Professor
University of Montpellier, Biology-Ecology department
Head of the team « Dynamique de la biodiversité, anthropo-écologie »
ISEM - Institut des Sciences de l'Evolution de Montpellier | UMR 5554
Place Eugène Bataillon - CC065
34095 Montpellier Cedex 5, France.
My research activities mainly focus on palaeo(anthropo)ecology, archaeobiology, historical biogeography, evolution and history of emblematic species from climatic, ecological, cultural and economic points of view by the use of quantitative anatomical and morphometric approaches. Model organisms are Olea europaea (olive), Vitis vinifera (grape), Phoenix dactylifera (date palm) and Argania spinosa (Argan tree).
My research is structured around 3 axes:
1. Origins and historical biogeography of plant domestication at various geographic and chronological scales – Evolution, domestication – agrobiodiversity.
2. Understanding current and ancient exploitation and management practices of biological resources.
3. Current and ancient plant phenotypic plasticity in response to environmental factors.
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Researchgate: https://www.researchgate.net/profile/Jean-Frederic_Terral
List of publications: https://scholar.google.fr/citations?user=QqpJN_gAAAAJ&hl=fr
