Notre contribution au symposium « Éducation au Développement durable dans le contexte du changement climatique » s'appuie sur le dispositif de sciences citoyennes « Vigie-Nature École » (VNE) porté par le Muséum national d'histoire naturelle (MNHN). Deux grands objectifs éducatifs peuvent guider la mise en œuvre de VNE : d'une part, faire participe...
Background: Soil animal communities include more than 40 higher-order taxa, representing over 23% of all described species. These animals have a wide range of feeding sources and contribute to several important soil functions and ecosystem services. Although many studies have assessed macroinvertebrate communities in Brazil, few of them have been p...
L’agriculture et l’alimentation sont au cœur de défis interconnectés : épuisement des ressources naturelles, pollutions, érosion de la biodiversité, dérèglement climatique, augmentation des maladies chroniques et infectieuses. De nouvelles approches intégratrices basées sur la santé sont nécessaires pour dépasser les approches « en silo » qui ne co...
Dans deux textes datés de 1967 et 1968, l’anthropologue, psychologue et biologiste américain Gregory Bateson forme une critique des raisonnements finalistes, qu’il confronte au fonctionnement systémique de l’esprit humain et de son écologie. Si les premiers ont une structure linéaire, souligne-t-il, ce n’est pas le cas des deux autres. Ainsi, se fi...
Human activities have affected the surrounding natural ecosystems, including belowground microorganisms, for millennia. Their short- and medium-term effects on the diversity and the composition of soil microbial communities are well-documented, but their lasting effects remain unknown. When unoccupied for centuries, archaeological sites are appropr...
Shade trees in agroforestry systems confer ecosystem services, such as enhanced soil fertility from diverse litter inputs, microclimate regulation via shade, and disease mitigation through trophic and abiotic interactions. With this thriving role of agroforestry in sustainable agriculture, particularly for tree crops, systematic and reliable method...
In Goat Mountain, by David Vann, the numerous lines with which the characters carve up the surface of the territory and the flesh of their prey testify to their desire to dominate the world and those who inhabit it. Yet the motif of the broken line that runs through the narrative and the writing suggests that this relationship to the world has beco...
The expansion of the oil palm industry in Indonesia has improved livelihoods in rural communities, but comes at the cost of biodiversity and ecosystem degradation. Here, we investigated ways to balance ecological and economic outcomes of oil palm cultivation. We compared a wide range of production systems, including smallholder plantations, industr...
Secondary tropical forests play an increasingly important role in carbon budgets and biodiversity conservation. Understanding successional trajectories is therefore imperative for guiding forest restoration and climate change mitigation efforts. Forest succession is driven by the demographic strategies—combinations of growth, mortality and recruitm...
Climate extremes and biotic interactions at the neighbourhood scale affect tropical forest dynamics with long-term consequences for biodiversity, global carbon cycling and climate change mitigation. However, forest disturbance may change crowding intensity, and thus the relative contribution of climate extremes and neighbourhood interactions on tre...
