Jun 15
Scots pine twigs were collected from May 31 to June 10, 2021 on OPTMix plots. These samples correspond to the end of the campaign carried out in 2020 as part of the Isy-BIOC project wich aimed at studying carbon fluxes and nutrient cycling in the forest ecosystem
May 15
As part of Juliette Brunaud’s Master 2 internship, a new protocol for monitoring the regeneration of sessile oak and Scots pine was developed. The objective of this new protocol was to estimate diameter and height annual increments for individuals between 30 and 60 cm in height. The first campaign was carried out in spring 2021.
May 15
As part of the ISY-BIOC project and Marine Fernandez’s post-doctorate, a dead wood inventory was carried out in the experimental plots in spring 2021. The objectives of this inventory were: – to quantify the dead wood on the forest ground; – to calculate the wood biomass on the ground and therefore the corresponding carbon stock. …
Jan 28
An article has just been published in the “Agricultural and Forest Meteorology” journal presenting the influence of Scots pine on sessile oak spring phenology. The authors showed that budburst date of Quercus petraea is delayed in mixed stands with Pinus sylvestris. The article is available until March 16, 2021 here: https://authors.elsevier.com/a/1cTfucFXJZ1AV Summary: Climate change is …
Jan 28
The annual meeting of the project took place on 14 January, 2021 at INRAE, research unit EFNO, Nogent-sur-Vernisson, France. The meeting was held by videoconference. The morning was devoted to oral presentations. For the French versions of the presentations, please contact Nathalie Korboulewsky (see contact page).
Jan 15
An article has been published in the “Forest Ecology and Management” journal presenting the influence of tree species and mixture on soil organic carbon storage. Part of the data used in the article comes from the OPTMix plots (see article here). Osei, R., H. Titeux, K. Bielak, F. Bravo, C. Collet, C. Cools, J.-T. Cornelis, …
Jan 15
An article has been published in “Forest Ecology and Management” presenting the effect of tree species mixture on Collembola diversity and community structure in temperate broadleaf and coniferous forests. OPTMix device was one of the two study sites of this work : Korboulewsky, N., C. Heiniger, S. De Danieli and J. J. Brun (2021). « Effect …
Jun 02
Bernard BENET (INRAE ROMEA Robotics team, Clermont-Ferrand), Anders MÅRELL (INRAE UR EFNO, Nogent-sur-Vernisson) and Yves BOSCARDIN (INRAE UR EFNO, Nogent-sur-Vernisson) have just published an article in “Le Cahier des Techniques INRAE” on the use of artificial intelligence techniques for detecting animals in forest: The article can be downloaded here: https://www6.inrae.fr/cahier_des_techniques/Les-Cahiers-parus/Les-N-reguliers/2020/Cahier-N-101/Art1-ct101-2020 Abstract: An artificial vision …
Feb 03
The presentations made during the OPTMix annual meeting on January 9 and 10, 2020 are available by clicking on the download link below for a period of 30 days: https://filesender.renater.fr/?s=download&token=ff89292b-0b68-38ae-5774-2ceff14b74a4
Jan 08
The annual meeting of the project will take place on 9, 10 and 13 January, 2020 at Irstea (INRAE) Nogent-sur-Vernisson. French version of the meeting annoucement and full program for the 9 and 10 of january
