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In a context of climate change, assessing the evolution of the risk associated with the contamination of wheat with mycotoxins produced by fungal species belonging to the genus Fusarium is crucial to ensure the safety of future cereal-derived food products in France. EvolTox proposes to tackle this

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

Crop pests are a major constraint to ecological intensification of agricultural production systems. Integrated Pest Management (IPM) is an ecosystem approach that combines different strategies and practices to minimize the use of pesticides. Its implementation requires a sound knowledge of pest popu

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

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

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

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

The biodiversity crisis that we are currently experiencing requires that we develop operational tools to assess the impact of human activities on biodiversity and ecosystem functioning. Alarming global biodiversity projections do exist for the coming century, as influenced by global warming and land

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

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

More than 300 million ha in Latin America are devoted to agroforestry (mixtures of productive and shade trees) where the impacts of cyclical events of El Niño droughts, background climate change, institutional turmoil and stochastic price variation of agroforestry goods is very strong. For more th