Vicent Medijbe

Yale School of Forestry & Environmental Studies

123 Bishop St.
New Haven, CT 06511

 I am Vincent de Paul Medjibe, borne, grew up and went to school in Bangui. I got a Master’s (Msc) degree in Biology and Physiology of plant at the University of Bangui (Central African Republic) in February 2000. Before I came to Yale, I did two years research work in the Dzanga-Sangha Dense Forest Reserve in the Southwestern Central African Republic on the ecology of four species of African mahogany of the genus Entandrophragma (Meliaceae). I also focused on Gilbertiodendron dewevrei (Cesalpinaceae) that forms a monodominante single species stand in the Forest Reserve. Some of the results of these research works have been published in scientific journals (i.e. Forest Ecology and Management).

 At Yale School of Forestry and Environmental Studies, I am doing a Master’s of Forest Science. I am interested in sustainable forest management and sustainable development. I focus on the relationship between people and forests trying to help managing forests in a sustainable way for long term productivity and conservation of the biological diversity.

My Master’s project is entitled “Distribution of Lovoa trichilioides H., Nesogordonia papaverifera R., Pterocarpus soyauxii H., and Terminalia superba E. & D. in relation to micro and macro scale landscape gradients of moisture and soil fertility”. The objective of this study was to test hypotheses related to the distribution of these species in relation to soil fertility and moisture availability, and the topographic position. The first step was to determine factors that affect species distribution patterns in the Eleme Ya Ngombe plot then the importance of these species as habitat specialists and as determinants of vegetation type in the Dzanga-Sangha Dense Forest Reserve. The preliminary results showed that none of these species was distributed following the topographic position but seemed likely to be related to soil fertility and available moisture. More work needs to be done after analyzing the soil samples as well as mapping all individual trees species on the plot map using GIS.