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2020
Doctoral thesis
Ecologie fonctionnelle des communautés graminéennes des formations herbeuses des hauts plateaux centraux de Madagascar.
Solofondranohatra, Cedrique Lova
Root systems, Madagascar, Savannas, Grasslands, Poaceae, Plant anatomy, Uplands, Fire ecology, Functional traits, Grazing, and Grasses
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2017
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2021
Master's dissertation
A taxonomic revision of the genus Hydnora (Hydnoroideae, Aristolochiaceae).
Hatt, Sebastian
Host range, Hydnora, Taxonomy, and Holoparasites
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2021
Master's dissertation
Evaluation de l'influence du feu et du pâturage sur la production des savanes de la commune rurale d'Ibity région des hauts plateaux du Vakinankarata de Madagascar.
Ralainarivo, Faratiana Narindra
Fire ecology, Dissertations, Pasture ecology, Madagascar, Savannas, Ibity (Madagascar), and Savanna ecology
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2021
Master's dissertation
Exploring the potential of opportunistic surveys and sequence databases: revealing the fungal diversity of Madagascar and the arrival of ectomycorrhizal fungi in the island.
Rivas-Ferreiro, Mauro
Sequence databases, Fungal diversity , Madagascar, Opportunistic surveys , and Ectomycorrhizal fungi
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2019
Doctoral thesis
Automating the construction of higher order data representations from heterogeneous biodiversity datasets
Datasets created from large-scale specimen digitisation drive biodiversity research, but these are often heterogeneous: incomplete and fragmented. As aggregated data volumes increase, there have been calls to develop a “biodiversity knowledge graph” to better interconnect the data and support meta-analysis, particularly relating to the process of species description. This work...Nicolson, Nicky
Machine learning, Biodiversity informatics, Clustering, Specimen digitisation, and Record linkage
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2018
Doctoral thesis
Phytogeography and the stoichiometric niche: exploring their interplay in Sulawesi
The Indonesian island of Sulawesi is comprised of a mosaic of soil types including the largest ultramafic outcrops in the tropics (ultramafic soils are macronutrient low and phytotoxic heavy metal rich). The island’s ontogeny is also distinctive, whereby it has formed only recently < 2 million years ago via agglomeration...Trethowan, Liam A.