Projects

Photo (c) IRD - JC Pintaud

World population's continuous growth in south countries makes food security one of the major challenges for next decades. Pressure intensification on ecosystems, climate change, and farmland restricted availability are as many factors that place this challenge in a difficult context. Scientific advances are consequently needed, notably in order to better manage biodiversity in agro-ecosystems. Our team is involved in three main projects focusing on tropical biodiversity and its evolution under environmental and human pressures. Other smaller projects on similar topics are also ongoing.

Our main objectives are:

- to describe and analyse diversity patterns of tropical plants

- to analyse how ecological, human and historical factors shape plants diversity

- to understand which services biodiversity gives back to Human