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Quantitative ecology takes root at the IFP
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Recognized in India for the past three decades for its inventory works and mapping of the Western Ghats forests, the ecology department of the IFP set itself, in 2003, the goal of an international promotion of its experience (expertise) through a resolutely modern approach, based on quantitative modeling and new information technologies. This programme has recently taken a step in terms of recognition and visibility with:
The viva of authorization to lead research of P.Couteron, head of the ecology department of the IFP and coordinator of this research in quantitative ecology since 2004, which materializes the collaboration with the academic pole of Montpellier (through the joint research unit AMAP) and will enable P.Couteron to supervise two doctorates residing at the IFP during the period 2006-2008;
The viva of the doctoral thesis of F.Munoz (post doctorate at the IFP on a “Lavoisier’ grant), dealing with the methodological problems incurred by the inference of the dynamics of plant species on the basis of their spatial distribution;
The concrete manifestation of the collaboration with the Sino-French laboratory of informatics, automatics and applied mathematics of Beijing (LIAMA), through the internship of a Chinese student (master of Engineering, Beijing), geared towards the development of computer software oriented on the analysis of biodiversity.