A5060157029- Tree Root and Stability Studies
- Plant Water Relations and Carbon Dynamics
- Forest ecology and management
- Soil Carbon and Nitrogen Dynamics
- Ecology and Vegetation Dynamics Studies
- Soil erosion and sediment transport
- Plant responses to water stress
- Agriculture and Rural Development Research
- Seedling growth and survival studies
- Aeolian processes and effects
- Plant nutrient uptake and metabolism
- Plant Molecular Biology Research
- Agroforestry and silvopastoral systems
- Mycorrhizal Fungi and Plant Interactions
- Soil Management and Crop Yield
- Landslides and related hazards
- Tree-ring climate responses
- African Botany and Ecology Studies
- Plant Reproductive Biology
- Biocrusts and Microbial Ecology
- Forest Biomass Utilization and Management
- Agronomic Practices and Intercropping Systems
- Wood Treatment and Properties
- Forest Ecology and Biodiversity Studies
- Plant Surface Properties and Treatments
Centre de Coopération Internationale en Recherche Agronomique pour le Développement
2016-2025
Université de Montpellier
2016-2025
Institut de Recherche pour le Développement
2016-2025
Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique
2016-2025
Institut National de Recherche pour l'Agriculture, l'Alimentation et l'Environnement
2020-2025
UMR Botanique et Modélisation de l’Architecture des Plantes et des végétations
2015-2024
The University of Texas at Arlington
2024
Institut Agro Montpellier
2008-2023
University of Naples Federico II
2020
Centre d'Écologie Fonctionnelle et Évolutive
2020
Wood is the most important natural and endlessly renewable source of energy therefore has a major future role as an environmentally cost-effective alternative to burning fossils fuels.The wood not only provision but also energy-sufficient material for our buildings many other products.In addition, developing cells represent one sinks excess atmospheric CO 2 , thereby reducing contributors global warming. WOOD IS ALSO A RAW MATERIAL FOR MAJOR GLOBAL INDUSTRY, AND ITS DEMAND INCREASINGWood...
Summary The effects of plants on the biosphere, atmosphere and geosphere are key determinants terrestrial ecosystem functioning. However, despite substantial progress made regarding plant belowground components, we still only beginning to explore complex relationships between root traits functions. Drawing literature in physiology, ecophysiology, ecology, agronomy soil science, reviewed 24 aspects functioning their with a number system traits, including architecture, morphology, anatomy,...
Summary Although fine roots are important components of the global carbon cycle, there is limited understanding root structure–function relationships among species. We determined whether respiration rate and decomposability, two key processes driving cycling but always studied separately, varied with morphological chemical traits, in a coordinated way that would demonstrate existence economics spectrum ( RES ). Twelve traits were measured on (diameter ≤ 2 mm) 74 species (31 graminoids 43...
Although research has explained how plant roots mechanically stabilize soils, in this article we explore root systems create networks of preferential flow and thus influence water pressures soils to trigger landslides. Root may alter subsurface flow: Hydrological mechanisms that promote lower pore-water are beneficial slope stability, whereas those increasing pore pressure adverse. Preferential occurs the following types channels: (a) channels formed by dead or decaying roots, (b) decayed...
Summary There is a fundamental trade‐off between leaf traits associated with either resource acquisition or conservation. This gradient of trait variation, called the economics spectrum , also applies to fine roots, but whether it consistent for coarse roots at plant community level remains untested. We measured set morphological and chemical root (functional parameters; FP ) in 20 communities located along land‐use intensity gradients across three climatic zones (tropical, mediterranean...
Fundamental plant traits such as support, anchorage, and protection against environmental stress depend substantially on biomechanical design. The costs, subsequent trade-offs, effects performance of mechanical are not well understood, but it appears that many these have evolved in response to abiotic biotic forces resource deficits. relationships between stresses can be specific direct, responses strong winds, with structural reinforcement related survival. Some leaf toughness might provide...
Modelling plant growth allows us to test hypotheses and carry out virtual experiments concerning processes that could otherwise take years in field conditions. The visualization of simulations see directly vividly the outcome a given model provides with an instructive tool useful for agronomists foresters, as well teaching. Functional–structural (FS) models are nowadays particularly important integrating biological environmental conditions 3-D plants, provide basis more advanced research...
BackgroundThe contribution of vegetation to shallow-slope stability is major importance in landslide-prone regions. However, existing slope models use only limited plant root architectural parameters. This study aims provide a chain tools useful for determining the tree roots soil reinforcement.