Thomas Feiss, PhD Student, will participate to the second International Workshop of Pedoanthracology, in Kiel (Germany) from April 18th to 19th. Every contribution will deal with the combination of geosciences and charcoal analysis: “Improving the link between charcoal analysis and geosciences – towards a geoanthracology?” “Improving the link between charcoal analysis and geosciences – towards a geoanthracology?” The workshop will happen as a combination of scientific communications (oral and poster) and practical sessions, and includes an excursion to landscapes of ...
The conference EcoVeg 9 will take place from April 3th to 5th, in Tours (France). The seminars are organized annually since 2005. The aim is to share, discuss and compare the latest results in ecology research of plant communities. It is a moment of exchange and communication for students, young scientists and researchers. The topics are related to the theoretical foundations of the ecology of plant communities and the environmental issues associated with: biodiversity, global change, disturbance ...
Jonathan Lenoir, lecturer, and Stephan Kambach, currently doing an internship within the Unit, will participate at the 12th meeting on vegetation databases organized by iDiv (German Centre for Integrative Biodiversity Research) in Leipzig, from March, 4th to 6th. The conference theme is « linking vegetation and plant trait databases« . Jonathan Lenoir will speak on the topic « using vegetation databases to thermal variability for Assessment Within 1-km2 spatial units across Northern Europe« . Official website of the meeting Program
Professor Alessandro Chiarucci, currently invited in the Unit, will present a seminar entitled: ‘Spatially constrained rarefaction curves to Avoid spatial autocorrelation and sample size Biases in Estimating biodiversity’ Salle des Thèses – Pôle Santé Saint-Charles – On March, 7th at 2PM.
Stephan Kambach studied Biology at the University Marthin-Luther Halle-Wittenberg, in Germany. He is specialized in geobotany and tropical pollination ecology. Stephan joined the research unit in December 2012 for an internship. He compares the realised niche width of herbaceous species of all the alpean region and tries to decompose the influence of abiotic and biotic factors on species occurrences. After his internship, he wants to start a PhD thesis on ecosystem services, biodiversity and conservation.
For smallFOREST and FORHAIE projects, a training arthropods will take place on Wednesday 6th and Thursday 7th at the University of Picardie – Sciences Department – Unit Edysan, laboratory BIPE. Marc Deconchat and Brice Giffard, Dynafor laboratory (INRA Toulouse), and Pallieter De Smedt, Ghent University (Belgium), will host this two days of training with Vincent Le Roux, Ludmilla Martin and Guillaume Decocq, Edysan research unit FRE 3498. Day 1 I. Generalities about carabid beetles What is a carabid beetle ? ...
At the beginning of February, Alessandro Chiarucci, Professor of Ecology at the University of Siena (Italy), joined the Unit as a Visiting Professor. His work focuses on the study of biodiversity, particularly terrestrial plant communities. His research highlight the determinants of richness and composition of plant species at different spatial scales, community dynamics, and problems related to sampling species richness at different spatial scales. He focuses primarily on monitoring diversity in protected areas (especially network of ...
Mason Heberling and Norman Mason, PhD student and visiting Professor, will conduct a conference on Friday, 14th at 1:30 PM (Amphitheatre Lamarck – Pôle Santé Université de Picardie Jules Verne): Mason Heberling (Department of Biology, Syracuse University, Life Sciences Complex, New York, USA): « Plant resource-use efficiency and forest invasions in the Northeastern United States » Norman Mason (Landcare Research, Ecosystems and Global change, Hamilton, New Zealand): « What function does functional trait research serve? » Functional traits and functional trait diversity have ...
Mason Heberling, PhD student, at the University of Suracuse (NY, USA), and Jason Friedley, Professor at the University of Syracuse (NY,USA), will be welcomed into the Unit from June, 8th to 24th to work on a collaborative project about the comparative ecophysiology of two woody species: Prunus serotina, native in the U.S., invasive in Europe Rhamnus cathartica, native in Europe, invasive in the U.S.