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Ghislain Vieilledent is affiliated with the Centre de Coopération Internationale en Recherche Agronomique pour le Développement in France. Their research is primarily focused within the field of Environmental Science, contributing extensively to areas such as Global and Planetary Change, Nature and Landscape Conservation, Ecology, Environmental Engineering, and Ecological Modeling.

The main topics covered in their work include:

  • Ecology and Vegetation Dynamics Studies
  • Conservation, Biodiversity, and Resource Management
  • Forest Ecology and Management
  • Land Use and Ecosystem Services
  • Remote Sensing and LiDAR Applications
  • Species Distribution and Climate Change
  • Plant and Animal Studies

Recent papers authored by Ghislain Vieilledent include the following:

  • Long-term (1990-2019) monitoring of forest cover changes in the humid tropics, 2021, Science Advances
  • A comprehensive framework for assessing the accuracy and uncertainty of global above-ground biomass maps, 2022, Remote Sensing of Environment
  • Identifying uncertainties in scenarios and models of socio-ecological systems in support of decision-making, 2021, One Earth
  • Human degradation of tropical moist forests is greater than previously estimated, 2024, Nature
  • Altered cyclone-fire interactions are changing ecosystems, 2022, Trends in Plant Science

Frequently collaborating co-authors with Ghislain Vieilledent include:

  • Philippe Birnbaum
  • Thomas Ibanez
  • Dimitri Justeau-Allaire
  • Xavier Lorca
  • Isabelle Maréchaux

Their publications have appeared regularly in venues such as:

  • bioRxiv (Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory)
  • Zenodo (CERN European Organization for Nuclear Research)
  • Global Change Biology
  • SSRN Electronic Journal
  • Science Advances

Ghislain Vieilledent has contributed to book publications, including works published by the Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique. One such title is On the Edge of the Sixth Mass Extinction in Biodiversity Hotspots: Facts, needs, solutions and opportunities in Thailand and adjacent countries published in 2024.

Best Publications

  • Improved allometric models to estimate the aboveground biomass of tropical trees

    Jérôme Chave;Maxime Réjou‐Méchain;Alberto Búrquez;Emmanuel Chidumayo

  • Plant functional traits have globally consistent effects on competition

    Georges Kunstler;Georges Kunstler;Daniel Falster;David A. Coomes;Francis Hui

  • When and how should intraspecific variability be considered in trait-based plant ecology?

    Cécile H. Albert;Cécile H. Albert;Fabrice Grassein;Fabrice Grassein;Frankl M. Schurr;Ghislain Vieilledent

  • A universal airborne LiDAR approach for tropical forest carbon mapping

    Gregory P. Asner;Joseph Mascaro;Joseph Mascaro;Helene C. Muller-Landau;Ghislain Vieilledent

  • Long-term (1990–2019) monitoring of forest cover changes in the humid tropics

    Christelle Vancutsem;Frédéric Achard;J.F. Pekel;Ghislain Vieilledent

  • Combining global tree cover loss data with historical national forest cover maps to look at six decades of deforestation and forest fragmentation in Madagascar

    Ghislain Vieilledent;Clovis Grinand;Fety A. Rakotomalala;Rija Ranaivosoa

  • Competitive interactions between forest trees are driven by species' trait hierarchy, not phylogenetic or functional similarity: implications for forest community assembly.

    Georges Kunstler;Sébastien Lavergne;Benoît Courbaud;Wilfried Thuiller

  • A universal approach to estimate biomass and carbon stock in tropical forests using generic allometric models.

    Ghislain Vieilledent;Romuald Vaudry;S.F.D. Andriamanohisoa;O.S. Rakotonarivo

  • Estimating deforestation in tropical humid and dry forests in Madagascar from 2000 to 2010 using multi-date Landsat satellite images and the random forests classifier

    Clovis Grinand;Fety Rakotomalala;Valéry Gond;Romuald Vaudry

  • GlobAllomeTree: international platform for tree allometric equations to support volume, biomass and carbon assessment

    Matieu Henry;Antonio Bombelli;Carlo Trotta;Alfredo Alessandrini

  • Effects of competition on tree radial‐growth vary in importance but not in intensity along climatic gradients

    Georges Kunstler;Cécile H. Albert;Benoît Courbaud;Sébastien Lavergne

  • A comprehensive framework for assessing the accuracy and uncertainty of global above-ground biomass maps

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  • Growth Strategies of Tropical Tree Species: Disentangling Light and Size Effects

    Nadja Ruger;Uta Berger;Stephen P. Hubbell;Stephen P. Hubbell;Ghislain Vieilledent

  • Bioclimatic envelope models predict a decrease in tropical forest carbon stocks with climate change in Madagascar

    Ghislain Vieilledent;Olivier Gardi;Olivier Gardi;Clovis Grinand;Christian Burren

  • Catastrophic Decline of World's Largest Primate: 80% Loss of Grauer's Gorilla (Gorilla beringei graueri) Population Justifies Critically Endangered Status

    Andrew J. Plumptre;Andrew J. Plumptre;Stuart Nixon;Deo K. Kujirakwinja;Ghislain Vieilledent

  • Estimating temporal changes in soil carbon stocks at ecoregional scale in Madagascar using remote-sensing

    C. Grinand;G. Le Maire;G. Vieilledent;H. Razakamanarivo

  • Human degradation of tropical moist forests is greater than previously estimated

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  • Forecasting deforestation and carbon emissions in tropical developing countries facing demographic expansion: A case study in Madagascar

    Ghislain Vieilledent;Clovis Grinand;Romuald Vaudry

  • Gold-rush in a forested El Dorado: deforestation leakages and the need for regional cooperation

    Camille Dezécache;Emmanuel Faure;Valéry Gond;Jean Michel Salles

  • Individual variability in tree allometry determines light resource allocation in forest ecosystems: a hierarchical Bayesian approach

    Ghislain Vieilledent;Benoît Courbaud;Georges Kunstler;Jean-François Dhôte;Jean-François Dhôte

  • Human and environmental controls over aboveground carbon storage in Madagascar

    Gregory P Asner;John K Clark;Joseph Mascaro;Romuald Vaudry

  • Vulnerability of baobab species to climate change and effectiveness of the protected area network in Madagascar: Towards new conservation priorities

    Ghislain Vieilledent;Cyrille Cornu;Aida Cuní Sanchez;Jean-Michel Leong Pock-Tsy

Frequent Co-Authors

Andrew J. Plumptre
Andrew J. Plumptre BirdLife international, UK
Jérôme Chave
Jérôme Chave Paul Sabatier University
Jefferson S. Hall
Jefferson S. Hall Smithsonian Tropical Research Institute
Bruno Hérault
Bruno Hérault University of Montpellier
Nicolas Baghdadi
Nicolas Baghdadi University of Montpellier
Elizabeth A. Williamson
Elizabeth A. Williamson London School of Hygiene & Tropical Medicine
Frédéric Achard
Frédéric Achard Joint Research Centre
Joseph Mascaro
Joseph Mascaro Breakthrough Institute
David A. Coomes
David A. Coomes University of Cambridge
Cécile H. Albert
Cécile H. Albert Aix-Marseille University

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