Abstracts

Acipenser sturio is a critically endangered species, the last natural reproduction occurred in 1994 in the Gironde (South West France) and a captive broodstock was constituted. Since 2007, the...

Biodiversity governance is characterized by a strong technocratic orientation. Science-based data, maps and numbers are used in the representation of biodiversity and inform decision making about...

Environmental protection non-governmental organizations (NGO) have developed for a long time biodiversity monitoring programs for a better knowledge of plant and animal species. However, without the...

Ecology, biodiversity, ecosystems, different concepts which are now quite common. However, despite an increasing media and policy attention, the biodiversity loss is ongoing. From the first...

This presentation is based on a joint work with Clément Calenge (ONCFS), Christophe Giraud (U. Paris-Sud) and Romain Julliard (MNHN). Our aim is to estimate abundances of common species by combining...

A global terrestrial species monitoring program is necessary, to enable researchers and policymakers to better know and understand the status and trends of biodiversity. The necessity is to design...

Governments and conservation organizations invest billions of dollars each year in habitat conservation in efforts to slow ongoing losses of terrestrial biodiversity. In this talk, I will examine the...

The presentations provides an overview of climate change impacts on forests as part of changing social and environmental conditions. Model projections of future climate impacts on forests suffer from...

Wine grapes (Vitis vinifera L. ), as other perennial species, are especially sensitive to climate change, with potential effects on yield, quality and economic viability. Since grapevine has been...

Warming of the climate system has now become unequivocal, being clearly detected in all functional units of the Earth system. Climate variability influences living systems ranging from marine to...