Development and assessment of indicators of biodiversity; biological value of forest ecosystems; relationship between forest management and biodiversity
Resilience of forests to global changes using dendrochronology; legacy effect of past natural and anthropogenic disturbances and current global changes on forest dynamics
Development of spatial methods to assess and plan environmental policies and associated social drivers shaping such expertise; interaction between scientific rationality and socio-political dynamics at the science/policy interfaces
Scientific team
Marie Bal
Lecturer in geography (University of Limoges, France) and
researcher at GEODE (CNRS-University of Toulouse, France)
Reconstruction of mountain landscape evolution interacting with human practices
Marcel Mindrescu
Associate Professor (Habil.) at Department of Geography (“Ştefan cel Mare” University, Suceava, Romania) and head of the Carpathian Interdisciplinary Research Center (CIRC)
Lacustrine sediments and mountain landscape evolution, climate changes
Mélanie Roy
Assistant professor at University of Toulouse and researcher at EDB (CNRS-University of Toulouse-IRD, France) and associated professor to Université du Québec en Abitibi-Témiscamingue
Expert in ecology of fungal communities, especially mycorrhizal fungi, in tropical, boreal and temperate forests
In the project, I am focusing on soil communities and their response to landscape use and biogeography, analysed through next generation sequencing techniques
Miroslav Svoboda
Professor at Faculty of Forestry and Wood Sciences (University of Prague, Czech Republic) and head of the Department of Forest ecology
Associate Professor (Habil.) at Babes-Bolyai University (Cluj-Napoca, Romania) and associate researcher at TRACES (CNRS-University of Toulouse, France)
CNRS researcher at Instituto Franco-Argentino para el Estudio del Clima y sus Impactos (UMI IFAECI/CNRS-CONICET-UBA-IRD) Dpto. de Ciencias de la Atmosfera y los Oceanos, FCEN, Universidad de Buenos Aires (Argentine)
Tracing environmental changes; reconstructing natural and anthropogenic dust fluxes and sources during the Holocene; impact of mining activities over time
PhD Students
Ancuta Petras
PhD student in Physical Geography at Department of Geography (“Ştefan cel Mare” University, Suceava, Romania)
Fire signal
Reconstruction of vegetation fires and environmental human impact
Human-Environment interaction; forest history and woodland management
Postdoc
Evan A. Fisher
Postdoctoral researcher, Science and Technology Studies at GEODE CNRS-University of Toulouse)
Specializing in the anthropological study of field sciences and the politics and ethics of care
Will contribute to the BENDYS project through analysis of the relations between the production of scientific expertise and the politics of conservation
Acquisition of geolocalized data and integration into geographic information systems commonly known as GIS. Development of spatial analysis and restitution of phenomena taking place on a given territory
