Current project
TRANSVERSE (ZAA 2020)
A transversal project on human activities and ecosystems in Clarée Vallée
Les activités récréatives et les services écosystémiques culturels jouent un rôle important pour la dynamique économique et le développement des territoires de montagne. Ces activités sont soumises à de fortes perturbations qui affectent en même temps ou séparément les systèmes sociaux et les écosystèmes : les changements de pratiques, les changements climatiques, et les changements liés aux autres usages des écosystèmes. Le suivi de ces perturbations et de leurs conséquences est un des objectifs des différents dispositifs « sentinelle » de la zone atelier Alpes. Le projet TRANSVERSE développe des observations transversales sur le site du Chardonnet en Clarée, afin de comprendre comment coexistent les activités récréatives avec les autres usages des écosystèmes au fil des saisons.
Past projects
CHABLI (IDEX Grenoble - IRS 2018-2019)
Characterizing human-biodiversity relationships and reciprocical impacts
In the Alps, the coexistence, interactions, and synergies between different human activities (tourism, pastoralism and biodiversity management) may offer opportunities for adaptation to climate change, and simulation models are powerful tools to explore these opportunities. CHABLI aims at building basis for modelling human-biodiversity interactions in Alpine territories, and set up monitoring protocols of these interactions.PI: Isabelle Boulangeat
HISTFUNC (ERC - Starting Grant project 2013-2017)
Macroecological studies of long-term historical constraints on functional diversity and ecosystem functioning across continents
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Earth’s environment is ongoing massive changes with strong impacts on ecosystem functioning and therefore on the ecosystem services for human societies. It is thus a key priority to improve understanding of ecosystem functioning as well as the capacity for predicting its dynamics under environmental change. The objective of HISTFUNC is to apply macroecological analyses to provide ground-breaking assessments of large-scale drivers of functional diversity and ecosystem functioning, including effects of diversity on functioning. PI: Jens-Christian Svenning
HIGH2 (FRQNT grant may-august 2015)
Herbivory Impacts and the future of the veGetation in the temperate-boreal ecotone with varying Hunting and Harvesting pressures.
In a context of potential northward migration of the temperate forest in a region with high herbivore densities, what could we expect according to management scenarios? The Gaspésie is located at the ecotone of the temperate and boreal forests. In this south part of the St-Laurent river, the density of ungulates (moose) is one of the highest in Canada, and they have very few natural predators. It is a perfect case of application of a vegetation-herbivore model I developped. The objectif is to analyse the change in forest dominance in a context of climate change, and according to contrasted scenarios of hunting and forest management. PI: Isabelle Boulangeat
QUICCFOR (NSERC grant 2013-2015)
Quantitative mapping of climate change effects on forest dynamics
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This project is unique in linking the best forest ecologists and modelers from Canada, USA and Europe to provide them tools that will be used to assess the impacts of and risks of climate change on the productivity of the forests of Eastern Canada. PI: Dominique Gravel
TEEMBIO (ERC - Starting Grant project 2012-2016)
Towards Eco-Evolutionary Models of BIOdiversity
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PI: Wilfried Thuiller
SCION (ANR 6th extinction 2010-2013)
Scenarios of global change impacts on biodiversity based on innovative modelling approaches
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PI: Isabelle Chuine
ECOCHANGE (FP6 European Integrated project 2007-2011)
Challenges in assessing and forecasting biodiversity and ecosystem changes in Europe
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PI: Pierre Taberlet
DIVERSITALP (ANR Biodiversity 2008-2011)
Forecasting the impacts of global changes on French Alpine Flora: distribution of specific, functional and phylogenetic diversities, simulations and conservation strategies
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PI: Wilfried Thuiller