Team
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Fidèle
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holds an Advanced Vocational Training Certificate (BTS) from the Higher Institute of Rural Development (ISDR) in the Central African Republic. He works in the forest research support project (ARF) and is in charge of Mbaiki site (workpackage 5, Drought tolerance and light requirements). fidelebaya@yahoo.fr |
Fabrice
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holds a PhD in Biology and a Master’s degree in Informatics. He specialises in multimedia and information systems. He joined CIRAD in 2008 to supervise information systems in ecology and forest dynamics. In CoForChange, he is in charge of the Internet and Extranet websites. He homogenises data from forest inventories. He will then compile all the data obtained from the experiments carried out. fabrice.benedet@cirad.fr |
| Workpackage 5 - M'Baïki (Central African Republic) | Workpackage 2 - Montpellier (France) | ||
| Ilham BENTALEB 
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is a specialist in terrestrial and aquatic isotopic biogeochemistry. She teaches at the Institute of Evolutionary Sciences of the University of Montpellier 2 (UMR 5554) in the Paleoenvironments and Paleoclimates team. In CoForChange she is involved in the application of stable isotope geochemistry to describe the history and the causes of variations in the vegetal cover such as the passage of forest to savanna and vice-versa. ilham.bentaleb@univ-montp2.fr | Alain BILLAND 
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is a forester. He is head of the in-house research unit B&SEF (Tropical forest goods and ecosystem services) at CIRAD. Within CoForChange, he is in charge of coordination between regional entities of Central Africa (COMIFAC, Partnership for the forests of the Congo Basin, etc.). He also ensures cohesion between the project and the Forest Network of the Congo Basin, which is one of CIRAD's priority plans. alain.billand@cirad.fr |
| Workpackage 4 - Montpellier (France) | Workpackage 1 - Montpellier (France) | ||
| Laurent BREMOND 
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holds a PhD in Geosciences. He is a paleoecologist, specialist in the reconstruction of past tropical vegetation. He lectures at the Centre of Bio-Archaeological and Ecology of the Ecole pratique des hautes études (EPHE) since 2007. In CoForChange project he will determine the past tree cover in relation with disturbances (mainly fires) in order to interpret modern forest distribution. laurent.bremond@univ-montp2.fr | Corinne COHEN 
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works at CIRAD in the fields of communication and editing to promote especially scientific results among non-scientific readerships. In CoForChange, she collaborated on the development of the Internet site and she coordinates the French version of the Newsletter. corinne.cohen@cirad.fr |
| Workpackage 4 - Montpellier (France) | Workpackage 1 - Montpellier (France) | ||
| Guillaume CORNU 
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is an engineer in scientific computer science at CIRAD (software development, scientific word processing, etc.). In CoForChange, he helps researchers recover inventory data, process field data, and present them graphically. guillaume.cornu@cirad.fr | Sabrina COSTE 
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holds a PhD in Forestry Sciences. She lived for five years in French Guiana where she worked on the diversity of functional leaf traits of tropical tree species in the UMR EcoFoG. In the CoForChange project, she is employed by the University of Aberdeen to quantify experimentally species’ shade and drought tolerance in Pointe-Noire (Republic of Congo), and to study the related functional traits and ecological strategies of the species. sabcost@hotmail.com |
| Workpackage 2 - Montpellier (France) | Workpackage 5 - Pointe-Noire (Republic of the Congo) - Cirad (Montpellier) | ||
| Jean-Louis DOUCET 
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is professor at Gembloux Agro-Bio Tech (University of Liege, Belgium) where he is head of the laboratory of Forestry of Tropical Regions since 2003. His work focuses on the ecology of woody species, their silviculture, and sustainable management methods of production forests. To this end, he collaborates with many logging companies committed to obtaining certification. Within CoForChange he coordinates the workpackage on the ongoing development of tree communities.jldoucet@ulg.ac.be | ||
| Workpackage 6 - Gembloux (Belgium) | |||
| Charles DOUMENGE 
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holds a PhD in Tropical Botany and Forest Ecology (University of Montpellier 2). At CIRAD since 1999, he works on the biodiversity and biogeography of African forests. In CoForChange, he participates in plant mapping and uses his knowledge of Central African forests to interpret images and data. charles.doumenge@cirad.fr | Alain DUCREUX 
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holds a PhD in Agronomy. He is head of Quality in the department of Environments and Societies at CIRAD. In CoForChange, he draws up the manual on project quality. alain.ducreux@cirad.fr alain.ducreux@cirad.fr |
| Workpackage 2 - Montpellier (France) | Workpackage 1 - Montpellier (France) | ||
| Bettina Engelbrecht 
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is a tropical plant ecologist at the University of Bayreuth in Germany. She lived and worked in Panama at the Smithsonian Tropical Research Institute for more than 15 years. In the CoForChange project she brings in her expertise on drought responses of tropical seedlings and together with Mike Swaine coordinates the respective experimental work. bettina.engelbrecht@uni-bayreuth.de | Nicolas FAUVET 
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received training in forest management. Working at CIRAD since 1984, he specialises in mapping and geographical information systems. In CoForChange, he is in charge of mapping environmental factors (climate, soil, disturbance, etc.) needed for the study. nicolas.fauvet@cirad.fr |
| Workpackage 5 - Pointe-Noire (Republic of the Congo) | Workpackage 2 - Montpellier (France) | ||
| Adeline FAYOLLE 
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is an agronomist and holds a PhD in Population Biology and Ecology. In CoForChange, she analyses tree species spatial patterns from forest inventories conducted by logging companies in the Congo Basin. Her work consists in defining a typology of these tropical forests and evaluating the effects of water availability and human disturbance on the structure of tropical tree communities. adeline.fayolle@cirad.fr | Vincent FREYCON 
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is a pedologist at CIRAD. In CoForChange, he maps the maximum capacity of the soil water reserve available for plants (workpackage 2); he develops a model of soil water reserve across time in relation to soil type, rainfall amounts, and evapotranspiration (workpackage 3); he performs measurements of the carbon isotopic composition to detect forest replacement by savannas during the Holocene (workpackage 4). vincent.freycon@cirad.fr |
| Workpackage 2 - Montpellier (France) | Workpackages 2 , 3 , 4 - Montpellier (France) | ||
| Jean-François GILLET 
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is a PhD student in Agronomy and Biological Engineering at Gembloux Agro-Bio Tech (Belgium) in the laboratory of Forestry of tropical and subtropical regions. In 2010, he was recruited by the University of Aberdeen to work within the CoForChange project. In workpackage 6, he carries out forestry inventories on sites identified by a cartographic analysis of management inventory data, and he participates in soil analyses and in studies on past disturbances. Results will allow to assess the past impact of fires and humans on today's vegetation, and to characterize its evolution. jf.gillet@natureplus.be | Valery GOND 
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holds a PhD in Geography. As a researcher at CIRAD, he works on characterising forest structures and human impacts in Amazonia and in the Congo Basin using remote sensing. Within CoForChange, he coordinates mapping of forest biomes and identifies impacts (logging companies' tracks), also using remote sensing (workpackage 2, Map and characterise tree communities). valery.gond@cirad.fr |
| Workpackage 6 - Gembloux (Belgium) | Workpackage 2 - Montpellier (France) | ||
| Sylvie GOURLET-FLEURY 
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is a forest researcher and holds a PhD in Sciences with a specialization in Biometry. She has been working at CIRAD since 1989. She studies the impacts of anthropic disturbance on the structure, the dynamics and more generally the functioning of tropical moist forests, as well as interactions between disturbance and environmental conditions. She coordinates the CoForChange project and contributes in particular to questions dealing with structure and functioning of tree communities. sylvie.gourlet-fleury@cirad.fr | Didier HUBERT 
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is a forest engineer from Gembloux Agro-Bio Tech (Belgium) and holds a Master's in Agronomy. He is head of the project to support forest sustainable management plans (PARPAF) in the Central African Republic (CAR). Within CoForChange, he supports the seed collection in CAR (workpackage 5, Drought tolerance and light requirements). hdparpaf@yahoo.fr |
| Workpackage 1 - Montpellier (France) | Workpackage 5 - Bangui (Central African Republic) | ||
| Guy KAZOTTI 
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is a rural development engineer and holds a Master’s degree in Plant Biology from the University of Brazzaville in Congo. He is responsible for CRDPI seed bank. He works along with Mélanie in the CoForChange project. guykazotti@yahoo.fr | Séraphin KONDAYEN 
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is a prospector for the project to support forest sustainable management plans (PARPAF) in the Central African Republic. Within CoForChange he participates in seed collecting (workpackage 5, Drought tolerance and light requirements). |
| Workpackage 5 - Pointe-Noire (Republic of the Congo) | Workpackage 5 - (Central African Republic) | ||
| Esaïe KONDONG 
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is a prospector for the project to support forest sustainable management plans (PARPAF) in the Central African Republic. Within CoForChange he participates in seed collecting (workpackage 5, Drought tolerance and light requirements). | Arnaud KPOLITA 
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holds a Master's in Plant Biodiversity from the University of Bangui (Central African Republic). In CoForChange he works at the School of Sciences within this university. He participates to seed collecting (workpackage 5, Drought tolerance and light requirements). arnaudkpoli@yahoo.frarnaudkpoli@yahoo.fr |
| Workpackage 5 - (Central African Republic) | Workpackage 5 - (Central African Republic) | ||
| Alain LARAQUE 
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holds a PhD in Hydrology. He is a researcher in hydrology at the Research Institute for development (IRD). He coordinates the Congo site of the Environmental Research Observatory ORE Hybam (2003-2013). In CoForChange, he coordinates workpackage 3 (Soil water availability and rainfall patterns). He couples satellite data with field data harvested from transects representative of the main forest biotopes that are present in the Congo Basin. alain.laraque@ird.fr | Jean MALEY 
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is a palynologist and specialises in paleoenvironments and paleoclimatology of tropical Africa, from Sahara to moist forests. Honorary Research Director at IRD, he is affiliated to the department of Paleoenvironments and Paleoclimatology at the University of Montpellier 2. He lectures occasionally at this university, as well as at the Muséum national d'Histoire naturelle of Paris. In CoForChange, he works on the history of forest vegetation and paleoenvironments in Central Africa. He showed that a major climatic disturbance that took place 2500 BP might be at the origin of a savanna corridor located in CoForChange studied area. This disturbance might also have played a role in the extension of monodominant Gilbertiodendron dewevrei forests. jmaley@univ-montp2.fr |
| Workpackage 3 - Montpellier (France) | Workpackage 4 - Montpellier (France) | ||
| Marie-Cécile MARAVAL 
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has a B.A. in English and worked for fourteen years in the United States as a teacher, then, at the University of Pennsylvania, as a financial coordinator for research. At CIRAD, she shares her activities between editing/publishing a scientific journal and revising projects. In CoForChange, she coordinates the French Newsletter (since No 4), and translates it into English. marie-cecile.maraval@cirad.fr | Hervé MOINECOURT 
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is an engineer at ISTOM (College of Advanced Studies in International Agro-Development). He collaborates on the ARF project as an international civil volunteer in the Central African Republic. He participates in seed collecting (workpackage 5, Drought tolerance and light requirements) hervemoinecourt@hotmail.fr |
| Workpackage 1 - Montpellier (France) | Workpackage 5 - Bangui (Central African Republic) | ||
| Julie MORIN 
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Julie Morin is a 2nd year Master's degree student at the Ecole pratique des hautes études, under the direction of Laurent Brémond and Jean-François Gillet. During her training course at the Centre of Bio-Archaeology and Ecology (Montpellier), she analyses charcoals in soils to study past disturbances (fires). The identification of charred tree taxa will enable her to compare past and present vegetation. julie.morin@univ-montp2.fr | Richard OSLISLY 
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is a specialist in the archaeology of Central Africa. He is a tropical naturalist who works on the long-term impact of man on the forest environment at the Research Institute for Development (IRD - UMR 208 IRD/MNHN). His role within CoForChange is to assess whether the presence of light loving tree species in the forest canopy of the region is more an anthropic than a climatic phenomenon. richard.oslisly@ird.fr |
| Workpackage 4 - Montpellier (France) | Workpackage 4 - Yaoundé (Cameroon) | ||
| Alexandre PENNEC 
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is an engineer in land surveying and graduated from the “Ecole Supérieure des Géomètres et Topographes” (Le Mans, France). He specialized at the Université Laval (Quebec, Canada) in geomatics, especially remote sensing, geographic information systems and GPS positioning. He was recruited by CIRAD in the context of the CoForChange project for a three-month period. Within workpackage 2 (map and characterize tree communities), he is in charge of mapping forest biomes in the Congo Basin from low resolution satellite imagery (Terra-MODIS dataset). alexandre.pennec@hotmail.fr | Nicolas PICARD 
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holds a PhD in Forestry Science with a specialty in Statistics. Researcher at CIRAD, he holds a post in Gabon. In CoForChange, he will model vegetation dynamics in workpackage 7 (Decision-making tools). His role will consist in analysing data from the other workpackages and in calibrating some parts of the model of changes in the vegetation. nicolas.picard@cirad.fr |
| Workpackage 2 - Montpellier (France) | Workpackage 7 - Lilbreville (Gabon) | ||
| Cathy ROLLIN 
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works in the Communication Service of CIRAD in particular to promote research projects and scientific results. In the CoForChange project, she helped develop the Internet site. She also designed and laid out a poster presenting the project and the Newsletters. crollin@cirad.fr | Aubin SAYA 
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holds a PhD in Plant Physiology. He is head of the research unit “Genetics – Improvement – Diversity” and deputy director of scientific activities at CRDPI. In CoForChange, he coordinates the activities linked to the nursery set-up and the seed sowing experiment. He is also involved in CoForChange management. aubinsaya@yahoo.fr |
| Workpackage 1 - Montpellier (France) | Workpackage 5 - Pointe-Noire (Republic of the Congo) | ||
| Michael SWAINE 
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holds a PhD in Plant Ecology. He studies the ecology of tropical forests at the University of Aberdeen (UK). In CoForChange, he heads workpackage 5 (Drought tolerance and light requirements) in collaboration with Bettina Engelbrecht et Sabrina Coste. m.swaine@abdn.ac.uk | Mélanie TOTO 
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is a rural development engineer from the University of Brazzaville in Congo. She joined CRDPI to work on the nursery project. In CoForChange, her activities include seed sowing, application of watering and shading treatments, and both data collection and analyses. totomelanie@yahoo.fr |
| Workpackage 4 - Aberdeen (United Kingdom) | Workpackage 5 - Bangui (Central African Republic) | ||
| Rita WANIA 
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is an ecological modeller who gained experience in modelling of biogeochemical cycles and vegetation dynamics at the University of Bristol, UK (PhD) and University of Victoria, British Columbia (Post-doc). In the CoForChange project (workpackage 7) she is going to adapt the parameterisation of the vegetation model LPJ-GUESS Congo Basin using field and lab data collected in the other workpackages. wania@uvic.ca or rita.wania@univ-montp2.fr | Olga Diane YONGO 
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holds a PhD in Biological and Plant Sciences from the University of Lille 2. She works at the Faculty of Science of the University of Bangui (Central African Republic). Within CoForChange, she brings her expertise in botany to workpackages 2 (Communities) and 5 (Drought tolerance and light requirements). In charge of seed collection for WP5, she is assisted by S. Kondayen and E. Kondong, from the PARPAF project. odiyongo@yahoo.fr |
| Workpackage 7 - Montpellier (France) | Workpackage 5 - Bangui (Central African Republic) | ||
2 Sep 2010