Orou Gaoue

Postdoctoral Fellow, National Institute for Mathematical and Biological Synthesis (NIMBioS), University of Tennessee
Knoxville, Tennessee, United States

Research field: Biological Sciences
I am interested in basic ecological questions with implications for conservation and sustainable use of natural resources. My research focuses on how plant-human interactions respond to environmental stochasticity.

Publications

Journal Article (11)
- Orou G Gaoue, Lawren Sack, Tamara Ticktin (2011) Human impacts on leaf economics in heterogeneous landscapes: the effect of harvesting non-timber forest products from African mahogany across habitats and climates, 844-852. In Journal of Applied Ecology 48 (4).
- Lemes Maristerra R, Esashika Thana B, Orou G Gaoue (2011) Microsatellite markers for mahoganies: Twelve new loci for Swietenia macrophylla and its high transferability to Khaya senegalensis, e207–e209. In American Journal of Botany 98 (8).
- Orou G Gaoue, Carol C Horvitz, Tamara Ticktin (2011) Non-timber forest products harvest in variable environments: modeling the effects of harvesting as a stochastic sequence, 1604-1616. In Ecological Applications 21 (5).
- Isabel Belloni Schmidt, Lisa Mandle, Tamara Ticktin et al. (2011) What do matrix population models reveal about the sustainability of non-timber forest product harvest?, 815-826. In Journal of Applied Ecology 48 (4).
- Orou G Gaoue, Tamara Ticktin (2010) Effects of harvest of nontimber forest products and ecological differences between sites on the demography of African mahogany, 605-614. In Conservation Biology.
- R Houehounha, HT Avohou, Orou G Gaoue et al. (2010) Weed removal improves coppice growth of Daniellia oliveri and its use as fuelwood in traditional fallows in Benin, 115-125. In Agroforestry Systems.
- Orou G Gaoue, Tamara Ticktin (2009) Fulani knowledge of the ecological impacts of Khaya senegalensis (Meliaceae) foliage harvest in Benin and its implications for sustainable harvest, 256-270. In Economic Botany.
- Orou G Gaoue, Tamara Ticktin (2008) Impacts of bark and foliage harvest on Khaya senegalensis reproductive performance in Benin, 34-40. In Journal of Applied Ecology.
- Orou G Gaoue, Tamara Ticktin (2007) Patterns of harvesting non-timber forest product from the multipurpose tree Khaya senegalensis in Benin: variation across climatic regions and its impacts on population structure, 424-436. In Biological Conservation.
- Eric S Menges, Pedro Francisco Quintana-Ascencio, Carl W Weekley et al. (2006) Population viability analysis and fire return intervals for an endemic Florida scrub mint, 115-127. In Biological Conservation.
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Biographical Information

I am a postdoctoral Fellow at the National Institute of Mathematical and Biological Synthesis (NIMBioS), University of Tennessee. Prior to this position, I was a postdoctoral associate with Carol C. Horvitz at the Institute of Theoretical and Mathematical Ecology, University of Miami. I received my Ph.D. in Ecology, Evolution and Conservation Biology from the University of Hawaii at Manoa, with Tamara Ticktin.

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Professional Experience

2011 - Present

Postdoctoral Fellow at National Institute for Mathematical and Biological Synthesis (NIMBioS), University of Tennessee
Knoxville, Tennessee, United States

Dec 2008 - May 2011

Postdoctoral Associate at Institute of Theoretical and Mathematical Ecology (ITME), University of Miami
Coral Gables, Florida, United States

Education

Dec 2003 - Dec 2008

University of Hawaii at Manoa
Ph.D.

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