I am a PHD student from Belgium. I work on bryophytes (Mosses) biogeography. My current project concern the impact of global warming and deforestation on Amazonian bryophytes populations. Especially i study the structure of the Amazonian populations, the migrations between populations, the dispersal capacities of these mosses and wonder whether these capacities will be enough or not to bridge their actual and future distribution of suitable areas in the context of human disturbance and climate change. To resolve these questions, i'll use a complementary approach of population genetics, species distribution models and molecular phylogeography. I'm at the botanic garden to learn the GBS sequencing technique and thus to get the DNA sequences of the mosses i sampled in the Brezilian Amazonian forest in February 2016. These sequences are the basis for all the analyses i'll need to undertake in the context of my PHD. I'm working with Norm Wickett and his Post doc Rick Overson.