Research activity
I work on the pest of bananas and plantains. My main actual focus is the study of the arthropod and vertebrates communities and their relationships between the vegetal diversity in tropical agroecosystems. However, I try to work on the different biological agents of these agroecosytems and used modelling tools to integreate ecological processes observed in the field to improve my understanding of ecosystem functionning. I also developped and use methods based on computer vision to study arthropod and vertebreates communities (PredaTV project, COSAQ project, SADUR project)
Research topics
- Agroecology
- Pest management
- Ant community in tropical agroecosystems
- Computer vision
- Ecological modelling
- Food web ecology
PhD student supervision
PhD Thesis of Charlotte Poeydebat: Régulations écologiques d’un complexe de bio-agresseurs dans un gradient de complexité spatiale et de biodiversité, cas des systèmes de culture bananiers (2014-2016) (Co-supervised with Philippe Tixier and Luc de Lapeyre de Bellaire)
PhD Thesis of Blanche Collard: Multiscale modelling of the effect of spatial organisation of plant diversity on pest regulation (2016-2018) (Co-supervised with Claire Lavigne, Thomas Delattre & Philippe Tixier)
PhD Thesis of Paul Tresson: Quantification of pest regulation by generalist predators by analysis of image sequence to determiner and quantify network of interactions, case of the bananaweevil (2018-2021) (Co-supervised with William Puech (LIRMM)& Philippe Tixier (GECO)
Contact
Dominique Carval - PhD Ecology
UR GECO
Persyst -
CIRAD
Station de Bassin Plat
Bâtiment A - Bureau 1
BP 180 - 97455 Saint-Pierre Cedex
Réunion
dominique.carval@cirad.fr
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