Jérôme Chave, Scientific Director of the LabEx CEBA, will be the guest of the journalist Océlia Cartesse during the transmission “Mayouri Kréyol” broadcast on Guyane 1ère radio, Tuesday, July 29, 2014 from 9am to 11am. “Mayouri” ine Guyanese Creole means: … Continued
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Launch of the COPAS – September 20, 2014
The inauguration of the Canopy Operating Permanent Acces System COPAS, located in the Nouragues ecological research station, a scientific station managed by Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS), will take place Saturday, September 20, 2014 in Regina, French Guiana. … Continued
CEBA’s Géocatalogue is born!
Developed by CEBA researchers and engineers of Joint Research Unit (UMR) AMAP (BotAnique et BioinforMatique de l’Architecture des Plantes) : Grégoire Vincent IRD researcher, Gaëlle Viennois CNRS engineer and Rainer Zaiss IRD engineer, CEBA’s Géocatalogue is now available online. This Géocatalogue … Continued
How to improve measures regarding carbon stocks in tropical forests? [Jérôme Chave]
Tropical forests are known to host a huge variety of plant and animal species, thus constituting one of the largest reservoirs of biodiversity on our planet. They also play a key role in the carbon cycle and their destruction could … Continued
Thematic School 2014
For its second edition, the CEBA thematic school will run from November 17 to 21, 2014, hosted by the Autonomous University of Yucatan (UADY) in Merida, Mexico. This original international science program, entitled “Advanced methods and applications in Ecology, Evolution … Continued
CEBA conference – “The mobile application for plant identification Pl@ntNet: overview and prospects for Guyanese flora”
As part of the dissemination of research results, CEBA organizes a presentation of CEBA researcher on Monday, July 7, 2014 at 5 pm in the IRD conference room, Cayenne, French Guyana. On this occasion, Jean-François Molino will present the mobile … Continued
Alain Franc and Yec’Han Laizet interviewed in France Grilles
Alain Franc and Yec’Han Laizet are two researchers members of the CEBA. They are part of Genetics and Ecology of Populations team, in the INRA joint research unit Biodiversity, Genes and Communities (BIOGECO). An interview with this two researchers was … Continued
CEBA’s doctoral students take part in the Expérimentarium© 2014 and reveal insights about their activity !
Four CEBA’s PhD students,Thomas Denis, Olivier Dezerald, Alex Salas-Lopez and Alexandra Tinaut took part in the Expérimentarium©2014, organized by the Canopy of Sciences from the 19th to 23rd of May, 2014 in French Guiana. The Expérimentarium program, initiated by the … Continued
Lidar Drone system maps height of rainforest for the first time
[Press realease IRD/CEBA/CIRAD/L’Avion Jaune/Carbomap] The first canopy height model of the Amazon rainforest was completed using data from the first true UAV-ready LiDAR system (called YellowScan®) in the framework of the CANOPOR project financed by the Labex CEBA. This approach … Continued
Buruli Ulcer: bacterium detected for the first time in South America
[Scientific news IRD] Buruli ulcer is a serious skin disease caused by a bacterium from the same family as those that cause leprosy and tuberculosis. It is particularly prevalent in Africa, but also in South America, where the pathogen has … Continued