Alain Franc, PhD, HDR, deputy head of Departement of Ecology of
Forests, Grasslands and Water systems at Inra. Located in Bordeaux, at
Reseatch unit "BioGeCo", for "Biodiversité, Gènes et
Communautés". Interests in linking simple but relevant mathematical
based modelling with biological diversity, which has a tendency to
escape models, both at macro and mesoscale. Modelling metapopulations,
and/or host-pathogen networks, with tools of graph theory. Interest in
the role of history and diffuse co-evolution in community
assembly. Recent interests in cophylogenies, with case studies between
trees and aphids.
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