Sylvain is a Senior Researcher in Forest Ecology at INRA (French National Institute for Agricultural Research, BIOGECO Unit). He works at the crossroads of plant ecology, physiology, and evolutionary biology. His primary research interest is the understanding of plant ecophysiological responses to environment changes. He set up the lab in 2006, when he was permanent lecturer at the University of Bordeaux.

Regis is engineer in Physics and was the first to join the lab in 2007. He developed the automatic version of the Cavitron and the CAVI1000 in collaboration with a local company, DG-Meca.

Gaelle joined the lab in January of 2013 after several years of running a molecular biology lab at the Fruit department of INRA. Since joining us, she has spent the last three years in managing the CAVIPLACE and performing vulnerability to cavitation curves.

Laurent joined the lab in January 2016. He completed his master’s degree in the lab in 2006 before crossing the Atlantic Ocean to deepen the study of invasive maple trees and complete his Ph.D. at York University, Toronto in the lab of Chris Lortie. He moved to Northern Quebec in 2013 to work on protection and sustainable development projects of the boreal forest (http://www.faunenord.org/), before joining the lab of Esther Lévesque at the Université du Québec à Trois-Rivières in 2015 as a postdoctoral associate to work on the shrubification of the Arctic. Laurent’s interests lay at the crossroads of plant ecology, ecophysiology and evolutionary biology. His research in the lab will be funded by the IdEx Bordeaux programme (http://idex.u-bordeaux.fr/) and will be cosupervised by Greg Gambetta from the Institut des Sciences de la Vigne et du Vin (http://www.isvv.univ-bordeauxsegalen.fr/en/).Laurent’s publications (per ResearchGate) https://www.researchgate.net/profile/Laurent_Lamarque2/contributions

Tree population responses to climate change: monitoring reproduction into the wild.
Activités de recherches
Key words: Trees’ reproduction – Masting – Fitness – Gradient of selection – Climate change
Phenology is a sensitive biosphere indicator of climate change. Although changes in vegetative phenology have considerable consequences for ecosystem functioning (Keeling et al 1996), we lack information on the response of reproductive phenology in forest trees to climate change. Yet, reproduction is one of the most important traits in determining plant fitness. Because the flowering and fruiting phenology of plants is sensitive to environmental cues such as temperature and moisture (Piovesan and Adams, 2001; Richardson et al 2005), climate change is likely to alter patterns of reproductive traits (Hedhly et al 2008).
My Ph.D. focuses on the ways that trees respond to environmental changes by understanding the sensitivity of reproduction to temperature. In order to figure out this, my interests lie at the intersection of functional ecology and evolutionary biology. I am interested in both the mechanisms that drive trees’ reproduction by studying masting process under climate change, and the genetic and phenotypic variability of several reproduction traits along environmental gradients.
Since 2014 I’ve been a Ph.D. student at INRA – UMR Biogeco and Bordeaux University in Ecology. I’m co-advised by Sylvain Delzon and Antoine Kremer.

Anne-Isabelle joined the lab in Sept 2017. She comes from Quebec and loves home made Poutine gravy.