Presentation of the unit
Introduction to Amap
AMAP - Botany and computational plant architecture - is a joint research unit with approximately seventy permanent staff from French scientific organisations including Cirad, Cnrs, Inra, Ird and the University of Montpellier II. Staff at AMAP are based either at the main centre in Montpellier or at overseas French territories (
French Guyana, New Caledonia) and abroad (India, Vietnam).
The institute is organised into three main research groups having a wide variety of disciplines, including botany, ecology, evolution, applied mathematics and informatics. The combination of approaches in both research and teaching represents a scientific and technical innovation for modern agronomy, botany and forestry.
Our researches holds a central place in the analysis and modelling of the structure, development and diversity of plants and plant communities.
We have developed a “combined approach” for studying plants, be they annual or perennial, living or fossil, wild or cultivated and either temperate, Mediterranean or tropical. Our research embraces many empirical approaches applied to plants including, morphology and anatomy, data analysis and processing, computational simulation and knowledge management.
AMAP is also involved in:
- Introductory and advanced teaching at universities and applied colleges and advanced professional training;
- The dissemination of knowledge and research in the form of both freeware and commercially available software;
- International scientific cooperation in Europe and Worldwide .
AMAP is also associated with research groups directed by French scientific organisations such as Cemagref, Ecp, Engref, Inria. We have a wide network of academic, scientific, technological and commercial partnerships in Europe, North America, Argentina, Brunei, Chile, China, Colombia, Cambodia, India, Laos,
Madagascar, Togo, Vietnam
and New-Zealand.
Permanente presence
Regular collaboration
Other collaboration
Our international collaborations at AMAP are worldwide and particularly developed in South America (French Guiana, Argentina and Chile) and Asia (China, India and Laos). We also have collaborative projects in North America, Europe, Africa and Australasia.
Some references
AMAP includes 73 permanent staff with 54 full-time researchers and lecturer-researchers and 2 associate researchers). Staff are attached to various French scientific organisations and include: 25 CIRAD members currently placed in China, French Guiana, Laos, at the INRIA Institutes at Rocquencourt and Montpellier, 9 members from the CNRS, 12 from INRA, 20 from the IRD (width 5 in French Guiana and 7 in New Caledonia), 3 lecturer-researchers from the University of Montpellier II. At present AMAP also hosts about fifteen doctorate students and post doctoral members as well as about forty trainee students and project students.
Scientific organisations and collaborations
Scientific organisations represented at AMAP
External collaborations
Some staff at AMAP are currently based abroad in China, at the Franco-Chinese Laboratory of Informatics, Automatics and Applied Mathematics (Liama) at Beijing; in India at the French Institute of Pondicherry (IFP) , and elsewhere in France at the Centre Inria of Rocquencourt , or in overseas French territories such as the IRD Centre Ird of Cayenne in French Guiana , as well as the Campus of Kourou .
