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Author Boulogne, I.; Constantino, R.; Amusant, N.; Falkowski, M.; Rodrigues, A.M.S.; Houel, E. doi  openurl
  Title Ecology of termites from the genus Nasutitermes (Termitidae: Nasutitermitinae) and potential for science-based development of sustainable pest management programs Type Journal Article
  Year 2017 Publication Journal of Pest Science Abbreviated Journal Journal of Pest Science  
  Volume 90 Issue 1 Pages 19-37  
  Keywords Antimicrobial and insecticidal botanical extracts; Ipm; Nasutitermes corniger; Sustainable management; Taxonomic history; Termitidae  
  Abstract The genus Nasutitermes is among the most abundant wood-feeding Termitidae and an extremely diverse and heterogeneous group in terms of its biogeography and morphology. Despite the major role of several Nasutitermes species as structural pests, the phylogenetic status of this genus is still unclear, along with a confused taxonomy and species identification remaining difficult. The first aim of this review was thus to gather and discuss studies concerning the taxonomic status of the genus Nasutitermes in order to clarify this crucial point. Then, our goal was to gain new insights into the management of N. corniger, considered to be the most economically detrimental pest of this genus in South America and a Nasutitermes model species, while filtering available information concerning its biology through the prism of termite control, as well as critically examine the existing methods. We indeed strongly believe that increasing our knowledge of this species’ biological strategies is the key to progress in the challenging question of their sustainable management. © 2016, Springer-Verlag Berlin Heidelberg.  
  Address Laboratoire de Biodiversité et Biotechnologies Microbiennes (LBBM), Observatoire Océanologique, Sorbonne Universités, Université Pierre et Marie Curie, CNRS, Banyuls/Mer, France  
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Author Stahl, C.; Freycon, V.; Fontaine, S.; Dezecache, C.; Ponchant, L.; Picon-Cochard, C.; Klumpp, K.; Soussana, J.-F.; Blanfort, V. doi  openurl
  Title Soil carbon stocks after conversion of Amazonian tropical forest to grazed pasture: importance of deep soil layers Type Journal Article
  Year 2016 Publication Regional Environmental Change Abbreviated Journal  
  Volume 16 Issue 7 Pages 2059-2069  
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  Abstract Recent studies suggest that carbon (C) is stored in the topsoil of pastures established after deforestation. However, little is known about the long-term capacity of tropical pastures to sequester C in different soil layers after deforestation. Deep soil layers are generally not taken into consideration or are underestimated when C storage is calculated. Here we show that in French Guiana, the C stored in the deep soil layers contributes significantly to C stocks down to a depth of 100 cm and that C is sequestered in recalcitrant soil organic matter in the soil below a depth of 20 cm. The contribution of the 50–100 cm soil layer increased from 22 to 31 % with the age of the pasture. We show that long-term C sequestration in C4 tropical pastures is linked to the development of C3 species (legumes and shrubs), which increase both inputs of N into the ecosystem and the C:N ratio of soil organic matter. The deep soil under old pastures contained more C3 carbon than the native forest. If C sequestration in the deep soil is taken into account, our results suggest that the soil C stock in pastures in Amazonia would be higher with sustainable pasture management, in particular by promoting the development of legumes already in place and by introducing new species.  
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Author Yamamoto, H.; Almeras, T. doi  openurl
  Title A mathematical verification of the reinforced-matrix hypothesis using the Mori-Tanaka theory Type Journal Article
  Year 2007 Publication Journal of Wood Science Abbreviated Journal J. Wood Sci.  
  Volume 53 Issue 6 Pages 505-509  
  Keywords Engineering  
  Abstract This article presents a theoretical verification of the reinforced-matrix hypothesis derived from tensor equations, σ W = σ f + σ m and ε W = ε f = ε m (Wood Sci Technol 32:171–182, 1998; Wood Sci Technol 33:311–325, 1999; J Biomech Eng 124:432–440, 2002), using classical Mori-Tanaka theory on the micromechanics of fiber-reinforced materials (Acta Metall 21:571–574, 1973; Micromechanics — dislcation and inclusions (in Japanese), pp 141–147, 1976). The Mori-Tanaka theory was applied to a small fragment of the cell wall undergoing changes in its physical state, such as those arising from sorption of moisture, maturation of wall components, or action of an external force, to obtain ⟨σ A⟩D = ϕ·⟨σ F⟩I + (1−ϕ)·⟨σ M⟩D−I. When the constitutive equation of each constituent material was applied to the equation ⟨σ A⟩D = ϕ·⟨σ F⟩I + (1−ϕ)·⟨σ M⟩D−I, the equations σ W = σ f + σ m and ε W = ε f = ε m were derived to lend support to the concept that two main phases, the reinforcing cellulose microfibril and the lignin-hemicellulose matrix, coexist in the same domain. The constitutive equations for the cell wall fragment were obtained without recourse to additional parameters such as Eshelby’s tensor S and Hill’s averaged concentration tensors AF and AM. In our previous articles, the coexistence of two main phases and σ W = σ f + σ m and ε W = ε f =ε m had been taken as our starting point to formulate the behavior of wood fiber with multilayered cell walls. The present article provides a rational explanation for both concepts.  
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Author Gonzalès-Melo, Andrès ; Posada, Juan Manuel ; Beauchêne, Jacques ; Lehnebach, Romain ; Leviennois, Sébastien ; Rivera, Katherine ; Clair, Bruno doi  openurl
  Title Radial variations in wood functional traits in a rain forest from eastern Amazonia Type Journal Article
  Year 2021 Publication Trees Abbreviated Journal  
  Volume 36 Issue Pages 569–581  
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  Abstract Trees can modify their wood structure in response to changes in mechanical, hydraulic and storage demands during their life-cycles. Thus, examining radial variations in wood traits is important to expand our knowledge of tree functioning and species ecological strategies. Yet, several aspects of radial changes in wood functional traits are still poorly understood, especially in angiosperm trees from tropical humid forests. Here, we examined radial shifts in wood traits in trunks of tropical forest species and explored their potential ecological implications. We first examined radial variations in wood specific gravity (WSG). Then, we asked what anatomical traits drove radial variations in WSG, and whether WSG, vessel fraction and specific hydraulic conductivity vary independently from each other along the radius gradients. We measured WSG and eight wood anatomical traits, at different radial positions along the trunks, in 19 tree species with contrasting shade-tolerance from a lowland tropical forest in eastern Amazonia. Most species had significant radials shifts in WSG. Positive radial gradients in WSG (i.e., increments from pith to bark) were common among shade-intolerant species and were explained by different combinations of fiber and parenchyma traits, while negative radial shifts in WSG (e.g., decreases towards the bark) were present in shade-tolerants, but were generally weakly related to anatomical traits. We also found that, in general, WSG was unrelated to vessel fraction and specific hydraulic conductivity in any radial position. This study illustrates the contrasting radial variations in wood functional traits that occur in tree species from a humid lowland tropical forest. In particular, our results provide valuable insights into the anatomical traits driving WSG variations during tree development. These insights are important to expand our knowledge on tree ecological strategies by providing evidence on how wood allocation varies as trees grow, which in turn can be useful in studying trait-demography associations, and in estimating tree above-ground biomass.  
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Author Hein, P.R.G.; Chaix, G.; Clair, B.; Brancheriau, L.; Gril, J. doi  openurl
  Title Spatial variation of wood density, stiffness and microfibril angle along Eucalyptus trunks grown under contrasting growth conditions Type Journal Article
  Year 2016 Publication Trees – Structure and Function Abbreviated Journal  
  Volume 30 Issue 3 Pages 871-882  
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  Abstract Sloped terrains tend to produce trees with higher radial variation in wood density while at high wind speeds, the wood tends to present higher stiffness and lower MFA in Eucalyptus.  
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Author Schmitt, Sylvain ; Derroire, Géraldine ; Tysklind, Niklas ; Heuertz, Myriam ; Hérault, Bruno doi  openurl
  Title Topography shapes the local coexistence of tree species within species complexes of Neotropical forests Type Journal Article
  Year 2021 Publication Oecologia Abbreviated Journal  
  Volume 196 Issue Pages 389-398  
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  Abstract Forest inventories in Amazonia include around 5000 described tree species belonging to more than 800 genera. Numerous species-rich genera share genetic variation among species because of recent speciation and/or recurrent hybridisation, forming species complexes. Despite the key role that tree species complexes play in understanding Neotropical diversification, and their need to exploit a diversity of niches, little is known about the mechanisms that allow local coexistence of tree species complexes and their species in sympatry. In this study, we explored the fine-scale distribution of five tree species complexes and 22 species within these complexes. Combining forest inventories, botanical determination, and LiDAR-derived topographic data over 120 ha of permanent plots in French Guiana, we used a Bayesian modelling framework to test the role of fine-scale topographic wetness and tree neighbourhood on the occurrence of species complexes and the relative distribution of species within complexes. Species complexes of Neotropical trees were widely spread across the topographic wetness gradient at the local scale. Species within complexes showed pervasive niche differentiation along with topographic wetness and competition gradients. Similar patterns of species-specific habitat preferences were observed within several species complexes: species more tolerant to competition for resources grow in drier and less fertile plateaus and slopes. If supported by partial reproductive isolation of species and adaptive introgression at the species complex level, our results suggest that both species-specific habitat specialisation within species complexes and the broad ecological distribution of species complexes might explain the success of these species complexes at the regional scale.  
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Author Salas-Lopez, A.; Mickal, H.; Menzel, F.; Orivel, J. doi  openurl
  Title Ant-mediated ecosystem processes are driven by trophic community structure but mainly by the environment Type Journal Article
  Year 2017 Publication Oecologia Abbreviated Journal Oecologia  
  Volume 183 Issue 1 Pages 249-261  
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  Abstract The diversity and functional identity of organisms are known to be relevant to the maintenance of ecosystem processes but can be variable in different environments. Particularly, it is uncertain whether ecosystem processes are driven by complementary effects or by dominant groups of species. We investigated how community structure (i.e., the diversity and relative abundance of biological entities) explains the community-level contribution of Neotropical ant communities to different ecosystem processes in different environments. Ants were attracted with food resources representing six ant-mediated ecosystem processes in four environments: ground and vegetation strata in cropland and forest habitats. The exploitation frequencies of the baits were used to calculate the taxonomic and trophic structures of ant communities and their contribution to ecosystem processes considered individually or in combination (i.e., multifunctionality). We then investigated whether community structure variables could predict ecosystem processes and whether such relationships were affected by the environment. We found that forests presented a greater biodiversity and trophic complementarity and lower dominance than croplands, but this did not affect ecosystem processes. In contrast, trophic complementarity was greater on the ground than on vegetation and was followed by greater resource exploitation levels. Although ant participation in ecosystem processes can be predicted by means of trophic-based indices, we found that variations in community structure and performance in ecosystem processes were best explained by environment. We conclude that determining the extent to which the dominance and complementarity of communities affect ecosystem processes in different environments requires a better understanding of resource availability to different species.  
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Author Zhang, T.; Bai, S.L.; Zhang, Y.F.; Thibaut, B. doi  openurl
  Title Viscoelastic properties of wood materials characterized by nanoindentation experiments Type Journal Article
  Year 2012 Publication Wood Science and Technology Abbreviated Journal Wood Sci. Technol.  
  Volume 46 Issue 5 Pages 1003-1016  
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Author Lang, G.; Marcon, E.; Puech, F. doi  openurl
  Title Distance-based measures of spatial concentration: introducing a relative density function Type Journal Article
  Year 2020 Publication Annals of Regional Science Abbreviated Journal Ann. Reg. Sci.  
  Volume 64 Issue 2 Pages 243-265  
  Keywords Agglomeration; Aggregation; Economic geography; Point patterns; Spatial concentration; accuracy assessment; econometrics; economic activity; economic geography; industrial agglomeration; industrial location; location decision; spatial analysis; spatial distribution  
  Abstract For more than a decade, distance-based methods have been widely employed and constantly improved in spatial economics. These methods are a very useful tool for accurately evaluating the spatial distribution of economic activity. We introduce a new distance-based statistical measure for evaluating the spatial concentration of industries. The m function is the first relative density function to be proposed in economics. This tool supplements the typology of distance-based methods recently drawn up by Marcon and Puech (J Econ Geogr 3(4):409–428, 2003). By considering several simulated and real examples, we show the advantages and the limits of the m function for detecting spatial structures in economics. © 2019, Springer-Verlag GmbH Germany, part of Springer Nature.  
  Address RITM, Univ. Paris-Sud, Université Paris-Saclay and CREST, Sceaux, France  
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Author Dejean, A.; Azémar, F.; Libert, M.; Compin, A.; Herault, B.; Orivel, J.; Bouyer, T.; Corbara, B. doi  openurl
  Title Ant-lepidopteran associations along African forest edges Type Journal Article
  Year 2017 Publication The Science of Nature Abbreviated Journal  
  Volume 104 Issue 1 Pages 7  
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  Abstract Working along forest edges, we aimed to determine how some caterpillars can co-exist with territorially dominant arboreal ants (TDAAs) in tropical Africa. We recorded caterpillars from 22 lepidopteran species living in the presence of five TDAA species. Among the defoliator and/or nectarivorous caterpillars that live on tree foliage, the Pyralidae and Nymphalidae use their silk to protect themselves from ant attacks. The Notodontidae and lycaenid Polyommatinae and Theclinae live in direct contact with ants; the Theclinae even reward ants with abundant secretions from their Newcomer gland. Lichen feeders (lycaenid; Poritiinae), protected by long bristles, also live among ants. Some lycaenid Miletinae caterpillars feed on ant-attended membracids, including in the shelters where the ants attend them; Lachnocnema caterpillars use their forelegs to obtain trophallaxis from their host ants. Caterpillars from other species live inside weaver ant nests. Those of the genus Euliphyra (Miletinae) feed on ant prey and brood and can obtain trophallaxis, while those from an Eberidae species only prey on host ant eggs. Eublemma albifascia (Erebidae) caterpillars use their thoracic legs to obtain trophallaxis and trophic eggs from ants. Through transfer bioassays of last instars, we noted that herbivorous caterpillars living in contact with ants were always accepted by alien conspecific ants; this is likely due to an intrinsic appeasing odor. Yet, caterpillars living in ant shelters or ant nests probably acquire cues from their host colonies because they were considered aliens and killed. We conclude that co-evolution with ants occurred similarly in the Heterocera and Rhopalocera.  
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