Dr. Soizig Le Stradic
Chair of Restoration Ecology
TUM School of Life Sciences
Technische Universität München
Emil-Ramann-Str. 6
85354 Freising
E-Mail: soizig.le-stradic[at]tum.de
Research interest
Key words: Community ecology, restoration ecology, functional ecology, conservation, root traits, tropical grassland and savanna, phenology, botany
My overall research since 10 years now, focuses on community ecology, restoration ecology and more recently on functional ecology. My main research themes concern the understanding of community assembly rules, the functioning of tropical grassland and savanna ecosystems and the study of the effects of land use changes, on the structure and functioning of plant communities. I am also interested in the assessment of plant community resilience face to anthropogenic pressures, the analysis and evaluation of ecological restoration techniques; and the understanding of ecological processes that may be limiting for the restoration of these plant communities. I currently use a more functional approach to understand the structure and functioning of tropical herbaceous communities.
So far, my work is done in basic ecology but is also strongly applied to the conservation and restoration of degraded habitats by human actions. My research has been largely done on tropical old-growth grasslands and savannas in Brazil and Democratic Republic of Congo.
My research currently addresses the relationships between vegetation and ecosystem functioning using a functional approach. I use, among other things, root functional traits to evaluate resource acquisition strategies, to analyze the impact of fire on underground biomass and to understand the links between root functional diversity and carbon storage in tropical open physiognomies.
Curiculum vitae
Juni 2019 Postdoc am Lehrstuhl für Wiederherstellungsökologie, Forschungsbereich Ökologie und Ökosystemmanagement, Technische Universität München (TUM), Freising, Deutschland
Jun 2018 – January 2019 Post-doctoral internship at the CEFE (Centre d’Ecologie Fonctionnelle et Evolutive), UMR 5175, Montpellier, France. pact of fire history on root architectural and morphological functional parameters in campo sujo communities
Nov 2016 –May 2019 Post-doctoral researcher at the State University of São Paulo, (Universidade Estadual Paulista – UNESP). Main investigator: Digging deeper: Contribution of belowground plant traits to the functioning of tropical old-growth grasslands Departamento de Botânica, Instituto de Biociências, UNESP Universidade Estadual Paulista, Rio Claro, São Paulo, Brasil.
Feb. 2016 – Oct. 2016 Post-doctoral researcher at the State University of São Paulo, (Universidade Estadual Paulista – UNESP). Participation to the project e-phenology: combining new technologies to monitor phenology from leaves to ecosystems Departamento de Botânica, Instituto de Biociências, UNESP Universidade Estadual Paulista, Rio Claro, São Paulo, Brasil
Mar. 2013 – Dec. 2015 Assistant Researcher at University of Liege, Gembloux Agro Bio Tech, Belgium. Project manager: Improvement of actions implemented to conserve and restore CuCo plant communities threatened by mining activities in Katanga (DRC). University of Liege, Gembloux Agro-Bio Tech, Biodiversity and Landscape Unit, Gembloux, Belgium.
Sep. 2008 – Dec. 2012 PhD in Ecology, University of Avignon & des Pays de Vaucluse (France) and the Federal University of Minas Gerais (Brazil). Thesis title: Composition, phenology and restoration of campo rupestre mountain grasslands, Brazil. Advisor: Dr. Elise Buisson & Pr. Geraldo Wilson Fernandes
2007 - 20082 nd year of the MSc in Ecology, Biodiversity, & Evolution, University Paris VI, Paris-sud 11, AgroParisTech & ENS Paris, France. Dissertation title: Reintroduction and effects on their environment of indigenous trees and shrubs of the Cerrado (Brazil), Institut Méditerranéen d’Ecologie et de Paléoécologie, Université d’Avignon et des Pays de Vaucluse (Aix-en-Provence, France) & LEEB (Laboratorio Ecologia Evolutiva Biodiversidade) Universidade Federal de Minas Gerais (Belo horizonte, Brazil).
2006 - 2007 1st year of the MSc in Biology of organisms, populations and ecosystems specializing in ecology, biodiversity and landscape ecology, University Rennes 1, France. Dissertation title: The uprooting resistance of plants in Alps gullies, CEMAGREF (Grenoble, France), département « écosystèmes montagnards ».
2003 - 2006 B.Sc. in biology with special emphasis on ecology, biodiversity, hydrogeology and evolution of species, University Bretagne Sud Vannes, France. Dissertation title: Assessment of the progress of the care seal center by a database analysis. Oceanopolis Mammal Research Laboratory, Océanopolis, Brest.
Publikationen
2019
Comment on ''The global tree restoration potential''
Staver, Nicola Stevens, Christopher J. Still, Caroline A. E. Strömberg, Vicky M. Temperton, J. Morgan Varner and Nicholas P., Francis E. Putz, Jayashree Ratnam, Mahesh Sankaran, Isabel B. Schmidt, Christine B. Schmitt, Fernando A. O. Silveira, A. Carla, Reed F. Noss, Colin P. Osborne, Gerhard E. Overbeck, Catherine L. Parr, Juli G. Pausas, R. Toby Pennington, Michael P. Perring, Hermann, William A. Hoffmann, Soizig Le Stradic, Caroline E. R. Lehmann, Gregory Mahy, Ashish N. Nerlekar, Jesse B. Nippert, John J. Ewel, G. Wilson Fernandes, Alessandra Fidelis, Forrest Fleischman, Stephen P. Good, Daniel M. Griffith, Julia-Maria, Boutton, Nina Buchmann, Elise Buisson, Josep G. Canadell, Michele de Sá Dechoum, Milton H. Diaz-Toribio, Giselda Durigan, Joseph. Science 366 (6463), eaay7976. DOI: 10.1126/science.aay7976
2018
Boisson S., Séleck M., Le Stradic S., Collignon J., Garin O., Malaisse F., Shutcha M., Mahy G. 2018. Using phytostabilisation to conserve threatened endemic species in southeastern Democratic Republic of the Congo. Ecological research. Published online. DOI: 10.1007/s11284-018-1604-2
Buisson E., Le Stradic S., Silveira F.A.O., Durigan G., Overbeck G.E., Fidelis A., Fernandes G.W., Bond W.J., Hermann J.M., Mahy G., Alvarado S.T., Zaloumis N.P., Veldman J.W. 2018. Resilience and restoration of tropical and subtropical grasslands, savannas, and grassy woodlands. Biological review. Published online .DOI : 10.1111/brv.12470
Le Stradic S., Fernandes G.W., Buisson E. 2018. No recovery of campo rupestre grasslands after gravel extraction: implications for conservation and restoration. Restoration Ecology. 26:151-159. DOI: 10.1111/rec.12713
Le Stradic S., Buisson E., Fernandes G.W., Morellato L.P.C. Reproductive phenology of two Neotropical mountain grasslands, Journal of Vegetation Science. 29:15–24. DOI :10.1111/jvs.12596
Le Stradic S., Hernandez P., Fernandes G.W., Buisson E. 2018 Regeneration after fire in campo rupestre: short- and long-term vegetation dynamics. Flora. 238 :191–200. DOI :10.1016/j.flora.2016.12.001
Gomes V.M., Negreiros D., Fernandes G.W., Pires A.C.V., Silva A.C.D.R., Le Stradic S. 2018. 8.5 years monitoring of shrub species translocation in degraded Neotropical mountain grassland, Restoration Ecology. 26: 91–96.
2017
Buisson E., Alvarado S.T., Le Stradic S., Morellato L.P.C. 2017 Plant phenological research enhances ecological restoration. Restoration Ecology. 25: 164–171. DOI : 10.1111/rec.12471
Boisson S., Faucon M.P., Le Stradic S., Lange B., Verbruggen N., Garin O., Tshomba W. A., Séleck M., Masengo Kalengo W., Ngoy Shutcha M. N., Mahy G. 2017. Specialized edaphic niches of threatened copper endemic plant species in the D.R. Congo: implications for ex situ conservation Plant & Soil. 413: 261–273. DOI : 10.1007/s11104-016-3095-7
Pierce S., Negreiros D., Cerabolini B.E.L., Kattge J., Díaz S., Kleyer M., Shipley B., Wright S.J., Soudzilovskaia N.A., Onipchenko V.G., van Bodegom P.M., Frenette?Dussault C., Weiher E., Pinho B.X., Cornelissen J.H.C., Grime J.P., Thompson K., Hunt R., Wilson P.J., Buffa G., Nyakunga O.C., Reich P.B., Caccianiga M., Mangili F., Ceriani R.M., Luzzaro A., Brusa G., Siefert A., Barbosa N.P.U., Chapin F.S., Cornwell W.K., Fang J., Fernandes G.W., Garnier E., Le Stradic S., Peñuelas J., Melo F.P.L., Slaviero A., Tabarelli M., Tampucci D. 2017. A global method for calculating plant CSR ecological strategies applied across biomes worldwide. Functional Ecology. 31: 444-457
2016
Negreiros D., Fernandes G. W., Efremova A. A., Le Stradic S., Neves A. C. O. 2016. Growth-survival trade-off in shrub saplings from Neotropical mountain grasslands. South African Journal of Botany. 106: 17–22
Faucon M-P., Le Stradic S., Boisson S., Ilunga wa Ilunga E., Séleck M., Lange B., Delhaye G., Shutcha M. N., Pourret O., Meerts P., Mahy G. 2016 Implication of Plant-soil Relationships for Conservation and Restoration of Copper-cobalt Ecosystems. Plant and Soil. 403: 153-165.
Boisson S., Le Stradic S., Commans M., Dumont A., Leclerc N., Thomas C., Mahy G. 2016. Copper tolerance of three Crotalaria species from southeastern D. R. Congo at the early development stage. Biotechnologie, Agronomie, Société, Environnement. 20: 151-160.
Le Stradic S., Séleck M., Lebrun J., Boisson S., Handjila G., Faucon M.P., Enk T., Mahy G. 2016. Comparison of translocation methods to conserve metallophyte communities in the Katangan Copperbelt, DRC. Environmental Science and Pollution Research, 23: 13681–13692.
Boisson S., Le Stradic S., Collignon J., Malaisse F., Shutcha M., Faucon M.P., Mahy G. 2016. Potential of copper tolerant grasses to implement phytostabilisation strategies on polluted soils in South D.R.Congo. Environmental Science and Pollution Research, 23: 13693–13705.
Veldman J.W., Overbeck G.E., Negreiros D., Mahy G., Le Stradic S., Fernandes G.W., Durigan G., Buisson E., Putz F.E. Bond W. 2015. Where Tree Planting and Forest Expansion are Bad for Biodiversity and Ecosystem Services. Bioscience, 65(10): 1011-1018.
Silveira F.A.O., Barbosa N.P.U, Buisson E., Carmo F.F., Carstensen D.W., Conceição A.A., Cornelissen T.G., Echternacht L., Fernandes GW, Garcia Q.S., Guerra T.J., Jacobi C.M., Lambers H., Lemos-Filho J.P., Le Stradic S., Morellato L.P.C., Negreiros D., Neves F.S., Oliveira R.S., Schaefer C.E., Viana P.L. 2016. Ecology and evolution of the endangered campos rupestres: a neglected biodiversity conservation priority. Plant and Soil, 403: 129-152.
2015
Le Stradic S., Buisson E., Fernandes G.W. 2015. Vegetation composition and structure of some Neotropical mountain grasslands in Brazil. Journal of Mountain Science. 12: 864-877.
Le Stradic S., Silveira F.A.O. Buisson E., Cazelles K., Carvalho V., Fernandes G.W. 2015. Diversity of germination strategies and dormancy of graminoid and forb species of campo rupestre grasslands. Austral Ecology. 40: 537–546.
Veldman J.W., Overbeck G.E., Negreiros D., Mahy G., Le Stradic S, Fernandes G.W., Durigan G., Buisson E., Putz F. E., Bond W.J. 2015. Tyranny of Trees in Global Climate Change Mitigation, Science, Letter. 347: 484-485.
Veldman J.W., Buisson E., Fernandes G.W., Durigan G., Le Stradic S., Mahy G., Negreiros D., Overbeck G.E., Veldman R.G., Zaloumis N.P., Putz F. E., Bond W.J. 2015. Toward and old-growth concept for grasslands, savannas, and woodlands. Frontiers in Ecology and the Environment, 13: 154–162.
2014
Negreiros D, Le Stradic S., Fernandes G.W., Renno H.C. 2014. CSR analysis of plant functional types in highly diverse tropical grasslands of harsh environments. Plant Ecology, 215 : 379-388.
Le Stradic S., Buisson E., Fernandes G.W. 2014. Restoration of neotropical grasslands degraded by quarrying using hay transfer. Applied Vegetation Science, 17: 482–492.
Le Stradic S., Buisson E., Campagne P., Negreiros D., Fernandes G.W. 2014. The role of native woody species in the restoration of Campos Rupestres in quarries. Applied Vegetation Science, 17: 109-120.
Root sample in Campo sujo, Cerrado, Itirapina, Brazil.
