Research project(s)
IRD in Latin America and in the Caribbean
Imagery for tropical forest management
January 2002
To manage tropical rainforest sustainably it is essential to be able to estimate and map the descriptive parameters of the vegetation, such as biomass and biodiversity, for a large area of forest. But these ecosystems are extremely complex, so parameters of this kind can only be directly ...
The Amazonian forest unveiled
January 2002
An international group of botanists and ecologists, including a team from the Botany and bioinformatics of plant architecture unit, (AMAP), has been studying the structure of the Amazon forest, which is under severe threat from deforestation and climate change. Their work, published in Nature, ...
