Area 3: Biodiversity & Services (BS)

Agroecology is considered as a promising way to address the challenges of sustainability in agriculture, services production, and resource and environment preservation within agroecosystems

One aspect of agroecology is understanding the factors that determine the presence of pests and their harmfulness. More broadly, based on ecological research, increasing biodiversity (planned and associated) is recognized as a major lever for improving the functioning of agroecosystems and the services they provide.

A way to increase cultivated biodiversity in agroecosystems is through crop diversification, both spatially (within and around the plot) and temporally (within a succession of crops grown on a plot). However, there are barriers to diversification, including a lack of knowledge about these biodiversity-based cropping systems, indicating a need for technical references as well as tools to help design and manage these systems.

Three scientific challenges arise:

(1) What are the determinants and impact on production of pest pressure, from the plot to the landscape?
(2) Which species should be combined for which growing conditions and expected services?
(3) What are the links between cultivated and uncultivated biodiversity, practices, and regulatory services?

• Research projects
• Theses and postdoctoral studies
• Publications
• Tools and approaches
• Press quotes

Participants:
Permanent staff :
Corentin BARBU, Amira BEROUEG, Michel BERTRAND, Esther FOUILLET, Antoine GARDARIN, Arnaud GAUFFRETEAU, Ivan LE MASSON, Safia MEDIENE, Lucile MUNERET, Raphaël PAUT, Olivier RECHAUCHERE, Jean ROGER-ESTRADE, Yassine SOHBI, Quentin TOFFOLINI, Muriel VALANTIN-MORISON
Contract and doctoral staff :
Alexandre DOSSET, Tiana RAKOTOSON, Cayetano HERRERA LOPEZ, Mathilde DIONISI, Lucie ZGAINSKI, Anaïs BOULAY, Clément CHEVALEYRE, Pablo YEPES LLANO