Evaluation Multi-échelle de la Biodiversité Végétale dans les Pâturages Boisés du Jura
Type : PhD. Cotutelle between the laboratory of chrono-ecology (Uni. of Franche-Comté) and the laboratory ECOSPAT (Uni. of Lausanne) (2003-2006)
Fund :
- Grant CNRS-Region
- Antenne Romande WSL
Description :
Patterns of biodiversity have been of long-standing interest to ecologists, particularly at regional and global scales. As the loss of biodiversity becomes of greater environmental, social and political concern, understanding the drivers of local biodiversity in natural and anthropogenic ecosystems is of an increasingly practicalinterest in conservation.
In the Jura Mountains, wooded pasturesare the result of traditional humanactivities, mainly forest management andextensive cattle grazing. This cultural landscape is particularly rich in plant species and we hypothesise that the diversity is closely related to the environmental heterogeneity of the system at multiple scales.
How to describe landscape in order to explain and predict plant diversity in agiven place ? This is the main question of MUSCAD project.
Keywords :
Plant biodiversity, spatial analysis, remote sensing, GIS, multiscale, species assemblage, species richness, wooded pastures
Particpants :
PhD student : A. Dufour
Supervisors :
- A. Buttler
- Z. Gadallah
- F. Gillet
- A. Guisan
- R. Caloz
- H. Wagner
Partnerships :
- WSL Antenne romande
- NCCR “Plant Survival”, module “Pattern and long-term changes in pasture-woodlands: Complex plant-herbivore interactions in a traditional type of agro-forestry
Study site :
Les Amburnex, Marchairuz, Parc Jurassien Vaudois