Alain Vanderpoorten

About me



Alain Vanderpoorten is a research leader for FNRS and one of the two leaders of the lab. He has been developing a lab and team mainly focusing on the ecological and historical biogeography of bryophytes through a wide range of approaches including ecological modeling, molecular phylogenetics, and population genetics. Using the Macaronesian islands as a model, he addresses in particular the question of whether bryophyte’s high dispersal ability affects the application of major biological, biogeographical and ecological rules and concept in the group.

Publications

Patterns and drivers of beta diversity across geographic scales and lineages in the Macaronesian flora

2023. Lea Mouton, Jairo Patiño, Mark Carine, Fred Rumsey, Miguel Menezes de Sequeira, Juana María González-Mancebo, Rosalina Maria de Almeida Gabriel, Olivier J. Hardy, Manuela Sim-Sim, J. Alfredo Reyes-Betancort, Flavien Collart, Alain Vanderpoorten. Journal of Biogeography
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Disentangling climate change from air pollution effects on epiphytic bryophytes

2023. Virginie Hutsemékers, Lea Mouton, Hannah Westenbohm, Flavien Collart, Alain Vanderpoorten. Global Change Biology
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Disentangling the roles of chance, abiotic factors and biotic interactions among epiphytic bryophyte communities in a tropical rainforest (Yunnan, China)

2023. Shen T., Song L., Corlett R.T., Guisan A., Wang J., Ma W.-Z., Mouton L., VanderpoortenA., Collart F. Plant Biology
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Microclimatic variations in tropical canopies: a glimpse into the processes of community assembly in epiphytic bryophyte communities

2022. Ting Shen,Richard Corlett,Flavien Collart,Thibault Kasprzyk,Xin-Lei Guo,Jairo Patiño,Yang Su,Olivier Hardy,Wen-Zhang Ma,Jian Wang,Yu-Mei Wei,Léa Mouton,Yuan Li,Liang Song, Alain Vanderpoorten Authorea
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What makes a good phorophyte? Predicting occupancy, species richness and abundance of vascular epiphytes in a lowland seasonal tropical forest

2022. Shen, T., Song, L., Collart, F., Guisan, A., Su, Y., Hu, H. -X., Wu Y, Dong, J. -L. & Vanderpoorten, A. Frontiers in Forests and Global Change, 5, 1007473.
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