Some of my mentors...
Sandra LAVOREL - Univ. Grenoble Alpes, Laboratoire d'Ecologie Alpine (LECA).
She is a specialist in functional ecology, particularly the ecology of mountain grasslands. she has also worked on shrub encroachment and its consequences. She is now working on the concepts of ecosystem services and nature's contribution to people.
Christophe CORONA - Univ. Grenoble Alpes, Laboratoire d'Ecologie Alpine (LECA).
His research uses trees as bioindicators of environmental change, focusing on dendrogeomorphology, dendroclimatology, dendroecology, and dendrogeochemistry to reconstruct past landscape dynamics, climate variability, plant responses to warming, and pollution histories.
Philippe CHOLER - Univ. Grenoble Alpes, Laboratoire d'Ecologie Alpine (LECA).
His research focuses on the structure, dynamics, and functioning of mountain grasslands, with a strong emphasis on whole-system approaches linking biodiversity, soils, climate, ecosystem functioning, and human activities. He currently investigates the greening of high-elevation ecosystems, its spatiotemporal variability, and its main drivers.
Main collaborators
Arthur BAYLE - Université de Genève, Climate Change Impacts and Risk in the Anthropocene (C-CIA)
Loïc FRANCON - Université Aix-Marseille, Institut Méditerranéen de Biodiversité et d'Ecologie marine et continentale (IMBE)
Supervised students
2025
Nastasja BACHELIER COURTIN – Multi-century reconstruction of temperature fluctuations in the southern Swiss Alps based on anatomical traits of Larix decidua at the treeline. Co-sup Christophe Corona (LECA)
Alwena REQUINTEL – Multi-century reconstruction of temperature fluctuations in the southern Swiss Alps based on anatomical traits of Pinus Cembra at the treeline. Co-sup Christophe Corona (LECA)
Matilda TAMALOUT – Dendroecological analysis of climatic drivers of growth in common juniper (Juniperus communis) and dwarf willow (Salix serpyllifolia) near the Col du Lautaret (French Alps).
2024
Charlotte COLIN – Quantitative analysis of wood anatomy in three conifers from the treeline in the Swiss Alps.
Florian CARRIERE – Study of the spatiotemporal expansion of juniper shrublands in a context of global change. Case study near the Col du Lautaret, France.
Elise ZEHNDER – Dendrochronological study of juniper in the Alps: understanding its growth response to climate change. Case study in Ristolas, Queyras, France.
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