Abstract Background Understanding how behavioural dynamics, inter-individual variability and individual interactions scale-up to shape the spatial spread and dispersal of animal populations is a major challenge in ecology. For biocontrol agents, such as the microscopic Trichogramma parasitic wasps, an understanding of movement strategies is also cr...
Abstract Many virological studies have tested the persistence of enveloped RNA viruses in various environmental and laboratory conditions and shown their short-term persistence. In this article, we analyzed Toscana virus (TOSV) infectivity, a pathogenic sandfly-borne phlebovirus, in two different conditions: in the sugar meal and blood meal of sand...
Understanding the interactions between plants and microorganisms can inform microbiome management to enhance crop productivity and resilience to stress. Here, we apply a genome-centric approach to identify ecologically important leaf microbiome members on replicated plots of field-grown switchgrass and miscanthus, and to quantify their activities o...
Published in Chemosphere
Gastropod shells are calcified structures made of several crystal layers. They grow throughout the lifecycle of mollusks by integrating some of the chemical elements present in their environment, including metals. This characteristic means mollusks can be useful bioindicators of metal exposure. The present study aimed to better understand the role ...
Abstract Species with disjunct geographic distributions provide natural opportunities to investigate recent or incipient allopatric divergence. Although not rare, many of the cases observed result from successful colonization from a historical to a new range through dispersal or human-induced introduction which make the underlying eco-evolutionary ...
The Institut Rambla Prim, in collaboration with the Institut-Escola del Treball of Barcelona, conducted a study on marine microplastics present in the seawater along the coast of Tarragona (Western Mediterranean), specifically in the towns of l'Ampolla and Altafulla, as well as in the sand of Altafulla beach. The study involved collecting water sam...
Current pest management relies extensively on pesticide application worldwide, despite the frequent rise of pesticide resistance in crop pests. This is particularly worrisome because resistance is often not costly enough to be lost in populations after pesticide application, resulting in increased dependency on pesticide application. As climate war...
Le parc départemental du Sausset fait face à une expansion de Cornouiller sanguin (Cornus sanguinea) dans certaines prairies. Le Conservatoire botanique national du Bassin parisien (CBNBP) a proposé au Conseil départemental de la Seine-Saint-Denis de tester différentes modalités de restauration du milieu prairial et de mettre en place un protocole ...
Missionné par le Conseil départemental de Seine-Saint-Denis, le Conservatoire botanique national du Bassin parisien (CBNBP) réalise un suivi cartographique du Sainfoin d’Espagne (Galega officinalis) dans le parc de la Haute-Île (93) depuis 2018. Cette espèce exotique envahissante et toxique pour le bétail s’est implantée dans les zones pâturées du ...
