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Overview

Maxime Réjou-Méchain is affiliated with the Institut de Recherche pour le Développement in France. Their research primarily focuses on environmental science and agricultural and biological sciences, with significant contributions in subfields including nature and landscape conservation, ecology, evolution, behavior and systematics, global and planetary change, ecology, and ecological modeling.

The scientist concentrates on several interconnected topics such as ecology and vegetation dynamics studies, plant and animal studies, forest ecology and management, species distribution and climate change, remote sensing and LiDAR applications, remote sensing in agriculture, and plant diversity and evolution.

Recent scholarly publications by Maxime Réjou-Méchain include:

  • "Spatial validation reveals poor predictive performance of large-scale ecological mapping models," 2020, Nature Communications
  • "Unveiling African rainforest composition and vulnerability to global change," 2021, Nature
  • "A large-scale species level dated angiosperm phylogeny for evolutionary and ecological analyses," 2020, Biodiversity Data Journal
  • "The global distribution of protected areas management strategies and their complementarity for biodiversity conservation," 2021, Biological Conservation
  • "Amazon tree dominance across forest strata," 2021, Nature Ecology & Evolution

Maxime Réjou-Méchain has frequently collaborated with other researchers, with notable co-authors including:

  • Nicolas Barbier
  • Pierre Ploton
  • Raphaël Pélissier
  • Sylvie Gourlet-Fleury
  • Anuttara Nathalang

Their work has been featured in various scientific venues, predominantly:

  • Nature (2 publications)
  • Scientific Data (2 publications)
  • Remote Sensing in Ecology and Conservation (2 publications)
  • bioRxiv (Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory) (2 publications)
  • Nature Communications (1 publication)

Aside from journal articles, Maxime Réjou-Méchain has contributed to book publications, including "Aboveground Woody Biomass Product Validation Good Practices Protocol" published by Ghent University in 2021.

Best Publications

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

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

  • TRY plant trait database : Enhanced coverage and open access

    Jens Kattge;Gerhard Bönisch;Sandra Díaz;Sandra Lavorel

  • Spatial validation reveals poor predictive performance of large-scale ecological mapping models.

    Pierre Ploton;Frédéric Mortier;Maxime Rejou-Mechain;Nicolas Barbier

  • Compositional response of Amazon forests to climate change

    Adriane Esquivel‐Muelbert;Timothy R. Baker;Kyle G. Dexter;Simon L. Lewis;Simon L. Lewis

  • Biomass : an r package for estimating above-ground biomass and its uncertainty in tropical forests

    Maxime Réjou-Méchain;Ariane Tanguy;Camille Piponiot;Jérôme Chave

  • Diversity and carbon storage across the tropical forest biome

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

  • Hyperdominance in Amazonian forest carbon cycling

    Sophie Fauset;Michelle O Johnson;Manuel Gloor;Timothy R Baker

  • 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

  • Amazon forest response to repeated droughts

    T. R. Feldpausch;O. L. Phillips;R. J. W. Brienen;E. Gloor

  • Unveiling African rainforest composition and vulnerability to global change

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

  • The Importance of Consistent Global Forest Aboveground Biomass Product Validation

    L. Duncanson;J. Armston;M. Disney;V. Avitabile

  • Body size determines soil community assembly in a tropical forest.

    Lucie Zinger;Pierre Taberlet;Heidy Schimann;Aurélie Bonin

  • Decrease of L-band SAR backscatter with biomass of dense forests

    Stéphane Mermoz;Maxime Réjou-Méchain;Ludovic Villard;Thuy Le Toan

  • SAR tomography for the retrieval of forest biomass and height: cross-validation at two tropical forest sites in French Guiana

    Dinh Ho Tong Minh;Dinh Ho Tong Minh;Thuy Le Toan;Fabio Rocca;Stefano Tebaldini

  • Seeing Central African forests through their largest trees

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

  • Local spatial structure of forest biomass and its consequences for remote sensing of carbon stocks

    M. Réjou-Méchain;Helene C. Muller-Landau;Matteo Detto;S. C. Thomas

  • Ground Data are Essential for Biomass Remote Sensing Missions

    Jérôme Chave;Stuart J. Davies;Oliver L. Phillips;Simon L. Lewis;Simon L. Lewis

  • 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

  • Biomass assessment in the Cameroon savanna using ALOS PALSAR data.

    Stéphane Mermoz;Thuy Le Toan;Ludovic Villard;Maxime Réjou-Méchain

  • Upscaling Forest Biomass from Field to Satellite Measurements: Sources of Errors and Ways to Reduce Them

    Maxime Réjou-Méchain;Nicolas Barbier;Pierre Couteron;Pierre Ploton

  • Environmental filtering of dense‐wooded species controls above‐ground biomass stored in African moist forests

    Sylvie Gourlet-Fleury;Vivien Rossi;Maxime Rejou-Mechain;Vincent Freycon

  • Using repeated small-footprint LiDAR acquisitions to infer spatial and temporal variations of a high-biomass Neotropical forest

    Maxime Réjou-Méchain;Maxime Réjou-Méchain;Blaise Tymen;Lilian Blanc;Sophie Fauset

Frequent Co-Authors

Jérôme Chave
Jérôme Chave Paul Sabatier University
Sylvie Gourlet-Fleury
Sylvie Gourlet-Fleury Centre de Coopération Internationale en Recherche Agronomique pour le Développement
Simon L. Lewis
Simon L. Lewis University College London
Oliver L. Phillips
Oliver L. Phillips University of Leeds
Raphaël Pélissier
Raphaël Pélissier University of Montpellier
Jean-Louis Doucet
Jean-Louis Doucet Gembloux Agro-Bio Tech
Nicolas Barbier
Nicolas Barbier University of Montpellier
Ted R. Feldpausch
Ted R. Feldpausch University of Exeter
Yadvinder Malhi
Yadvinder Malhi University of Oxford
Bruno Hérault
Bruno Hérault University of Montpellier

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