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A multispecies approach for modeling the ecological impact of urban development using landscape graphs
2013
International audience; Managing urban sprawl is become a major concern in the field of landscape ecology, since the land use changes involved by urban development may affect the ability of wildlife species to move across the landscape. In order to compare the ecological impact of several urban patterns, we aim at combining two complementary approaches: 1) Simulations of residential development from an initial land use map, using morphological rules of urban development (i.e. fractal vs non fractal) and accessibility constraints; 2) Models of ecological networks applied to a given natural habitat, using a landscape graphs-based approach. As landscape graphs are built according to the moving…
Graphab: A software dedicated to the modelling of landscape networks
2016
International audience; Land cover changes resulting from urban sprawl, transport network intensification and agricultural changes contribute to fragment wildlife habitats and may lead to question viability of animal and plant populations. Landscape ecologists have shown that populations living in fragmented habitats are forced to adopt specific dynamics (patchy populations or metapopulations) making them highly dependent on fluxes between their habitat patches. Landscape connectivity may be defined as the functional response of a given species in terms of movement and individual fluxes to the potential links between habitat patches provided by the landscape structure.Many methods are used …
Calcul des contributions des incertitudes dans un modèle complexe de qualité de l'eau
2010
The quantification of uncertainty in integrated urban drainage water quality models is of paramount interest. Indeed, the assessment of the reliability of the model results for complex water quality models is useful for understanding the significance of the results. However, the state of knowledge regarding uncertainties in urban drainage models is poor. In the case of integrated urban drainage water quality models, due to the fact that integrated approaches are basically a cascade of sub-models (simulating sewer system, wastewater treatment plant and receiving water body), the uncertainty produced in one sub-model propagates to the following ones depending on the model structure, the estim…
Networks of Seed Storage Protein Regulation in Cereals and Legumes at the Dawn of the Omics Era
2012
BAP GEAPSI CT2 (BAP); International audience; Finely regulated and orchestrated events occur during seed development and germination in different cell organelles (mitochondria, peroxisomes, plastids, vacuoles, endoplasmic reticulum, oil bodies and nuclei). Therefore, some of the ongoing investigations pass through sub-cellular organelle purifications for a deeper comprehension of these complex developmental processes. In seed biology, recent ambitious efforts in proteomics have been directed toward organelle isolation from seeds and high-throughput protein separation and identification by mass spectrometry at defined developmental stages. The construction of reference maps allowed identifyi…
SOIL MICROBIOLOGICAL QUALITY: STATE OF THE ART AND IMPORTANCE OF MICROBIAL COMMUNITIES FOR FRENCH AGRICULTURAL SOILS
2022
Soils are one of the major reservoirs of biological diversity on our planet, hosting a huge diversity of microorganisms. Numerous studies have demonstrated the role of microbial diversity in soil functions, such as nutrient cycling or pathogen management. Given the key role of soil microorganisms in the regulation of soil ecosystem functions, the environmental factors driving soil microbial diversity need to be understood. In France, we have the opportunity to benefit from a national soil survey (called the French Soil Quality Monitoring Network), which represents one of the most extensive and without a priori soil sampling survey available to date. Through several funded projects, we were …
A modeling approach to evaluate the influence of spatial and temporal structure of an epidemiological surveillance network on the intensity of phytos…
2017
National audience
Impact des pratiques agricoles sur l’état biologique des sols: Quelles recommandations et pistes de R&D en matière de pilotage biologique des sols
2018
National audience
The role of sulfur nutrition in the pea response to drought
2016
International audience
Mapping, understanding and predicting soil microbial diversity across France
2018
International audience; Microorganisms are extremely abundant and diverse in soils. Their huge diversity is central in soil functioning regarding the diversity of functions it supports (mineralization, detoxification, stability of soil…) and is more and more studied, especially in a context of increasing pressure on soil resources. Conversely to macroorganisms whose distribution on a wide scale has been studied for over a century, spatial scaling and determinism distribution of soil microorganisms on nationwide scale still needs to be documented, notably to decipher the environmental filters shaping these communities. communities were investigated at the scale of France to characterize thei…
Conditions atmosphériques associées aux chutes de grêles en Bourgogne.
2020
A network of 96 hail pads is installed in Burgundy since 2014. Hailfalls in this part of France are mainly recorded from Avril to September and usually at the end of the afternoon when the surface air has been warmed enough to trigger an upward lift. Atmospherically speaking, hailfalls in Burgundy are associated with southward winds blowing from the Mediterranean Sea (Gulf of Lions) according to a strong negative barometric anomaly centered over Germany and extended southwestward until the south of Spain. A weak northwestward wind is at the same time also blowing until the northern part of Burgundy creating a thermal air-mass conflict and therefore a convective available potential energy wh…