Pierre Ploton
Centre national de la recherche scientifique
46 Papers
65 Citations
Pierre Ploton is an academic researcher from Centre national de la recherche scientifique. The author has contributed to research in topics: Biomass (ecology) & Tree allometry. The author has an hindex of 14, co-authored 33 publications. Previous affiliations of Pierre Ploton include French Institute of Pondicherry & University of Montpellier.
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Improved allometric models to estimate the aboveground biomass of tropical trees
Jérôme Chave,Maxime Réjou-Méchain,Alberto Búrquez,E. N. Chidumayo,Matthew S. Colgan,Welington Braz Carvalho Delitti,Alvaro Duque,Tron Eid,Philip M. Fearnside,Rosa C. Goodman,Matieu Henry,Angelina Martínez-Yrízar,Wilson A. Mugasha,Helene C. Muller-Landau,Maurizio Mencuccini,Bruce Walker Nelson,Alfred Ngomanda,Euler Melo Nogueira,Edgar Ortiz-Malavassi,Raphaël Pélissier,Pierre Ploton,Casey M. Ryan,Juan Saldarriaga,Ghislain Vieilledent +23 more
TL;DR: This work analyzed a global database of directly harvested trees at 58 sites, spanning a wide range of climatic conditions and vegetation types, and found a pantropical model incorporating wood density, trunk diameter, and the variable E outperformed previously published models without height.
Spatial validation reveals poor predictive performance of large-scale ecological mapping models.
Pierre Ploton,Frédéric Mortier,Maxime Réjou-Méchain,Nicolas Barbier,Nicolas Picard,Vivien Rossi,Carsten F. Dormann,Guillaume Cornu,Gaëlle Viennois,Nicolas Bayol,Alexei Lyapustin,Sylvie Gourlet-Fleury,Raphaël Pélissier +12 more
TL;DR: This study underscores how a common practice in big data mapping studies shows an apparent high predictive power, even when predictors have poor relationships with the ecological variable of interest, thus possibly leading to erroneous maps and interpretations.
Allometric equations for integrating remote sensing imagery into forest monitoring programmes.
Tommaso Jucker,John P. Caspersen,Jérôme Chave,Cécile Antin,Cécile Antin,Nicolas Barbier,Frans Bongers,Michele Dalponte,Karin Y. van Ewijk,David I. Forrester,Matthias Haeni,Steven I. Higgins,Robert J. Holdaway,Yoshiko Iida,Craig G. Lorimer,Peter L. Marshall,Stéphane Takoudjou Momo,Stéphane Takoudjou Momo,Glenn R. Moncrieff,Pierre Ploton,Lourens Poorter,Kassim Abd Rahman,Michael Schlund,Bonaventure Sonké,Frank J. Sterck,Anna T. Trugman,Vladimir A. Usoltsev,Mark C. Vanderwel,Peter Waldner,Beatrice M. M. Wedeux,Christian Wirth,Hannsjörg Wöll,Murray Woods,Wenhua Xiang,Niklaus E. Zimmermann,David A. Coomes +35 more
TL;DR: A global database of 108753 trees for which stem diameter, height and crown diameter have all been measured is compiled and it is found that a single equation predicts stem diameter from these two variables across the world's forests.
Unveiling African rainforest composition and vulnerability to global change
Maxime Réjou-Méchain,Frédéric Mortier,Jean-François Bastin,Guillaume Cornu,Nicolas Barbier,Nicolas Bayol,Fabrice Bénédet,Xavier Bry,Gilles Dauby,Vincent Deblauwe,Vincent Deblauwe,Jean-Louis Doucet,Charles Doumenge,Adeline Fayolle,Claude Garcia,Jean-Paul Kibambe Lubamba,Jean-Paul Kibambe Lubamba,Jean Joël Loumeto,Alfred Ngomanda,Pierre Ploton,Bonaventure Sonké,Catherine Trottier,Ruppert Vimal,Olga Diane Yongo,Raphaël Pélissier,Sylvie Gourlet-Fleury +25 more
TL;DR: In this paper, a large dataset of 6 million trees in more than 180,000 field plots was used to map the floristic and functional composition of central African forests and predict their vulnerability to climate change.
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Seeing Central African forests through their largest trees
Jean-François Bastin,Nicolas Barbier,Maxime Réjou-Méchain,Adeline Fayolle,Sylvie Gourlet-Fleury,Danae Maniatis,T. de Haulleville,Fidèle Baya,Hans Beeckman,D. Beina,Pierre Couteron,Georges Chuyong,Gilles Dauby,Jean-Louis Doucet,Vincent Droissart,Marc Dufrêne,Corneille E. N. Ewango,Jean-François Gillet,C. H. Gonmadje,Terese B. Hart,T. Kavali,David Kenfack,Moses Libalah,Yadvinder Malhi,Jean-Remy Makana,Raphaël Pélissier,Pierre Ploton,Adeline Serckx,Bonaventure Sonké,Tariq Stévart,Duncan W. Thomas,C De Cannière,Jan Bogaert +32 more
TL;DR: It is shown that the above-ground biomass (AGB) of the whole forest can be predicted from a few large trees and that the relationship is proved strikingly stable in 175 1-ha plots investigated across 8 sites spanning Central Africa.