Droevendaalsesteeg 10
6708 PB Wageningen
The Netherlands
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About
Most plants globally rely on partnernships with other organisms (i.e. mutualisms). My work aims to retest basic questions in plant ecology - for example diversity maintenance, biogeography, and invasion - with this mutualistic perspective.
Biography
Camille is an ecologist studying plant-mutualist interactions in a changing world. Broadly, her research focuses on these interactions and their consequences for biogeography, diversity and invasion. Camille’s research combines molecular biology, controlled experiments, field ecology, big data analysis and modeling to answer related questions. Her work has shown that microbial mutualists mediate plant biogeography and diversity, revealed anthropogenic impacts on plants and plant-associated microbes, and substantially advanced bioinformatics tools to identify the full diversity of plant-associated mutualists. Ultimately, she is motivated by how her research may inform conservation and restoration of degraded systems.
Research groups
Projects & collaborations
Projects
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Botanical records through a social lens
This collaborative project is led by Folgert Karsdorp of the KNAW Meertens Institute, and investigates the social biases and cultural aspects of historical botanical records (that is, citizen science avant la lettre). In collaboration with FLORON, our contribution to this project is to implement a case study that explores historical botanical records from the Netherlands to characterize patterns of distribution and abundance of Asteraceae species in cities through time. We aim to let these historical records inform us about which species are winners and which are losers of the urbanization process. This can provide unique information on the plant traits that mediate successful adaptation to urbanization.