Mes compétences :
Entomology
Statistics
Ecology
Field work
Ant taxonomy
Molecular biology
Entreprises
CNRS
- Doctoral student
Paris2012 - maintenant
Cnrs
- Internship
Paris2012 - 2012Study of the functional groups and ecological role of ants in a forest fragment in French Guiana. (in collaboration with Mickal Houadria, supervision by Florian Menzel and Jérôme Orivel).
- Developed a methodology to associate ants to ecosystem functions
- Combined several field methods for ant sampling
- Classified ants to morphospecies based on taxonomy
- Assessed biodiversity with standard methods
- Used multivariate analyses to cluster ants into functional groups
- Modeled the participation of ants on ecosytem processes
Articles in preparation
Cnrs
- Student
Paris2011 - 2012Study of the use of epiphytic aroids as indicators of forest management and forest recovery in the Paracou Forest (supervision by Marc Gibernau).
- Monitored epiphytic and hemiepiphytic aroids in forest transects in different forest plots.
- Georeferenced the position of aroids to extract information of several environmental variables
- Carried statistical analysis to determine ecological gradients, and assess the power of aroids as a surrogate of forest regeneration (ordination techniques, permutation analysis, direct gradient analysis with several diversity index scores, evaluation of the effects of surface on several diversity indexes.)
Article in preparation
CNRS
- Internship student
Paris2011 - 2011Identification of fungal patch identity in an obligate ant-plant-fungus association (Supervisor: Rumsais Blatrix).
- DNA barcoding of the fungal patches found on the domatia of the myrmecophytic plant Barteria fistulosa inhabited by its mutualistic ant Tetraponera aethiops.
- PCR, electrophoresis, used standard protocols for DNA extraction and selected specific fragments for the fungal species found.
Article in press.
CNRS
- Internship student
Paris2011 - 2011Study of the role of food preferences as a mutualistic filter in obligate plant-ant interactions in French Guiana
- Identified and collected 5 myrmecophyte species associated to 11 ant species
- Reared more than 100 obligate plant-ant colonies for several months, out of their host plants
- Carried food preference tests
- Found food preferences relationships in relation to host-plant and ants taxonomy
Paper in preparation
INRA
- Internship student
Paris2010 - 2010Study of the forest management effects on biogeochemical cycles and soil fertility in different forests plantation under different edaphic conditions and climates (Supervisors: Jacques Ranger, Arnaud Légout).
- Compiled data (5 doctoral thesis + data bases from the Renecofor network),
- Homogenized data sets (edaphic profiles, chemical extraction methods...)
- Carried multivariate analysis to find correlation between several edaphic traits and element fluxes and plant production and productivity.
- Developed management guidelines
