My research focuses on understanding the carbon and water cycle in tropicalforest. During my post doctoral fellowship at Montana State University, I will work with B Poulter to better account for tropical forest "diversity" in the ORCHIDEE/DOFOCO (ORCHIDEE-CAN) Dynamic global vegetation model through the incorporation of plant functional types based on different traits, related to drought tolerance or resistance, phosphorus and nitrogen economy. Strong collaborations with the Imbalance-P field experiments and model developments are planned.