Faculty Member, Faculté des Sciences
Laboratory of Complexity and Dynamics of Tropical Systems, Department of Organism Biology
About
The Laboratory of Complexity and Dynamics of Tropical Systems (c/o Prof. Farid Dahdouh-Guebas), seeks to understand and to predict how and why spatio-temporal dynamics in vegetation and landscape occur.
It adopts a retrospective approach using relevant methods from different disciplines (very high resolution sequential remote sensing and ground truth, phytosociology, socio-ecologic survey research, historic archive research,...), an integrative analysis (using geographical information systems, multivariate and multicriteria analyses,...) in order to generate outputs relevant for fundamental understanding of ecosystem functioning, for forecasting changes and for ecosystem management. Within this framework we also emphasize on ecological and ethological plant-animal and man-ecosystem interactions.
The research focuses on (sub)tropical vegetation and is done in collaboration with the Laboratory of Plant Biology and Nature Management of the Vrije Universiteit Brussel (Prof. Nico Koedam). This lab is the continuation of the Laboratory of Systematic Botany and Phytosociology (Prof. Jean Lejoly - ULB).
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