Better management of water consumption and irrigation schedule in irrigated agriculture is essential in order to save water resources, especially at regional scales and under changing climatic conditions. In the context of water management, the aim of this study is to monitor irrigation activities by detecting the irrigation episodes at plot scale ...
In a perspective to develop an inversion approach for estimating surface soil moisture of crop fields from Sentinel-1/2 data (radar and optical sensors), the Water Cloud Model (WCM) was calibrated from C-band Synthetic Aperture Radar (SAR) data and Normalized Difference Vegetation Index (NDVI) values collected over crops fields and grasslands. The ...
Published in Cleveland Clinic quarterly
Dans un contexte d’accroissement des tensions sur les ressources en eau, la recherche d’une meilleure productivité agricole de l’eau d’irrigation amène à optimiser les calendriers d’arrosage en fonction des états hydriques des sols et des stades de développement de la culture. La télédétection spatiale permet aujourd’hui de fournir des informations...
Microbial communities drive soil organic matter (SOM) decomposition through the production of a variety of extracellular enzymes. Climate change impact on soil microbial communities and soil enzymatic activities can therefore strongly affect SOM turnover, and thereby determine the fate of ecosystems and their role as carbon sinks or sources.To simu...
Pour comprendre le processus de déforestation, nous proposons de le suivre sur 50 ans en reconstituant l'historique cultural annuel d'une population de parcelles limitée par des bassins versants depuis l'usage actuel jusqu'au premier défrichement de la forêt. En lisière de la forêt humide du sud-est malgache, le défrichement des versants est relié ...
A micrometeorological experiment was conducted over grasslands in a semi-arid region of north-eastern Brazil (São João, Pernambuco) from January to December 2011, using the Bowen ratio energy balance method, to improve the current understanding of energy partitioning and water vapour exchange over this ecosystem in this region. The objectives of th...
Dans la forêt de Mikea (sud-ouest de Madagascar), les ignames sauvages du genre Dioscorea sont l'aliment de base de la population autochtone. La réduction de la couverture forestière liée à la culture sur abattis-brûlis et la part accrue des ignames dans la diète alimentaire ont des impacts sur leur abondance et leurs lieux de prélèvements. Afin d'...
The objective of this study was to develop an approach for estimating soil moisture and vegetation parameters in irrigated grasslands by coupling C-band polarimetric Synthetic Aperture Radar (SAR) and optical data. A huge dataset of satellite images acquired from RADARSAT-2 and LANDSAT-7/8, and in situ measurements were used to assess the relevance...
Published in Annals of botany
Simple models of herbaceous plant growth based on optimal partitioning theory predict, at steady state, an isometric relationship between shoot and root biomass during plant ontogeny, i.e. a constant root-shoot ratio. This prediction has received mixed empirical support, suggesting either that optimal partitioning is too coarse an assumption to mod...
