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UMR AMAP - botAnique et Modélisation de l'Architecture des Plantes et des végétations
UMR AMAP- botany and modeling of plant architecture and vegetation
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Hello Bluesky! AMAP is a research unit focussed on botany and the modeling of plant architecture and vegetations. AMAP brings together mathematicians and computer scientists alongside botanists, agronomists & ecologists 🌱🌿🌳🔬🛰️💻
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#helloESR #botany
AMAP Lab - botAny and Modeling of Plant Architecture and vegetation
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Check our paper with @paleobotanist.bsky.social on root suckering in a Permian glossopterid from Antarctica 🌳⛏️🇦🇶 It's the 1st report of root suckering in this group & the oldest in the fossil record
doi.org/10.1002/ajb2... 🧵1/5
#paleobotany #botany
@umramap.bsky.social @cnrsecologie.bsky.social
Production of root suckers in Glossopteridales from the late Permian of Antarctica
Premise The Glossopteridales are an extinct group of seed plants that dominated mid to high latitude floras of the supercontinent Gondwana during the Permian (298–251 million years ago). Reconstruct.....
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November 20, 2025 at 12:13 PM
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Happy to be part of this one!!

Check out the review we wrote, led by John Thompson, on conserving mediterranean #plant #diversity in a changing world.
We are delighted to announce Thomas Reviews, a new format for impact at the intersection of plants, people and the planet.

The three inaugural Reviews have been published in Plants, People, Planet today!

Read the Editorial 👇
nph.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1002/...

#PlantScience #ThomasReview
November 19, 2025 at 6:33 PM
#AMAPhD, event taking place next Tuesday, November 25th 2025. - SAVE THE DATE -
We will have the pleasure of listening to presentations from first- and second-year PhD students.
The event will take place in the Amphi Alliot lecture hall, CIRAD
The presentations will start at 9:00 AM.
November 18, 2025 at 10:30 AM
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What’s going on at @umramap.bsky.social ??

We're startin a new exp on Med temporary lagoon ecology.

The aim: understanding how plant communities differ from what’s in the seed bank (and why..)

#conservation #mediterranean #plant

@umontpellier.bsky.social
@tourduvalat.bsky.social
November 17, 2025 at 7:38 PM
#AMAPwebinar November 20th, 11:00 (CET) -
Jan Lukas KLEIN, PhD student at ULB (Belgium), presents "The human-made forest : evaluating the impact of historical human activity on the present-day floristic composition of rainforest in western Central Africa"
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November 17, 2025 at 9:19 AM
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Pl@ntNet recently welcomed Étienne Laliberté from MILA to explore new collaborations around drone-based hyperspatial imaging and automated plant community identification. A visit full of fruitful discussions that opens new perspectives for studying tropical canopies.

Read more: tinyurl.com/2j9nr3at
Imagerie hyperspatiale et intelligence artificielle : les échanges entre Pl@ntNet et le MILA se poursuivent avec la visite d'Etienne Laliberté
Pl@ntNet a eu le plaisir d’accueillir ces deux dernières semaines Étienne Laliberté, chercheur au MILA (Montréal Institute for Learning Algorithms). Actuellement en visite à Montpellier, il a échangé ...
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November 14, 2025 at 10:55 AM
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We have a new Dr in #paleobotany! Congratulations to @thibault-durieux.bsky.social who successfully passed his viva. It was a great journey & he made the advising job very easy for
@petermoonlight.bsky.social, Carla Harper and I. Big thanks to the examiners Jenny McElwain & @sandyheth.bsky.social!
November 14, 2025 at 9:50 AM
#AMAPDefense - Save the date -
"Self-supervised learning and domain adaptation to address spectral variability in airborne hyperspectral acquisitions in tropical forests" by Colin PRIEUR on 13 November 2025 at 1:30 PM CET at University of Montpellier, Montpellier.
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November 12, 2025 at 9:30 AM
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Pl@ntNet takes root in #Uganda!
Five training sessions gathered 125 students & researchers from Makerere Univ. and partners to learn plant ID with the Pl@ntNet app.

👉 122 new accounts, 715 observations, 334 species shared!

#CitizenScience #Biodiversity
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Pl@ntNet takes root in Uganda: first training sessions bring together students and researchers - Pl@ntNet
The first training session on the use of the Pl@ntNet application in Uganda was recently held. Five one-day training sessions, combining both theoretical and practical components, took place at the .....
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October 31, 2025 at 11:06 AM
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Live from the HCERES audition of the @umramap.bsky.social
November 6, 2025 at 10:48 AM
#AMAPDefense - Save the date -
"Self-supervised learning and domain adaptation to address spectral variability in airborne hyperspectral acquisitions in tropical forests" by Colin PRIEUR on 13 November 2025 at 1:30 PM CET at University of Montpellier, Montpellier.
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UMR AMAP - botAnique et Modélisation de l'Architecture des Plantes et des végétations
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November 3, 2025 at 8:38 AM
In this short video Artemis Anest explains one of the outreach activities on plants presented by AMAP at #Mednight, la Nuit Méditerranéenne des Chercheuses 2025 (in French with English subtitles)🌳 🌿
#botany #scicomm
November 3, 2025 at 7:45 AM
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🔥🌱 The new #AJB Special Issue, “Understanding novel #fire regimes using plant trait‐based approaches," is now online! 🌱🔥

This issue features studies from evolutionary, ecological, organismal, physiological, fire management & conservation perspectives.

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October 30, 2025 at 1:27 PM
#AMAPwebinar October 30th, 11:00 (CET) - Tomorrow -
Thibault Durieux, PhD student in paleobotany at Dublin (Ireland), presents "Early woody plant diversity and biology: An integrative evolutionary and palaeoenvironmental study"
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UMR AMAP - botAnique et Modélisation de l'Architecture des Plantes et des végétations
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October 29, 2025 at 3:31 PM
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🌲 Very happy to share our new study on where, when, and why trees die across the range of 3 major southern US pines: Pinus taeda, P. palustris, and P. elliottii (loblolly, longleaf, and slash pine).
🔗 doi.org/10.1111/geb.70141
@ird-fr.bsky.social @umramap.bsky.social @ulbrecherche.bsky.social
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Mosaic of Size‐Dependent Mortality in Three Ecologically and Economically Important Pine Species Reveals Patterns Across Space and Time
Aim Global forests face increasing stresses from novel climate states, altered disturbance regimes and the spread of pests and pathogens. Understanding where and when mortality occurs across species...
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October 27, 2025 at 8:58 AM
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🌳 New paper out in Ecology Letters! 🌱
Our latest study, led by Lukas Magee, shows that the “legacies” of trees continue to shape forests long after they die.

onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/...

#Ecology #Forests #Biodiversity
@umramap.bsky.social @ird-fr.bsky.social
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Memories of Trees Past: Coexistence Implications of Legacy Conspecific Density Dependence
Negative density dependence persisted for up to 5 years after tree death, but with interspecific variation. Although stabilising niche differences were large, fitness differences–at the seedling life...
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October 22, 2025 at 9:43 AM
#AMAPwebinar October 30th, 11:00 (CET) -Save the date-
Thibault Durieux, PhD student in Paleobotany at Trinity College, Dublin (Ireland), presents "Early woody plant diversity and biology: An integrative evolutionary and palaeoenvironmental study"
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UMR AMAP - botAnique et Modélisation de l'Architecture des Plantes et des végétations
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October 22, 2025 at 7:18 AM
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New OA Article: "Learning the syntax of plant assemblages" rdcu.be/eLtZl

Pl@ntBERT is a language-based AI model that learned the ‘syntax’ of plant assemblages, predicting likely species and inferring habitats by modelling biotic relationships.
October 17, 2025 at 10:41 AM
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🌳 Selon une nouvelle étude les forêts tropicales d’Australie seraient les premières au monde à émettre davantage de carbone dans l’atmosphère qu’elles n’en absorbent.

ℹ️ www.ird.fr/les-forets-t...
October 17, 2025 at 4:30 PM
Australia's tropical forests, the first whose aboveground biomass has switched from net carbon sink to CO2 emitters, a new @nature.com study by Hannah Carle,
@davbauman.bsky.social , Patrick Meir and colleagues.
@ird-fr.bsky.social

doi.org/10.1038/s415...
Aboveground biomass in Australian tropical forests now a net carbon source - Nature
A transition from carbon sink to source for the aboveground woody biomass of moist tropical Australian forests has occurred, driven by increasingly extreme climate anomalies.
doi.org
October 16, 2025 at 9:30 AM
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Pl@ntBERT, a language‑based AI model that learned the “syntax” of plant assemblages, predicts likely missing species in surveys, infers habitat types by modeling biotic relationships, improving traditional methods and enabling ecological monitoring. Paper: www.nature.com/articles/s41...
Learning the syntax of plant assemblages - Nature Plants
Pl@ntBERT is a language-based AI model that learned the ‘syntax’ of plant assemblages, predicting likely species and inferring habitats by modelling biotic relationships.
www.nature.com
October 13, 2025 at 11:09 AM
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🚨 ERC-funded Postdoc opportunity – Computational Ecology & Evolution at @umramap.bsky.social in Cayenne, French Guiana!

🧬 Omics Data Sciences • 🌴 Amazonian palms • 🌡️ Climate & evolution modeling

📅 Start: Nov–Dec 2025 | 18 months

🔗 Apply: emploi-recrutement.ird.fr/offre-de-emp...
IRD - Chercheur en écologie et évolution computationnelles F/H
Vous n'avez pas encore votre propre espace candidat. Créez-le en cliquant ici.
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October 10, 2025 at 6:43 PM
New paper on the topic of ‘Bio-inspired Soft Robotics’ by Nick Rowe
Mazzolai B., Del Dottore E., Speck T., Rowe N., Laschi C. 2025. Energy-saving movement strategies in animals and plants for robot design. Nature Reviews Bioengineering,
doi.org/10.1038/s442...
Energy-saving movement strategies in animals and plants for robot design - Nature Reviews Bioengineering
Living organisms surpass robots in durability and adaptability. This Review explores animal and plant energy-saving strategies to inspire resilient, low-energy robots and emphasizes the cost of transport as a key metric in relation to the durability of various movement modalities.
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October 10, 2025 at 8:11 AM
#AMAPwebinar September 30th, 11:00 (CET) -Save the date-
Damien RIUS, CR Researcher at UMR CNRS Chrono-Environnement, Besançon (France), presents
"Wildfires and insect outbreaks in Boreal forests. A combined approach using paleo-ecology, sedimentary DNA and modelling"
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UMR AMAP - botAnique et Modélisation de l'Architecture des Plantes et des végétations
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September 29, 2025 at 8:48 AM