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Pierre Couteron is affiliated with the Institut de Recherche pour le Développement in France. Their research spans several key areas within environmental science and agricultural and biological sciences, with a focus on ecology and vegetation dynamics, forest ecology and management, remote sensing and LiDAR applications, ecosystem dynamics and resilience, plant and animal studies, and land use and ecosystem services.

Their recent publications demonstrate involvement in both empirical and methodological studies related to tropical forests, tree architecture, and remote sensing technologies. Notable works include:

  • Consistent patterns of common species across tropical tree communities, 2024, published in Nature
  • Evaluation of automated pipelines for tree and plot metric estimation from TLS data in tropical forest areas, 2021, Annals of Botany
  • Terrestrial laser scanning reveals convergence of tree architecture with increasingly dominant crown canopy position, 2020, Functional Ecology
  • Fast Unsupervised Multi-Scale Characterization of Urban Landscapes Based on Earth Observation Data, 2021, Remote Sensing
  • LiDAR-based reference aboveground biomass maps for tropical forests of South Asia and Central Africa, 2024, Scientific Data

Couteron frequently collaborates with a core group of researchers, including Nicolas Barbier, Bonaventure Sonké, Pierre Ploton, Gilles Dauby, and Gislain II Mofack. These collaborations suggest a strong engagement with research communities working on tropical ecology and remote sensing.

Their work is often published in venues such as Zenodo (CERN European Organization for Nuclear Research), Nature, Remote Sensing, Scientific Data, and Annals of Botany. This distribution indicates interdisciplinary approaches crossing ecology, remote sensing, and data science.

Main fields of study comprising Couteron's research include environmental science and agricultural and biological sciences. Within these fields, subfields of focus are nature and landscape conservation, global and planetary change, ecology, evolution, behavior and systematics, environmental engineering, and ecology.

The core topics addressed in their research cover:

  • Ecology and vegetation dynamics studies
  • Forest ecology and management
  • Remote sensing and LiDAR applications
  • Ecosystem dynamics and resilience
  • Plant and animal studies
  • Land use and ecosystem services
  • Remote sensing in agriculture

Best Publications

  • Community ecology in the age of multivariate multiscale spatial analysis

    S. Dray;Raphaël Pélissier;Raphaël Pélissier;Pierre Couteron;M. J. Fortin

  • Ecophylogenetics: advances and perspectives.

    Nicolas Mouquet;Vincent Devictor;Christine N. Meynard;Francois Munoz

  • The global biogeography of semi‐arid periodic vegetation patterns

    Vincent Deblauwe;Nicolas Serge Barbier;Pierre Couteron;Olivier Lejeune

  • Predicting and mapping mangrove biomass from canopy grain analysis using Fourier-based textural ordination of IKONOS images

    Christophe Proisy;Pierre Couteron;François Fromard

  • Localized vegetation patches: A self-organized response to resource scarcity

    Olivier Lejeune;Mustapha Tlidi;Pierre Couteron

  • Self-organized vegetation patterning as a fingerprint of climate and human impact on semi-arid ecosystems

    Nicolas Serge Barbier;Pierre Couteron;Jean Lejoly;Vincent Deblauwe

  • Periodic spotted patterns in semi-arid vegetation explained by a propagation-inhibition model

    Pierre Couteron;Olivier Lejeune;Olivier Lejeune

  • Predicting tropical forest stand structure parameters from Fourier transform of very high‐resolution remotely sensed canopy images

    Pierre Couteron;Raphaël Pélissier;Eric-André Nicolini;Dominique Paget

  • SPATIAL DECOUPLING OF FACILITATION AND COMPETITION AT THE ORIGIN OF GAPPED VEGETATION PATTERNS

    Nicolas Serge Barbier;Nicolas Serge Barbier;Pierre Couteron;René Lefever;Vincent Deblauwe

  • Seeing Central African forests through their largest trees

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

  • Environmental modulation of self‐organized periodic vegetation patterns in Sudan

    Vincent Deblauwe;Pierre Couteron;Olivier Lejeune;Jan Bogaert

  • Determinants and dynamics of banded vegetation pattern migration in arid climates

    Vincent Deblauwe;Pierre Couteron;Jan Bogaert;Nicolas Serge Barbier

  • Woody vegetation spatial patterns in a semi-arid savanna of Burkina Faso, West Africa.

    Pierre Couteron;Kouami Kokou

  • Assessing aboveground tropical forest biomass using Google Earth canopy images

    Pierre Ploton;Pierre Ploton;Raphaël Pélissier;Christophe Proisy;Théo Flavenot

  • The variation of apparent crown size and canopy heterogeneity across lowland Amazonian forests

    Nicolas Serge Barbier;Pierre Couteron;Christophe C. Proisy;Yadvinder Malhi

  • 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

  • Phylogenetic turnover in tropical tree communities: impact of environmental filtering, biogeography and mesoclimatic niche conservatism

    Olivier J. Hardy;Pierre Couteron;François Munoz;B. R. Ramesh

  • Short range co-operativity competing with long range inhibition explains vegetation patterns

    Olivier Lejeune;Pierre Couteron;René Lefever

  • Quantifying change in patterned semi-arid vegetation by Fourier analysis of digitized aerial photographs

    Pierre Couteron

  • Deeply gapped vegetation patterns: on crown/root allometry, criticality and desertification.

    René Lefever;Nicolas Serge Barbier;Pierre Couteron;Olivier Lejeune

  • Aboveground biomass mapping of African forest mosaics using canopy texture analysis: toward a regional approach.

    Jean-François Bastin;Jean-François Bastin;Jean-François Bastin;Nicolas Serge Barbier;Pierre Couteron;Benoît Adams

Frequent Co-Authors

Nicolas Barbier
Nicolas Barbier University of Montpellier
Raphaël Pélissier
Raphaël Pélissier University of Montpellier
Bonaventure Sonké
Bonaventure Sonké Université de Yaoundé I
François Munoz
François Munoz Grenoble Alpes University
Jan Bogaert
Jan Bogaert KU Leuven
Maxime Réjou-Méchain
Maxime Réjou-Méchain Institut de Recherche pour le Développement
Olivier J. Hardy
Olivier J. Hardy Université Libre de Bruxelles
David Kenfack
David Kenfack Smithsonian Tropical Research Institute
Daniel Sabatier
Daniel Sabatier University of Montpellier
Jean-Philippe Gastellu-Etchegorry
Jean-Philippe Gastellu-Etchegorry Federal University of Toulouse Midi-Pyrénées

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