My research focuses on the functional strategies of plants and their responses to climate change. I have mainly worked on the ecology of tropical tree communities in French Guiana, using an original approach that combines tree ecophysiology and microbial ecology.  I have also studied the hydraulic functioning of grasses, differenciating between C3 and C4 crop species. My postdoctoral project at the CEFE will be to understand how global warming will affect mountain plant communities through the lens of their functional traits.

Contact information: 

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ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-4998-8956

Background:

 2024-2025. Postdoc. Leaf and root hydraulic trait coordination in C3 and C4 Poaceae species.

(California State University, Los Angeles, USA). Supervisor: Christine Scoffoni.

 2020-2023. PhD. Functional strategies and microbiota of tropical tree species in the context of climate change. (University of French Guiana and UMR EcoFoG, Kourou). Supervisors: Heidy Schimann, Sabrina Coste, Clément Stahl. 

Publication:

Schmitt, S., Fischer, F., Ball, J., Barbier, N., Boisseaux, M., Bonal, D., Burban, B., Chen, X., Derroire, G., Lichstein, J., Nemetschek, D., Restrepo-Coupe, N., Saleska, S., Sellan, G., Verley, P., Vincent, G., Ziegler, C., Chave, J., and Maréchaux, I.: TROLL 4.0: representing water and carbon fluxes, leaf phenology, and intraspecific trait variation in a mixed-species individual-based forest dynamics model – Part 2: Model evaluation for two Amazonian sites,  Geosci. Model Dev., 18, 5205–5243, https://doi.org/10.5194/gmd-18-5205-2025, 2025.

Krebber D., Fortunel C., Marcon E., Boisseaux M., Stahl C., Coste S., Auer J., Dardevet E., Badouard V., Ziegler C., Levionnois S., Wanek W., Aubry-Kientz M. and Derroire, G. Love thy neighbour? Trait hierarchies and dissimilarities at the neighbourhood scale can modulate tropical tree response to climate anomalies. Ecology letters https://doi.org/10.1111/ele.70028

Boisseaux, M., Nemetschek, D., Baraloto, C., Burban, B., Casado-Garcia, A., Cazal, J., Clément, J., Derroire, G., Fortunel, C., Goret, J.-Y., Heras, J., Jaouen, G., Maréchaux, I., Scoffoni, C., Vieilledent, G., Vleminckx, J., Coste, S., Schimann, H., & Stahl, C. (2024). Shifting trait coordination along a soil-moisture-nutrient gradient in tropical forests. Functional Ecology, 00, 1–17. https://doi.org/10.1111/1365-2435.14679

Boisseaux, M., V. Troispoux, A. Bordes, J. Cazal, S.-O. Cazal, S. Coste, C. Stahl, and H. Schimann. 2024. Are plant traits drivers of endophytic communities in seasonally flooded tropical forests? American Journal of Botany e16366. https://doi.org/10.1002/ajb2.16366

 Nemetschek D., Derroire G., Marcon E., Aubry-Kientz M., Badouard V., Baraloto C., Bauman D., Le Blaye Q.,  Boisseaux M., Bonal D., Coste S., Dardevet E., Heuret P., Hietz P.,  Levionnois S., Maréchaux I., McMahon S., Stahl C., Vlemicks J., Wanek W., Ziegler C., and Fortunel C.  (2024) Climate anomalies and neighbourhood crowding interact in shaping tree growth in old-growth and selectively logged tropical forests. Journal of Ecology, 00,  1–23. https://doi.org/10.1111/1365-2745.14256

Boisseaux M. & Schmitt S. Higher local intra- than inter-specific variability in water and carbon related leaf traits among Neotropical tree species Annals of botany, Volume 131, Issue 5, 11 April 2023, Pages 801-811, https://doi.org/10.1093/aob/mcad042.

Boisseaux M.  & Iglesias A. The multidimensionality of the plant. An art and ecophysiology approach to the comprehension of Amazonian tree seedlings. (2022) Servicio de publicacions, Universidade de Vigo. ISBN: 978-84-8158-940-5.