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Agroecology and Strategies for Climate Change
2012
; Sustainable agriculture is a rapidly growing field aiming at producing food and energy in a sustainable way for humans and their children. Sustainable agriculture is a discipline that addresses current issues such as climate change, increasing food and fuel prices, poor-nation starvation, rich-nation obesity, water pollution, soil erosion, fertility loss, pest control, and biodiversity depletion.Novel, environmentally-friendly solutions are proposed based on integrated knowledge from sciences as diverse as agronomy, soil science, molecular biology, chemistry, toxicology, ecology, economy, and social sciences. Indeed, sustainable agriculture decipher mechanisms of processes that occur fro…
Holocene fire activity during low-natural flammability periods reveals scale-dependent cultural human-fire relationships in Europe
2018
Abstract Fire is a natural component of global biogeochemical cycles and closely related to changes in human land use. Whereas climate-fuel relationships seem to drive both global and subcontinental fire regimes, human-induced fires are prominent mainly on a local scale. Furthermore, the basic assumption that relates humans and fire regimes in terms of population densities, suggesting that few human-induced fires should occur in periods and areas of low population density, is currently debated. Here, we analyze human-fire relationships throughout the Holocene and discuss how and to what extent human-driven fires affected the landscape transformation in the Central European Lowlands (CEL). W…
Impact d'anciennes activités minières sur la zone critique : exemple des mines de plomb et d'argent de Peisey-Nancroix (19ème-20ème siècle)
2018
International audience; A better understanding of long-term trace metals dispersal and their bioavailability in the critical zone is required to anticipate future impacts of present-day mining activity. The Pb-Ag district of Peisey-Nancroix (northern French Alps) is an excellent target to study the long-term environmental impacts (> 150 years) of former mines and trace metal dispersal in the critical zone, considering that every steps of the mining cycle, from ore extraction to ore processing, were located on a few hectares site that has been unmodified since mine closure in 1866 (no reclamation). A cross-disciplinary study is conducted using several proxies (ore, waste dumps, soil, water, …
Températures extrêmes minimales de printemps et types de circulation atmosphérique sur l’Europe moyenne.
2019
55 pages; National audience
Variations du stockage et de la dynamique de la matière organique en fonction de l'utilisation des sols dans les savanes du Rift éthiopien.
2007
13 pages; International audience
Etude de l'évolution de la pollution atmosphérique par le CO2 dans la ville de Cotonou utilisant la signature isotopique des graminées C4
2007
8 pages; International audience
Le réchauffement climatique diminue-t-il le risque de dégâts par le gel pour les cultures de climat tempéré ?
2014
Does global warming reduce the freezing injury risk to temperate climate crops? Winter crop response to a temperature increase is complex. Recent works point out, for cold climate vegetation, a paradoxical increase in freezing injury in a warming climate. Complementary works are needed to support these results for winter crops in temperate areas. To achieve this goal, five climatic records spanning a fifty years-long period for both daily minimum and maximum temperatures were analyzed with a model predicting frost hardiness and freezing damage for the winter pea crop. The methodological approach was based on three main steps: 1) the climate warming analysis of the 1987/1988 temperature shif…