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List of works by Sylvie Gourlet-Fleury

<i>Macrotermes</i> termite mounds influence the spatial pattern of tree species in two African rainforest sites, in northern Congo. But were they really forests in the past?

scientific article published in 2022

A More Realistic Portrayal of Tropical Forestry: Response to Kormos and Zimmerman

scholarly article by Francis E. Putz et al published 11 July 2013 in Conservation Letters

A comparison of five classifications of species into functional groups in tropical forests of French Guiana

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A comparison of five indirect methods for characterizing the light environment in a tropical forest

A map of African humid tropical forest aboveground biomass derived from management inventories

scientific article published on 08 July 2020

A new insight in the structure, composition and functioning of central African moist forests

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Altitudinal filtering of large-tree species explains above-ground biomass variation in an Atlantic Central African rain forest

scientific article published on 18 January 2017

An evolutionary perspective on leaf economics: phylogenetics of leaf mass per area in vascular plants

scientific article

Annual cycles are the most common reproductive strategy in African tropical tree communities

Asynchronous carbon sink saturation in African and Amazonian tropical forests

scientific article published on 04 March 2020

Beyond species richness and biomass: Impact of selective logging and silvicultural treatments on the functional composition of a neotropical forest

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Climate change would lead to a sharp acceleration of Central African forests dynamics by the end of the century

Clustering species using a model of population dynamics and aggregation theory

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Comparative effectiveness of silvicultural interventions for increasing timber production and sustaining conservation values in natural tropical production forests. A systematic review protocol

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Competition and site weakly explain tree growth variability in undisturbed Central African moist forests

scientific article published in 2023

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

scientific article published in 2015

Deforestation and timber production in Congo after implementation of sustainable management policy: A reaction to the article by J.S. Brandt, C. Nolte and A. Agrawal (Land Use Policy 52:15–22)

Detecting large-scale diversity patterns in tropical trees: Can we trust commercial forest inventories?

article by Maxime Réjou-Méchain et al published January 2011 in Forest Ecology and Management

Don’t miss the forest for the trees! Evidence for vertical differences in the response of plant diversity to disturbance in a tropical rain forest

scientific article published on 22 September 2014

Effects of logging on roadless space in intact forest landscapes of the Congo Basin

scientific article

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

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Floristic evidence for alternative biome states in tropical Africa

scientific article published on 27 October 2020

Functional traits help predict post-disturbance demography of tropical trees

scientific article

Geological substrates shape tree species and trait distributions in African moist forests.

scientific article

Grouping species for predicting mixed tropical forest dynamics: looking for a strategy

How persistent are the impacts of logging roads on Central African forest vegetation?

scientific article published in 2016

Latitudinal shift in the timing of flowering of tree species across tropical Africa: insights from field observations and herbarium collections

scientific article published in 2020

Legacy of logging roads in the Congo Basin: How persistent are the scars in forest cover?

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Les concessions d’exploitation forestière menacent-elles les tourbières en République démocratique du Congo ?

Local disturbance, forest structure and dispersal effects on sapling distribution of light-demanding and shade-tolerant species in a French Guianian forest

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Mixture of inhomogeneous matrix models for species-rich ecosystems

scientific article published in 2014

Modelling diameter increment in a lowland evergreen rain forest in French Guiana

scientific article

New Evidence of Human Activities During the Holocene in the Lowland Forests of the Northern Congo Basin

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Opportunity costs of carbon sequestration in a forest concession in central Africa

scientific article

Patterns of tree species composition across tropical African forests

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Plant functional traits have globally consistent effects on competition

scientific article published on 23 December 2015

Population dynamics of species-rich ecosystems: the mixture of matrix population models approach

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Positive biodiversity-productivity relationship predominant in global forests

scientific article

Present-day central African forest is a legacy of the 19th century human history

scientific article

Regional variation in tropical forest tree species composition in the Central African Republic: an assessment based on inventories by forest companies

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Relationships between demography and gene flow and their importance for the conservation of tree populations in tropical forests under selective felling regimes

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Slow-growing species cope best with drought: evidence from long-term measurements in a tropical semi-deciduous moist forest of Central Africa

scientific article published on 08 October 2013

Soil seed bank characteristics in two central African forest types and implications for forest restoration

scientific article published in 2018

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

scientific article published on 11 September 2020

Sustaining conservation values in selectively logged tropical forests: the attained and the attainable

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

scientific article

Terrestrial photogrammetry: a non-destructive method for modelling irregularly shaped tropical tree trunks

scientific article published in 2016

The Forest Observation System, building a global reference dataset for remote sensing of forest biomass

scientific article published on 10 October 2019

The Tropical managed Forests Observatory: a research network addressing the future of tropical logged forests

The determinants of tropical forest deciduousness: disentangling the effects of rainfall and geology in central Africa

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The limited contribution of large trees to annual biomass production in an old-growth tropical forest.

scientific article published on 16 April 2018

Tracking land-cover changes with sedimentary charcoal in the Afrotropics

Tree cover in Central Africa: determinants and sensitivity under contrasted scenarios of global change

scientific article

Tree growth and mortality of 42 timber species in central Africa

scientific article published in 2022

Tree roots can penetrate deeply in African semi-deciduous rain forests: evidence from two common soil types

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Tropical forest recovery from logging: a 24 year silvicultural experiment from Central Africa

scientific article (publication date: 2013)

Tropical tree assembly depends on the interactions between successional and soil filtering processes

scientific article published in 2014

Unveiling African rainforest composition and vulnerability to global change

scientific article published on 21 April 2021

Vegetation structure and greenness in Central Africa from Modis multi-temporal data.

scientific article

What controls local-scale aboveground biomass variation in central Africa? Testing structural, composition and architectural attributes

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Will Tropical Rainforests Survive Climate Change?