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Jean-Louis Doucet

Jean-Louis Doucet

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Ecology and Evolution

D-Index
45
Citations
9381
World Ranking
4798
National Ranking
59

Overview

Jean-Louis Doucet is affiliated with Gembloux Agro-Bio Tech in Belgium. Their research activity primarily spans Environmental Science and Agricultural and Biological Sciences, with a particular focus on Nature and Landscape Conservation, Global and Planetary Change, Forestry, Ecology, Evolution, Behavior and Systematics, and Ecology.

The scientist's work covers a range of topics including Ecology and Vegetation Dynamics Studies, African Botany and Ecology Studies, Forest ecology and management, Plant Water Relations and Carbon Dynamics, Species Distribution and Climate Change, Conservation, Biodiversity, and Resource Management, and Wildlife Ecology and Conservation.

Among recent publications, selected papers highlight diverse contributions to forest ecology and tropical forest dynamics:

  • Asynchronous carbon sink saturation in African and Amazonian tropical forests, 2020, Nature
  • Long-term thermal sensitivity of Earth's tropical forests, 2020, Science
  • Unveiling African rainforest composition and vulnerability to global change, 2021, Nature
  • Taking the pulse of Earth's tropical forests using networks of highly distributed plots, 2021, Biological Conservation
  • The global abundance of tree palms, 2020, Global Ecology and Biogeography

Jean-Louis Doucet frequently collaborates with several coauthors, including:

  • Adeline Fayolle
  • Sylvie Gourlet-Fleury
  • Hans Beeckman
  • Bonaventure Sonké
  • Gauthier Ligot

Their publications often appear in the following venues:

  • Forest Ecology and Management
  • SSRN Electronic Journal
  • Global Ecology and Biogeography
  • Nature
  • Science

Jean-Louis Doucet has contributed to book publications as well, with works released by the Directory of Open Access Books (OAPEN Foundation) and the Centre de Coopération Internationale en Recherche Agronomique pour le Développement. Titles include guides on forest wildlife management and practical tree plantation in dense humid forests of Africa.

Best Publications

  • Asynchronous carbon sink saturation in African and Amazonian tropical forests

    Wannes Hubau;Wannes Hubau;Wannes Hubau;Simon L. Lewis;Simon L. Lewis;Oliver L. Phillips;Kofi Affum-Baffoe

  • Large trees drive forest aboveground biomass variation in moist lowland forests across the tropics

    J.W. Ferry Slik;Gary Paoli;Krista L. McGuire;Iêda Leão Amaral

  • An estimate of the number of tropical tree species

    J. W. Ferry Slik;Víctor Arroyo-Rodríguez;Shin-Ichiro Aiba;Patricia Alvarez-Loayza

  • Above-ground biomass and structure of 260 African tropical forests.

    Simon L. Lewis;Simon L. Lewis;Bonaventure Sonké;Terry Sunderland;Serge K. Begne;Serge K. Begne

  • Diversity and carbon storage across the tropical forest biome

    Martin J. P. Sullivan;Joey Talbot;Simon L. Lewis;Simon L. Lewis;Oliver L. Phillips

  • Long-term thermal sensitivity of Earth’s tropical forests

    Martin J.P. Sullivan;Martin J.P. Sullivan;Simon L. Lewis;Simon L. Lewis;Kofi Affum-Baffoe;Carolina Castilho

  • Tree allometry in Central Africa: Testing the validity of pantropical multi-species allometric equations for estimating biomass and carbon stocks

    Adeline Fayolle;Jean-Louis Doucet;Jean-François Gillet;Nils Bourland

  • Globally, functional traits are weak predictors of juvenile tree growth, and we do not know why

    C.E. Thimothy Paine;Lucy Amissah;Lucy Amissah;Harald Auge;Christopher Baraloto;Christopher Baraloto

  • Unveiling African rainforest composition and vulnerability to global change

    Maxime Rejou-Mechain;Frédéric Mortier;Jean-François Bastin;Guillaume Cornu

  • The odd man out? Might climate explain the lower tree α‐diversity of African rain forests relative to Amazonian rain forests?

    Ingrid Parmentier;Ingrid Parmentier;Yadvinder Malhi;Yadvinder Malhi;Bruno Senterre;Robert J. Whittaker

  • Seeing Central African forests through their largest trees

    J. F. Bastin;Nicolas Barbier;Maxime Réjou-Méchain;A. Fayolle

  • Taking the pulse of Earth's tropical forests using networks of highly distributed plots

    Cecilia Blundo;Julieta Carilla;Ricardo Grau

  • L'alliance délicate de la gestion forestière et de la biodiversité dans les forêts du centre du Gabon

    Jean-Louis Doucet

  • Will elephants soon disappear from West African savannahs

    Philippe Bouché;Iain Douglas-Hamilton;Iain Douglas-Hamilton;George Wittemyer;George Wittemyer;Aimé J. Nianogo

  • Geological Substrates Shape Tree Species and Trait Distributions in African Moist Forests

    Adeline Fayolle;Adeline Fayolle;Bettina M. J. Engelbrecht;Bettina M. J. Engelbrecht;Vincent Freycon;Frederic Mortier

  • Patterns of tree species composition across tropical African forests

    Adeline Fayolle;Michael D. Swaine;Jean-François Bastin;Jean-François Bastin;Jean-François Bastin;Nils Bourland

  • Diversity and aboveground biomass in three tropical forest types in the Dja Biosphere Reserve, Cameroon

    Marie Noël Kamdem Djuikouo;Jean-Louis Doucet;Charlemagne K. Nguembou;Simon L. Lewis

  • Tallo: A global tree allometry and crown architecture database

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  • Household bushmeat consumption in Brazzaville, the Republic of the Congo.

    Roger Albert Mbete;Roger Albert Mbete;Henri Banga-Mboko;Paul Racey;André Mfoukou-Ntsakala

  • The global abundance of tree palms

    Robert Muscarella;Robert Muscarella;Thaise Emilio;Thaise Emilio;Oliver L. Phillips;Simon L. Lewis;Simon L. Lewis

  • Optimal Foraging By Hoverflies (Diptera, Syrphidae) And Ladybirds (Coleoptera, Coccinellidae) - Mechanisms

    Jl. Hemptinne;Afg. Dixon;Jean-Louis Doucet;Je. Petersen

Frequent Co-Authors

Olivier J. Hardy
Olivier J. Hardy Université Libre de Bruxelles
Sylvie Gourlet-Fleury
Sylvie Gourlet-Fleury Centre de Coopération Internationale en Recherche Agronomique pour le Développement
Hans Beeckman
Hans Beeckman Royal Museum for Central Africa
Bonaventure Sonké
Bonaventure Sonké Université de Yaoundé I
Simon L. Lewis
Simon L. Lewis University College London
Terry Sunderland
Terry Sunderland University of British Columbia
Maxime Réjou-Méchain
Maxime Réjou-Méchain Institut de Recherche pour le Développement
Douglas Sheil
Douglas Sheil Wageningen University & Research
John R. Poulsen
John R. Poulsen Duke University
Ted R. Feldpausch
Ted R. Feldpausch University of Exeter

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