PhD & Master students

 

PhD students

2025-2028: Clara Ducrocq, French Guiana. Diachronic and synchronic analysis of carbon stock dynamics in deforestation-derived grasslands in French Guiana in relation to vegetation cover characteristics and soil physicochemical and biological properties. PhD advisors: Paulo Salgado & Sébastien Fontaine. Co-supervisors: Emmanuel Tillard, Vincent Blanfort, Raphaël Marichal. ALAMOD and DYNASOL projects.

2022-2026: Nadège Kouadio, Nangui Abrogoua University (UNA), Abidjan, Ivory Coast. Soil biodiversity in cocoa-based agroforestry systems.  PhD advisors: Julien N’dri (UNA) & Raphaël Marichal. Co-supervisors: Serge Zon & Jérôme Tondoh. Cocoa4Future Project.

Master and internship students

2025-2026: Florian Rémy. Master (first year), AgroParisTech. Soil health assessment (carbon, macrofauna, and ecosystem functions) across forests, agroforestry systems, and grasslands in French Guiana. Supervisor: Raphaël Marichal. Dynasol and ALAMOD-FairCarboN project. .

2024: Francesca Bosello, Master Biodiversity, Ecology and Evolution, University of Montpellier and AgroParisTech. Soil macrofauna communities and relationship with Carbon stocks in forests and pastures of french Guiana. Supervisors: Raphaël Marichal & Emmanuel Tillard. ALAMOD-FairCarboN project. 

2024: Enola Lamotte, Master (first year) of Biology and Agrosciences, University of Rennes and Agrocampus. Soil macrofauna communities in forests and pastures of french Guiana. Supervisors: Raphaël Marichal & Emmanuel Tillard. ALAMOD-FairCarboN project. 

2024: Sylvain Klag, BTS GPN. Assessment protocol of soil macrofauna communities in forests and pastures of french Guiana. Supervisors: Raphaël Marichal & Emmanuel Tillard. ALAMOD-FairCarboN project

2023: Carla Della Signora, Master of tropical ecosystem and forest management, AgroParisTech Montpellier. Effects of the complexity of agroforestry systems on soil macrofauna and soil functions in the Brazilian Amazon. Supervisor: Raphaël Marichal. Co-supervisors: Livia Navegantes (UFPA), Marlucia B. Martins (MPEG), Stéphane Saj (FibL). Sustenta&Inova project.

2021: Audrey Bêche, Master of Ecology, University of Montpellier. Influence of intra-plot spatial heterogeneity on earthworm functional diversity in Mediterranean agroforestry systems. Supervisors: Raphaël Marichal & Mickaël Hedde (INRAE). Soil-Plant Continuum project.

2021: Marie Guittonneau, Master of Agronomy, ISARA. Soil macrofauna in tropical cacao-based agroforestry systems in the Dominican Republic. Supervisors: Olivier Deheuvels & Raphaël Marichal. CacaoForest project. Report.

2017: Marie-Sophie Renevier, Internship: Development of Biofunctool methods (soil function assessment) in oil palm plantations. Supervisors: Raphaël Marichal & Victor Baron. LCA&Indicators Project.

2015: Alison Boulet, Master of Agronomy, ENSAT Toulouse. Development of a global assessment of soil quality under oil palm. Impacts of organic and mineral fertilization methods. Supervisors: Marc-Philippe Caron, Raphaël Marichal & Didier Snoeck. Smart Nutrition+ project.