Dr. Raphaël Pelissier

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Pélissier, Raphaël Researcher, Head of Ecology Department Telephone: +91-413-2334168, Ext – 114 Fax: +91-413-2339534 E-mail: raphael.pelissier@ifpindia.org French Institute of Pondicherry, 11 Saint Louis Street, P.O. Box – 33, Pondicherry – 605 001

Research fields:

• Plant community ecology of the wet tropical forests
• Species-environment relationships, diversity
• Spatial structures, forest dynamics
• Dendrometric structure, forest architecture, high-resolution remote sensing
• Sampling methods, multivariate analyses, diversity partitioning

Recent publications:

1. Beeravolu, C. R., Couteron, P., Pélissier, R. & Munoz, F. (2009) Studying ecological communities from a neutral standpoint: a review of models’ structure and parameter estimation. Ecological Modelling, in press.

2. Réjou-Méchain, M., Pélissier, R., Gourlet-Fleury, S., Couteron, P. Nasi, R. & Thompson, J. D. (2008) Regional variation in tropical tree species composition in the Central African Republic: an assessment based on inventories by forest companies. Journal of Tropical Ecology, 24: 663-674.

3. Pélissier, R., Couteron, P. & Dray, S. (2008) Analyzing or explaining beta diversity? Comment. Ecology, 89(11): 3227-3232.

4. Madelaine, C., Pélissier, R. Vincent, G., Molino, J.-F., Sabatier, D., Prévost, M.-F. & de Namur, C. (2007) Mortality and recruitment in a lowland tropical rain forest of French Guiana: effects of soil type and species guild. Journal of Tropical Ecology, 23(3): 277-287.

5. Pélissier, R. & Couteron, P. (2007) A operational, additive framework for diversity partitioning and beta-diversity analysis. Journal of Ecology, 95(2): 294-300.

Curriculum Vitae in PDF format.

Projects:

• Pl@ntNet : Computational Plant Identification and Collaborative Information System (Flagship project Agropolis Foundation, Montpellier, France, 2009-2013, http://www.agropolis-fondation.fr/fr/nos-actions/programmes-etendards/pl-ntnet-2.html).
• BRIDGE : Bridging Information on Tree Diversity in French Guiana, and a Test of Ecological Theories (Projet ANR Biodiversité, 2007-2010, http://ecofog.cirad.fr/Bridge/index.html).
• OSDA : Organisation Spatiale de la Diversité des Arbres en forêts tropicales aux échelles régionales (Programme Ecosystèmes Tropicaux, Ministère de l’Ecologie, de l’Energie, du Développement Durable et de l’Aménagement du Territoire, 2006-2009, http://www.gip-ecofor.org/publi/page.php?id=145&domain=1&rang=0&lang=fr_FR).

Links:

• http://pelissier.free.fr/indexUS.htm
• http://www.ifpindia.org/-Ecology-.html
• http://umramap.cirad.fr/amap3/cm/index.php?page=raphael-pelissier