Labex CEBA – Centre d’étude de la biodiversité amazonienne
In French Guiana, the Laboratoire of excellence CEBA (Center for the study of biodiversity in Amazonia) seeks to understand why so many organisms are present in tropical ecosystems. The LabEx brings together a network of internationally-recognized French research teams, contributes to university education, and encourages scientific collaboration with South American countries.
Amazonia is a huge territory that has not finished revealing all its mysteries. Our science is varied: health, coastline, fauna, flora and human sciences. In all, more than 150 researchers from 13 different laboratories spread across French Guana, the french Antilles and France are working within the CEBA, looking towards the Amazon.
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Handbook of Amphibians of French Guiana
French Guiana is one of the world’s hotspots for wildlife. This territory only represents 1% of Amazonia and 15% of mainland France but 137 species
5 videos to understand CEBA’s research in Amazonia
For 14 years, LabEx CEBA has played a central role in structuring research in French Guiana, exploring various disciplines and studying biodiversity in the broadest
Exhibition: Eyes on 14 Years of research in Amazonia
This exhibition showcase, through a visual and artistic approach, the scientific projects which took place during the 14 years of the CEBA’s existence. It was
CEBA Annual Days 2025
The Centre for Amazonian Biodiversity Studies (CEBA) will held its Annual Conference on Wednesday 8 and Thursday 9 October 2025 on the campus of the
2025 Annual Call for Proposals
The Labex CEBA opens an annual competitive call for proposals to encourage innovative research on biodiversity in French Guiana. Projects are evaluated by the Scientific
2023 Annual Call for Proposals
Each year, the LabEx CEBA supports several innovative research projects. We are pleased to announce that CEBA’s 2023 Annual Call for Proposals is now open
Ecuador, 6 foreign nationalities and 23 participants… The International Summer School ‘Historical Ecology in Amazonia’ !
The first edition of the International Summer School ‘Historical Ecology in Amazonia’ took place from 19 to 27 August 2019 in the Yasuni research station
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Transcriptomic data reveal divergent paths of chitinase evolution underlying dietary convergence in anteaters and pangolins.
Ant-eating mammals represent a textbook example of convergent evolution. Among them, anteaters and pangolins exhibit the most extreme convergent phenotypes with complete tooth loss, elongated
The fate of South America’s endemic mammalian fauna in response to the most dramatic Cenozoic climate disruption
Cette publication s’inscrit dans le cadre du projet stratégique Emergence, financé par le CEBA entre 2021 et 2023. Chercher à comprendre ce qui a conduit
Insights into the subdaily variations in methane, nitrous oxide and carbon dioxide fluxes from upland tropical tree stems
Cette étude montre que les échanges infra-journaliers de CH4, N2O et CO2 varient fortement entre les arbres et les saisons. C’est une ébauche de la
Exon capture museomics deciphers the nine-banded armadillo species complex and identifies a new species endemic to the Guiana shield
Le tatou à neuf bandes est l’espèce de mammifères xénarthres la plus largement distribuée de l’Argentine jusqu’aux Etats-Unis qu’elle a envahi il y a moins
Meat-Borne-Parasite: A Nanopore-Based Meta-Barcoding Workflow for Parasitic Microbiodiversity Assessment in the Wild Fauna of French Guiana
La Guyane française, est un réservoir naturel détenant de nombreux agents pathogènes zoonotiques d’importance médicale ou vétérinaire. Les données présentes sur les parasites circulants dans
Inferred drought-induced plant allocation shifts and their impact on drought legacy at a tropical forest site.
Cet article est le fruit d’une collaboration entre l’UMR SILVA, l’UMR ECOFOG, et des collègues de l’Université de Stanford, en Californie (USA). Alors que les
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