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Plastic pollution: towards a global treaty limiting production?

In Ottawa, negotiations aimed at signing an international treaty limiting plastic pollution moved in the right direction during a penultimate cycle, which ended Tuesday April 30. A summit placed under the aegis of the United Nations and attended by Marie-France Dignac and Jean-François Ghiglione, two researchers at Sorbonne University. The establishment is the first French university to be accredited by the United Nations Environment Program, allowing it to take part in international negotiations.

"DCFE" Department, “CoMIC” Team, “CReA” Team, “Ecosens” Department, “FEST” Team, “Sols_ZC” Department, Books, INRAE, IRD, Political commitments, Sorbonne University, Type of news
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ADALEP 2023

Meeting of the ADALEP network 2023

On October 24 and 25, the Ecosens department hosted the ADALEP (Adaptation of Lepidoptera) national network days on the INRAE Versailles-Saclay campus. Around two plenary conferences given by invited researchers from New Zealand (Invasomics Lab; Institute for Plant and Food Research). These days brought together more than twenty presentations on invasions, expansion fronts, adaptation and […]

“CReA” Team, “Ecosens” Department, “NEO” Team, Colloquiums, Conferences, Emmanuelle Joly, INRAE, Type of news
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Membre de iEES Paris présents à l'EGU2023

iEES Paris at EGU 2023

EGU 2023 was held this year in Vienna, Austria from April 23-28. iEES Paris was strongly represented with the participation of 9 of our team members.

“BioDIS” Team, “EMS” Team, “F2ZC” Team, “FEST” Team, “Sols_ZC” Department, Anne Pando, Chalotte Védère, Christian Hartmann, Colloquiums, Conferences, Cornélia Rumpel, Events, Hugo Potier, Irina Mikajlo, José Araujo, Lise Dupont, Marie-France Dignac, Nunan Naoise, Pascal Jouquet, Yacouba Zi,
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Paysage sahélien, région de Bambey, Sénégal, en septembre 2022

Persistence and success of the Sahel desertification narrative

When the Sahel is mentioned today, this semi-arid African region between the Sahara and Sudanian Africa is often associated with the notion of desertification. But what do the latest advances in environmental science tell us about this desertification? To what extent is the “narrative” of Sahel desertification based on scientific results, or on other mechanisms, of a more political nature?

“F2ZC” Team, “Sols_ZC” Department, Caroline Pierre, CNRS, Jean-Louis Rajot, Published!
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mésange

A stressful life in the city affects birds’ genes

Great tits living in cities are genetically different from great tits in the countryside. This is what researchers have found in a unique study, where they examined populations of great tits in nine large European cities.

The researchers compared the city bird genes with the genes of their relatives in the countryside. It did not matter if the great tits lived in Milan, Malmö or Madrid: in order to handle an environment created by humans, the birds evolved in a similar way.

“EcoEvo” Department, “EPE” Team, Published!, Sorbonne University
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Habitat fragmentation prevents species from tracking climate change

Climate changeaffectsbiodiversity globally, by forcing species to shift their distribution to track the changes in temperature. An international collaboration between scientists from France, Sweden, the Netherlands and Finland shows, in an article published in the journal Ecology Letters,that habitat fragmentation caused by human activity affects distribution shifts in butterfly species and, hence, their capacity to cope with climate change.

"DCFE" Department, “BioDIS” Team, Paris Est Créteil University, Published!
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Environmental pulse disturbances disproportionately affect large body size species

Smaller organisms are typically more abundant than larger ones, which is a fundamental characteristic of ecological communities. How environmental pulse disturbances affect these « abundance pyramids » remains poorly understood. In a study recently published in Ecology Letters, researchers from iEES Paris and the University of Zürich showed that disturbances which are not size-selective still […]

"DCFE" Department, “EERI” Team, CNRS, Published!
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Urban Ecosystems: A dialog between Scientists and Paris City Managers

For more than 10 years, the City of Paris and the Institute of Ecology and Environmental Sciences of Paris have been collaborating on various issues of urban ecology. From these multiform collaborations at the interface between fundamental research and concrete techniques for the management of urban environments, several advances have been made on both scientific […]

"DCFE" Department, “APCE” Team, “EERI” Team, “EMS” Team, Colloquiums, Département “IPE”, Events, Projects / Partnerships, Séverine Planchais, Sorbonne University
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