A5071271395- Ecology and Vegetation Dynamics Studies
- Plant responses to elevated CO2
- Atmospheric chemistry and aerosols
- Plant Water Relations and Carbon Dynamics
- Plant and animal studies
- Allelopathy and phytotoxic interactions
- Plant Parasitism and Resistance
- Marine and coastal plant biology
- Forest Ecology and Biodiversity Studies
- Forest ecology and management
- Forest Insect Ecology and Management
- Fire effects on ecosystems
- Marine Biology and Ecology Research
- Marine Bivalve and Aquaculture Studies
- Echinoderm biology and ecology
- Plant biochemistry and biosynthesis
- Soil Carbon and Nitrogen Dynamics
- Lichen and fungal ecology
- Coral and Marine Ecosystems Studies
- Coastal wetland ecosystem dynamics
- Tree-ring climate responses
- Botany and Plant Ecology Studies
- Weed Control and Herbicide Applications
- Seedling growth and survival studies
- Indoor Air Quality and Microbial Exposure
Aix-Marseille Université
2016-2025
Institut de Recherche pour le Développement
2016-2025
Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique
2015-2025
Université d'Avignon et des Pays de Vaucluse
2013-2025
Institut Méditerranéen de Biodiversité et d'Ecologie Marine et Continentale
2014-2024
Centre de Recherche et de Documentation sur les Amériques
2024
Maison Asie Pacifique
2024
Laboratoire des Sciences du Climat et de l'Environnement
2020
Institut de Mathématiques de Bordeaux
2016
Institut de Recherche pour le Développement
2016
Summary A broad and diversified group of compounds, secondary metabolites, are known to govern species interactions in ecosystems. Recent studies have shown that metabolites can also play a major role ecosystem processes, such as plant succession or the process litter decomposition, by governing interplay between matter soil organisms. We reviewed ecological three main classes methodological challenges novel avenues for their study. highlight emerging general patterns impacts on decomposer...
Abstract A major aim of ecology is to upscale attributes individuals understand processes at population, community and ecosystem scales. Such are typically described using functional traits, that is, standardised characteristics impact fitness via effects on survival, growth and/or reproduction. However, commonly used traits (e.g. wood density, SLA) becoming increasingly criticised for not being truly mechanistic questionable predictors ecological processes. This Special Feature reviews...
Summary A major challenge of current ecological research is to determine the responses plant and animal communities ecosystem processes future environmental conditions. Ecosystems respond climate change in complex ways, outcome may significantly depend on biodiversity. We studied relative effects enhanced drought species mixture soil biota litter decomposition a Mediterranean oak forest. experimentally reduced precipitation, accounting for seasonal precipitation variability, created...
In contrast to plant-animal interactions, the conceptual framework regarding impact of secondary metabolites in mediating plant-plant interference is currently less well defined. Here, we address hypotheses about role chemically-mediated (i.e., allelopathy) as a driver Mediterranean forest dynamics. Growth and defense abilities pioneer (Pinus halepensis) late-successional (Quercus pubescens) species were evaluated under three different plant conditions: (i) allelopathy simulated by...
Abstract Potential for, and limits to, adaptation to environmental changes are critical for resilience risk mitigation. The Mediterranean basin is a mosaic of biodiversity‐rich ecosystems long affected by human influence, whose now questioned climate change. After reviewing the different components biological adaptation, we present main characteristics marine terrestrial biodiversity in pressures they face. Taking climatic trends into consideration, discuss adaptive potential range dominated...
Terpenoid production (emission and storage) within foliage plays direct indirect defensive protective functions for the plant, mediates complex trophic relationships controls oxidation capacity of atmosphere. Both biotic abiotic conditions alter terpenoid production, with herbivory, light temperature effects being reasonably well understood. In this manuscript, state science about nutrient effect on is reviewed. The focus isoprene emissions mono- sesquiterpenoid concentrations according to...
San Roman Sanz, A., C. Fernandez, F. Mouillot, L. Ferrat, D. Istria, and V. Pasqualini. 2013. Long-term forest dynamics land-use abandonment in the Mediterranean mountains, Corsica, France. Ecology Society 18(2): 38. https://doi.org/10.5751/ES-05556-180238
Summary Over a century of agricultural abandonment across the Mediterranean region has favoured installation pioneer expansionist species Aleppo pine ( Pinus halepensis Miller). This synthesizes wide range secondary metabolites that are partially released during needle decomposition, and which can thus affect ‘brown food chain’. Litter decomposition is key process connecting ecosystem structure function, involving microbial faunal components. The goal this study was to determine effect...
Abstract The Mediterranean region is recognized as a global biodiversity hotspot. However, over the last decades, cessation of traditional farming in north part basin has given way to strong afforestation leading occurrence abandoned agricultural lands colonized by pioneer expansionist species like Pinus halepensis . This pine known synthesize wide range secondary metabolites, and previous studies have demonstrated allelopathic potentialities its needle root leachates. also release...
MEPS Marine Ecology Progress Series Contact the journal Facebook Twitter RSS Mailing List Subscribe to our mailing list via Mailchimp HomeLatest VolumeAbout JournalEditorsTheme Sections 204:131-141 (2000) - doi:10.3354/meps204131 Nutrition of sea urchin Paracentrotus lividus (Echinodermata: Echinoidea) fed different artificial food Catherine Fernandez1,2,*, Charles-François Boudouresque2 1EqEL and CRITT Corse Technologie, Université de Corse, BP 52, 20250 Corte, France 2UMR-DIMAR 3 901,...
Abstract. The CANOPEE project aims to better understand the biosphere–atmosphere exchanges of biogenic volatile organic compounds (BVOCs) in case Mediterranean ecosystems and impact in-canopy processes on atmospheric chemical composition above canopy. Based an intensive field campaign, objective our work was determine air inside a canopy as well net fluxes reactive species between boundary layer. Measurements were carried out during spring 2012 at site Oak Observatory Observatoire de Haute...
The metabolome is the biochemical basis of plant form and function, but we know little about its macroecological variation across kingdom. Here, used functional trait concept to interpret leaf among 457 tropical 339 temperate species. Distilling metabolite chemistry into five metabolic traits reveals that plants vary on two major axes specialization-a chemical defense spectrum an expression longevity. Axes are similar for species, with many combinations being viable. However, orthogonally...