mediated interactions between Antirrhinum majus (snapdragon) and pollinating insects. She is now post-doc at University of Oxford
Emilie Joetzjer (postdoc 2017-2018) Emilie was a post-doctoral research associate supervised by Philippe Ciais, funded by CEA. Previously, she was a PhD student in Meteo-France in Toulouse, and has contributed a critical reanalysis of the current and future precipitation predictions of global climate models over the Amazon basin. After work with us on the global dynamic vegetation model Orchidee, she is now a staff scientist at INRAE Nancy.
Renato Lima (postdoc 2015-2016) Renato was a post-doctoral associate in the group, funded by Fundacao de Amparo a Pesquisa do Estado de Sao Paulo. He holds a PhD in ecology from Universidade de Sao Paulo. His aim is to explain the causes of spatial structure in plant communities using phylogenetic information and functional traits, with a special focus on the floristic assemblages of Sao Paulo State in Southeast Brazil. He is now a Marie Curie fellow at Naturalis Leiden, though still frequently visiting France.
Pierre-Jean Malé (postdoc 2011-2013) PJ holds a Msc from Montpellier University and a PhD from Toulouse University, where he worked on ant genetic systems. As a post-doc in the group, he worked to develop early methods of transcriptome sequencing in tropical plants, and plastid genome sequencing by Illumina shotgun sequencing. He is now post-doc at Harvard University.
Isabelle Maréchaux (doctoral student 2013-2016, postdoc 2017-2018) Isabelle was trained at Ecole Polytechnique and is Ingénieur des Ponts, Eaux et Forêts (the funding body for her PhD). Her project was to develop an individual based model of tropical forests to assimilate ecophysiological data, and relate to less detailed but global dynamic vegetation models. She was then a post-doc in the group, jointly with that of Frans Bongers at Wageningen University. She is now staff scientist at INRAE in Montpellier.
Victoria Meyer (doctoral student 2012-2017) Victoria was a PhD student, co-supervised by Sassan Saatchi in Los Angeles. She holds a Msc from Bordeaux University. She is working on the potential of LiDAR data to recover biomass and forest structure information in old-growth tropical forests. She was based at the Jet Propulsion Laboratory in Pasadena for a post-doc (NASA/CalTech) and is now employed by Terraformation.
Natalia Norden (doctoral student 2003-2007) Natalia holds a Msc from Paris. Her PhD in Toulouse, co-supervised with Christophe Thebaud, was on the quantification of seed-to-seedling transition in Neotropical trees and lianas. After her PhD she spent a post-doc at the University of Connectitut in Robin Chazdon's lab, then took a professorship at the Universidad Javeriana, Bogota, her hometown. She is now Investigador at Instituto De Investigacion De Recursos Biologicos Alexander Von Humboldt in Bogota.
E-Ping Rau (doctoral student 2016-2022) E-Ping holds a Msc from Taipei University, Taiwan. His PhD project was to explore the response of tropical rain forests to extreme wind events using a novel implementation of the TROLL model, and with data from Sentinel 1. He is now a postdoc at Cambridge University.
Maxime Réjou-Méchain (postdoc 2010-2013) Maxime graduated from University of Montpellier where he worked on the dynamics of forests at the CIRAD M'Baiki station, in the Republic of Central Africa. In the group, he worked on the phylogeny of trees of M'Baiki, and on biomass estimation of tropical forests using aerial LiDAR scanning. He then moved to India, to led a remote sensing lab of the Institut Francais de Pondichery, and is now staff scientist at IRD, Montpellier (AMAP).
Guilhem Sommeria-Klein (doctoral student 2013-2017) Guilhem was a PhD student and worked on theoretical models of biodiversity adapted to the study of spatially explicit DNA-based biodiversity inventories. He was then a post-doc in Hélène Morlon's group (CNRS Paris), and is now in Finland.
Claire Suchet (doctoral student 2006-2010) Claire holds a Msc from Toulouse University. As a PhD student, she worked on unravelling the smell of wild snapdragon populations in the Pyrenees, in collaboration with Christophe Thebaud and Christine Raynaud. She is now working for the private sector.
Tony (Shengli) Tao (postdoc 2018-2022) Tony was funded by Labex CEBA. He did his PhD in Beijing University on remote sensing applications to carbon stock assessment, and wants to study the spatially-explicit modelling of Amazonian communities. He is now a lecturer in Beijing University.
Blaise Tymen (doctoral student 2013-2016) Blaise was trained at Ecole Normale Supérieure de Lyon in biology (funding his PhD). Until December 2015, Blaise was PhD student in the group, co-supervised by Grégoire Vincent (Montpellier). He is now post-doc in the group. His research focuses on applications of aerial LiDAR scanning to detect vegetation structure. He is also implementing fine-scale models of habitat suitability for amphibians in French Guiana. He is now a biology teacher.
Lucie Zinger (postdoc 2013-2016) Lucie is a expert in bioinformatics and microbiology, she was involved in the ANR-funded METABAR project, which developed DNA-based techniques for biodiversity inventory both in the tropics and the temperate zone. She holds a Msc and PhD from Grenoble University (Variations spatio-temporelles de la microflore des sols alpins). She is now assistant professor at Ecole Normale Superieure, rue d'Ulm, Paris.
Publications

  1. Maréchaux, I., Bonal, D., Bartlett, M. K., Burban, B., Coste, S., Courtois, E. A., ... & Sack, L. (2018). Dry‐season decline in tree sapflux is correlated with leaf turgor loss point in a tropical rainforest. Functional Ecology, 32(10), 2285-2297.[pdf]
  2. Ohlmann, M., Mazel, F., Chalmandrier, L., Bec, S., Coissac, E., Gielly, L., ... & Chave, J. (2018). Mapping the imprint of biotic interactions on β‐diversity. Ecology letters, 21(11), 1660-1669.[pdf]
  3. Zinger, L., Taberlet, P., Schimann, H., Bonin, A., Boyer, F., De Barba, M., ... & Réjou‐Méchain, M. (2018). Body size determines soil community assembly in a tropical forest. Molecular ecology.[pdf]
  4. Esquivel‐Muelbert, A., Baker, T. R., Dexter, K. G., Lewis, S. L., Brienen, R. J., Feldpausch, T. R., ... & Higuchi, N. (2018). Compositional response of Amazon forests to climate change. Global Change Biology.[pdf]
  5. Meyer, V., Saatchi, S., Clark, D. B., Keller, M., Grégoire, V., Ferraz, A., ... & Chave, J. (2018). Canopy area of large trees explains aboveground biomass variations across neotropical forest landscapes. Biogeosciences, 15(11), 3377.[pdf]
  6. Brandt, M., Wigneron, J. P., Chave, J., Tagesson, T., Penuelas, J., Ciais, P., ... & Rodriguez-Fernandez, N. (2018). Satellite passive microwaves reveal recent climate-induced carbon losses in African drylands. Nature Ecology & Evolution, 2(5), 827.[pdf]
  7. Pillet, M., Joetzjer, E., Belmin, C., Chave, J., Ciais, P., Dourdain, A., ... & Poulter, B. (2018). Disentangling competitive vs. climatic drivers of tropical forest mortality. Journal of Ecology, 106(3), 1165-1179.[pdf]
  8. Sullivan, M. J., Lewis, S. L., Hubau, W., Qie, L., Baker, T. R., Banin, L. F., ... & Arets, E. (2018). Field methods for sampling tree height for tropical forest biomass estimation. Methods in Ecology and Evolution.[pdf]
  9. Gomes, V. H., IJff, S. D., Raes, N., Amaral, I. L., Salomão, R. P., Coelho, L. S., ... & Guevara, J. E. (2018). Species Distribution Modelling: Contrasting presence-only models with plot abundance data. Scientific Reports, 8(1), 1003.[pdf]
  10. Ledo, A., Paul, K. I., Burslem, D. F., Ewel, J. J., Barton, C., Battaglia, M., ... & Chave, J. (2018). Tree size and climatic water deficit control root to shoot ratio in individual trees globally. New Phytologist, 217(1), 8-11.[pdf]
  11. Maréchaux, I., & Chave, J. (2017). An individual‐based forest model to jointly simulate carbon and tree diversity in Amazonia: description and applications. Ecological Monographs, 87, 632-664.[pdf]
  12. Tymen, B., Vincent, G., Courtois, E. A., Heurtebize, J., Dauzat, J., Marechaux, I., & Chave, J. (2017). Quantifying micro-environmental variation in tropical rainforest understory at landscape scale by combining airborne LiDAR scanning and a sensor network. Annals of Forest Science, 74(2), 32.[pdf]
  13. Joetzjer, E., Pillet, M., Ciais, P., Barbier, N., Chave, J., Schlund, M., ... & Poncet, F. (2017). Assimilating satellite‐based canopy height within an ecosystem model to estimate aboveground forest biomass. Geophysical Research Letters, 44(13), 6823-6832.[pdf]
  14. Massi, K. G., Bird, M., Marimon, B. S., Marimon, B. H., Nogueira, D. S., Oliveira, E. A., ... & Camargo, J. L. (2017). Does soil pyrogenic carbon determine plant functional traits in Amazon Basin forests?. Plant Ecology, 218(9), 1047-1062.[pdf]
  15. Stas, S. M., Rutishauser, E., Chave, J., Anten, N. P., & Laumonier, Y. (2017). Estimating the aboveground biomass in an old secondary forest on limestone in the Moluccas, Indonesia: Comparing locally developed versus existing allometric models. Forest Ecology and Management, 389, 27-34.[pdf]
  16. Grau, O., Peñuelas, J., Ferry, B., Freycon, V., Blanc, L., Desprez, M., ... & Guitet, S. (2017). Nutrient-cycling mechanisms other than the direct absorption from soil may control forest structure and dynamics in poor Amazonian soils. Scientific Reports, 7, 45017.[pdf]
  17. Réjou‐Méchain, M., Tanguy, A., Piponiot, C., Chave, J., & Hérault, B. (2017). biomass: an r package for estimating above‐ground biomass and its uncertainty in tropical forests. Methods in Ecology and Evolution.[pdf]
  18. Maréchaux, I., Bartlett, M. K., Iribar, A., Sack, L., & Chave, J. (2017). Stronger seasonal adjustment in leaf turgor loss point in lianas than trees in an Amazonian forest. Biology Letters, 13, 20160819.[pdf]
  19. de Souza, F. C., Dexter, K. G., Phillips, O. L., Brienen, R. J., Chave, J., Galbraith, D. R., ... & Alexiades, M. (2016, December). Evolutionary heritage influences Amazon tree ecology. Proc. R. Soc. B 283, 20161587.[pdf]
  20. Ibanez, T., Chave, J., Barrabé, L., Elodie, B., Boutreux, T., Trueba, S., ... & Birnbaum, P. (2017). Community variation in wood density along a bioclimatic gradient on a hyper‐diverse tropical island. Journal of Vegetation Science 28, 19-33.[pdf]
  21. Jucker, T., Caspersen, J., Chave, J., Antin, C., Barbier, N., Bongers, F., ... Coomes, D. (2017). Allometric equations for integrating remote sensing imagery into forest monitoring programmes. Global Change Biology, 23, 177-190.[pdf]
  22. Sullivan, M. J., Talbot, J., Lewis, S. L., Phillips, O. L., Qie, L., Begne, S. K., ... & Miles, L. (2017). Diversity and carbon storage across the tropical forest biome. Scientific Reports 7, 39102.[pdf]
  23. Dexter, K., & Chave, J. (2016). Evolutionary patterns of range size, abundance and species richness in Amazonian angiosperm trees. PeerJ, 4, e2402.[pdf]
  24. Bardon, L., Sothers, C., Prance, G. T., Malé, P. J. G., Xi, Z., Davis, C. C., ... & Chave, J. (2016). Unraveling the biogeographical history of Chrysobalanaceae from plastid genomes. American Journal of Botany.[pdf]
  25. Maeda, E. E., Moura, Y. M., Wagner, F., Hilker, T., Lyapustin, A. I., Wang, Y., ... Shimabukuro, Y. (2016). Consistency of vegetation index seasonality across the Amazon rainforest. International Journal of Applied Earth Observation and Geoinformation, 52, 42-53.[pdf]
  26. Phillips, J., Duque, Á., Scott, C., Wayson, C., Galindo, G., Cabrera, E., ... Duivenvoorden, J. (2016). Live aboveground carbon stocks in natural forests of Colombia. Forest Ecology and Management, 374, 119-128.[pdf]
  27. Johnson, M. O., Galbraith, D., Gloor, M., De Deurwaerder, H., Guimberteau, M., Rammig, A., ... Phillips, O. L. (2016). Variation in stem mortality rates determines patterns of above‐ground biomass in Amazonian forests: implications for dynamic global vegetation models. Global Change Biology.[pdf]
  28. Maréchaux, I., Bartlett, M. K., Gaucher, P., Sack, L., & Chave, J. (2016). Causes of variation in leaf-level drought tolerance within an Amazonian forest. Journal of Plant Hydraulics, 3, e004.[pdf]
  29. Courtois, E. A., Dexter, K. G., Paine, C. E. T., Stien, D., Engel, J., Baraloto, C., Chave, J. (2016). Evolutionary patterns of volatile terpene emissions across 202 tropical tree species. Ecology and evolution, 6(9), 2854-2864.[pdf]
  30. Zinger, L., Chave, J., Coissac, E., Iribar, A., Louisanna, E., Manzi, S., ... & Taberlet, P. (2016). Extracellular DNA extraction is a fast, cheap and reliable alternative for multi-taxa surveys based on soil DNA. Soil Biology and Biochemistry, 96, 16-19.[pdf]
  31. Wagner, F. H., Anderson, L. O., Baker, T. R., Bowman, D. M., Cardoso, F. C., Chidumayo, E. N., ... & Marques, M. C. (2016). Climate seasonality limits leaf carbon assimilation and wood productivity in tropical forests. Biogeosciences, 13, 2537. [pdf]
  32. Feldpausch, T. R., Phillips, O. L., Brienen, R. J. W., Gloor, E., Lloyd, J., Lopez‐Gonzalez, G., ... Alvarez‐Loayza, P. (2016). Amazon forest response to repeated droughts. Global Biogeochemical Cycles.[pdf]
  33. Ho Tong Minh, D., T. Le Toan, F. Rocca, S. Tebaldini, L. Villard, M. Réjou-Méchain, OL Phillips, Ted R. Feldpauschg, P. Dubois-Fernandez, K. Scipali, J. Chave (2016) SAR tomography for the retrieval of forest biomass and height: Cross-validation at two tropical forest sites in French Guiana. Remote Sensing of the Environment, 175, 138-147.[pdf]
  34. Paul, K. I., Roxburgh, S. H., Chave, J., England, J. R., Zerihun, A., Specht, A., ... Sinclair J. (2016). Testing the generality of above‐ground biomass allometry across plant functional types at the continent scale. Global Change Biology. [pdf]
  35. Díaz, S., Kattge, J., Cornelissen, J. H., Wright, I. J., Lavorel, S., Dray, S., ... Garnier, E. (2016). The global spectrum of plant form and function. Nature, 529, 167-171. [pdf]
  36. Tymen, B., Réjou‐Méchain, M., Dalling, J. W., Fauset, S., Feldpausch, T. R., Norden, N., ... Chave, J. (2016). Evidence for arrested succession in a liana‐infested Amazonian forest. Journal of Ecology, 104, 149-159.[pdf]
  37. Chu, C., Bartlett, M., Wang, Y., He, F., Weiner, J., Chave, J., Sack, L. (2016). Does climate directly influence NPP globally?. Global Change Biology, 22, 12-24. doi: 10.1111/gcb.13079.[pdf]
  38. Ringler, M., Mangione, R., Pašukonis, A., Rainer, G., Gyimesi, K., Felling, J., ... Ringler, E. (2016). High-resolution forest mapping for behavioural studies in the Nature Reserve Les Nouragues, French Guiana. Journal of Maps, 12, 26-32.[pdf]
  39. Jaworski, C. C., Thébaud, C., Chave, J. (2016). Dynamics and persistence in a metacommunity centred on the plant Antirrhinum majus: theoretical predictions and an empirical test. Journal of Ecology, 104, 456-468. doi: 10.1111/1365-2745.12515.[pdf]
  40. Réjou-Méchain, M., Tymen, B., Blanc, L., Fauset, S., Feldpausch, T. R., Monteagudo, A., ... Chave, J. (2015). Using repeated small-footprint LiDAR acquisitions to infer spatial and temporal variations of a high-biomass Neotropical forest. Remote Sensing of Environment, 169, 93-101.[pdf]
  41. Honorio Coronado, E. N., Dexter, K. G., Pennington, R. T., Chave, J., Lewis, S. L., Alexiades, M. N., ... Vos, V. (2015). Phylogenetic diversity of Amazonian tree communities. Diversity and Distributions, 21, 1295-1307 [pdf]
  42. Jaworski, C. C., Andalo, C., Raynaud, C., Simon, V., Thebaud, C., Chave, J. (2015). The Influence of Prior learning experience on pollinator choice: An experiment using bumblebees on two wild floral types of Antirrhinum majus. PloS ONE, 10(8), e0130225.[pdf]
  43. Fauset, S., Johnson, M. O., Gloor, M., Baker, T. R., Monteagudo, A., Brienen, R. J., ... Levis, C. (2015). Hyperdominance in Amazonian forest carbon cycling. Nature Communications, 6.[pdf]
  44. Marechaux, I., Bartlett, M. K., Sack, L., Baraloto, C., Engel, J., Joetzjer, E., Chave, J. (2015). Drought tolerance as predicted by leaf water potential at turgor loss point varies strongly across species within an Amazonian forest. Functional Ecology. doi: 10.1111/1365-2435.12452 [pdf]
  45. Courtois, E. A., Gaucher, P., Chave, J., Schmeller, D. S. (2015). Widespread Occurrence of Bd in French Guiana, South America. PLoS ONE, in press. [pdf]
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  47. DeWalt, S. J., Schnitzer, S. A., Alves, L. F., Bongers, F., Burnham, R. J., Cai, Z., ... Melis, J. V. (2015). Biogeographical patterns of liana abundance and diversity. Ecology of Lianas, 131-146.[pdf]
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