Tropical forest Ecology and Climate Change
Biography
I’m Sylvain, an ecologist at CIRAD (https://www.cirad.fr), a French research center working with developing countries on environmental and development issues. I am currently conducting research into modeling the joint effect of climate change and anthropogenic disturbance on the dynamics of Amazonian tropical forests.
Interests
- Tropical forests
- Ecology
- Climate Change
- Tool development
- Evolutionary biology
Education
PhD in Ecology and Evolution, 2020
Univ. Bordeaux
Msc / Engineer in Biodiversity, Ecology and Evolution, 2017
AgroParisTech, Univ. Montpellier
Experience
Researcher: Tropical forest Ecology and Climate Change
Climate Change, Ecology, and Tropical forests
Postdoctoral researcher: Tropical forest modelling with joint effect of climate change and anthropic disturbances (ALT)
Climate Change, Dynamic Vegetation Model, and Tropical forests
Postdoctoral researcher: Mutation in the tropical tree canopy (TREEMUTATION)
Genomics, Mutation, and Tropical forests
PhD student: Ecological genomics of niche exploitation and individual performance intropical forest trees
Ecological genomics, Functional ecology, and community ecology
Recent Publications
Software
rcontroll integrates the individual-based and spatially-explicit TROLL model to simulate forest ecosystem and species dynamics forward in time. rcontroll provides user-friendly functions to set up and analyse simulations with varying community compositions, ecological parameters, and climate conditions.
Allows to map species richness and endemism based on stackedspecies distribution models (SSDM). Individuals SDMs can be created using asingle or multiple algorithms (ensemble SDMs). For each species, an SDM canyield a habitat suitability map, a binary map, a between-algorithm variancemap, and can assess variable importance, algorithm accuracy, and between-algorithm correlation.
Contact
- sylvain.m.schmitt@gmail.com
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Cirad Baillarguet
34980 Montferrier-sur-Lez