Scientific coordination :
Sandra Ardoin-Bardin (IRD), Nicolas Arnaud (CNRS), Sophie Boutin (UM), Jean-Luc Chotte (IRD), Philippe Jarne (CNRS), Pascal Kosuth (Agropolis Fondation), Philippe Lebaron (UPMC), Éric Servat (IRD)

Agropolis International Coordination: Mélanie Broin

This Dossier showcases research structures based in
Languedoc-Roussillon Region whose activities are
focused on addressing challenges encountered in
studies on climate change impacts and adaptations :

• 46 research units (UR, depending on a single supervisory authority), or joint research units (UMR, depending on several supervisory bodies), members of the Agropolis International research community
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• 2 ‘laboratories of excellence’ (LabEx Agro - Agronomy and Sustainable Development p.70, and LabEx CeMEB - Centre Méditerranéen de l’Environnement et de la Biodiversité p. 29) and a federative structure (IM2E: Montpellier Institute for Water and Environment p.10) that manage the scientific activities of some research units on these topics

   

• 5 research infrastructures of national or European scope that are devoted to observations in the natural environment or in controlled experiments: the Observatoire de Recherche Méditerranéen de l’Environnement (OSU OREME p.36), the Oceanic Observatory of Banyuls-sur-Mer (OOB p.41), one of the three national branches of the European Marine Biological Resource Centre (EMBRC-France p.50), the Mediterranean Platform for Marine Ecosystem Experimental Research (MEDIMEER p. 49) and the European Ecotron of Montpellier (p. 37)

   

• 5 foreign or international partners set up in the region that conduct scientific activities in collaboration with Agropolis members: the CGIAR Consortium (international organization) (p.83), ‘external laboratories without walls’ of EMBRAPA (Brazil) (p. 84) and INTA (Argentina) (p.85), and subsidiary laboratories of CSIRO (Australia) (p.61) and USDA/ARS (USA) (p. 62)

Scientific research carried out by the regional research stakeholders on climate change impacts and adaptations is very broad in scope. This Dossier,
which is far from being comprehensive- aims to give readers an overview of this research by highlighting the stakeholders involved and giving a few practical examples of their research activities. These are presented under four major themes:

Climate change & resources, territories and development

Climate change & biodiversity and ecosystems (Biodiversity and continental ecosystems, Biodiversity and marine ecosystems)

Climate change & interactions between organisms

Climate change & agricultural and livestock production systems

Agropolis International members also offer a broad range of diploma training-education courses (2-8 years of higher education) in which the climate change issue is taken into account in the light of the most recent advanced research on the topic.
The list of training and education courses is available online (www.agropolis.org/training/).

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See also :

Foreword by Bernard Hubert, President of Agropolis International

Topics covered by the research teams

List of agronyms and abbreviations

Climate Change Impact and Adaptation

 

 

Slideshare

These thematic directories provide a global and easy to consult presentation of the laboratories, teams and research units of all the Agropolis intitutes involved in the given issue. They also provide information on the wide range of training sessions available.

One of the objectives of the series is to facilitate contacts for the development of exchanges and technical and scientific cooperations by a wider promotion of the community skills.