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Forest height and underlying terrain reconstruction is one of the main aims in dealing with forested areas. Theoretically, synthetic aperture radar tomography (TomoSAR) offers the possibility to solve the layover problem, making it possible to estimate the elevation of scatters located in the same resolution cell. This article describes a deep learning approach, named tomographic SAR neural network (TSNN), which aims at reconstructing forest and ground height using multipolarimetric multibaseline (MPMB) SAR data and light detection and ranging (LiDAR)-based data. The reconstruction of the forest and ground height is formulated as a classification problem, in which TSNN, a feedforward network, is trained using covariance matrix elements as input vectors and quantized LiDAR-based data as the reference. In our work, TSNN is trained and tested with P-band MPMB data acquired by ONERA over Paracou region of French Guiana in the frame of the European Space Agency's campaign TROPISAR and LiDAR-based data provided by the French Agricultural Research Center. The novelty of the proposed TSNN is related to its ability to estimate the height with a high agreement with LiDAR-based measurement and actual height with no requirement for phase calibration. Experimental results of different covariance window sizes are included to demonstrate that TSNN conducts height measurement with high spatial resolution and vertical accuracy outperforming the other two TomoSAR methods. Moreover, the conducted experiments on the effects of phase errors in different ranges show that TSNN has a good tolerance for small errors and is still able to precisely reconstruct forest heights.
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Auteurs Wenyu Yang , Sergio Vitale , Hossein Aghababaei , Giampaolo Ferraioli , Vito Pascazio , Gilda Schirinzi
Publication : IEEE Transactions on Geoscience and Remote Sensing
Date : 2025
Volume : 61
Pages : 1–1
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1. Despite their exceptional biodiversity and carbon stocks, more than 80% of tropical forests are disturbed. However, a lot of interrogations remain around the ability of vegetation attributes in tropical forests to recover from the various anthropogenic disturbances coexisting in many tropical landscapes. While these different disturbances are usually studied separately, this work provides, for the first time, a common modelling framework of vegetation attribute recovery in differently disturbed forests. 2. We develop an original Bayesian hierarchical model of recovery trajectories, considering disturbed forests in a common framework, through a disturbance intensity gradient. As a case study, we test our modelling approach on data from two long-term experiments, Tirimbina (Costa Rica) and Paracou (French Guiana), where forest permanent sample plots have been set up following selective logging (63.25 ha), agriculture (4 ha), and clearcutting+fire (6.25 ha). 3. We build a modelling framework that stands out by: (i) its interpretability, with model parameters having a clear ecological meaning; (ii) its robustness, allowing to compare parameter values amongst ecological systems to ensure that predictions are ecologically sound; (iii) its versatility to consider disturbance intensity through post-disturbance changes in a structural variable, either as input data, or as a transformed parameter without requiring pre-disturbance monitoring; (iv) its flexibility to explicitly consider, and test, the effects on forest recovery of various disturbance types, along an intensity gradient, in a single integrative model. 4. First conclusions drawn from our common framework underline the strongest above-ground biomass and diversity recovery rate offered by selective logging, compared to agriculture and clearcutting+fire, as well as the strong effect of disturbance intensity on taxonomic composition recovery. 5. Considering disturbed forests in a common framework might help managers to know which disturbance types need to be firmly avoided, which intensity range makes human activities sustainable in forested environments, and where inexpensive natural regeneration should be favoured over active restoration, such as tree planting. Testing this framework with various monitoring tools to estimate disturbance intensity and model vegetation attribute recovery, i.e., with forest monitoring or remote sensing data, will be the next step to make it widely applicable.
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Auteurs Eliott Maurent , Bruno Hérault , Camille Piponiot , Géraldine Derroire , Diego Delgado , Bryan Finegan , Mélaine Aubry Kientz , Bienvenu H.K. Amani , Marie Ange Ngo Bieng
Publication : Ecological Modelling
Date : 2025
Volume : 483
Issue : May
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Even where Reduced-Impact Logging (RIL) practices are applied, selective logging causes substantial damage to tropical forests. To further reduce selective logging damage, the practices that cause the most damage need to be identified and alternatives tested. To this end, we developed the R package LoggingLab, a spatially-explicit and individual tree-based selective logging simulator and demonstrated its functions using data from French Guiana. LoggingLab explicitly simulates damage during each stage of the selective logging process taking into account topography and hydrography, which are main constraints on logging. Most LoggingLab parameters can be easily adjusted to a wide range of local contexts. LoggingLab can also be coupled with forest dynamics models to simulate the long- term effects of different selective logging scenarios.
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Auteurs Vincyane Badouard , Sylvain Schmitt , Guillaume Salzet , Thomas Gaquiere , Margaux Rojat , Caroline Bedeau , Olivier Brunaux , Géraldine Derroire
Publication : Ecological Modelling
Date : 2024
Volume : 487
Pages : 110539
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Aim: To investigate the geographic patterns and ecological correlates in the geographic distribution of the most common tree dispersal modes in Amazonia (endozoochory, synzoochory, anemochory and hydrochory). We examined if the proportional abundance of these dispersal modes could be explained by the availability of dispersal agents (disperser-availability hypothesis) and/or the availability of resources for constructing zoochorous fruits (resource-availability hypothesis). Time period: Tree-inventory plots established between 1934 and 2019. Major taxa studied: Trees with a diameter at breast height (DBH) ≥ 9.55 cm. Location: Amazonia, here defined as the lowland rain forests of the Amazon River basin and the Guiana Shield. Methods: We assigned dispersal modes to a total of 5433 species and morphospecies within 1877 tree-inventory plots across terra-firme, seasonally flooded, and permanently flooded forests. We investigated geographic patterns in the proportional abundance of dispersal modes. We performed an abundance-weighted mean pairwise distance (MPD) test and fit generalized linear models (GLMs) to explain the geographic distribution of dispersal modes. Results: Anemochory was significantly, positively associated with mean annual wind speed, and hydrochory was significantly higher in flooded forests. Dispersal modes did not consistently show significant associations with the availability of resources for constructing zoochorous fruits. A lower dissimilarity in dispersal modes, resulting from a higher dominance of endozoochory, occurred in terra-firme forests (excluding podzols) compared to flooded forests. Main conclusions: The disperser-availability hypothesis was well supported for abiotic dispersal modes (anemochory and hydrochory). The availability of resources for constructing zoochorous fruits seems an unlikely explanation for the distribution of dispersal modes in Amazonia. The association between frugivores and the proportional abundance of zoochory requires further research, as tree recruitment not only depends on dispersal vectors but also on conditions that favour or limit seedling recruitment across forest types.
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Auteurs Diego F. Correa , Pablo R. Stevenson , Maria Natalia , Luiz De Souza , Coelho Diógenes , De Andrade Lima , Filho Rafael , Maria Natalia Umaña , Luiz de Souza Coelho , Diógenes de Andrade Lima Filho , Rafael P. Salomão , Iêda Leão do Amaral , Florian Wittmann , Francisca Dionízia de Almeida Matos , Carolina V. Castilho , Oliver L. Phillips , Juan Ernesto Guevara , Marcelo de Jesus Veiga Carim , William E. Magnusson , Daniel Sabatier
Publication : Global Ecology and Biogeography
Date : 2025
Issue : June 2021
Pages : 49–69
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A generalized notion of species richness is introduced. The generalization embeds the popular index of species richness on the boundary of a family of diversity indices each of which is the number of species in the community after a small proportion of individuals belonging to the least minorities is trimmed. It is established that the generalized species richness indices satisfy a weak version of the usual axioms for diversity indices, are qualitatively robust against small perturbations in the underlying distribution, and are collectively complete with respect to all information of diversity. In addition to a natural plug-in estimator of the generalized species richness, a bias-adjusted estimator is proposed, and its statistical reliability is gauged via bootstrapping. Finally an ecological example and supportive simulation results are given.
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Auteurs Zhiyi Zhang
Publication : Entropy
Date : 2025
Volume : 24
Issue : 10
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In the context of climate change, identifying and then predicting the impacts of climatic drivers on tropical forest dynamics is becoming a matter of urgency. To look at these climate impacts, we used a coupled model of tropical tree growth and mortality, calibrated with forest dynamic data from the 20-year study site of Paracou, French Guiana, in order to introduce and test a set of climatic variables. Three major climatic drivers were identified through the variable selection procedure: drought, water saturation and temperature. Drought decreased annual growth and mortality rates, high precipitation increased mortality rates and high temperature decreased growth. Interactions between key functional traits, stature and climatic variables were investigated, showing best resistance to drought for trees with high wood density and for trees with small current diameters. Our results highlighted strong long-term impacts of climate variables on tropical forest dynamics, suggesting potential deep impacts of climate changes during the next century.
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Auteurs M. Aubry-Kientz , V. Rossi , F. Wagner , B. Hérault
Publication : Biogeosciences
Date : 2015
Volume : 12
Issue : 19
Pages : 5583–5596
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Auteurs Francois Catzeflis
Publication : Mammalia
Date : 2025
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Because territoriality is energetically costly, territorial animals frequently respond less aggressively to neighbours than to strangers, a reaction known as the “dear enemy phenomenon” (DEP). The contrary, the “nasty neighbour effect” (NNE), occurs mainly for group-living species defending resource-based territories. We studied the relationships between supercolonies of the pest fire ant Solenopsis saevissima and eight ant species able to live in the vicinity of its nests plus Eciton burchellii, an army ant predator of other ants. The workers from all of the eight ant species behaved submissively when confronted with S. saevissima (dominant) individuals, whereas the contrary was never true. Yet, S. saevissima were submissive towards E. burchellii workers. Both DEP and NNE were observed for the eight ant species, with submissive behaviours less frequent in the case of DEP. To distinguish what is due to chemical cues from what can be attributed to behaviour, we extracted cuticular compounds from all of the nine ant species compared and transferred them onto a number of S. saevissima workers that were then confronted with untreated conspecifics. The cuticular compounds from three species, particularly E. burchellii, triggered greater aggressiveness by S. saevissima workers, while those from the other species did not.
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Auteurs Olivier Roux , Vivien Rossi , Régis Céréghino , Arthur Compin , Jean-Michel Martin , Alain Dejean , Roux , Olivier , Rossi , Vivien , Céréghino , Régis , Compin , Arthur , Martin , Jean-Michel , Dejean , Alain
Publication : Behavioural Processes
Date : 2013
Volume : 98
Pages : 51–57
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Auteurs Louise Brousseau , Damien Bonal , Jeremy Cigna , Ivan Scotti
Publication : Annals of Botany
Date : 2013
Volume : 112
Issue : 6
Pages : 1169–1179
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The Amazonian rainforest is predicted to suffer from ongoing environmental changes. Despite the need to evaluate the impact of such changes on tree genetic diversity, we almost entirely lack genomic resources. In this study, we analysed the transcriptome of four tropical tree species (Carapa guianensis, Eperua falcata, Symphonia globulifera and Virola michelii) with contrasting ecological features, belonging to four widespread botanical families (respectively Meliaceae, Fabaceae, Clusiaceae and Myristicaceae). We sequenced cDNA libraries from three organs (leaves, stems, and roots) using 454 pyrosequencing. We have developed an R and bioperl-based bioinformatic procedure for de novo assembly, gene functional annotation and marker discovery. Mismatch identification takes into account single-base quality values as well as the likelihood of false variants as a function of contig depth and number of sequenced chromosomes. Between 17103 (for Symphonia globulifera) and 23390 (for Eperua falcata) contigs were assembled. Organs varied in the numbers of unigenes they apparently express, with higher number in roots. Patterns of gene expression were similar across species, with metabolism of aromatic compounds standing out as an overrepresented gene function. Transcripts corresponding to several gene functions were found to be over- or underrepresented in each organ. We identified between 4434 (for Symphonia globulifera) and 9076 (for Virola surinamensis) well-supported mismatches. The resulting overall mismatch density was comprised between 0.89 (S. globulifera) and 1.05 (V. surinamensis) mismatches/100 bp in variation-containing contigs. The relative representation of gene functions in the four transcriptomes suggests that secondary metabolism may be particularly important in tropical trees. The differential representation of transcripts among tissues suggests differential gene expression, which opens the way to functional studies in these non-model, ecologically important species. We found substantial amounts of mismatches in the four species. These newly identified putative variants are a first step towards acquiring much needed genomic resources for tropical tree species.
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Auteurs Louise Brousseau , Alexandra Tinaut , Caroline Duret , Tiange Lang , Pauline Garnier-Gere , Ivan Scotti
Publication : BMC Genomics
Date : 2014
Volume : 15
Issue : 1
Pages : 238