Forest bioeconomics

Guillaume Salzet

Guillaume Salzet

R&D researcher in forest bioeconomist

French National Forest Office (ONF)

Hey there !

I’m Guillaume, a forest bioeconomist at the French National Forest Office (ONF).

My research focuses on the forest sector and its interactions with forest dynamics in the context of the french forest sector (mainland & overseas territories).

I am currently working on a seamless evaluation of coupled biophysical & market models. The goal is to provide expected wood-market trajectories under climate changes scenarios at both national and regional scales.

Interests
  • Statistics/ Econometrics
  • Forest ecology
  • Bioeconomics
  • Ecosystem services evaluation
  • Forestry
Education
  • PhD in forest sciences, 2024

    Univ. Guyane

  • MSc/ Engineer in forest engineering, 2020

    AgroParisTech

  • MSc in life science, 2020

    Ecole Normale Supérieure

  • MSc in statistical ecology, 2020

    Muséum National d'Histoire Naturelle

  • MSc in tropical ecology, 2019

    AgroParisTech, Univ. Montpellier

  • MSc in economy, 2018

    Univ. Lorraine

Skills

Statistics - Econometrics

Frequentist & bayesian approches for discrete | hierarchical | mixted models

Programming & package developer

R (advanced) | C++ | Python

Cartography

QGis - GRASS - SAGA

Open science

FAIR principles | Open-code

Project design & management

Research partnership | feasibility study

Survey & interviews

Design - analyses (AI approaches) - report

Professional experiences

 
 
 
 
 
R&D researcher - forest bioeconomist
French National Forest Office (ONF)
April 2024 – Present Fontainebleau, France
Fields of research: - Forest ecosystem services estimation - Carbon storage/ Functional diversity/ Roundwood/ Hunting ; - Modelling forest sector - Agent Based modelling/ preferences survey/ elicitation interviews ; - Forest growth model calibration.
 
 
 
 
 
PhD student: Sustainability of the french guiana forest sector, a spatialized bioeconomic approach
October 2020 – May 2024 Kourou & Nancy, France
The aim of this thesis is to provide an integrated analysis of conservation and timber production issues in French Guiana. More details here !
 
 
 
 
 
Research assistant (Ingénieur d’étude) in econometrics: Spatial analysis of wood industrial clusters in the Vosges and their impact on the local forestry
February 2020 – April 2020 Nancy, France
Ecosystem services evaluation, Cox model, forest sector, bayesian modelling.
 
 
 
 
 
Research assistant (Ingénieur d’étude): Building a trans-atlantic research partnership - Univ. Georgia & Rayonier
January 2020 – February 2020 Florida & Georgia, USA
International research partnership, project design, forestry, wood quality.
 
 
 
 
 
MSc research project: Demographic processes and spatial distribution of functional traits under environmental constraints in tropical forests, 6 months
April 2020 – September 2020 remote internship (COVID)
Functional traits, demography, tropical forest, spatial analysis, bayesian modelling.
 
 
 
 
 
MSc research project: Bayesian modeling of Douglas fir quality to predict the resource of extractable chemical compounds, 6 months
February 2019 – July 2019 Champenoux, France
Wood quality, sylviculture, bayesian modelling, knottiness, hierarchical modelling, tree architecture, growth model.
 
 
 
 
 
MSc research project: Spatial analysis of industrial clusters in the French forestry and wood sector and their impact on the probability of cutting, 3 months
June 2018 – September 2018 Nancy, France
Ecosystem services evaluation, spatial modelling, forest sector, bayesian modelling.
 
 
 
 
 
MSc research project: Protein-ligand interactions between Glutathione-S-transferases from Trametes versicolor and French Guiana wood extractives in relation to natural durability, 5 months
February 2018 – June 2018 Nancy, France
Microbiology, biochemistry, wood chemistry, non-linear model.
 
 
 
 
 
Engineer internship: Technology transfert study of a high-throughput Characterization method of tropical wood extractives, 10 months
November 2016 – August 2017 Nancy, France
Feasability study, Prospective market analysis, chemical ecology, wood chemistry.

Projects

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PhD Project
Etude de la durabilité de la filière forêt bois de Guyane française - Approche spatialisée de modélisation des services écosystémiques
PhD Project
ForHunt Logging
Forest hunting pressure interaction with forest logging over the north of French Guiana: a GPS tracking survey coupled with a spatialized bioeconomic modelling.
ForHunt Logging
ExtraForEst
Finished The research project on extractable wood chemical components (link). I worked on coupling non-linear wood quality models in a hierarchical bayesian framework (presentation in french link)
ExtraForEst
Afforball
Adaptations of the forestry and wood industry of the Ballons des Vosges Regional Park in a context of global changes.
Afforball
Glutathion-S-transferase
Glutathione Transferases: Surrogate Targets for Discovering Biologically Active Compounds
Glutathion-S-transferase

Softwares

Logginglab
LoggingLab: A new individual-based and spatially-explicit logging simulator.
Logginglab
rcontroll
rcontroll integrates the individual-based and spatially-explicit TROLL model to simulate forest ecosystem and species dynamics forward in time.
rcontroll
Simcop Qual
A branching and nodosity model linked to the Simcop model
Simcop Qual
trollcalibr
A package to design, experiment, analyse & calibrate TROLL model
trollcalibr

Teaching

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Msc project: A spatial analysis of three tree species at seedling stage on parcel 16 of Paracou experimental site.
1 semester project for Msc program in tropical forestry about the regeneration conditions of Dicorynia guianensis, Tachigali melinonii and Symphonia globulifera.
Msc project: A spatial analysis of three tree species at seedling stage on parcel 16 of Paracou experimental site.
Msc project: Study of low impact logging on the Manare Saut Lavillette site with a forest simulator
1 semester project for Msc program in tropical forestry about the coupling of rcontroll and LoggingLab.
Msc project: Study of low impact logging on the Manare Saut Lavillette site with a forest simulator
MSc internship: Study of the dispersal patterns of hunters: Bioeconomic analysis of hunted wildlife populations on the French Guiana coastline
6 Months internship Cyrus Matboo (Engineer IMT Nord Europe) in collaboration with OFB french guiana.
MSc internship: Study of the dispersal patterns of hunters: Bioeconomic analysis of hunted wildlife populations on the French Guiana coastline
FTH 2021: analysis of the upstream forestry sector, sociological approach
2 weeks project for Msc program in tropical forestry on the upstream forestry sector using a novel sociological approach. (link).
FTH 2021: analysis of the upstream forestry sector, sociological approach
FTH 2022 Forest regeneration: Study of the ecological and anthropic factors of the distribution of regeneration on plot 16 of Paracou
2 weeks project for M2 tropical forestry engineer on the main driver of forest regeneration of Dicorynia guianensis,Tachigali melinonii & Symphonia globulifera. (link).
FTH 2022 Forest regeneration: Study of the ecological and anthropic factors of the distribution of regeneration on plot 16 of Paracou
MSc course: Estimate, origins & theory on tropical tree diversity
Courses in french (3h) for M2 tropical forestry engineer about tropical tree diversity with a theoretical and methodological scope. (link).
MSc course: Estimate, origins & theory on tropical tree diversity
MSc Internship: Sustainability of exploitation of the permanent forest estate in French Guiana: Approach by modeling forest dynamics and cost-benefit analysis
6 Months internship Martin Estivals (Engineer Polytech Clermont) in collaboration with ONF french guiana (link).
MSc Internship: Sustainability of exploitation of the permanent forest estate in French Guiana: Approach by modeling forest dynamics and cost-benefit analysis

Publications

(2024). LoggingLab: An R Package to Simulate Forest Logging.

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(2023). Rcontroll: An R Interface for the Individual-Based Forest Dynamics Simulator TROLL.

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(2020). Glutathione Transferases: Surrogate Targets for Discovering Biologically Active Compounds. Journal of Natural Products.

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(2020). A reverse chemical ecology approach to explore wood natural durability. Microbial Biotechnology.

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(2020). From fungal detoxification systems to wood durability in neotropical forests.

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Recent & Upcoming Talks

ATBC 2022 - Hydro-edaphic gradient shapes the local community assembly of trees in a neotropical forest
Hydrological and edaphic gradients are known to determine local community assembly in tropical forests, but are often summarised in …
ATBC 2022 - Hydro-edaphic gradient shapes the local community assembly of trees in a neotropical forest
Workshop rcontroll
Technical workshop on rcontroll
Workshop rcontroll
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