Romain Lucas Glèlè Kakaï is Full Professor in Biostatistics and Forest modeling at the Faculty of Agronomic Sciences, University of Abomey-Calavi (Bénin). Presently, he head the Laboratory of Biomathematics and Forest Estimations (LABEF), University of Abomey-Calavi.
He is member of (i) the Global Young Academy and (ii) The World Academy of Sciences His interests can be subdivided in four main points: i) assess relative performance of classification methods; ii) model forest dynamics iii) assess and analyze natural forest structure in West Africa and iv) study the potential of NTFPs in increasing rural populations livelihood conditions.
Prof Glèlè Kakai’s research since 2000 up to now has yielded more than 120 scientific publications in peer-reviewed international journals, books, contribution of books and proceedings of scientific conferences and 4 international prizes.
Some publications
- Gnonlonfoun I., Glèlè Kakaï R., Salako V.K., Assogbadjo A.E., Ouédraogo A. (2015). Structural analysis of regeneration in tropical dense forest: combined effect of plot and spatial distribution patterns. Acta botanica gallica 162(1): 79-87. (IF=0.24).
- Azihou A.F., Glèlè Kakaï R., Sinsin B. (2014). Importance of functional traits and regional species pool in predicting long-distance dispersal in savanna ecosystems. Plant ecology 215(6): 651-660. (IF=1.64)
- Houeto G., Glèlè Kakaï R., Salako K. V., Assogbadjo A., Fandohan B., Sinsin B., Palm R. (2013). Effect of inventory plot patterns in the floristic analysis of tropical woodland and dense forest. African journal of ecology 52, 257–264. (IF=1.00)
- Salako V., A Tinuke, Glèlè Kakaï R. (2013). On The Empirical Performance Of Non-Metric Multidimensional Scaling In Vegetation Studies. International journal of applied mathematics and statistics 36(6):54-67 (Indexed)
- Glèlè Kakaï R., Palm. R. (2009). Empirical comparison of error rate estimators in logistic discriminant analysis. Journal of Statistical Computation and Simulation 79(2): 111-120. (IF=0.778)
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