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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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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
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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...
doi.org
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
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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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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.

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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.
doi.org
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
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Sustainable management of wild-harvested plants is crucial. 🌍 Our study is a first national step, showing both richness and risks. We need stronger coordination and regulations to secure these resources.

➡️ doi.org/10.1016/j.bi...

Thx @ofbiodiversite.bsky.social for support

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Redirecting
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September 15, 2025 at 8:13 PM
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🌱Budding plant architects 🌱
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exploring plant architecture 🌳in a practical workshop we organised at the University of Montpellier 🌺
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#PlantArchitecture #Botany
September 18, 2025 at 3:57 PM
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Matériel en préparation pour l'atelier "Les plantes dans tous leurs états: la feuille" à la Nuit des Chercheuses... Trouvez l'intrus! 🌿⛏️
Selection of rocks for an outreach event. Can you find the odd one out?
#paleobotany #fossil #botany
September 24, 2025 at 12:29 PM
#AMAPwebinar September 25th, 14:30 (CET)
Astrid Holm ANDERSEN,PhD student, at Aarhus University in Denmark, présents
"Dark diversity"
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UMR AMAP - botAnique et Modélisation de l'Architecture des Plantes et des végétations
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September 24, 2025 at 12:30 PM
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La Nuit Méditerranéenne des Chercheuses 2025 aura lieu à Montpellier le 26 septembre avec notamment plusieurs ateliers sur les plantes et les forêts proposés par des membres de @umramap.bsky.social
🌿⛏️📱🌳🌲🔥🖥️

Infos et programme: www.genopolys.fr/evenements/n...
Nuit Méditerranéenne des Chercheuses 2025 - Genopolys
Retrouvez la Nuit Méditerranéenne des Chercheuses le 26 septembre 2025 ! Ateliers, jeux, conférences, débats, expositions, speed-meetings et lectures de
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September 4, 2025 at 6:46 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"
amap.cirad.fr/fr/edit-even...
UMR AMAP - botAnique et Modélisation de l'Architecture des Plantes et des végétations
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September 17, 2025 at 12:27 PM
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🌿 Doing science deep in the #Congo rainforest?

Lucette Adet, postdoc at CREAF, is doing just that with the European project #CoForFunc.

📍They need to walk 30 km to the field site!

👉 The goal: to understand how tropical forests grow, survive, and handle environmental stress like #drought.
August 29, 2025 at 8:42 AM
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Did you know that wild plant harvesting is an ancient practice that remains vital—from medicine to food and cosmetics? 🌿
Yet its ecological impact is overlooked. In a new study, we assessed 692 species in France (12% of the flora) to uncover drivers and conservation gaps.
#WildPlants #Conservation
September 15, 2025 at 8:02 PM
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The NEOFire team has now finished another experimental fire campaign at Serra das Araras! This is the 8th consecutive year we burn savanna plots to investigate the effects of altered fire regimes on the Cerrado
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September 13, 2025 at 1:15 AM