Herault, Bruno

Publications

Articles

in press

  • Dago MR, Zo-Bi IC, Konan IK, Kouassi AK, Guei S, ..., Hérault B, in press. What motivates West African cocoa farmers to value trees? Taking the 4W approach to the heart of the field. People & Nature.
  • Hähn GJA, Damasceno G, Alvarez-Davilla E, Aubin I, Bauters M, ..., Bruelheide H, in press. Global decoupling of functional and phylogenetic diversity in plant communities. Nature Ecology and Evolution.
  • Schmitt S, Tysklind N, Heuertz M, Hérault B, in press. Selection in space and time: individual tree growth is adapted to tropical forest gap dynamics. Molecular Ecology.

2025

2024

  • Bialic-Murphy L, McElderry RM, Esquivel-Muelbert A, van den Hoogen J, Zuidema PA, ..., Crowther TW, 2024. The pace of life for forest trees. Science 386: 6717.
  • Bouchard E, Searle EB, Drapeau P, Liang J, Gamarra JGP, ..., Paquette A, 2024. Global patterns and environmental drivers of forest functional composition. Global Ecology and Biogeography 33: 303-324.
  • Depauw L, De lombaerde E, Dhiedt E, Blondeel H, Auge H, ..., Baeten L, 2024. Enhancing tree performance through species mixing: review of a quarter-century TreeDivNet experiments revealing research gaps and practical insights. Current Forestry Reports 10: 1-20
  • Hordijk I, Bialic-Murphy L, Lauber T, Routh D, Poorter L, ..., Crowther TW, 2024. Dominance and rarity in tree communities across the globe: Patterns, predictors and threats. Global Ecology and Biogeography: e13889.
  • Mo L, Crowther TW, Maynard DS, van den Hoogen J, Ma H, ..., Zohner CN, 2024. The global distribution and drivers of wood density and their impact on forest carbon stocks. Nature Ecology and Evolution 8: 2195-2212.
  • Poorter L, van der Sande M, Amissah L, Bongers F, Hordijk I, ..., Lohbeck M, 2024. A comprehensive framework for vegetation succession. Ecosphere 15: e4794.
  • Schorn ME, Kambach S, Chazdon RL, Craven D, Farrior CE, ..., Ruger N, 2024. Tree demographic strategies largely overlap across succession in Neotropical wet and dry forest communities. Ecology e4321.
  • Traoré S, Zo-Bi IC, Piponiot C, Aussenac R, Hérault B, 2024. Fragmentation is the main driver of residual forest aboveground biomass in West African Low Forest - High Deforestation landscapes. Trees, Forests and People 15: 1004777
  • van Breugel M, Bongers F, Norden N, Meave J, Amissah L, ..., Dent D, 2024. Feedback loops drive ecological succession: towards a unified conceptual framework. Biological Reviews 99: 928-949.
  • Zou Y, Zohner CM, Averill C, Ma H, Merder J, ..., Crowther TW, 2024. Positive feedbacks and alternative stable states in forest leaf types. Nature Communications 15: 4658.
  • Zheng L, Barry KE, Guerrero-Ramirez NR, Craven D, Recih PB, ..., Hautier Y, 2024. Effects of plant diversity on productivity strengthen over time due to trait-dependent shifts in species overyielding. Nature Communications 15: 2078.

2023

  • Bennett AC, Rodrigues de Souza T, Monteaguod-Mendoza A, Esquivel-Muelbert A, Morandini PS, ..., Phillips OL, 2023. Sensitivity of South American tropical forests to an extreme climate anomaly. Nature Climate Change 13: 967-974.
  • Dago MR, Zo-BI IC, Badouard V, Patacca M, Hérault B, 2023. Concomitant effects of multiple disturbances (logging, fire, biological invasion) on native tree abundances into West Africa’s semi-deciduous forests. Biological Conservation 285: 110220.
  • Delavaux CS, Crowther TW, Zohner CM, Robmann NM, Lauber T, ... Maynard DS, 2023. Native diversity buffers against severity of non-native tree invasions. Nature 621: 773-781.
  • Elogne GM, Piponiot C, Zo-Bi IC, Amani BHK, van der Meersch V, Hérault B, 2023. Life after Fire: Long-Term Responses of 20 Timber Species In Semi-Deciduous Forests of West Africa. Forest Ecology and Management 538: 120977.
  • Fortunel C, Stahl C, Coste S, Ziegler C, Derroire G, ..., Bartlett M, 2023. Thresholds for persistent leaf photochemical damage predict plant drought resilience in a tropical rainforest. New Phytologist 239: 576-591.
  • Hordijk I, Maynard DS, Hart SP, Mo L, ter Steege H, ..., Crowther TW, 2023. Evenness mediates the global relationship between forest productivity and richness. Journal of Ecology 111: 1308-1326.
  • Kouassi A, Zo-Bi IC, Aussenac R, Kouamé IC, Dago M-R, ..., Hérault B, 2023. The Great Mistake of Plantation Programs in Cocoa Agroforests – Let's Bet on Natural Regeneration to Sustainably Provide Timber Wood. Trees, Forests and People12: 100386.
  • Laughlin D, Siefert A, Fleri J, Timber-Davila S, Hammond W, ..., Bruelheide H, 2023. Rooting depth and xylem vulnerability are independent woody plant traits jointly selected by aridity, seasonality, and water table depth. New Phytologist 240: 1774-1787.
  • Lidong M, Zohner C, Reich PB, Liang J, de Miguel S, ..., Crowther TW, 2023. A comprehensive global assessment of the natural forest carbon potential. Nature 624: 92-101.
  • Ma H, Crowther TW, Mo L, Maynard DS, Renner SS, ..., 2023. The global biogeography of tree leaf form and habit. Nature Plants 9: 1795-1809.
  • Maurent E, Hérault B, Piponiot C, Derroire G, Delgado D, ..., Ngo Bieng MA, 2023. A common framework to model recovery in disturbed tropical forests. Ecological Modeling 483: 110418.
  • Peguero G, Coello F, Sardans J, Asensio D, Grau O, ..., Penuelas J, 2023. Nutrient‐based species selection is a prevalent driver of community assembly and functional trait space in tropical forests. Journal of Ecology 111:1218-1230.
  • Ruger N, Schorn ME, Kambach S, Chazdon RL, Farrior CE, ..., Lopez OR, 2023. Successional shifts in tree demographic strategies in wet and dry Neotropical forests. Global Ecology and Biogeography 32: 1002-1014.
  • Sanial E, Ruf F, Louppe D, Mietton M, Hérault B, 2023. Local farmers shape ecosystem service provisionning in West African cocoa agroforests. Agroforestry Systems 97: 401-414.
  • Schmitt S, Derroire G, Hérault B, 2023. High intraspecific growth variability despite strong evolutionary legacy in an Amazonian forest. Ecology Letters 26: 2135-2146.
  • Zo-Bi IC, Hérault B, 2023. Promouvoir l'agroforesterie? Les leçons de la Côte d'Ivoire. Bois & Forêts des Tropiques 356: 93-98.
  • Zo-Bi IC, Hérault B, 2023. Fostering Agroforestry? Lessons from the Republic of Côte d'Ivoire. Bois & Forêts des Tropiques 356: 99-104.

2022

  • Amani BHK, N'Guessan AE, van der Meersch V, Derroire G, Piponiot C, Elogne AGN, Traoré K, N'dja JK, Hérault B, 2022. Lessons from a regional analysis of forest recovery trajectories in West Africa. Environmental Research Letters 115005.
  • Bauters M, Grau O, Doetterl S, Heineman KD, Dalling JW, ..., Janssens IA, 2022. Tropical wood stores substantial amounts of nutrients, but we have limited understanding why. Biotropica 54: 596-606.
  • Gatti RC, Reich PB, Gamarra JG, Crowther T, Hui C, ..., Liang J, 2022. The number of tree species on Earth. Proceedings of the National Academy of Science 119: e2115329119.
  • Le Roux, Wagner F, Blanc L, Betbeder J, Gond V, ... Arvor D, 2022. How wildfires increase sensitivity of Amazon forests to droughts. Environmental Research Letters 17: 044031.
  • Liang J, Gamarra JGP, Picard N, Zhou M, Pijanowski B, ..., Hui C, 2022. Co-limitation towards lower latitudes shapes global forest diversity gradient. Nature Ecology & Evolution.
  • Lira-Martins D, Quesada CA, Strekopytov S, Humphreys-Williams E, Hérault B, Lloyd J, 2022. Wood nutrient-water-density linkages are influenced by both species and environment. Frontiers in Plant Science 13: 778403.
  • Messier C, Bauhus J, Sousa-Silva R, Auge H, Baeten L, ... Zemp DC, 2022. For the sake of resilience and multifunctionality, let's diversify planted forests. Conservation Letters e12829.
  • Rozendaal DMA, Requena Suarez D, de Sy, V, Avitabile V, Carter S, ..., Herold M, 2022. Aboveground forest biomass varies across continents, ecological zones and successional stages: refined IPCC values for tropical and subtropical forests. Environmental Research Letters 17: 014047.
  • Sabatini FM, Jimenez-Alfaro B, Jandt U, Chytry M, Field R, ..., Bruelheide H, 2022. Global patterns of vascular plant alpha diversity. Nature Comunications 13: 4483.
  • Schmitt S, Trueba S, Coste S, Ducouret E, Tyskilnd N, ... Derroire G, 2022. Seasonal variation of leaf thickness: an overlooked component of functional trait variability. Plant Biology 24: 458-463.
  • Sousa TR, Schietti J, Ribeiro IO, Emilio T, Fernandez RF, ..., Costa FRC, 2022. Water table depth modulates productivity and biomass across Amazonian forests. Global Ecology and Biogeography 31: 1571-1588. 

2021

  • Amani BHK, N'Guessan AE, Derroire G, N'dja JK, Elogne AGM, ..., Hérault B, 2021. The potential of secondary forests to restore biodiversity of the lost forests in semi-deciduous West Africa. Biological Conservation 259: 109154.
  • Besnard S, Koirala S, Santoro M, Weber U, Nelson JA, ..., Carvalhais N, 2021. Mapping global forest age from forest inventories, biomass and climate data. Earth System Science Data 13: 4881-4896.
  • Bluno C, Carilla J, Grau R, Malizia A, Malizia L, ..., Tran HD, 2021. Taking the pulse of Earth's tropical forests using networks of highly distributed plots. Biological Conservation 260: 108849.
  • de Lima R, Rutishauser E, da Silva JAA, Guedes MC, Herault B, ..., Ferreira RLC, 2021. Accurate estimation of commercial volume in tropical forests. Forest Science 67(1): 14-21.
  • Davison J, Moura M, Semchenko M, Adenan S, Ahmed T, ..., Opik M, 2021. Temperature and pH define the realized niche space of arbuscular mycorrhizal fungi. New Phytologist 231: 763-776.
  • Derroire G, Piponiot C, Descroix L, Bedeau C, Traissac S, ..., Hérault B, 2021. prospective carbon balance of the wood sector in a tropical forest territory using a temporally-explicit model. Forest Ecology and Management 497: 119532.
  • Doua-Bi Y, Zo-Bi IC, Amani BHK, Elogne AGM, N'Dja JK, ..., Hérault B, 2021. Taking advantage of natural regeneration potential in secondary forests to recover commercial tree resources in Côte d'Ivoire. Forest Ecology and Management 493: 119240.
  • Hiltner U, Huth A, Brauning A, Hérault B, Holtmann A, Fischer R, 2021. Climate change alters the ability of neotropical forests to provide timber and sequester carbon. Forest Ecology & Management 492: 119166.
  • Laughlin DC, Mommer L, Sabatini FM, Bruelheide H, Huiper TW, ..., Weigelt A, 2021. Root traits explain plant species distributions along climatic gradients yet challenge the nature of ecological trade-offs. Nature Ecology and Evolution 5: 1123-1134.
  • Louppe D, Ouattara N, N'guessan Kanga A, Zo-Bi IC, ..., Hérault B, 2021. Vingt-deux espèces d'arbres autochtones plantés en arboretum à Korhogo au Nord de la Côte d'Ivoire - Trois décennies de suivi. Bois & Forêts des Tropiques 348: 79-105.
  • Mirabel A, Marcon E, Herault B, 2021. 30 years of post-disturbance recruitment in a neotropical forest. Ecology & Evolution 11: 1448-1458.
  • Ngo Bieng MA, Oliveira MS, Roda JM, Boisière M, Hérault B, ..., Sist P, 2021. Relevance of secondary tropical forest for landscape restoration. Forest Ecology & Management 493: 119265.
  • Poorter L, Craven D, Jakovac CC, van der Sande MT, Amyssah L, ..., Hérault B, 2021. Multidimensional tropical forest recovery. Science 374: 1370-1376.
  • Sabatini FM, Lenoir J, Hattab T, Arnst EA, Chytry M, ..., Bruelheide H, 2021. sPlotOpen - an environmentally-balanced, open-access, global dataset of vegetation plots. Global Ecology and Biogeography 30: 1740-1764.
  • Schmitt S, Tysklind N, Derroire G, Heuertz M, Hérault B, 2021. Topography shapes the local coexistence of tree species within species complexes of Neotropical forests. Oecologia 196: 389-398.
  • Schmitt S, Tysklind N, Hérault B, Heuertz M, 2021. Topography drives microgeographic adaptations of closely related species in two tropical tree complexes. Molecular Ecology 30(20): 5080-5093.
  • Urbina Barreto I, Grau O, Sardans J, Margal O, Peguero G, ....., Peñuelas J, 2021. High foliage K and P resorption efficiencies in old-growth tropical forests growing on nutrient-poor soils. Ecology and Evolution 11: 8969-8982.
  • van der Meersch V, Zo-Bi IC, Amani BHK, N'Dja JK, N'Guessan AE, Herault B, 2021. Causes and consequences of Cedrela odorata invasion in West African semi-deciduous African forests. Biological Invasions 23: 537-552.

2020

  • Brancalion P, Broadbent EB, de Miguel S, Cardil A, Rosa MR, ..., Almeyda-Zambrano AM, 2020. Emerging threats linking tropical deforestation and the COVID-19 pandemic. Perspectives in Ecology and Conservation 18(4): 243-246.
  • Cardill A, de Miguel S, Silva C, Reich PB, Calkin D, ..., Liang J, 2020. Recent deforestation drove the spike in Amazonian fires. Environmental Research Letters 15:121003.
  • Chave J, Piponiot C, Marechaux I, de Foresta H, Larpin D, ..., Herault B, 2020. Slow rate of secondary forest carbon accumulation in the Guianas compared with the rest of the Neotropics. Ecological Applications 30(1): e02004.
  • Fischer FJ, Labrière N, Vincent G, Herault B, Alfonso A, ..., Chave J, 2020. A simulation method to infer tree allometry and forest structure from airborne laser scanning and forest inventories. Remote Sensing of Environment 251: 112056
  • Hérault B, N'Guessan AN, N'Klo O, Coulibaly B, ..., Louppe D, 2020. The long-term performance of 35 tree species of Sudanian West Africa in pure and mixed plantings. Forest Ecology & Management 468: 118171.
  • Kattge J, Bonisch G, Diaz S, Lavorel S, Prentice IC, ..., Wirth C, 2020. TRY plant trait database - enhanced coverage and open access. Global Change Biology 26(1): 119-188.
  • Mirabel A, Herault B, Marcon E, 2020. Diverging taxonomic and functional trajectories following disturbance in a neotropical forest. Science of the Total Environment 720: 135397.
  • Muscarella B, Thaise E, Phillips O, Lewis SL, Slik JWF, ..., Balslev H, 2020. Global variation of tree palm abundance. Global Ecology & Biogeography 29(9): 1495-1514
  • Schmitt S, Maréchaux I, Chave J, Fischer F, ..., Herault B, 2020. Functional diversity improves tropical forest resilience: insights from a long-term virtual experiment. Journal of Ecology 108(3): 831-843.
  • Schmitt S, Herault B, Ducouret E, BarangerA, Tysklind N, ..., Derroire G, 2020. Topography consistently drives intra- and inter-specific leaf trait variation within tree species complexes in a Neotropical forest. Oikos 129(10): 1521-1530.
  • Soong J, Janssens I, Grau, O, Margalef O, Stahl C, ..., Verbruggen E, 2020. Soil properties explain tree growth and mortality, but not biomass, across phosphorus-depleted tropical forests. Scientific Reports 10: 2302.
  • Sullivan M, Lewis SL, Affum-Baffoe K, Castilho C, Costa F, ... Phillips O, 2020. Long-term thermal sensitivity of Earth's tropical forests. Science 368: 869-874.

2019 

  • Aguilos M, Stahl C, Burban B, Herault B, Courtois E, ..., Bonal D, 2019. Interannual and seasonal variations in ecosystem transpiration and water use efficiency in a tropical ranforest. Forests 10(1): 14.
  • Aubry-Kientz M, Rossi V, Cornu G, Wagner F, Herault B, 2019. Temperature rising would slow down tropical forest dynamic in the Guiana Shield. Scientific Reports 9: 10235.
  • Chave J, Davies SJ, Phillips OL, Lewis SL, Sist P, ..., Saatchi S, 2019. Ground data are essential for biomass remote sensing misssions. Surveys in Geophysics 40(4): 863-880.
  • Claeys F, Gourlet-Fleury S, Picard N, Ouedraogo DY, Tadesse M,..., Mortier F, 2019. Climate change would lead to a sharp acceleration of Central African forests dynamics by the end of the century. Environmental Research Letters 14: 044002.
  • Denis T, Richard-Hansen C, Brunaux O, Guitet S, Hérault B, 2019. Birds of a feather flock together: functionally similar vertebrates positively co-occurs in Guianan forests. Ecosphere 10(3): e02566.
  • Esquivel-Muelbert A, Baker TR, Dexter KG, Lewis SL, Brienen R, ..., Phillips OL, 2019. Compositional response of Amazon forests to climate change. Global Change Biology 25: 39-56.
  • Mirabel A, Ouedraogo DY, Beeckman H, Delvaux C, Doucet JL, Herault B, Fayolle A, 2019. A whole plant functional-scheme predicting the early growth of tropical tree species: evidence from 15 tree species in Central Africa. Trees 33(2): 491-505.
  • N'Guessan AE, N'dja JK, Yao ON, Amani BHK, Gouli RGX, Piponiot C, Zo-Bi IC, Hérault B, 2019. Drivers of biomass recovery in a secondary forested landscapes of West Africa. Forest Ecology and Management 433: 325-331.
  • Odonne G, van den Bel M, Burst M, Bruneaux O, Bruno M, ..., Herault B, 2019. Long-term influence of early human occupations on current forests of the Guiana Shield. Ecology 100(10): ecy 2806.
  • Piponiot C, Rutishauser E, Derroire G, Putz F, Sist P, ..., Herault B, 2019. Optimal strategies of ecosystem services provision for Amazonian production forests. Environmental Research Letters 14: 124090. 
  • Piponiot C, Rödig E, Putz FE, Rutishauser E, Sist P, ..., Hérault B, 2019. Can timber provision from Amazonian production forests be sustainable? Environmental Research Letters 14: 064014.
  • Requena Suarez D, Rozendaal DMA, De Sy V, Alvarez-Davila E, Anderxon-Teixeira K, ..., Herold M, 2019. Estimating aboveground net biomass change for tropical and subtropical forests: refinement of IPCC default rates using forest plot data. Global Change Biology 25(11): 3609-3624.
  • Schepaschenko D, Chave J, Phillips O, Lewis S, Davies S, ..., Zo-Bi C, 2019. The Forest Obervation System, building a global reference data set for remote sensing of forest biomass. Scientific Data 6: 198.
  • Steidinger BS, Crowther TW, Liang J, van Nuland ME, Werner GDA, ..., Peay K, 2019. Climatic control of decomposition drive the global biogeography of forest-tree symbioses. Nature 569: 404-408.
  • Yguel B, Piponiot C, Mirabel A, Dourdain A, Hérault B, ..., Fontaine C, 2019. Beyond species richness and biomass: impact of selective logging and silvicultural treatments on the functional composition of a neotropical forest. Forest Ecology and Management 433: 528-534.

2018

  • Aguilos M, Hérault B, Burban B, Wagner F, Bonal D, 2018. What drives long-term variations in carbon flux and balance in a tropical rainforest in French Guiana? Agricultural and Forest Meteorology 253-254: 114-123.
  • Amahowe I, Gaoue O, Natta A, Piponiot C, Zobi I, Hérault B, 2018. Functional traits partially mediate the effect of chronic anthropogenic disturbance on the growth of a tropical tree. AoB Plants 10(3): ply036.
  • Bastin JF, Rutishauser E, Kellner JR, Saatchi S, Pélissier R, Hérault B, ..., 2018. Pan-tropical prediction of forest structure from the largest trees. Global Ecology & Biogeography 27(11): 1366-1383.
  • Bruelheide H, Dengler J, Purschke O, Lenoir J, Jimenez-Alfaro B, ..., Jandt U, 2018. Global trait-environment relationships of plant communities. Nature Ecology & Evolution 2: 1906-1917.
  • Denis T, Hérault B, Brunaux O, Guitet S, Richard-Hansen C, 2018. Weak environmental control on the composition and diversity of medium and large-size vertebrate assemblages in neotropical rainforests of the Guiana Shield. Diversity and Distributions 24(11): 1545-1559.
  • Dezecache C, Salles JM, Herault B, 2018. Questioning emissions-based approaches for the definition of REDD+ baselines in high forest cover / low deforestation countries. Carbon Balance and Management 13: 21.
  • Guitet S, Sabatier D, Brunaux O, Couteron P, Denis T, ..., Vincent G. 2018. Disturbance regime drive the diversity of regional floristic pools across guianan ranforest landscapes. Scientific Reports 8: 3872.
  • Hérault B, Piponiot C, 2018. Key drivers of ecosystem recovery after disturbance in a neotropical forest. Forest Ecosystems 5: 2.
  • Hiltner U, Huth A, Brauning A, Hérault B, Fischer R. 2018. Simulation of succession in a neotropical forest: high selective logging intensities prolong the recovery times of ecosystem functions. Forest Ecology & Management 430: 517-525.
  • Hogan JA, Hérault B, Bachelot B, Gorel A, Jouniaux M, Baraloto C, 2018. Understanding the recruitment response of juvenile neotropical trees to logging intensity using functional traits. Ecological Applications 28: 1998-2010.
  • Labrière N, Tao S, Chave J, Scipal K, Le Toan T, ..., Saatchi S, 2018. In Situ reference datasets from the TropiSAR and AfriSAR campaigns in support of upcoming spaceborne biomass missions. IEEE Journal of Selected Topics in Applied Earth Observations and Remote Sensing 11(10): 3617-3627.
  • Pilliet M, Joetzjer E, Barbier N, Belmin C, Chave J, ..., Poulter B. 2018. Disentangling competitive versus climatic effects on tropical forest mortality. Journal of Ecology 106: 1165-1179.
  • Piponiot C, Derroire G, Descroix L, Mazzei L, Rutishauser E, Sist, P, Hérault B, 2018. Assessing timber volume recovery after disturbance in tropical forests - a new modeling framework. Ecological Modeling 384: 353-369.
  • Santiago L, De Guzman M, Baraloto C, Vogenberg J, Brodie M, ...., Bonal D. 2018. Coordination and trade-offs among hydraulic safety, efficiency and drought avoidance traits in Amazonian rainforest canopy tree species. New Phytologist 218: 1015-1024.

2017 

  • Barthe S, Binelli G, Herault B, Scotti-Saintagne C, Sabatier D, Scotti I, 2017. Tropical rainforests that persisted : inferences from the Quaternary demographic history of eight tree species in the Guiana shield. Molecular Ecology 26: 1161–1174.
  • Dejean A, Azémar F, Libert M, Compin A, Hérault B, ..., Corbara B, 2017. Ant-lepidopteran associations along African forest edges. The Science of Nature 104(1-2) : 7.
  • Dezecache C, Salles JM, Vieilledent G, Herault B, 2017. Moving forward socio-economically focused models of deforestation. Global change Biology 23(9): 3484-3450.
  • Denis T, Richard-Hansen C, Brunaux O, Etienne MP, Guitet S, Herault B, 2017. Biological traits, rather than environment, shape detection curves of large vertebrates in neotropical rainforests. Ecological Applications 27(5): 1564-1577.
  • Dezecache C, Faure E, Gond V, Salles JM, Vieilledent G, Hérault B. 2017. Gold-Rush in a Forested El Dorado : Deforestation Leakages and the Need for Regional Cooperation. Environmental Research Letters 12: 034013.
  • Goulamoussene Y, Bedeau C, Descroix L, Linguet L, Hérault B. 2017. Environmental control of natural gap size distribution in tropical forests. Biogeosciences 14: 353-364.
  • Gourlet-Fleury S, Gazull L, Bigombe Logo P, Billand A, ..., Zongang Ngongang AA. 2017. ‘Are logging concessions a threat to the peatlands in DRC?’, Bois et Forets des Tropiques, 334(4): 5-6.
  • Grau O, Penuelas J, Ferry B, Freycon V, Blanc L, ..., Herault B. 2017. Nutrient-cycling mechanisms other than the direct absorption from soil may control forest structure and dynamics in poor Amazonian soils. Scientific Reports 7: 45017.
  • Joetzjer E, Pillet M, Ciais P, Barbier N, Schlund M, ... Poulter B, 2017. Assimilating satellite-based canopy height within an ecosystem model to estimate above ground forest biomass. Geophysical Research Letters 44(13): 6823-6832.
  • Rejou-Mechain M, Tanguy A, Piponiot C, Chave J, Herault B, 2017. BIOMASS : An R Package for estimating aboveground biomass and its uncertainty in tropical forests. Methods in Ecology & Evolution 8(9): 1163-1167.
  • Wagner F, Herault B, Rossi V, Hilker T, Maeda E, ... Aragao L, 2017. Climate drivers of the Amazon forest greening. PLoS ONE 12(7): e0180932.

2016

  • Bonal D, Burban B, Stahl C, Wagner F, Hérault B, 2016. The response of tropical rainforests to drought—lessons from recent research and future prospects. Annals of Forest Science 73(1) : 27-44.
  • Coelho de Souza F, Dexter K, Phillips O, Brienen R, Chave J, ..., Baker T, 2016. Evolutionary heritage influences Amazon tree ecology. Proceedings of the Royal Society B, 283, 20161587.
  • Dejean A, Orivel J, Azémar F, Hérault B, Corbara B, 2016. A cuckoo-like parasitic moth leads African weaver ant colonies to their ruin. Scientific Reports 6 : 23778.
  • Denis T, Hérault B, Jaouen G, Brunaux O, Guitet S, Richard-Hansen C, 2016. Black Curassow habitat relationships in terra firme forests of the Guiana Shield : a multiscale approach. The Condor 118 : 253-273.
  • Fargeon H, Aubry-Kientz M, Brunaux O, Descroix L, Gaspard R, ..., Herault B, 2016. Vulnerability of commercial tree species to water stress in logged forests of the Guiana shield. Forests, 7(105) : 1:21.
  • Fayad I, Baghdadi N, Bailly JS, Barbier N, Gond V, ..., Perrin J, 2016. Regional scale rain-forest height mapping using Regression-Kriging of Spaceborne and Airborne LiDAR data : Application on French Guiana. Remote Sensing, 8(3) : 240.
  • Fayad I, Baghdadi N, Guitet S, Bailly JS, Herault B, ..., Tong Minh DH, 2016. Aboveground biomass mapping in French Guiana by combining remote sensing, forest inventories and environmental data. International Journal of Applied Earth Observation and Geoinformation 52 : 502-514.
  • Goulamoussene Y, Bedeau C, Descroix L, Deblauwe V, Linguet L, Hérault B. 2016. Weak environmental controls of tropical forest canopy height in the Guiana Shield. Remote Sensing 8 : 747.
  • Kunstler G, Falster D, Coomes DA, Hui F, Kooyman RM, ..., Westoby M, 2016. Plant functional traits have globally consistent effects on competition. Nature 529 : 204-207.
  • Lamarre G, Hérault B, Fine PVA, Vedel V, Lupoli R, ..., Baraloto C, 2016. Taxonomic and Functional Composition of Arthropod Assemblages across contrasting Amazonian forests. Journal of Animal Ecology 85(1) : 227-239.
  • Liang J, Crowther TW, Picard N, Wiser S, Zhou M, ..., Reich PB, 2016. Positive biodiversity-productivity relationship predominant in global forests. Science 354 : aaf8957.
  • Piponiot C, Cabon A, Descroix L, Dourdain A, Mazzei L, ..., Herault B, 2016. A methodological framework to assess the carbon balance of tropical managed forests. Carbon Balance and Management 11(1) 15.
  • Piponiot C, Sist P, Mazzei L, Pena-Claros M, Putz J, ..., Hérault B, 2016. Carbon recovery dynamics following disturbance by selective logging in Amazonian forests. eLife 5 : e21394.
  • Rutishauser E, Herault B, Petronelli P, Sist P, 2016. Tree height reduction after selective logging in a tropical forest. Biotropica 48 : 285-289.
  • Wagner F, Hérault B, Bonal D, Stahl C, Anderson LO, ..., Aragao L, 2016. Climate seasonality limits leaf carbon assimilation and wood productivity in tropical forests. Biogeosciences 13 : 2537-2562.

2015

  • Aubry-Kientz M, Boreux JJ, Rossi V, Herault B, 2015. A joint individual-based model coupling growth and mortality reveals that tree vigour is a key component of tropical forest dynamics. Ecology and Evolution 5(12) : 2457–2465
  • Aubry-Kientz M, Rossi V, Wagner F, Hérault B, 2015. Identifying climatic drivers of tropical forest dynamics. Biogeosciences 12 : 5583-5596
  • Brienen RJW, Phillips OL, Feldpausch TR, Gloor E, Baker TR, ..., Vilanova E, Vos VA, Zagt RJ, 2015. Long-term decline of the Amazon carbon sink. Nature 519 : 344–348
  • Dejean A, Groc S, Hérault B, Rodriguez-Pérez H, Touchard A, ..., Corbara B, 2015. Bat aggregation mediates the functional structure of ant assemblages. Comptes Rendus Biologies 338 : 688-695
  • Fauset S, Johnson MO, Gloor M, Baker TR, Monteagudo AM, ..., Phillips OL, 2015. Hyperdominance in Amazonian forest carbon cycling. Nature Communications 6 : 6857
  • Guitet S, Hérault B, Molto Q, Brunaux O, Couteron P, 2015. Spatial structure of above-ground biomass at the landscape scale limits the accuracy of carbon mapping in rainforest. Plos One 10(9) : e0138456
  • Lamarre G, Bénéluz F, Decaens T, Hérault B, Mendoza I, Rougerie R, 2015. Stay out (almost) all night : contrasting responses in flight activity among tropical moth assemblages. Neotropical Entomology 44(2) : 109-115
  • Marcon E, Herault B, 2015. Entropart, an R package to measure and partition diversity. Journal of Statistical Software 67(8) : 1:26
  • Marcon E, Herault B, 2015. Decomposing phylodiversity. Methods in Ecology and Evolution 6(3) : 333–339.
  • Rossi V, Dolley T, Cornu G, Guitet S, Herault B, 2015. GuyaSim : un outil d’aide à la décision pour l’aménagement d’un territoire forestier, la Guyane. Bois & Forêts des Tropiques 326(4) : 67-78.
  • Rutishauser E, Hérault B, Baraloto C, Blanc L, Descroix L, ..., Sist P, 2015. Rapid tree carbon stock recovery in Amazonian managed forests. Current Biology 25(18) : R787-788
  • Sist P, Rutihauser E, Peña-Claros M, Shenkin A, Hérault B, ..., Vidal E, Wortel V, Yamada T, 2015. The Tropical managed Forests Observatory : addressing the future of tropical logged forests. Applied Vegetation Science 18(1) : 171-174
  • Talaga S, Delabie JHC, Dézerald O, Salas-Lopez A, Petitclerc F, ..., Dejean A, 2015. A bromeliad species reveals invasive ant presence in urban areas of French Guiana. Ecological Indicators 58(11) : 1-7

2014

  • Flores O, Herault B, Delcamp M, Garnier E, Gourlet-Fleury S, 2014. Functional traits help predict post-disturbance demography of tropical trees. Plos One 9(9) : e105022
  • Guitet S, Sabatier D, Brunaux O, Herault B, Aubry-Kientz M, Molino J-F, Baraloto C, 2014. Estimating tropical tree diversity indices from forestry surveys : a method to integrate taxonomic uncertainty. Forest Ecology & Management 328 : 270-281
  • Hénaut Y, Corbara B, Pélozuelo l, Azémar F, Céréghino R, Herault B, Dejean A, 2014. A Tank Bromeliad Favors Spider Presence in a Neotropical Inundated Forest. Plos One 9(12) : e114592
  • Laurans M, Herault B, Vieilledent G, Vincent G, 2014. Vertical stratification reduces competition for light in dense tropical forests. Forest Ecology & Management 329 : 79-88
  • Marcon E, Scotti I, Herault B, Rossi V, Lang G, 2014. Generalization of the partitioning of Shannon diversity. Plos One 9(3) : e90289
  • Molto Q, Herault B, Boreux JJ, Daullet M, Rousteau A, Rossi V, 2014. Predicting tree heights for biomass estimates in tropical forests. Biogeosciences 11 : 3121-3130
  • Réjou-Mechain M, Muller-Landau HC, Detto M, Thomas SC, Le Toan T, ..., Chave J, 2014. Local spatial structure of forest biomass and its consequences for remote sensing of carbon stocks. Biogeosciences 11 : 6827-6840
  • Wagner F, Rossi V, Aubry-Kientz M, Bonal D, Dalitz H, ..., Herault B, 2014. Pan-tropical analysis of climate effects on seasonal tree growth. Plos One 9(3) : e92337
  • Wagner F, Rossi V, Baraloto C, Bonal D, Stahl C, Herault B, 2014. Are commonly measured functional traits involved in tropical tree responses to climate ? International Journal of Ecology : 389409

2013

  • Aubry-Kientz M, Herault B, Ayotte-Trepanier C, Baraloto C, Rossi V, 2013. Toward trait-based mortality models for tropical forests. Plos One 8(5) : e63678
  • Baraloto C, Molto Q, Rabaud S, Herault B, Valencia R, Blanc L, Fine P, Thompson J, 2013. Rapid simultaneous estimation of aboveground biomass and tree diversity across neotropical forests : a comparison of field inventory methods. Biotropica 45 : 288-298
  • Stahl C, Herault B, Rossi V, Burban B, Brechet C, Bonal D, 2013. Depth of soil water uptake by tropical rainforest trees during dry periods : does tree dimension matter ? Oecologia 173 : 1191-1201
  • Wagner F, Rossi V, Stahl C, Bonal D, Herault B, 2013. Asynchronism in leaf and wood production in tropical forests : a study combining satellite and ground-based measurements. Biogeosciences 10 : 7307-7321

2012

  • Baraloto C, Herault B, Paine CET, Massot H, Blanc L, ..., Sabatier D, 2012. Contrasting taxonomic and functional responses of a tropical tree community to selective logging. Journal of Applied Ecology 49 : 861-870
  • Marcon E, Herault B, Baraloto C, Lang G, 2012. The decomposition of Shannon’s entropy and a confidence interval for Beta Diversity. Oikos 121 : 516-522
  • Royer M, Rodriguez AM, Stien D, Herbette G, Herault B, Beauchene J, Espindola LS, Thibaut B, 2012. Efficacy of Bagassa guianensis Aubl. extract against wood decay and human pathogenic fungi. International Biodeterioration & Biodegradation 70 : 55-59
  • Wagner F, Rossi V, Stahl C, Bonal D, Herault B, 2012. Water availability is the main climatic driver of neotropical tree growth. Plos One 7(4) : e34074

2011

  • Baraloto C, Rabaud S, Molto Q, Blanc L, Fortunel C, ..., Fine P, 2011. Disentangling stand and environmental correlates of aboveground biomass in Amazonian forests. Global Change Biology 17 : 2677-2688
  • Bonal D, Ponton S, LeThiec D, Richard B, Ningre N, ..., Guehl J-M, 2011. Leaf functional response to increasing atmospheric CO2 concentrations over the last century in two northern Amazonian tree species : an historical d13C and d18O approach using herbarium samples. Plant, Cell & Environment 34 : 1332-1344
  • Dejean A, Cereghino R, Carpenter JM, Corbara B, Herault B, ..., Bonal D, 2011. Climate change impact on Neotropical social wasps. PLoS ONE 6 : e27004
  • Hérault B, Bachelot B, Poorter L, Rossi V, Bongers F, ..., Baraloto C, 2011. Functional traits shape ontogenetic growth trajectories among rain forest tree species. Journal of Ecology 99 : 1431-1440
  • Paine CET, Baraloto C, Chave J, Hérault B, 2011. Functional traits of individual trees reveal ecological constraints on community assembly in tropical rain forests. Oikos 120 : 720-727
  • Wagner F, Hérault B, Stahl C, Bonal D, Rossi V, 2011. Modeling water availability for trees in tropical forests. Agricultural and Forest Meteorology 151 : 1202-1213

2010

  • Baraloto C, Paine CET, Patiño S, Bonal D, Hérault B, Chave J, 2010. Functional trait variation and sampling strategies in species-rich plant communities. Functional Ecology 24 : 208-216
  • Baraloto C, Paine CET, Poorter L, Beauchêne J, Bonal D, ..., Chave J, 2010. Decoupling leaf and stem economics among neotropical trees. Ecology Letters 13 : 1338-1347
  • Coste S, Baraloto C, Leroy C, Marcon E, Renaud A, ... Hérault B, 2010. Assessing foliar chlorophyll contents with the SPAD-502 chlorophyll meter : a calibration test with thirteen tree species of tropical rainforest in French Guiana. Annals of Forest Science 67 : 607
  • Dejean A, Leroy C, Corbara B, Céréghino R, Roux O, ..., Boulay R, 2010. A temporary social parasite of tropical plant-ants improves the fitness of a myrmecophyte. Naturwissenschaften 97 : 925-934
  • Hérault B, Beauchêne J, Muller F, Wagner F, Baraloto C, Blanc L, Martin JM, 2010. Modeling decay rates of dead wood in a neotropical forest. Oecologia 164 : 243-251
  • Hérault B, Ouallet J, Blanc L, Wagner F, Baraloto C, 2010. Growth responses of neotropical trees to logging gaps. Journal of Applied Ecology 47 : 821:831
  • Rutishauser E, Wagner F, Hérault B, Nicolini EA, Blanc L, 2010. Contrasting above-ground biomass balances in a Neotropical rainforest. Journal of Vegetation Science 21 : 672-682
  • Wagner F, Blanc L, Rutishauser E, Hérault B, 2010. Effects of plot size and census interval on descriptors of forest structure and dynamics. Biotropica 42 : 664-671

2009

  • Blanc L, Echard M, Hérault B, Bonal D, Marcon E, Chave J, Baraloto C, 2009. Dynamics of aboveground carbon stocks in a selectively logged tropical forest. Ecological Applications 19 : 1397-1404
  • Hérault B, Thoen D, 2009. How habitat area, local and regional factors shape plant assemblages in isolated closed depressions. Acta Oecologica 35 : 385-392
  • Trémolières M, Noël V, Hérault B, 2009. Phosphorus and nitrogen allocation in Allium ursinum on an alluvial floodplain (Eastern France). Is there an effect of flooding history ? Plant and Soil 324 : 279-289

2008

2007

2005

  • Hérault B, Honnay O, 2005. The relative importance of local, regional and historical factors determining the distribution of plants in fragmented riverine forests - an emergent group approach. Journal of Biogeography 32 : 2069-2081
  • Hérault B, Honnay O, Thoen D, 2005. Evaluation of the ecological restoration potential of plant communities in Norway spruce plantations using a life-trait based approach. Journal of Applied Ecology 42 : 536-545

2004

  • Hérault B, Bouxin G, Thoen D, 2004. Comparison of the regeneration patterns of woody species between Norway spruce plantations and deciduous forests on alluvial soils. Belgian Journal of Botany 137 : 36-46
  • Hérault B, Hiernaux P, 2004. Soil seed bank and vegetation dynamics in Sahelian fallows ; the impact of past cropping and current grazing treatments. Journal of Tropical Ecology 20 : 683-691
  • Hérault B, Thoen D, Honnay O, 2004. Assessing the potential of natural woody species regeneration for the conversion of Norway spruce plantations on alluvial soils. Annals of Forest Science 61 : 711-719

 

Book Chapters

  • Hérault B, Gourlet-Fleury S. 2016. Will Tropical Rainforests Survive Climate Change ? In Climate Change and Agriculture Worldwide (Eds Torquebiau E), pp 183-196. Springer Netherlands.
  • Blanfort V, Stahl C, Klumpp K, Falcimagne, R, Burban B, ..., Lecomte P. 2015. Les systèmes herbagers issus de déforestation en Amazonie française (Guyane). In Empreinte Carbone : Evaluer et Agir (eds Bourges B, Broc JS, Gourdon T), pp 155-170. Presses des Mines, Paris.
  • Hérault B, Gourlet-Fleury S. 2015. Les forêts tropicales humides résisteront elles au changement climatique ? In Changement climatique et agricultures du monde (Eds Torquebiau E), pp 171-184. Quae, Versailles.
  • Hérault B, Pétronelli P, 2015. Le dispositif expérimental de Paracou, une station de recherche exceptionnelle consacrée à l’étude du fonctionnement de l’écosystème forestier amazonien. In Nature guyanaise – 50 ans de progrès et de souvenirs (Eds Sanite L), pp 102-107. Orphie, Paris.
  • Honnay O, Hérault B, Bossuyt B, 2009. Opportunities and constraints of using understorey plants to set forest restoration and conservation priorities. In Setting conservation targets for managed forest landscapes (eds Jonsson BG, Villard MA), pp 227-243. Conservation Biology Series, Cambridge University Press, Cambridge.
  • Thoen D, Hérault B, 2007. Plant species richness and regenerating potentialities in deciduous forests and spruce plantations of the Semois ardennaise floodplain (Belgium ; France). In Floodplain protection, restoration, management : Why and How ? (eds Trémolières M, Schnitzler A, Silan P), pp 137-145. Lavoisier SAS, Paris.

 

Conference Proceedings

  • Goulamoussène Y, Linguet L, Hérault B, 2014. Detection and Distribution of Natural Gaps in Tropical Rainforest. In American Geophysical Union, Fall Meeting 2014.
  • Wagner FH, Hérault B, Anderson LO, Rossi V, Aragão LE, 2014. Quantifying and Modelling the Seasonality of Pantropical Forest Net Primary Production Using Field Observations and Remote Sensing Data. In American Geophysical Union, Fall Meeting 2014.
  • Hérault B, Hiernaux P, 2003. Dynamic of annual rangelands in the Sahel : soil seed stock and germination pattern. In Proceedings of the VIIth International Rangeland Congress (eds Allsopp N, Palmer AR, Milton SJ, Kirkman KP, Kerley GIH, Hurt CR, Brown CJ), pp 2048-2050. Document Transformation Technologies, Durban
  • Hiernaux P, Hérault B, 2003. Influence of grazing regime by cattle on the soil seed stock and germination pattern in the annual rangelands of the Sahel. In Proceedings of the VII International Rangelands Congress (eds Allsopp N, Palmer AR, Milton SJ, Kirkman KP, Kerley GIH, Hurt CR, Brown CJ), pp 356-358. Document Transformation Technologies, Durban

 

Other Papers

  • Thoen D, Hérault B, 2006. Flore, groupes socio-écologiques et typologie des mardelles forestières de Lorraine belge et luxembourgeoise. Bulletin de la Société des Naturalistes luxembourgeois 107 : 3-25
  • Hérault B, Cucherat X, Parmentier E, 2003. Communautés végétales et curiosités botaniques de chemins creux de la vallée de la Dyle au sud-ouest de Leuven (Belgique). Dumortiera 80 : 29-34
  • Hérault B, 2001. Serapias vomeracea (N. L. Burman) Briquet 1910 réapparaît en Charente. Bulletin de la Société Botanique du Centre-Ouest 32 : 179-184

 

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