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Nicolas Picard
Researcher at Food and Agriculture Organization
Publications - 160
Citations - 5184
Nicolas Picard is an academic researcher from Food and Agriculture Organization. The author has contributed to research in topics: Population & Forest inventory. The author has an hindex of 31, co-authored 148 publications receiving 4123 citations. Previous affiliations of Nicolas Picard include Centre de coopération internationale en recherche agronomique pour le développement & Tuscia University.
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Positive biodiversity-productivity relationship predominant in global forests
Jingjing Liang,Thomas W. Crowther,Nicolas Picard,Susan K. Wiser,Mo Zhou,Giorgio Alberti,Ernst Detlef Schulze,A. David McGuire,Fabio Bozzato,Hans Pretzsch,Sergio de-Miguel,Alain Paquette,Bruno Hérault,Michael Scherer-Lorenzen,Christopher B. Barrett,Henry B. Glick,Geerten M. Hengeveld,Gert-Jan Nabuurs,Sebastian Pfautsch,Helder Viana,Helder Viana,Alexander Christian Vibrans,Christian Ammer,Peter Schall,David David Verbyla,N. M. Tchebakova,Markus Fischer,James V. Watson,Han Y. H. Chen,Xiangdong Lei,Mart-Jan Schelhaas,Huicui Lu,Damiano Gianelle,Elena I. Parfenova,Christian Salas,Eungul Lee,Boknam Lee,Hyun-Seok Kim,Helge Bruelheide,David A. Coomes,Daniel Piotto,Terry Sunderland,Terry Sunderland,Bernhard Schmid,Sylvie Gourlet-Fleury,Bonaventure Sonké,Rebecca Tavani,Jun Zhu,Susanne Brandl,Jordi Vayreda,Fumiaki Kitahara,Eric B. Searle,Victor J. Neldner,Michael R. Ngugi,Christopher Baraloto,Christopher Baraloto,Lorenzo Frizzera,Radomir Bałazy,Jacek Oleksyn,Jacek Oleksyn,Tomasz Zawiła-Niedźwiecki,Olivier Bouriaud,Filippo Bussotti,Leena Finér,Bogdan Jaroszewicz,Tommaso Jucker,Fernando Valladares,Fernando Valladares,Andrzej M. Jagodziński,Pablo Luis Peri,Pablo Luis Peri,Pablo Luis Peri,Christelle Gonmadje,William Marthy,Timothy G. O'Brien,Emanuel H. Martin,Andrew R. Marshall,Francesco Rovero,Robert Bitariho,Pascal A. Niklaus,Patricia Alvarez-Loayza,Nurdin Chamuya,Renato Valencia,Frédéric Mortier,Verginia Wortel,Nestor L. Engone-Obiang,Leandro Valle Ferreira,David E. Odeke,R. Vásquez,Simon L. Lewis,Simon L. Lewis,Peter B. Reich,Peter B. Reich +92 more
TL;DR: A consistent positive concave-down effect of biodiversity on forest productivity across the world is revealed, showing that a continued biodiversity loss would result in an accelerating decline in forest productivity worldwide.
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Estimating tree biomass of sub-Saharan African forests: a review of available allometric equations.
Matieu Henry,Nicolas Picard,Carlo Trotta,Raphaël J. Manlay,Riccardo Valentini,Martial Bernoux,Laurent Saint-André +6 more
TL;DR: In this article, a Tier-method approach was developed to illustrate the possible use of the equations, and the analysis of the database highlighted important gaps in available tools to assess forest carbon stocks and changes in these stocks.
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Climatic controls of decomposition drive the global biogeography of forest-tree symbioses
Brian S. Steidinger,Thomas W. Crowther,Jingjing Liang,M. E. Van Nuland,Gijsbert D. A. Werner,Peter B. Reich,G. J. Nabuurs,Sergio de-Miguel,Mo Zhou,Nicolas Picard,Bruno Hérault,Xiuhai Zhao,Chunyu Zhang,Devin Routh,Kabir G. Peay +14 more
TL;DR: A spatially explicit global map of the symbiotic status of forests, using a database of over 1.1 million forest inventory plots that collectively contain over 28,000 tree species, reveals that climate variables are the primary drivers of the distribution of different types of symbiosis.
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The extent of forest in dryland biomes
Jean-François Bastin,Jean-François Bastin,Nora Berrahmouni,Alan Grainger,Danae Maniatis,Danae Maniatis,Danilo Mollicone,Rebecca Moore,Chiara Patriarca,Nicolas Picard,Ben Sparrow,Elena Maria Abraham,Kamel Aloui,Ayhan Ateşoğlu,Fabio Attore,Çağlar Bassüllü,Adia Bey,Monica Garzuglia,Luis G. García-Montero,Nikée Groot,Greg R. Guerin,Lars Laestadius,Andrew J. Lowe,Bako Mamane,Giulio Marchi,Paul L. Patterson,Marcelo Rezende,Stefano Ricci,Ignacio Salcedo,Alfonso Sanchez-Paus Díaz,Fred Stolle,Venera Surappaeva,Rene Castro +32 more
TL;DR: An estimate of global forest extent in dryland biomes is reported, based on analyzing more than 210,000 0.5-hectare sample plots through a photo-interpretation approach using large databases of satellite imagery at very high spatial resolution and very high temporal resolution, available through the Google Earth platform.
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Spatial validation reveals poor predictive performance of large-scale ecological mapping models.
Pierre Ploton,Frédéric Mortier,Maxime Réjou-Méchain,Nicolas Barbier,Nicolas Picard,Vivien Rossi,Carsten F. Dormann,Guillaume Cornu,Gaëlle Viennois,Nicolas Bayol,Alexei Lyapustin,Sylvie Gourlet-Fleury,Raphaël Pélissier +12 more
TL;DR: This study underscores how a common practice in big data mapping studies shows an apparent high predictive power, even when predictors have poor relationships with the ecological variable of interest, thus possibly leading to erroneous maps and interpretations.