Search Results - "Mélaine Aubry-Kientz"

DeepForest: A Python package for RGB deep learning tree crown delineation by Weinstein, Ben G., Marconi, Sergio, Aubry‐Kientz, Mélaine, Vincent, Gregoire, Senyondo, Henry, White, Ethan P., Record, Sydne

“…Remote sensing of forested landscapes can transform the speed, scale and cost of forest research. The delineation of individual trees in remote sensing images…”
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Climate anomalies and neighbourhood crowding interact in shaping tree growth in old‐growth and selectively logged tropical forests by Nemetschek, Daniela, Derroire, Géraldine, Marcon, Eric, Aubry‐Kientz, Mélaine, Auer, Johanna, Badouard, Vincyane, Baraloto, Christopher, Bauman, David, Le Blaye, Quentin, Boisseaux, Marion, Bonal, Damien, Coste, Sabrina, Dardevet, Elia, Heuret, Patrick, Hietz, Peter, Levionnois, Sébastien, Maréchaux, Isabelle, McMahon, Sean M., Stahl, Clément, Vleminckx, Jason, Wanek, Wolfgang, Ziegler, Camille, Fortunel, Claire

“…Climate extremes and biotic interactions at the neighbourhood scale affect tropical forest dynamics with long‐term consequences for biodiversity, global carbon…”
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A Comparative Assessment of the Performance of Individual Tree Crowns Delineation Algorithms from ALS Data in Tropical Forests by Aubry-Kientz, Mélaine, Dutrieux, Raphaël, Ferraz, Antonio, Saatchi, Sassan, Hamraz, Hamid, Williams, Jonathan, Coomes, David, Piboule, Alexandre, Vincent, Grégoire

“…Tropical forest canopies are comprised of tree crowns of multiple species varying in shape and height, and ground inventories do not usually reliably describe…”
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Canopy structure influences arthropod communities within and beyond tree identity effects: Insights from combining LiDAR data, insecticidal fogging and machine learning regression modelling by Wildermuth, Benjamin, Penanhoat, Alice, Sennhenn-Reulen, Holger, Matevski, Dragan, Drescher, Jochen, Aubry-Kientz, Mélaine, Seidel, Dominik, Schuldt, Andreas

“…•Canopy habitats require more attention in times of global biodiversity loss.•Using LiDAR and canopy fogging, we link canopy structure and arthropod…”
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Modeling the forest dynamics of the Sierra Nevada under climate change using SORTIE-ND by Moran, Emily V., Vannest, Nikole, Aubry-Kientz, Mélaine

“…Key message Model simulation results suggest that forests in the Sierra Nevada mountains of California will tend to increase in density and basal area in the…”
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A rainfall- and temperature-driven abundance model for Aedes albopictus populations by Tran, Annelise, L'Ambert, Grégory, Lacour, Guillaume, Benoît, Romain, Demarchi, Marie, Cros, Myriam, Cailly, Priscilla, Aubry-Kientz, Mélaine, Balenghien, Thomas, Ezanno, Pauline

“…The mosquito Aedes (Stegomyia) albopictus (Skuse) (Diptera: Culicidae) is an invasive species which has colonized Southern Europe in the last two decades. As…”
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Multisensor Data Fusion for Improved Segmentation of Individual Tree Crowns in Dense Tropical Forests by Aubry-Kientz, Melaine, Laybros, Anthony, Weinstein, Ben, Ball, James, Jackson, Toby, Coomes, David, Vincent, Gregoire

“…Automatic tree crown segmentation from remote sensing data is especially challenging in dense, diverse, and multilayered tropical forest canopies, and tracking…”
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Accurate delineation of individual tree crowns in tropical forests from aerial RGB imagery using Mask R‐CNN by Ball, James G. C., Hickman, Sebastian H. M., Jackson, Tobias D., Koay, Xian Jing, Hirst, James, Jay, William, Archer, Matthew, Aubry‐Kientz, Mélaine, Vincent, Grégoire, Coomes, David A.

“…Tropical forests are a major component of the global carbon cycle and home to two‐thirds of terrestrial species. Upper‐canopy trees store the majority of…”
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Pan-tropical analysis of climate effects on seasonal tree growth by Wagner, Fabien, Rossi, Vivien, Aubry-Kientz, Mélaine, Bonal, Damien, Dalitz, Helmut, Gliniars, Robert, Stahl, Clément, Trabucco, Antonio, Hérault, Bruno

“…Climate models predict a range of changes in tropical forest regions, including increased average temperatures, decreased total precipitation, reduced soil…”
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Climate Impacts on Tree Growth in the Sierra Nevada by Mélaine Aubry-Kientz, Emily V. Moran

“…Rising temperatures and aridity may negatively impact tree growth, and therefore ecosystem services like carbon sequestration. In the Sierra Nevada in…”
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Quantitative Airborne Inventories in Dense Tropical Forest Using Imaging Spectroscopy by Laybros, Anthony, Aubry-Kientz, Mélaine, Féret, Jean-Baptiste, Bedeau, Caroline, Brunaux, Olivier, Derroire, Géraldine, Vincent, Grégoire

“…Tropical forests have exceptional floristic diversity, but their characterization remains incomplete, in part due to the resource intensity of in-situ…”
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Toward trait-based mortality models for tropical forests by Aubry-Kientz, Mélaine, Hérault, Bruno, Ayotte-Trépanier, Charles, Baraloto, Christopher, Rossi, Vivien

“…Tree mortality in tropical forests is a complex ecological process for which modelling approaches need to be improved to better understand, and then predict,…”
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A joint individual‐based model coupling growth and mortality reveals that tree vigor is a key component of tropical forest dynamics by Aubry‐Kientz, Mélaine, Rossi, Vivien, Boreux, Jean‐Jacques, Hérault, Bruno

“…Tree vigor is often used as a covariate when tree mortality is predicted from tree growth in tropical forest dynamic models, but it is rarely explicitly…”
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Linking Drone and Ground-Based Liana Measurements in a Congolese Forest by Kaçamak, Begüm, Barbier, Nicolas, Aubry-Kientz, Mélaine, Forni, Eric, Gourlet-Fleury, Sylvie, Guibal, Daniel, Loumeto, Jean-Joël, Pollet, Sasha, Rossi, Vivien, Rowe, Nick, van Hoef, Yorick, Réjou-Méchain, Maxime

“…Lianas are abundant and diverse in tropical forests and impact forest dynamics. They occupy part of the canopy, forming a layer of leaves overtopping tree…”
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Vulnerability of Commercial Tree Species to Water Stress in Logged Forests of the Guiana Shield by Hélène Fargeon, Mélaine Aubry-Kientz, Olivier Brunaux, Laurent Descroix, Romain Gaspard, Stéphane Guitet, Vivien Rossi, Bruno Hérault

“…The future of tropical managed forests is threatened by climate change. In anticipation of the increase in the frequency of drought episodes predicted by…”
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Temperature rising would slow down tropical forest dynamic in the Guiana Shield by Aubry-Kientz, Mélaine, Rossi, Vivien, Cornu, Guillaume, Wagner, Fabien, Hérault, Bruno

“…Increasing evidence shows that the functioning of the tropical forest biome is intimately related to the climate variability with some variables such as annual…”
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Effect of competition intensity and neighbor identity on architectural traits of Fagus sylvatica by Penanhoat, Alice, Guerrero Ramirez, Nathaly, Aubry-Kientz, Mélaine, Diekmann, Lucas, Paligi, Sharath, Audisio, Michela, Mrak, Klara, Seidel, Dominik

“…Key message Differences in architectural traits of European beech saplings submitted to different levels of competition intensity and neighborhood diversity…”
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Estimating tropical tree diversity indices from forestry surveys: A method to integrate taxonomic uncertainty by Guitet, Stéphane, Sabatier, Daniel, Brunaux, Olivier, Hérault, Bruno, Aubry-Kientz, Mélaine, Molino, Jean-François, Baraloto, Christopher

“…•The taxonomic reliability of forestry surveys was tested in French Guiana rainforest.•The reliability was only 22% at species rank, 70% at genus and 83% at…”
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Continent-wide tree fecundity driven by indirect climate effects by Clark, James S., Andrus, Robert, Aubry-Kientz, Melaine, Bergeron, Yves, Bogdziewicz, Michal, Bragg, Don C., Brockway, Dale, Cleavitt, Natalie L., Cohen, Susan, Courbaud, Benoit, Daley, Robert, Das, Adrian J., Dietze, Michael, Fahey, Timothy J., Fer, Istem, Franklin, Jerry F., Gehring, Catherine A., Gilbert, Gregory S., Greenberg, Cathryn H., Guo, Qinfeng, HilleRisLambers, Janneke, Ibanez, Ines, Johnstone, Jill, Kilner, Christopher L., Knops, Johannes, Koenig, Walter D., Kunstler, Georges, LaMontagne, Jalene M., Legg, Kristin L., Luongo, Jordan, Lutz, James A., Macias, Diana, McIntire, Eliot J. B., Messaoud, Yassine, Moore, Christopher M., Moran, Emily, Myers, Jonathan A., Myers, Orrin B., Nunez, Chase, Parmenter, Robert, Pearse, Sam, Pearson, Scott, Poulton-Kamakura, Renata, Ready, Ethan, Redmond, Miranda D., Reid, Chantal D., Rodman, Kyle C., Scher, C. Lane, Schlesinger, William H., Schwantes, Amanda M., Shanahan, Erin, Sharma, Shubhi, Steele, Michael A., Stephenson, Nathan L., Sutton, Samantha, Swenson, Jennifer J., Swift, Margaret, Veblen, Thomas T., Whipple, Amy V., Whitham, Thomas G., Wion, Andreas P., Zhu, Kai, Zlotin, Roman

“…Indirect climate effects on tree fecundity that come through variation in size and growth (climate-condition interactions) are not currently part of models…”
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A common framework to model recovery in disturbed tropical forests by Maurent, Eliott, Hérault, Bruno, Piponiot, Camille, Derroire, Géraldine, Delgado, Diego, Finegan, Bryan, Kientz, Mélaine Aubry, Amani, Bienvenu H.K., Bieng, Marie Ange Ngo

“…•Disturbance types in tropical forests are usually studied separately.•Our innovative framework models recovery trajectories of disturbed forests.•Disturbances…”
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