PEOPLE
MEMBERS AND COLLABORATORS
Josep M. (aka Pep) Serra-Diaz
Assistant Professor, AgroParisTech
Lab Unit: UMR SILVA
Research interests: Plant Ecology and global change; woody plant regeneration; microclimates; data science; disturbance dynamics; plant range shifts; biome transitions; Mediterranean Ecology
Email: pep.serradiaz[at]agroparistech.fr
Telephone: (+33) (0)3-83-39-68-85
Jeremy Borderieux
PhD Candidate, AgroParisTech
Lab Unit: UMR SILVA
Research interests: Forest regeneration, Plant Ecology, Fragmentation.
Email: jeremy.borderieux[at]agroparistech.fr
Jérémy is working on forest regeneration dynamics and landscape structural attributes to understand future regeneration dynamics and plant community shifts in European Central Forests. He is combining intensive modeling with microclimatic data and landscape attributes such as fragmentation to better understand and predict forest dynamics in the 21st century. More to come soon on this important, yet poorly studied, phase of forest dynamics.
Arnaud Callebaut
PhD Candidate, AgroParisTech
Lab Unit: UMR SILVA
Research interests: Ecoinformatics, assisted migration.
Email: arnaud.callebaut[at]agroparistech.fr
Arnaud is working on devlopping quantitative tools to understand and quantify the potential of plant assisted migration and conservation under global environmental change. With a strong background in Mathematics he is developing a mathematical approach to quantify the risks and benefits of conservation choices regarding the redistribution of plants, combining big data in species distributions and high resolution climatic datasets with operational research. Stay tuned for future developments !
ALUMNI
Julia Erbech
Research Assistant. Forest Enineering Degree, AgroParisTech
Research interests: forest ecology ; forest management ; Integration of climate and ecological issues in forest management.
Email: julia.erbrech[at]agroparistech.fr
Julia is working with us in several research areas such as forest adaptation to climate change, seed zone and seed transfer, and analysis of tree diversity. She is also helping us in field experiments set up! She is interested in forest management and climate change.
Pengcheng LAI
MSc Forest and the Environment
Now at FAO in Rome
Research interests: Tree geographic distributions, disequilibrium.
Email: pengcheng.lai[at]agroparistech.fr
Pengcheng is worked on disequilibirum dynamics in tree distributions. He is going to be working with various forest inventories and data sources to understand how land use and climate change may constraint responses of tree species range dynamics.
Mathilde Grand-Chavin
MSc Candidate. Université Aix-Marseille
Research interests: Microclimates, biodiversity, microrefugia.
Email: mathilde.grandchavin[at]agroparistech.fr
Mathilde is working in understanding how plants and specificially understory forest plants will redistribute as climate continues to warm. She works with biodiversity informatics tools and high-resolution microclimatic grids in the Pyrenees to predict future refugia for plant species under climate change.
Bountouraby Balde
Forest Engineer. PhD candidate Universitat de Lleida
Research interests: Emissions from forest fires, forest biomass, biomass succcession, carbon and growth models, Mediterranean ecosystems
Email: bounbalde[at]hotmail.com
Bountouraby came for a research visit to our lab. We are working on using forest landscape models to understand the potential for fire and big fires in Catalonia.
Nuria Jiménez
PhD Candidate, AgroParisTech
Lab Unit: UMR SILVA
Visiting PhD Candidate, CREAF
Research interests: Fire, Plant Ecology, Botany.
Email: n.jimenez[at]creaf.uab.cat
Nuria is interested in postfire regeneration dynamics compounded with drought episodes in the Iberian peninsula. She came to visit for a PhD chapter of her dissertation to collaborate in niche estimates, marginality and regeneration dynamics for three tree species in the Iberian Peninsula. An impressive effort combining forest inventories, fire estimates and fieldwork !
Adrien Noirault
Research Intern 2019, Ecole Normale Supérieur Lyon. NOW: MSc Student
Research interests: Ecosystems facing climate change; Ecosystem ecology; Modelling of species distribution, Natural ressources management.
Email: adrien.noirault[at]ens-lyon.fr
Kourosh Ahmadi
Forest Modeler, PhD
Research interests: Forest ecology, machine learning, eclogical niche models, forests, climate change.
Email: kouroshahmadi66[at]yahoo.com
Coline Limbardet
Assistant Engineer
Research interests: Mediterreanean ecosystems, integration of cliamate change and land use on landscape planning
Email: coline.limbardet[at]agroparistech.fr
David Muñoz Ferrandiz
MSc candiate in Biodiversity conservation and Mangement, Autonomous University of Barcelona
Research interests: Alpine plant diversity, Mountain Ecosystems
Email: david.munozferrandiz[at]agroparistech.fr
David is working on how alpine grasslands may be affected by climate change directly and indirectly via plant woody plant encroachment using distribution modeling.
