French Guiana, a french Amazonian territory, hosts a huge variety of land-based herpetology wildlife. Today, 124 species of amphibians (included 115 anoures and 9 gymnophionas) and 161 species of reptiles (44 lizars, 3 amphisbaenians, 99 snakes, 11 tortoises and 4 … Continued
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Historical ecology of tropical rainforest: “New frontiers in Historical Ecology”
Historical ecology, an interdisciplinary area booming in Amazonia, didn’t have yet a reference book about the large range of methods which may be developed in a tropical rainforest. This gap is now filled with the paruption from Routledge editions, in … Continued
Conference – Mycology discoveries under tropics
Original text: here New approaches and uses of mushroom diversity in Antilles and French Guiana Wednesday October 21st 2020 at 6:30 pm in Muséum de Toulouse. With the participation of Mélanie Roy Mushrooms in neotropical forests stay usually unnoticed, usually … Continued
January 5-7, 2021 – Conference AllEnvie “Biodiversity Conservation”
Initially planned in June 2020, the International Union for Conservation of Nature (IUCN) World Conservation Congress was postponed to January 2021. The event will take place in Marseille, France. Prior to this manifestation, AllEnvie, together with partner institutions, will hold … Continued
Former CEBA PhD student, Camille Piponiot-Laroche 2018 awarded Dufrenoy silver medal
The French Académie d’Agriculture Dufrenoy silver medal is awarded every year to a PhD thesis of high quality. This year Camille Piponiot-Laroche, who received her PhD in December 2018 co-funded by CEBA and CIRAD, has been rewarded by the Académie … Continued
Codex Amphibia: the Explosive Breedings
Codex Amphibia (Phonotaxis) was recorded, composed and mixed between 2016 and 2020 in French Guiana and France by Thomas Tilly. These pieces are part both of a scientific and artistic collaborative project conducted with Herpetologist Antoine Fouquet – research associate … Continued
Cancellation of the 2020 CEBA Annual Meetings
The health situation due to the Covid-19 pandemic is unfortunately impacting the LabEx CEBA calendar. Indeed, many events planned this year must be postponed or canceled entirely. We are sad to announce that the annual meetings that are traditionally held … Continued
Second Round of Strategic Projects 2021-2023
In 2019, CEBA2 launched a call for proposals for ‘strategic projects’ intended to implement its science program until 2024. Five projects were selected to start in 2020. The majority of these projects were focused on forest ecology. The CEBA Executive … Continued
Savannas of French Guiana : what conservation strategy for socioecosystems between nature and culture?
French Guiana is better known for its Amazon rainforest than for its savannas, which only represent around 0.3% of its territory. However, these are really important not only for the biodiversity but also for the historical and cultural heritage. How … Continued
2020 CEBA PhD scholarship
CEBA opens a call for doctoral project proposals in order to fund and welcome new PhD students as early as October 2020! If you want to propose a project, you will find here the guidelines and the form to fulfil … Continued