Dr Franck Torre, Lecturer, Univ. Aix-Marseille III Quantitative Ecology -- FST St-Jérôme -- IMEP CNRS UMR 6116 -- Ave. Normandie Niemen 13397 Marseille cedex 20 6ème étage - case 461 Tel. +33 (0) 4 91 28 89 76        +33 (0) 4 42 90 84 74 Fax. +33 (0) 4 91 28 80 51 www.imep-cnrs.com   franck.torre@univ.u-3mrs.fr                     © 2003-06-27

Research Interests I have been working for several years as a statistician on environmental issues. I studied first at Université Lyon I, then I worked for some labs in Lyons (Ecologie Grands Fleuves and Cemagref), Marseilles (IMEP) and in some UK places like Newcastle-upon-Tyne (Department of Geography), Coventry (University of Warwick, Dept of Statistics) and Kent (Horticulture Research International). Keywords for my research activity are: Ecological and Palaeo-ecological Data Modelling; Process-based, Compartmental or Dynamic modelling; Multivariate data analysis; Multivariate statistical calibration; Statistical Analysis of Computer Code Outputs; Markov Chain Monte-Carlo methods (MCMC). My main publications are in Ecological modelling, Climate Dynamics , Ecoscience and Forest Ecology and Management”, Trees - Structure and Function, Annals of Forest Sciences and Journal of Biogeography (for full refs, see below). Since 2002, I have been appointed as a lecturer at IMEP, Marseilles University. My activity involves, teaching statistics for biologists, statistical consultancy and scientific collaboration on biometrical issues. Publications   At Press Blakesley, D., Pakkad, G., James, C., Torre, F. &  S. Elliott. (sous presse). Genetic diversity of Castanopsis acuminatissima (Bl.) A. DC in northern Thailand and the selection of seed trees for forest restoration. New Forests. [Impact factor : 0.52 ; 3ème inter-quartile]. Pakkad, G., James, C., Torre, F., Elliott, S. & D Blakesley. (sous presse). - Genetic variation of Prunus cerasoides D. Don, a framework tree species in northern Thailand. New Forests [Impact factor : 0.52 ; 3ème inter-quartile]. Pakkad, G., Torre, F., Elliott, S. and D Blakesley.  (sous presse). -  Selecting seed trees for a forest restoration program: a case study using Spondias axillaris Roxb. (Anacardiaceae). Forest Ecology and Management [Impact factor : 0.98 ; 1er inter-quartile]. Vila, B., Guibal, F., Martin, J.L. & Torre F. Sous presse. Growth change of young Picea sitchensis in response to deer browsing. Forest Ecology and Management (Impact factor : 0.98 ; 1er quartile]. Vila B., Torre F., Martin J.L., and Guibal F (accepté). Response of young Tsuga heterophylla to deer browse. Trees Structure and Function, (Impact factor : 1.12 ; 1er inter-quartile). Accepted Vila B., Guibal F., Martin J-L. and Torre F. (accepté) Assessing the effect of deer browsing on Gaultheria shallon Pursh by ring analysis and wood anatomy. Annals of Forest Sciences [Impact factor : 0.57 ; 2eme inter-quartile]. Vila B., Guibal F., Torre F. and Martin J.L. (accepté) Can we reconstruct browsing history and how far back? Lessons from Gaultheria shallon Pursh on Haida Gwaii. Annals of Forest Sciences [Impact factor : 0.57 ; 2eme inter-quartile] Vila B., Guibal F., Torre F. and Martin J.L. (accepté) History of deer colonization as revealed by fraying scars.  Journal of Biogeography[Impact factor : 1.497 ; 1er inter-quartile] Submitted Buisson, E., Dutoit, T., Torre, F., Poschlod, P., Roemormann C. (soumis) Restoration of ex-cultivated fields in the unique steppe of France: potential roles of seed bank, seed rain and myrmecochory in relation to distance from field boundaries. Journal of Applied Ecology (Impact Factor: 2.937; 1er inter-quartile) Vila B., Guibal F., Torre F. and Martin J.L. (soumis) Can deer reshape forests ? Biological Conservation (Impact factor : 1.69; 1er inter-quartile) Vila B., Martin J.L., Guibal F. and Torre F. (soumis) Deer impact on understory shrubs and its use to reconstruct browsing history: a methodological approach. Forest Ecology and Management (Impact factor : 0.98 ; 1er inter-quartile) Published Pont D., Day, J. W. Jr., Hensel P., Franquet E., Torre F. et  Rioual P. (sous presse). Response scenarios for the deltaic plain of the Rhône in the face of an acceleration in the rate of sea level rise, with a special attention for Salicornia-type environments. Estuaries, 25 : 337-348. [Impact factor = 1,03 ; 2ème inter-quartile] Torre, F., Boreux, J.-J. & Parent, E. (2001).- The Metropolis-Hastings Algorithm, a handy tool for the practice of Environmental Model Estimation: illustration with Biochemical Oxygen Demand Data. Cybergéo, article #187,  34 pp. disponible sur http://www.cybergeo.presse.fr/ Torre, F., Guiot, J., Fauquette, S. & Menut-Calvez, M. (2000).- Reconstruction of the abiotic characteristics of past biomes: An example from the last glacial-interglacial cycle in France. EcoScience, 7(4): 491-500. [Impact factor=1.35 ; 2ème inter-quartile]. Guiot, J., Torre, F., Cheddadi, R., Peyron O., Tarasov, P., Jolly D., Kaplan J.O., (2000).- The climate of the Mediterranean basin and Eurasia of the last glacial maximum as reconstructed by inverse vegetation modelling and pollen data. Ecologia Mediterranea, 25(2):193-204. [Impact factor=0 ]. Guiot, J., Torre, F., Jolly D., Peyron O., Boreux J.-J., Cheddadi R. (2000).- Inverse vegetation modelling by Monte Carlo sampling to reconstruct palaeoclimates under changed precipitation seasonality and CO2 conditions: application to glacial climate in Mediterranean region. Ecological modelling, 127, 119-140. [Impact factor=0.85 ; 3ème inter-quartile]. Guiot, J., Boreux, J.-J. Braconnot P. & Torre, F. (1999).- Data-model comparison using fuzzy logic in palaeoclimatology. Climate Dynamics, 15:569-581. [Impact factor=3.55 ; 1er inter-quartile]. Sanlaville-Boisson, C., Olivier, J. M., Simier, M., Changeux, T., Poizat, G., Torre, F. & Belliard, J. (1995).- Les bases de données : outils de stockage et d’exploitation des échantillonnages piscicoles. Bulletin Français de Pêche et de Pisciculture, Num spécial, 337, 338 & 339 : 121-130. [Impact factor=0 ]. Torre, F. & Chessel, D. (1995).- Co-structure de deux tableaux totalement appariés. Revue de Statistiques Appliquées, 43 (1) :109-121. [Impact factor=0 ].