LUSES - An International Joint Laboratory on the impacts of rapid Land Use Change on Soil Ecosystem Services

Can the thermal stability of soil organic matter reflect disturbance and resilience in rubber tree-based agrosystems?

Presentation of the BIODIV-TREE team at the Soil organic matter management in agriculture – International Symposium 29.-30. May 2018 - Thünen Institute, Braunschweig, Germany

BIOFUNCTOOL - A new framework to assess the impact of land management on soil quality

Presentation of the BIODIV-TREE team at the Soil organic matter management in agriculture – International Symposium 29.-30. May 2018 - Thünen Institute, Braunschweig, Germany

Interactions between land use, water and sediment fluxes and the spread of bacterial contaminants in the uplands of northern Lao PDR

Presentation of the ECOFILTER Team at the Global Symposium on Soil Pollution (GSOP18), FAO, Rome, 2-4 May 2018

Synopsis of the LUSES International Joint Laboratory 2017-2019

LDD-IRD a long history of scientific cooperation

Impact of Rubber Tree Plantation on Soil Biological Diversity

LDD-LMI LUSES Platform of Microbiology

LMI LUSES presentation

PCR LDD-LMI LUSES Platform dowload

  As part of the development of molecular methodes in the LMI-LUCES platform a poster describing the principle of the PCR réaction have been displayed in the laboratory.

Laboratory guide: hygiene and safety

As part of the quality approach to improve the safety prevention, two posters have been displayed in the LMI-LDD platform (Thai version en English version).The Laboratory hygiene and safety posters provide information and technical support to foster safe and healthy at LMI-LDD plateform laboratory.

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Buriram experiment Report (Tree plantation project) Date: 23 and 24 of June 2014 Objective of this experiment is take soil sampling after spray herbicide (28-29 June 2014),Physical-chemical,Soil nematofauna,Soil micro fauna,measurement soil moisture,Sentek mobile,TDR mobile Download report...

Report of stay in Thailand by Do Frederic C.Operational start of the “GRHYD project” under Hevea Research Platform in Partnership (HRPP) and  Land Uses and Ecosystem Services network (LUSES):  “Hydraulic traits for genetic improvement of rubber tree growth under water constraints and ...

Coordinators of LMI LUSES had visited LMI partners in Vientiane   The coordinators of LMI LUSES, Dr. Alain Brauman and Mrs. Nopmanee Suvannang, had opportunity to visit the different Lao partners : Department of Agricultural Land Management (DALAM), National Agriculture and Forestry ...

   Training on DGGEDate 3-7 March 2014This training was trained by Ms. Letitia Herrmann and Mr. Pascal Alonso. The aim of this training is to teach Biotechnology, LDD staffs about the technicals of bimolecular in order that they could adapt this knowledge to analyze biodiversity of soil ...

19-20 Oct              LMI LUSES annual meeting, Khon Kaen University  (more...)9-13  Nov              BIOFUNCTOOL, Chacherngsao (more...)22-23 December     SEALNET Training   (more...)...

LMI LUSES Annual Meeting , Khon Kaen University, Thailand, 19 – 20 October, 2015 Followed by JEAI ECCO RUBBER Meeting and Workshop on “Socio-economic And Environmental Contexts of Rubber Plantation Sustainability?” Co-organized with HRPP and KDR The LMI LUSES Annual Meeting will take place in Khon ...

HEVEAADAPT and BIODIV HEVEA South East Asia concentrate produced more than 92 % of the world production of natural rubber. In the last decades rubber plantations replaced many farming systems as traditional subsistence agriculture or commercial crops, but also encroached into ...

SEALNET WORKSHOP  This event was organized on 22-23 December, 2015 at Land Development Department ,BangkokUNDER CONSTRUCTION...

Activities 25 Jan        STUDENT’S NATURE DISCOVERY DAY (more...)23-25 Feb    Microresp Training (more...)7-8 June      LMI LUSES annual meeting (more...)...

STUDENT’S NATURE DISCOVERY DAY Introduction to soil and plant ecology issues to students from the French International school of Bangkok (LFIB) Philippe Thaler from CIRAD HRPP and Alain Brauman from IRD, LMI LUSES with the help of Celine Venot (Master student from SupAgro) contributed on Monday ...

Microresp Training on <<Characterization of the physiological profiles of the soil microbial community>> Microresp Training on <<Characterization of the physiological profiles of the soil microbial community>> The training will last 3 days, on 23rd - 25th February 2016 ...

The final meeting of the LMI LUSES  was organized in  Kasetsart University from June 8th - 9 th, 2016. This meeting gathered more than 70 scientists from Thailand, France, Laos and Vietnam. The objective of this meeting was (i) to make a final statement of all the scientific projects ...

On 4th April 2016, Dr. Alain gave a lecture on why we need to preserve our soil and the importance to take into account the soil fauna for this preservation.  This lecture was provided to three classes of student in Grade 6 (11 years old)  and Grade 11 (16 years old)  at the ...

OMM - organic matter management: respective effect of compost and vermi-compost on soil and plant Compost (COMP) and vermi- compost (VCOMP) are two common forms of organic matter amendments. Agronomical experiments aimed at testing the benefits of these organic fertilizers almost exclusively focus ...