Résumé

Abstract. Intraspecific trait variation has large effects on the ecosystem and is greatly affected by human activities. To date, most studies focused on single


Auteurs, date et publication :

Auteurs Beatriz Diaz Pauli , Eric Edeline , Charlotte Evangelista

Publication : Conservation Physiology

Date : 2020

Volume : 8

Issue : 1


Catégorie(s)

#ANR-Citation #CNRS #Ecotron IleDeFrance #ENS

Résumé

Ecosystems integrity and services are threatened by anthropogenic global changes. Mitigating and adapting to these changes requires knowledge of ecosystem functioning in the expected novel environments, informed in large part through experimentation and modelling. This paper describes 13 advanced controlled environment facilities for experimental ecosystem studies, herein termed ecotrons, open to the international community. Ecotrons enable simulation of a wide range of natural environmental conditions in replicated and independent experimental units whilst simultaneously measuring various ecosystem processes. This capacity to realistically control ecosystem environments is used to emulate a variety of climatic scenarios and soil conditions, in natural sunlight or through broad spectrum lighting. The use of large ecosystem samples, intact or reconstructed, minimises border effects and increases biological and physical complexity. Measurements of concentrations of greenhouse trace gases as well as their net exchange between the ecosystem and the atmosphere are performed in most ecotrons, often quasi continuously. The flow of matter is often tracked with the use of stable isotope tracers of carbon and other elements. Equipment is available for measurements of soil water status as well as root and canopy growth. The experiments run so far emphasize the diversity of the hosted research. Half of them concern global changes, often with a manipulation of more than one driver. About a quarter deal with the impact of biodiversity loss on ecosystem functioning and one quarter with ecosystem or plant physiology. We discuss how the methodology for environmental simulation and process measurements, especially in soil, can be improved and stress the need to establish stronger links with modelling in future projects. These developments will enable further improvements in mechanistic understanding and predictive capacity of ecotron research which will play, in complementarity with field experimentation and monitoring, a crucial role in exploring the ecosystem consequences of environmental changes.


Auteurs, date et publication :

Auteurs Jacques Roy , François Rineau , Hans J. De Boeck , Ivan Nijs , Thomas Pütz , Samuel Abiven , John A. Arnone , Craig V. M. Barton , Natalie Beenaerts , Nicolas Brüggemann , Matteo Dainese , Timo Domisch , Nico Eisenhauer , Sarah Garré , Alban Gebler , Andrea Ghirardo , Richard L. Jasoni , George Kowalchuk , Damien Landais , Stuart H. Larsen

Publication : Global Change Biology

Date : 2025

Volume : 27

Issue : 7

Pages : 1387-1407


Catégorie(s)

#ANR-Citation #CNRS #Ecotron IleDeFrance #ENS

Auteurs, date et publication :

Auteurs Régis Cereghino , Bruno Corbara , Céline Leroy , Jean-Francois Carrias

Publication : Hydrobiologia

Date : 2025

Volume : 847

Issue : 2

Pages : 391-402


Catégorie(s)

#CNRS #FORET Nouragues

Auteurs, date et publication :

Auteurs Eric Edeline , Gérard Lacroix , Christine Delire , Nicolas Poulet , Stéphane Legendre

Publication : Global Change Biology

Date : 2025

Volume : 19

Issue : 10

Pages : 3062-3068


Catégorie(s)

#CNRS #ENS #PLANAQUA

Auteurs, date et publication :

Auteurs Alexia Stokes , Sébastien Barot , Jean-Christophe Lata , Gérard Lacroix , Clive G. Jones , William J. Mitsch

Publication : Ecological Engineering

Date : 2025

Volume : 45

Pages : 1-4


Catégorie(s)

#CNRS #Ecotron IleDeFrance #ENS #PLANAQUA

Résumé

Size-selective mortality due to harvesting is a threat to numerous exploited species, but how it affects the ecosystem remains largely unexplored. Here, we used a pond mesocosm experiment to assess how evolutionary responses to opposite size-selective mortality interacted with the environment (fish density and light intensity used as a proxy of resource availability) to modulate fish populations, prey community composition and ecosystem functions. We used medaka (
Oryzias latipes
) previously selected over 10 generations for small size (harvest-like selection; small-breeder line) or large size (large-breeder line), which displayed slow somatic growth and early maturity or fast somatic growth and late maturity, respectively. Large-breeder medaka produced more juveniles, which seemed to grow faster than small-breeder ones but only under high fish density. Additionally, large-breeder medaka had an increased impact on some benthic prey, suggesting expanded diet breadth and/or enhanced foraging abilities. As a consequence, increased light stimulated benthic algae biomass only in presence of large-breeder medaka, which were presumably better at controlling benthic grazers. Aggregated effect sizes at the community and ecosystem levels revealed that the ecological effects of medaka evolution were of similar magnitude to those induced by the environment and fish introduction. These findings indicate the important environmental dependency of evolutionary response to opposite size-selective mortality on higher levels of biological organizations.


Auteurs, date et publication :

Auteurs Charlotte Evangelista , Julia Dupeu , Joakim Sandkjenn , Beatriz Diaz Pauli , Anders Herland , Jacques Meriguet , Leif Asbjørn Vøllestad , Eric Edeline

Publication : Royal Society Open Science

Date : 2025

Volume : 8

Issue : 10

Pages : 210842


Catégorie(s)

#ANR-Citation #CNRS #ENS #PLANAQUA

Résumé

AbstractBackground and Aims. Several widespread tree species of temperate forests, such as species of the genus Quercus, produce recalcitrant (desiccation-sens


Auteurs, date et publication :

Auteurs Thierry Joët , Jean-Marc Ourcival , Stéphane Dussert

Publication : Annals of Botany

Date : 2013

Volume : 111

Issue : 4

Pages : 693-701


Catégorie(s)

#CNRS #FORET Puechabon

Auteurs, date et publication :

Auteurs Tomáš Pavlíček , Csaba Csuzdi

Publication : Zoology in the Middle East

Date : 2025

Volume : 58

Issue : sup4

Pages : 107-110


Catégorie(s)

#CNRS #FORET Nouragues

Auteurs, date et publication :

Auteurs Xu Pan , Mathieu Santonja , Pierre Emmanuel Courty , Olaf Butensch n , Matty Berg , Phil Murray , Benjamin Yguel , Daphn e Brul , Andreas Prinzing

Publication : Authorea

Date : 2020


Catégorie(s)

#CNRS #EcoGenO #Université de Rennes

Résumé

Ecological corridors promote species coexistence in fragmented habitats where dispersal limits species fluxes. The corridor concept was developed and investigated with macroorganisms in mind while microorganisms, the invisible majority of biodiversity, were disregarded. We analyzed the effect of corridors on the dynamics of endospheric fungal assemblages associated with plant roots at the scale of one meter over two years (i.e. at five time points) by combining an experimental corridor-mesocosm with high-throughput amplicon sequencing. We show that the plant root endospheric mycobiota was sensitive to corridor effects when the corridors were set up at a small spatial scale. The endospheric mycobiota of connected plants had higher species richness, lower beta-diversity, and more deterministic assembly than the mycobiota of isolated plants. These effects became more pronounced with the development of host plants. Biotic corridors composed of host plants may thus play a key role in the spatial dynamics of microbial communities and may influence microbial diversity and related ecological functions.


Auteurs, date et publication :

Auteurs Jie Hu , Philippe Vandenkoornhuyse , Fadwa Khalfallah , Romain Causse-Védrines , Cendrine Mony

Publication : New Phytologist

Date : 2025

Volume : n/a

Issue : n/a


Catégorie(s)

#CNRS #EcoGenO #Université de Rennes