Raphaël Pélissier


Tropical Forest Ecologist

UMR AMAP
TA A51/PS2
34398 Montpellier cedex 05
France

+33 (0)4 67 61 65 79

Raphael.Pelissier@ird.fr


AMAP web site

IFP web site



2024


115. Rakesh Fararoda, S. R., Gopalakrishnan, R., Jha, N., Réjou-Méchain, M., Couteron, P., Barbier, N., Alonso, A., Bako, O., Bassama, P., Behera, D., Bissiengou, P., Biyiha, H., Brockelman, W. Y., Chanthorn, W., Chauhan, P., Dadhwal, V., Dauby, G., Deblauwe, V., Dongmo, N., Droissart, V., Jeyakumar, S., Jha, C. S., Kandem, N., Katembo, J., Kougue, K., Leblanc, H., Lewis, S., Libalah M., Manikandan, M., Martin-Ducup, O., Mbock, M., Memiaghe, H., Mofack, G., Mutyala, P., Narayanan, A., Nathalang, A., Ndjock, G., Ngoula, F., Nidamanuri, R., Pélissier, R., Saatchi, S., Sagang, L., Salla, P., Simo-Droissart, M., Smith, T., Sonké, B., Stévart, T., Tjomb, D., Zebaze, D., Zemagho, L. & Ploton, P. (2024) LiDAR-based reference aboveground biomass maps for tropical forests of South Asia and Central Africa. Scientific Data, 11: 334. [link to DataSuds repository]

114. Girard-Tercieux, C., Vieilledent, G., Clark, A., Clark, J. S., Courbaud, B., Fortunel, C., Kunstler, G., Pélissier, R. & Maréchaux, I. (2024) Beyond variance: simple random distributions are not a good proxy for intraspecific variability in systems with environmental structure. Peer Community Journal, 4: e28.

2023

113. Girard-Tercieux, C., Maréchaux, I., Clark, A. T., Clark, J. S., Courbaud, B., Fortunel, C., Guillemot, J., Künstler, G., le Maire, G., Pélissier, R., Rüger, N., Vieilledent, G. (2023) Rethinking the nature of intraspecific variability and its consequences on species coexistence. Ecology and Evolution, 13: e9860.

112. Badourdine, C., Féret, J.-B., Pélissier, R. & Vincent, G. (2023) Exploring the link between spectral variance and upper canopy taxonomic diversity in a tropical forest: influence of spectral processing and feature selection. Remote Sensing in Ecology and Conservation, 9(2): 235-250.

2022

111. Pélissier R, Falconi E. & Seyler F. (2022) Mesurer la diversité forestière. Pp. 34-39 In : Seyler F., Ledru M.-P., Emperaire L. (Eds.), Falconi E. Trajectoires de recherches en Amazonie brésilienne : l'IRD et ses partenaires. IRD, Marseille, France.


109. Huertas, C., Sabatier, D., Derroire, G., Ferry, B., Jackson, T. D., Pélissier, R. & Vincent, G. (2022) Mapping tree mortality rate in a tropical moist forest from multi-temporal LiDAR. International Journal of Applied Earth Observations & Geoinformation, 109: 102780.

2021

108. Leroy, M., Bontemps, J.-D., Brahic, E., Dupouey, J.-L., Forget, P.-M., Garcia, S., Gond, V., Kleinschmit Von Lengefeldh, A. N., Landmanni, G., Morin, X., Pélissier, R., Picard, N. & Marty, P. (2021) Quels besoins de connaissances pour le futur des forêts en France ? Au-delà du plan de relance. Revue Forestière Française, LXXIII: 7-19.

107. Martin-Ducup, O., Mofack, G. II, Wang, D., Raumonen, P., Ploton, P., Sonké, B., Barbier, N., Couteron, P. & Pélissier, R. (2021) Evaluation of automated pipelines for tree and plot metric estimation from TLS data in tropical forest areas. Annals of Botany, 128(6): 753–766.

106. Jha, N., Tripathi, N. K., Barbier, N., Viridis, S. G. P., Chanthorn, W., Viennois, G., Brockelman, W. Y., Nathalang, A., Togsima, S., Sasaki, N., Pélissier, R. & Réjou-Méchain, M. (2021) The real potential of current passive satellite data to map above-ground biomass in tropical forets. Remote Sensing in Ecology and Conservation, 7(3): 504-520.



103.Loubota Panzou, G. J., Fayolle, A., Jucker, T., Phillips, O. L., Alves, L. F., Angoboy, I. B., Antin, C., Arets, E., Arroyo, L., Baker, T., Banin, L. F., Barbier, N., Beeckman, H., Berger, U., Bocko, Y. E., Bohlman, S., Bongers, F., Bowers, S., Brade, T., Brondizio, E. S., Chantrain, A., Chave, J., Coomes, C., Dias, A. S., Dimobe, K., Domingues, T., Doucet, J.-L., Drouet, T., Forni, E., Godlee, J. L., Goodman, R. C., Gourlet-Fleury, S., Iida, Y., Muledi, J. I., Jacques, P., Kuyah, S., Lewis, S. L., López-Portillo, J., Loumeto, J. J., Marimon-Junior, B. H., Schwantes Marimon, B., Mensah, S., Mitchard, E. T. A., Moncrieff, G. R., Ayyappan N., O’Brien, S. T., Ouedraogo, K., Palace, M. W., Pélissier, R., Ploton, P., Poorter, L., Ryan, C. M., Saiz, G., Schlund, M., Sellan, G., Sterck, F., Thibaut, Q., Van Hoef, Y., Vovides, A. G., Xu, Y., Yao, T. L., & Feldpausch, T. R. (2021) Pantropical variability in tree crown allometry. Global Ecology and Biogeography, 30: 459-475.

2020

102. Martin-Ducup, O., Ploton, P., Barbier, N., Momo Takoudjou, S., Mofack, G. II, Kandem, N., Fourcaud, T., Sonké, B., Couteron, P. & Pélissier, R. (2020) Terrestrial laser scanning reveals convergence of tree architecture with increasingly dominant crown canopy position. Functional Ecology, 34(12): 2442-2452.

101. Libalah, M., Droissart, V., Sonké, B., Barbier, N., Dauby, G., Fortunel, C., Kamdem, G., Kamdem, N. G., Lewis, S. Mofack, G. II, Momo Takoudjou, S., Pélissier, R., Ploton, P., Texier, N., Zebazé, D., Couteron, P.  (2020) Additive influences of soil and climate gradients drive tree community composition of Central African rainforests. Journal of Vegetation Science, 31(6): 1156-1169.

100. Ploton, P., Mortier, F., Réjou-Méchain, M., Barbier, N., Picard, N., Rossi, V., Dormann, C., Cornu, G., Viennois, G., Bayol, N., Lyapustin, A., Gourlet-Fleury, S., Pélissier, R. (2020) Spatial validation reveals poor predictive performance of current large scale tropical forest biomass mapping models. Nature Communications, 11: 1-11.

99. Chevallier, T., Loireau, M., Courault, R., Chapuis-Lardy, L., Desjardins, T., Gomez, C., Grondin, A., Guérin, F., Orange, D.,  Pélissier, R., Serpantié, G., Durand, M.-H., Derioz, P., Laruelle G. G., Schwoob, M.-H., Viovy, N., Barrière, O., Blanchart, E., Blanfort, B., Brossard, M., Demenois, J., Fargette, M., Heulin, T., Mahe, G., Manlay, R., Podwojewski, P., Rumpel, C., Sultan, B. and Chotte, J.-L. (2020) Paris Climate Agreement: Promoting Interdisciplinary Science and Stakeholders Approaches for Multi-Scale Implementation of Continental Carbon Sequestration. Sustainability, 12, 6715



96. Osuri, A. M., Machado, S., Ratnam, J., Sankaran, M., Ayyappan, N. Muthuramkumar, S., Parthasarathy, N., Pélissier, R., Ramesh, B. R., DeFries, R. & Naeem, S. (2020) Tree diversity and carbon storage cobenefits in tropical human-dominated landscapes. Conservation Letters, 13:e12699.

95. Jha, N., Tripathi, N. K., Chanthorn, W., Brockelman, W., Nathalang, A., Pélissier, R., Pimmasarn, S., Ploton, P., Sasaki, N., Virdis, S. G. P., & Réjou-Méchain, M. (2020) Forest aboveground biomass stock and resilience in a tropical landscape of Thailand. Biogeosciences, 17: 121-134.

2019

94. Réjou-Méchain, M., Barbier, N., Couteron, P., Ploton, P., Vincent, G., Herold, M., Mermoz, S., Saatchi, S., Chave, J., de Boissieu, F., Féret, J.-B., Momo Takoudjou, S. & Pélissier, R. (2019) Upscaling forest biomass from field to satellite measurements: sources of errors and ways to reduce them. Surveys in Geophysics, 40:881-911.

93. Bose, R., Ramesh, B. R., Pélissier, R. & Munoz, F. (2019) Phylogenetic diversity in the Western Ghats biodiversity hotspot reflects environmental filtering and past niche diversification of trees. Journal of Biogeography, 46: 145-157.

2018

92. Bastin, J.-F., Rutishauser, E., Kellner, J. R., Saatchi, S. Pélissier, R. et al. (+ 139 co-authors in alphabetic order) (2018) Pan-tropical prediction of forest structure from largets trees. Global Ecology and Biogeography, 27:1366-1383.


90. Momo, S. T., Ploton, P., Sonké, B., Hackenberg, J., Griffon, S., de Coligny, F., Kamdem, N. G., Libalah, M., Mofack, G. II, Le Moguédec, G., Pélissier, R. & Barbier, N. (2018) Using Terrestrial Laser Scanning data to estimate large tropical trees biomass and calibrate allometric models: a comparison with traditional destructive approach. Methods in Ecology and Evolution, 9: 905-916. [link to Dryad Digital Repository]

89. Guitet, S., Sabatier, D., Brunaux, O., Couteron, P., Denis, T., Freycon, V., Gonzalez, S., Hérault, B., Jaouen, G., Molino, J.-F., Pélissier, R., Richard-Hansen, C. & Vincent, G. (2018) Disturbance regimes drive the diversity of regional floristic pools across Guianan rainforest landscapes. Scientifc Reports, 8: 3872.

2017

87. Suraj Reddy, R., Rajashekar, G., Jha, C. S., Dadhwal, V. K., Pélissier, R. & Couteron, P. (2017) Estimation of above ground biomass using texture metrics derived from IRS Cartosat-1 panchromatic data in evergreen forests of Western Ghats, India. Journal of the Indian Society of Remote Sensing, 45(4): 657-665.

86. Pargal, S., Fararoda, R., Rajashekar, G., Balachandran, N., Réjou-Méchain, M., Barbier, N., Jha, C. S., Pélissier, R., Dadhwal, V.K. & Couteron, P. (2017) Inverting aboveground biomass-canopy texture relationships in a landscape of forest mosaic in the Western Ghats of India using very high-resolution Cartosat imagery. Remote Sensing, 9(3): 228-248.

85.  Barbier, N., Libalah, M., Katembo, J., Ploton, P., Droissart, V., Texier, N., Kamdem, N., Viennois, G., Pélissier, R., Couteron, P., Boyemba, F. & Sonké, B. (2017) Pistes pour l'étude de la distribution des peuplements de Gilbertiodedron dewevrei comme signature des impacts climatiques ou anthropiques anciens. Pp 157-170 In de Saulieu, G., Elouga, M. & Sonké, B. Pour une écologie historique en Afrique Centrale. IRD, Marseille, France & AUF, Yaoundé, Cameroun.

84. Hudson, L., N., Newbold, T., Contu, S., Hill, S. L. L., Lysenko, I., De Palma, A., Phillips, H., R. P., ... Pélissier, R. [among 498 co-authors in alphabetic order], ... Collen, B., Ewers, R. M., Mace, G. M., Purves, D. W., Scharlemann, J. P. W. & Purvis, A. (2017) The database of the PREDICTS (Projecting Responses of Ecological Diversity In Changing Terrestrial Systems) project. Ecology and Evolution, 7: 145-188.

2016

83. Antin, C., Le Bec, J., Ayyappan, N., Ramesh, B. R. & Pélissier, R. (2016) Allometric projections of time-related growth trajectories of two coexisting dipteraocarp canopy species in India. Plant Ecology and Diversity, 9(5-6): 603-614.

82. Nath, C. D., Munoz, F., Pélissier, R., Burslem, D. F. R. P. & Muthusankar, G. (2016) Growth rings in tropical trees: role of functional traits, environment, and phylogeny. Trees - Structure and Function, 30(6): 2153-2175.

81. Cherrington, E. A., Barbier, N., Ploton, P., Vincent, G., Sabatier, D., Berger, U. & Pélissier, R. (2016) Equatorial forests display distinct trends in phenological variation: a time-series analysis of vegetation index data. IEEE Journal of Selected Topics in Applied Earth Observations and Remote Sensing, 9(8): 3505-3511.

80. Wagner, F. H., Hérault, B., Bonal, D., Stahl, C., Anderson, L. O., Baker, T. R., Becker, G. S., Beeckman, H., Boanerges Souza, D., Botosso, P. C., Bowman, D. M. J. S., Bräuning, A., Brede, B., Brown, F. I., Camarero, J. J., Camargo, P. B., Cardoso, F. C. G., Carvalho, F. A., Castro, W., Chagas, R. K., Chave, J., Chidumayo, E. N., Clark, D. A, Costa, F. R. C., Couralet, C., da Silva Mauricio, P. H., Dalitz, H., de Castro, V. R., de Freitas Milani, J. E., de Oliveira, E. C., de Souza Arruda, L., Devineau, J.-L., Drew, D. M., Dünisch, O., Durigan, G., Elifuraha, E., Fedele, M., Ferreira Fedele, L., Figueiredo Filho, A., Finger, C. A. G., Franco, A. C., Freitas Júnior, J. L., Galvão, F., Gebrekirstos, A., Gliniars, R., Graça, P. M. L. A., Griffiths, A. D., Grogan, J., Guan, K., Homeier, J., Kanieski, M. R., Kho, L. K., Koenig, J., Kohler, S. V., Krepkowski, J., Lemos-Filho, J. P., Lieberman, D., Lieberman, M. E., Lisi, C. S., Longhi Santos, T., López Ayala, J. L., Maeda, E. E., Malhi, Y., Maria, V. R. B., Marques, M. C. M., Marques, R., Maza Chamba, H. M., Mbwambo, L., Melgaço, K. L. L., Mendivelso, H. A., Murphy, B. P., O'Brien, J. J., Oberbauer, S. F., Okada, N., Pélissier, R., Prior, L. D., Roig, F. A., Ross, M., Rossatto, D. R., Rossi, V., Rowland, L., Rutishauser, E., Santana, H., Schulze, M., Selhorst, D., Silva, W. R., Silveira, M., Spannl, S., Swaine, M. D., Toledo, J. J., Toledo, M. M., Toledo, M., Toma, T., Tomazello Filho, M., Valdez Hernández, J. I., Verbesselt, J., Vieira, S. A., Vincent, G., Volkmer de Castilho, C., Volland, F., Worbes, M., Zanon, M. L. B., & Aragão, L. E. O. C. (2016) Climate seasonality limits carbon assimilation and wood productivity in tropical forests. Biogeosciences, 13, 2537–2562. [link to BG page]

79. Bose, R., Munoz, F., Ramesh, B. R. & Pélissier, R. (2016) Past potential habitats shed light on the biogeography of endemic tree species of the Western Ghats biodiversity hotspot, South India. Journal of Biogeography, 43: 899-910.

78. Ploton, P., Barbier, N., Momo, S. T., Réjou-Méchain, M., Boyemba Bosela, F., Chuyong, G., Dauby, G., Droissart, V., Fayolle, A., Goodman, R. C., Henry, M., Kamdem, N. G., Katembo Mukirania, J., Kenfack, D., Libalah, M., Ngomanda, A., Rossi, V., Sonké, B., Texier, N., Thomas, D., Zebaze, D., Couteron, P., Berger, U. & Pélissier, R. (2016) Closing a gap in tropical forest biomass estimation: taking crown mass variation into account in pantropical allometries. Biogeosciences, 13: 1571-1585 [link to BG page].

77. Guitet, S., Freycon, V., Bruneaux, O., Pélissier, R., Sabatier, D. & Couteron, P. (2016) Geomorphic control of rain-forest floristic composition in French Guiana: more than a soil filtering effect? Journal of Tropical Ecology, 32(1): 22-40.

2015

76. Cherrington, E. A., Vincent, G., Sabatier, D., Barbier, N., Berger, U. & Pélissier, R. (2015) BRDF-corrected vegetation indices confirm seasonal pattern in greening of French Guiana's forests. Revue Française de Photogramétrie et Télédétection, 211-212, 3-9.

75. Allié, E., Pélissier, R., Engel, J., Petronelli, P., Freycon, V., Deblauwe, V., Soucémarianadin, L., Weigel, J. & Baraloto, C. (2015) Pervasive local-scale tre-soil habitat association in a tropical forest community. Plos One, 10(11): e0141488.

74. Cherrington, E. A., Barbier, N., Vincent, G., Sabatier, D. & Pélissier, R. (2015) Use of MODIS and SPOT Vegetation time-series data for monitoring phenological variation in tropical forest ecosystems in Western Africa and the Guiana Shield. MultiTemp 2015, 8th International Workshop on the Analysis of Multitemporal Remote Sensing Images. July 22-24, 2015. Annecy, France.

73. Cherrington, E. A., Barbier, N., Vincent, G., Sabatier, D. & Pélissier, R. (2015) Unmixing the patterns within big data: discriminating forests in French Guiana using the MODIS time-series. MultiTemp 2015, 8th International Workshop on the Analysis of Multitemporal Remote Sensing Images. July 22-24, 2015. Annecy, France.

72. Cherrington, E. A., Barbier, N., Vincent, G., Sabatier, D. & Pélissier, R. (2015) Unravelling the green carpet: use of remotely sensed data for improved inventorying and monitoring of franch Guiana's forest. Conference paper presented at the XIV World Forestry Congress, 7-11 september 2015, Durban, South Africa [online paper].

71. Antin, C., Grau, E., Vincent, G., Durrieu, S., Jourdan, M., Barczi, J.-F., Caraglio, Y., Griffon, S. & Pélissier, R. (2015) From leave scale to tree scale: which structural parameters influence a simulated full-waveform large-footprint LiDAR signal? Pp. 110-112 In Durrieu, S. & Véga, C. (Eds.) Proceedings of Silvilaser 2015. IRSTEA and IGN, France.

70. Couteron, P., Barbier, N., Deblauwe, V., Pélissier, R. & Ploton, P. (2015) Texture analysis of very high spatial resolution optical images as a way to monitor vegetation and forest biomass in the tropics. Pp 157-164 in Murthy, M.S.R., Wesselman, S. & Gilani, H. (eds.) Multi-Scale Forest Biomass Assessment and Monitoring in the Hindu Kush Himalayan Region: A Geospatial Perspective. ICIMOD special publication. International Centre for Integrated Mountain Development (ICIMOD), Kathmandu. [Link to online full book]

69. Bastin J.-F., Barbier N., Réjou-Méchain M., Fayolle A., Gourlet-Fleury S., Maniatis D., de Haulleville T., Baya F., Beeckman H., Beina D., Couteron P., Chuyong G., Dauby G., Doucet J.-L., Droissart V., Dufrêne M., Ewango C., Gillet J.-F., Gonmadje C.H., Hart T., Kavali T., Kenfack D., Libalah M., Mahli Y., Makana J.-R., Pélissier R., Ploton P., Serckx A., Sonké B., Stevart T., Thomas D.W., De Cannière C. & Bogaert J. (2015) Seeing Central African forests through their largest trees. Scientific Reports, 5:13156 .

68. Véga, C., Vepakomma, U., Morel, J., Bader, J.-L., Rajashekar, G., Jha, C. S., Ferêt, J., Proisy, C., Pé́lissier, R. & Dadhwal, V. K. (2015) Aboveground-biomass estimation of a complex tropical forest in India using lidar. Remote Sensing, 7: 10607-10625.

67. Guitet, S., Pélissier, R., Brunaux, O., Jaouen, G. & Sabatier, D. (2015) Geomorphological landscape features explain floristic patterns in French Guiana rainforest. Biodiversity and Conservation, 24: 1215-1237.

66. Le Bec, J., Courbaud, B., Le Moguédec, G. & Pélissier, R. (2015) Characterizing tropical tree growth strategies: learning from inter-individual variability and scale invariance. PLoS One, -10(3): e0117028. [Link to PLoS page]

65. Pélissier, R. & Goreaud, F. (2015) ads package for R: A fast unbiased implemntation of the K-function family for studying spatial point patterns in irregular-shaped sampling windows. Journal of Statistical Software, 63(6): 1-18. [Link to JSS page]

64. Xiao X., Aravajy S., Baribault T. W., Brokaw N., Christensen N. L., Dasappa, DeWalt S. J., Elouard C., Gilbert G. S., Kobe R. K., Kohyama T. S., McGlinn D. J., Palmer M. W., Patil S. V., Peet R. K., Pélissier R., Pitman N. C. A., Ramalingam S., Ramesh B. R., Reed R. A., Swaminath M. H., Thompson J., Urban D. L., Uriarte M., Venugopal P. D., White E. P., White P. S., Xi W., Zimmerman J. K. (2015) Data from: A strong test of the Maximum Entropy Theory of Ecology. Dryad Digital Repository, doi: 10.5061/dryad.5fn46.

2013-2014

63. Réjou-Méchain, M., Flores, O., Pélissier, R., Fayolle, A., Fauvet, N. & Gourlet-Fleury, S. (2014) Tropical tree assembly depends on the interactions between successional and soil filtering processes.Global Ecology and Biogeography, 23(12): 1440-1449.

62. Chave, J., Réjou-Méchain, M., Búrquez, A., Chidumayo, E., Colgan, M. S., Delitti, W. B. C., Duque, A., Eid, T., Fearnside, P. M., Goodman, R. C., Henry, M. Martínez-Yrízar, A., Mugasha, W. A., Muller-Landau, H. C., Mencuccini, M., Nelson, B. W., Ngomanda, A., Nogueira, E. M., Malavassi, E. O., Pélissier, R., Ploton, P., Ryan, C. M., Saldarriaga, J. G. & Vieilledent, G. (2014) Improved pantropical allometric models to estimate the above ground biomass of tropical forests. Global Change Biology, 20(10): 3177-3190.

61. Guitet, S., Brunaux, O., Jaouen, G., Richard-Hansen, C., Gonzalez, S., Sabatier, D., Pélissier, R. & Surugue N. (2014) HABITATS: décrire et cartographier la diversité des forêts de Guyane. Rendez-Vous Techniques, 43: 46-53.

60. Durrieu, S., Cherchali, S., Costeraste, J., Mondin, L., Debise, H., Chazette, P., Dauzat, J., Gastellu-Etchegorry, J.-P., Baghdadi, N. & Pélissier, R. (2013) Preliminary studies for a vegetation LADAR/LIDAR space mission in France. Pp 4332-4335 in Proceedings of the International Geoscience And Remote Sensing Symposium, IGARSS 2013, IEEE International.

59. Antin, C., Pélissier, R., Vincent, G. & Couteron, P. (2013) Crown allometries are less responsive than stem allometry to tree size and habitat variations in an Indian monsoon forest. Trees – Structure and Function, 27(5): 1485-1495.

58. Munoz, F., Beeravolu Reddy, C., Pélissier, R. & Couteron, P. (2013) Do spatially-implicit estimates of neutral migration comply with seed dispersal data in topical forests. PLoS One, 8(8): e72497. [Link to PLoS page]

57. Ploton, P., Pélissier, R., Barbier, N., Proisy, C., Ramesh, B. R. & Couteron, P. (2013) Canopy texture analysis for large-scale assessments of rainforest stand structure and biomass. Pp 437-445 in Lowman, M., Devy, S. & Ganesh, T. (Eds.) Treetops at Risk - Challenges of Global Forest Canopies. Springer, New York. [Book content]

2011-2012

56. Hardy, O. J., Couteron, P., Munoz, F., Ramesh, B. R. & Pélissier, R. (2012) Phylogenetic turnover in tropical tree communities: impact of environmental filtering, biogeography and mesoclimatic niche conservatism.Global Ecology and Biogeography, 21(10): 1007-1016.

55. Dray, S., Pélissier, R., Couteron, P., Fortin, M.-J., Legendre, P., Peres-Neto, P. R., Bellier, E., Bivand, R., Blanchet, G., de Caceres, M., Dufour, A.-B., Heegaard, E., Jombart, T., Munoz, F., Oksanen, J., Thioulouse, J. & Wagner, H. (2012) Community ecology in the age of multivariate multiscale spatial analysis. Ecological Monographs,82(3): 257-275. Ecological Archives M083-011; Link to Rweb script

54. Vincent, G., Sabatier, D., Blanc, L., Chave, J., Weissenbacher, E., Pélissier, R., Fonty, E., Molino, J.-F. & Couteron, P. (2012) Accuracy of small footprint airborne LiDAR in its predictions of tropical moist forest stand structure. Remote Sensing of Environment, 125: 23-33.

53. Renard, Q., Pélissier, R., Ramesh, B. R. & Kodandapani, N. (2012) Environmental susceptibility model for predicting forest fire occurrence in the Western Ghats of India. International Journal of Wildland Fire, 21(4): 368-379.

52. Nath, C. D., Boura, A., de Franceschi, D. & Pélissier, R. (2012) Assessing the utility of direct and indirect methods for estimating tropical tree age in the Western Ghats, India. Trees – Structure and Function 26(3): 1017-1029.

51. Couteron, P., Barbier, N., Proisy, C., Pélissier, R. & Vincent, G. (2012) Linking remote-sensing information to tropical forest structure: the crucial role of modelling. Earthzine, posted on April 24th, 2012

50. Ploton, P., Pélissier, R., Proisy, C., Flavenot, T., Barbier, N., Rai, S. N. & Couteron, P. (2012) Assessing aboveground tropical forest biomass using Google Earth canopy images. Ecological Applications, 22(3): 993-1003. Ecological Archives A022-056.

49. Proisy, C., Barbier, N., Guéroult, M., Pélissier, R., Gastellu-Etchegorry, J.-Ph. & Couteron, P. (2012) Biomass prediction in tropical forests: the canopy grain approach. Pp. 59-76 in Fatoyinbo, T. (Ed.) Remote sensing of biomass: principles and applications / Book 1. Intech Open Access Publisher, Croatia.

48. Nath, C. D., Pélissier, R., Garcia, C. & Ramesh, B. R. (2011) Promoting native trees in shade coffee plantations of southern India: comparison of growth rates with the exotic Grevillea robusta. Agroforestry Systems, 83(2): 107-119.

47. Pélissier, R., Pascal, J.-P., Ayyappan, N., Ramesh, B. R., Aravajy, S. & Ramalingam, S. R. (2011) Twenty years tree demography in an undisturbed dipterocarp Permanent Sample Plot at Uppangala, Western Ghats of India - Data Paper. Ecology, 92(6):1376. Ecological Archives E092-115.

2006-2010

46. Ramesh, B. R., Swaminath, M. H., Patil, S. V., Dasappa, Pélissier, R., Venugopal, P. D., Aravajy, S., Elouard, C. & Ramalingam, S. (2010) Forest stand structure and composition in 96 sites along environmental gradients in the central Western Ghats of India - Data paper. Ecology, 91(10): 3118. Ecological Archives E091-216.

45. Ramesh, B. R., Venugopal, P. D., Pélissier, R., Patil, S. V., Swaminath, M. H. & Couteron, P. (2010) Mesoscale patterns in the floristic composition of forests in the central Western Gahts of Karnataka, India. Biotropica, 42(4): 435-443.

44. Nath, C. D., Pélissier, R. & Garcia, C. (2010) Comparative efficiency and accuracy of variable area transects versus square plots for sampling tree diversity and density. Agroforestry Systems,79(2): 223-236.

43. Pélissier, R. (2010) Mésoécologie de la diversité des forêts tropicales humides. Université des Sciences et Techniques du Languedoc, Montpellier. 72 pp.

42. Garcia, C., Pélissier, R. & Ramesh B. R. (2010) Biodiversité. Pp 84-85 in Landy, F. (Ed.) Le Dictionnaire de l'Inde contemporaine. Armand Colin Editions, Paris.

41. Pélissier, R. & Ramesh, B. R. (2010) Flore. Pp 224-225 in Landy, F. (Ed.) Le Dictionnaire de l'Inde contemporaine. Armand Colin Editions, Paris.

40. Renard, Q., Ramesh, B. R., Muthusankar, G. & Pélissier, R. (2010) Data Paper - High-resolution vegetation cover data for the Southern Western Ghats of India. Institut français de Pondichéry, Pondy Papers in Ecology, 9, 12 pp.

39. Renard, Q, Muthusankar, G. & Pélissier, R. (2009) Data Paper - High-resolution topographic and bioclimatic data for the Southern Western Ghats of India. Institut français de Pondichéry, Pondy Papers in Ecology, 8, 21 pp.

38. Beeravolu, C. R., Couteron, P., Pélissier, R. & Munoz, F. (2009) Studying ecological communities from a neutral standpoint: a review of models' structure and parameter estimation. Ecological Modelling, 220(20): 2603-2610.

37. Stropp, J., ter Steege, H., Malhi, Y., A.T.D.N.* (2009) Disentangling regional and local tree diversity in the Amazon. Ecography, 32: 46-54. * Through contribution to the Amazon Tree Diversity Network (A.T.D.N.)

36. Réjou-Méchain, M., Pélissier, R., Gourlet-Fleury, S., Couteron, P. Nasi, R. & Thompson, J. D. (2008) Regional variation in tropical tree species composition in the Central African Republic: an assessment based on inventories by forest companies. Journal of Tropical Ecology, 24: 663-674.

35. Pélissier, R., Couteron, P. & Dray, S. (2008) Analyzing or explaining beta diversity? Comment. Ecology, 89(11): 3227-3232.

34. Madelaine, C., Pélissier, R. Vincent, G., Molino, J.-F., Sabatier, D., Prévost, M.-F. & de Namur, C. (2007) Mortality and recruitment in a lowland tropical rain forest of French Guiana: effects of soil type and species guild. Journal of Tropical Ecology, 23(3): 277-287.

33. Parmentier, i, Malhi, Y, Senterre, B., Whittaker, R. J., A.T.D.N.*, Alonso, A, Balinga, M. P. B., Bakayoko, A., Bongers, F., Chatelain, C., Comiskey, J. A., Cortay, R., Djuikouo Kamdem, M.-N., Doucet, J.-L., Gautier, L., Hawthorne, W. D., Issembe, Y. A., Kouamé, F. N., Kouka, L. A., Leal, M. E., Lejoly, J., Lewis, S. I., Nusbaumer, L., Parren, M. P. E., Peh, K. S.-H., Phillips, O. I., Sheil, D., Sonké, B., Sosef, M. S. F., Sunderland, T. C. H., Stropp, J., ter Steege, H., Swaine, M. D., Tchouto, M. G. P., Van Gemerden, B. S., Van Valkenburg, J. I. C. H. & Wöll, H. (2007) The odd man out? Might climate explain the lower tree α-diversity of African rain forests relative to Amazonian rain forests? Journal of Ecology, 95(5): 1058-1071. * Through contribution to the Amazon Tree Diversity Network (A.T.D.N.)

32. Proisy, C., Couteron, P., Pélissier, R., Barbier N. & Engel, J. (2007) Monitoring canopy grain of tropical forest using Fourier-based textural ordination (FOTO) of very high resolution images. Pp 4324-4326 in Proceedings of the International Geoscience And Remote Sensing Symposium, IGARSS 2007, IEEE International.

31. Pélissier, R. & Couteron, P. (2007) A operational, additive framework for diversity partitioning and beta-diversity analysis. Journal of Ecology, 95(2): 294-300.

30. Magnussen, S. & Pélissier, R. (2007) Sample-based estimation of tree species richness in a wet tropical forest compartment. Pp 269-272 in McRoberts, R. E., Reams, G. A., Van Deusen, P. C. &  McWilliams, W. H. (Eds.) Proceedings of the Seventh Annual Forest Inventory and Analysis Symposium. General Technical Report WO-77. USDA, Forest Service.

29. Magnussen, S., Pélissier, R., He, F. & Ramesh, B.R. (2006) An assessment of sample-based estimators of tree species richness in two wet tropical forest compartments in Panama and India. International Forestry Review, 8(4): 417-431.

2001-2005

28. Couteron, P., Pélissier, R., Nicolini, E.-A., Paget, D. (2005) Predicting tropical forest stand structure parameters from Fourier transform of very high-resolution remotely sensed canopy images. Journal of Applied Ecology, 42: 1121-1128.

27. Oddou-Muratorio, S., Demesure-Musch, B., Pélissier, R. & Gouyon, P.-H. (2004) Impacts of gene flow and logging history on the local genetic structure of a scattered tree species, Sorbus torminalis L. Molecular Ecology, 13(12): 3689-3702.

26. Dessard, H., Picard, N., Pélissier, R. & Collinet-Vautier, F. (2004) Spatial patterns of the most abundant species. Pp 177-190 in Gourlet-Fleury, S., Guehl, J.-M. & Laroussinie, O. (Eds.) Ecology and Management of a Neotropical Rainforest: Lessons drawn from Paracou, a long-term experimental research site in French Guiana. Elsevier SAS, Paris.

25. Couteron, P. & Pélissier, R. (2004) Additive apportioning of species diversity: towards more sophisticated models and analyses. Oikos, 107(1): 215-221.

24. Goreaud, F. & Pélissier, R. (2003) Avoiding misinterpretation of biotic interactions with the intertype K12-function: population independence vs. random labelling hypotheses. Journal of Vegetation Science, 14(5): 681-692.

23. Nicolini, E., Caraglio, Y., Pélissier, R., Leroy, C. & Roggy, J.-C. (2003) Epicormic branches: a growth indicator for a tropical forest tree, Dicorynia guianensis Amshoff (Caesalpiniaceae). Annals of Botany, 92(1): 97-105.

22. Ollier, S., Chessel, D., Couteron, P., Pélissier, R. & Thioulouse, J. (2003) Comparing and classifying one-dimensional spatial patterns: an application to laser altimeter profiles. Remote Sensing of Environment, 85(4): 453-462.

21. Pélissier, R., Couteron, P., Dray, S. & Sabatier, D. (2003) Consistency between ordination techniques and diversity measurements: two strategies for species occurrence data. Ecology, 84(1): 242-251.

20. Couteron, P., Pélissier, R., Mapaga, D., Molino, J.-F. & Tellier, L. (2003) Drawing ecological insights from a management-oriented forest inventory in French Guiana. Forest Ecology and Management, 172(1): 89-108.

19. Pélissier, R., Dray, S. & Couteron, P. (2002) User's manual to CA-richness and NSCA-Simpson strategies. Université Claude Bernard-Lyon 1, Topic Documentation of ADE-4 software, 3.9, 12 pp.

18. Pélissier, R., Dray, S. & Sabatier, D. (2002) Whithin-plot relationships between tree species occurrences and hydrological soil constraints: an example in French Guiana investigated through canonical correlation analysis. Plant Ecology, 162(2): 143-156.

17. Goreaud, F. & Pélissier, R. (2001) Spatial structure analysis of heterogeneous point patterns: examples of application to forest stands. Université Claude Bernard-Lyon1, Topic Documentation of ADE-4 software, 8.1, 50 pp.

16. Goreaud, F. & Pélissier, R. (2001) Analyse de la structure spatiale de semis de points hétérogènes : exemples d'application à des peuplements forestiers. Université Claude Bernard-Lyon 1, Fiche thématique du logiciel ADE-4, 8.1, 50 pp.

15. Pélissier, R. & Goreaud, F. (2001) A practical approach to the study of spatial structure in simple cases of heterogeneous vegetation. Journal of Vegetation Science, 12(1): 99-108.

1996-2000

14. Pélissier, R. & Pascal, J.-P. (2000) Two-year tree growth patterns investigated from monthly girth records using dendrometer bands in a wet evergreen forest in India. Journal of Tropical Ecology, 16(3): 429-446.

13. Goreaud, F. & Pélissier, R. (1999) On explicit formulas of edge effect correction for Ripley’s K-function. Journal of Vegetation Science, 10(3): 433-438.

12. Gimaret-Carpentier, C., Pélissier, R., Pascal, J.-P. & Houllier, F. (1998) Sampling strategies for the assessment of tree species diversity. Journal of Vegetation Science, 9(2): 161-172.

11. Pascal, J.-P., Pélissier, R., Loffeier, E. & Ramesh, B.R. (1998) Floristic composition, structure, diversity, and dynamics of two evergreen forest plots in Karnataka State, India. Chapter 29, pp 507-519 in Dallmeier, F. & Comiskey, J.A. (Eds), Man And the Biosphere Series Vol. 20, Forest biodiversity research, monitoring and modeling: conceptual background and old word case studies. Smithonian Institution Press, Washington D.C., UNESCO, Paris and The Parthenon Publishing Group.

11. Pélissier, R., Pascal, J.-P., Houllier, F. & Laborde, H. (1998) Impact of selective logging on the dynamics of a low elevation dense moist evergreen forest in the Western Ghats (South India). Forest Ecology and Management, 105: 107-119.

9. Pélissier, R. (1998) Tree spatial patterns in three contrasting plots of a southern Indian tropical moist evergreen forest. Journal of Tropical Ecology, 14(1): 1-16.

8. Riéra, B., Pélissier, R. & Houllier, F. (1998) Caractérisation d’une mosaïque forestière et de sa dynamique en forêt tropicale humide sempervirente (English title: Characterizing a forest mosaic and its dynamics in an evergreen tropical rainforest). Biotropica, 30(2): 251-260.

7. Elouard, C., Houllier, F., Pascal, J.-P., Pélissier, R. & Ramesh, B. R. (1997) Dynamics of the dense moist evergreen forests - Long term monitoring of an experimental station in Kodagu District (Karnataka, India). Institut français de Pondichéry, Pondy Papers in Ecology, 1, 23 pp.

6. Elouard, C., Pélissier, R., Houllier, F., Pascal, J.-P., Durand, M., Aravajy, S., Gimaret-Carpentier, C., Moravie, M.-A. & Ramesh, B.R. (1997) Monitoring the structure and dynamics of a dense moist evergreen forest in the Western Ghats (Kodagu District, Karnataka, India). Tropical Ecology, 38(2):193-214.

5. Pélissier, R. (1997) Hétérogénéité spatiale et dynamique d’une forêt dense humide dans les Ghâts occidentaux de l’Inde (English title: Spatial heterogeneity anddynamics ina dense wet forest in the Western Ghats of India). Institut français de Pondichéry, Publications du département d'écologie, 37, 148 pp.

4. Pascal, J.-P. & Pélissier, R. (1996) Structure and floristic composition of a tropical evergreen forest in southwest India. Journal of Tropical Ecology, 12(2): 195-218.

1991-1995

3. Pélissier, R. (1995) Relations entre l'hétérogénéité spatiale et la dynamique de renouvellement d’une forêt dense humide sempervirente (Forêt d'Uppangala - Ghâts occidentaux de l’Inde). Thèse de Doctorat, Université Claude Bernard, Lyon. 143 pp.

2. Pélissier, R. & Riéra, B. (1993) Dix ans de dynamique d'une forêt dense humide de Guyane française (English title: Ten years of dynamics in a dense wet forest in French Guiana). Revue d'Ecologie (Terre et Vie), 48(1): 21-33.

1. Pélissier, R. (1991) Quantification de la dynamique et évolution de la structure d'une forêt dense humide de Guyane. Mémoire de DEA, Université Pierre et Marie Curie, Paris. 54 pp.