Juliana Prosperi

• French Agricultural Research Centre for International Development

Mangroves are defined as assemblages of salt tolerant trees and shrubs that grow in the intertidal regions of the tropical and subtropical coastlines. The word mangrove comes from the Portuguese word mangue for “tree” and the English word grove for “a stand of trees,” referring to the dominant trees and to the entire plant community. They provide a...

The Mangrove ecosystem offers a range of benefits and opportunities for local and national economic development such as fisheries, shoreline stability, and resource sustainability hence they should be protected and conserved. In Kenya Mangroves were declared government reserve forests by the Proclamation No. 44 of 30th April 1932, and later by Lega...

Preserving tropical vegetation biomes stems with an accurate identification of constituent plant species. In Asia, identifying mangrove plant species is particularly required in biodiversity assessment, restoration or preservation programs, which are pivotal components of the ecosystem's preservation from unsustainable anthropogenic activities. The...

The flora of Laos remains one of the least known within the Indo-Burma biodiversity hotspot. A floristic inventory was carried out in Phou Hin Poun National Biodiversity Conservation Area, an under-explored area of the Khammouane Limestone. This study provides a list of 27 taxa that are additions to the most recent country checklists. The Ebenaceae...

Revegetation of abandoned aquaculture regions should be a priority for any integrated coastal zone management (ICZM). This paper examines the potential of a matchless time series of 20 very high spatial resolution (VHSR) optical satellite images acquired for mapping trends in the evolution of mangrove forests from 2001 to 2015 in an estuary fragmen...

Mapping zonations of mangrove species (ZMS) is important when assessing the functioning of such specific ecosystems. However, the reproducibility of remote sensing methods for discriminating and mapping mangrove habitats is often overstated due to the lack of temporal observations. Here, we investigated the potential use of temporal series of high-...

Mapping zonations of mangrove species (ZMS) is important when assessing the functioning of such specific ecosystems. However, the reproducibility of remote sensing methods for discriminating and mapping mangrove habitats is often overstated due to the lack of temporal observations. Here, we investigated the potential use of temporal series of high-...

Google apps to identify the tree species in the evergreen forests of the Western Ghats Download link: https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.ifp.biotik&hl=en OR in iTunes https://itunes.apple.com/fj/app/western-ghats-tree-id-biotik/id1085561257?mt=8

Mangrove restoration has been attempted in the 7 km² Perancak Estuary, Bali since the 90's following shrimp farming loss of profitability. We characterized the surface types of estuarine zone and monitored mangrove changes since 2001 using a series of 20 very high resolution satellite images acquired over the estuary. Mangrove development was furth...

There is a need to document how fast mangrove coasts are changing. Within the framework of the INDESO project, we are implementing methods for monitoring changes in Indonesian mangroves over the past decade. The Perancak river estuary, Jembrana, Bali was selected as a pilot site to analyze the impact of aquaculture and plantation practices in a 7 k...

Sustainable management of mangroves depends on our ability to maintain ecosystem functions. It requires a careful monitoring of several forest characteristics such as the species composition. Very high resolution multispectral satellite images provide pivotal information at the individual tree scale that may support identification and mapping of sp...

Very high resolution (VHR) satellite images provide crucial information on fast changing coastal regions of the world. Within the framework of the INDESO project, we designed a specific application dedicated to the monitoring of mangroves in Indonesia. In this work, we focused on the case study of the Perancak river estuary, Jembrana, Bali. The est...

A striking feature of early angiosperm lineages is the variety of life forms and growth forms, which ranges from herbs, aquatic herbs, climbers, and epiphytes to woody shrubs and trees. This morphological and anatomical diversity is arguably one of the factors explaining how angiosperms dominate many ecosystems worldwide. However, just how such a w...

Identification of crop weeds is essential to get the information needed for elaborating efficient control methods. Non specialised people had difficulties to do this identification with classical tools, such as floras or field guides (too technical, unsuitable for seedlings or partial samples, process difficult to follow...). That brought us to dev...

About ten percent of all vascular plant species world-wide are epiphytes and they are almost exclusively found in tropical forests. Therefore, they constitute a large part of the global plant biodiversity (10% of all species), and in tropical countries represent up to 25% of all vascular plant species. Focusing on the differences between epiphytes...

Although poorly known and often neglected life forms, lianas and hemiepiphytes are frequently found in tropical canopies. Lianas (such as rattans) and hemiepiphytes (such as Ficus) are specialized life forms of the canopy that share a number of similarities, including spatial conditions and the requirement of a host plant. To better understand the...

An architectural analysis of 3 Guianese species of hemi-epiphytes (Clusia cuneata, Clusiaceae, Ficus nymphaeifolia and Coussapoa latifolia, Moraceae) has been undertaken in order to determine the role of shoot reiteration in hemi-epiphyte plant construction and how it is related to spatial relationship with the host-tree crown. Two different patter...