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In 2007, the Food and Agriculture Organization estimated that 25% of the world’s crops are affected by mycotoxins each year, leading to annual losses close to 1 billion tons. In Europe, cereals are the crop mostly concerned by this safety issue. Wheats (Triticum spp. including common and durum wheat

Due to the current biodiversity collapse, especially in agroecosystems suffering from intense anthropogenic pressures, it is crucial to conduct inter-disciplinary research considering the main ecological and societal drivers of functional disturbances (e.g., habitat degradation/fragmentation, human

Landscape genetics approaches combine concepts and data from population genetics, landscape ecology and spatial statistics. This discipline emerged from the field of conservation biology to characterize the influence of landscape on the genetic structure of populations in order to assess their conne

Peri-urban lakes are of major significance to urban ecology and to the public. Apart from the phytoplankton, investigated because of their importance, our knowledge of the microbial communities they host and their functions is still limited. Understanding the effect of eutrophication, an indicator o

Assess a mechanistic modelling approach of the link between biodiversity dynamics and ecosystem functioning, using the concept of ecological stoichiometry For the moment: -a worldwide database of stoichiometric traits of heterotrophic organisms. -a worldwide database of invertebrate movement trait

In our context, we define the Critical Transition as ‘periods when agroforestry production fails causing land abandonment, rural exodus and/or the emergence of land uses different from agroforestry’. The overall objective of this project is to examine how the combined effects of cyclical drought

The project TOP focuses on the livestock farming systems that rely on the use of high altitude pastoral areas for part of the year. These systems are at the crossroads of several societal issues: the maintenance of mountain agriculture and valuation of local dairy products, the conservation manageme

In the face of climate change, we need to understand the drivers of changes in forest composition. Functional traits hold great promise as a way to explore and depict how the interplay of species climate stress tolerance and competition drives these changes. To date, progress has, however, been limi

Nearly 90% of flowering plants depend on pollination making this process a vital ecosystem service for humanity. The sustainable maintenance of pollination services depends primarily on the conservation of wild pollinator populations and the resilience of plant-pollinator interactions to ongoing rap

Facing the actual issues that threaten the world’s biodiversity, the improvement of the accounting of the impacts and dependencies of businesses in relation to natural and human capital is an emergency. Numerous institutional frameworks call for a transformation of the economy toward a stronger sust

Fusarium Head Blight (FHB) is a devastating fungal disease of small-grain cereals including wheat resulting in yield loss and grain contamination with mycotoxins. Basic but yet unanswered questions regarding FHB epidemiology and the interactions between the field microbiome and Fusarium spp. (Fspp)

There is an increasing need towards natural and alternative solutions to the chemical control of pest populations. The design of biocontrol methods has been progressively increased, but biocontrol in field crops has been limited to certain methods which may be unlikely to achieve similar results as

Tropical forests are currently experiencing huge pressures from global changes. If tropical deforestation has been rightly the focus of much attention these last decades, forest degradation and its consequences in the tropics has been much less studied and quantified. Yet, forest degradation is perv