Prof.  Jean-luc  Maeght
Institute of Ecology and Environmental Sciences,  France

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Biography:

Over the last 30 years, I have worked at national and international levels, in several countries (France, Lao P.D.R., Mauritania, Senegal, Thailand, Vietnam), in multi-disciplinary teams, in agronomy, fields soil conservation, soil salinization, biophysic, Ecology and natural resource. I have worked also on scientific instrumentation and experimental techniques on root images acquisitions.

Key Qualifications:

- Soil science and bio-physic: Physicochemical characteristics of the soil, hydrological assessment, study of degraded and submerged soil.

- Plant ecology: Rice crop, Rubber tree, Teak tree, Roots development on Forestry and Agroforestry.

- Engendering:      Root images process, data acquisition and automatic transfer. (data logger, sensors)

My current activities on team research interests include (i) investigating the links between land use, root growth dynamics and soil erosion in the mountain environments of Northern Lao P.D.R. and Northern Vietnam, (ii) understanding root-soil interactions and crop-intercrop competition processes in rubber tree plantations of NE Thailand and agroforestry system in France, (iii) investigating the long term impact of agricultural practices and drought on under teak plantation, in Northern Lao P.D.R. and on land use change from cultivated to natural re-growth vegetation in Northern Vietnam. (h-index WoS =12) with more than 500 citations on research.