A5036918645- Agriculture and Rural Development Research
- Ecology and Vegetation Dynamics Studies
- Rangeland Management and Livestock Ecology
- Botany and Plant Ecology Studies
- Agroforestry and silvopastoral systems
- African Botany and Ecology Studies
- Pasture and Agricultural Systems
- Plant Water Relations and Carbon Dynamics
- Soil Carbon and Nitrogen Dynamics
- French Urban and Social Studies
- Ruminant Nutrition and Digestive Physiology
- Rangeland and Wildlife Management
- Soil and Environmental Studies
- Plant and animal studies
- Sustainable Agricultural Systems Analysis
- Climate change impacts on agriculture
- Plant Ecology and Soil Science
- Medieval European Literature and History
- Peatlands and Wetlands Ecology
- Botanical Research and Applications
- Soil Geostatistics and Mapping
- Bryophyte Studies and Records
- Plant Parasitism and Resistance
- Ecology and biodiversity studies
- Migration, Identity, and Health
Institut National de Recherche pour l'Agriculture, l'Alimentation et l'Environnement
2022-2023
Université Grenoble Alpes
2018-2023
Agroscope
2014-2019
Grazinglands Research Laboratory
2019
CItés, Territoires, Environnement et Sociétés
2019
Swiss Federal Institute for Forest, Snow and Landscape Research
2015
Ecosystem (Spain)
2010-2011
Territoires
2008
In the Alps, many summer pastures are under-used due to decreasing number of livestock. Optimizing grazing management heterogeneous implies a better understanding foraging habits cattle. The aim this study was precise relationships between cattle behaviour and characteristics vegetation. experiment carried out on pasture encroached by shrubs (mainly Alnus viridis) composed four contrasted vegetation units at 1800 m a.s.l. Four beef cows were monitored in paddock 2.9 ha Differential Global...
Question: Does long-term grazing exclusion affect spatial patterns of canopy height, plant species and traits in subalpine grassland communities? Are similarly affected by exclusion? changes associated with abundances? Location: Subalpine grasslands, Vercors Oisans Mountains, Alps (France). Methods: Spatial sampling vegetation measurements were carried out within nine pairs grazed ungrazed 10 m × 10-m plots three species-rich communities different productivities. We estimated within-plot...
Drought can occur at different times during the grassland growing season, likely having contrasting effects on forage production when happening early or later in season. However, knowledge about interacting of timing drought and development stage vegetation season is still scarce, thus limiting our ability to accurately predict quantity losses. To investigate plant community responses seasonality (early- vs. late-season), we established a experiment two permanent grasslands Swiss Jura...
Summer mountain pastures are complex coupled ecological and human systems. They provide vital forage for livestock during summer, their traditional use is decisive the maintenance of biodiversity, ecosystem services, open landscapes, which benefit local populations tourists. With climate change, increased intensity frequency climatic hazards threaten sustainable management these To foster adaptation in such systems, we developed a tool to assess change–related vulnerability. The consists...
Extensive livestock farming is a key activity in the Alpine region, contributing to economy and maintaining typical landscapes, high biological cultural diversity. With climate change, recent unprecedented multi-year droughts are threatening these extensive production systems positive externalities they deliver. This study aims better understand local exposure vulnerability components that shape drought risk systems, as first step towards adaptation. We performed an original farm-level...
Abstract Summer mountain pastures (also called alpages ) are a central element for many agro-pastoral livestock systems in the alpine region, by providing feedstock herds during summer transhumance. However, vegetation phenology and productivity increasingly affected climate hazards exacerbated change, such as early snow removal, late frost events, or droughts. Difficulties can then arise to match animal demand with forage resource on and, long term, threaten sustainable management of these...