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Résumé Ce cours introduira le concept de contributions de la nature aux populations humaines, ou services écosystémiques. Il montrera comment les approches d’écologie fonctionnelle permettent de quantifier les services écosystémiques sur la base de la …

Résumé Extensive evidence shows that landscape structure significantly influences farmland biodiversity and can alter the effectiveness of sustainable agricultural practices. In this talk, I will explore how not only the quantity but also the size and …

Résumé Humans strove for generations to create a world without large predators. By doing so they changed the rule of the evolutionary game played for over 400 million years. Can this be without consequences on ecological networks and on the fabric of …

Résumé Species distribution changes associated with human-mediated climate change have important consequences on ecosystems and human well-being. Despite mounting evidence, our knowledge of biodiversity redistribution is still incomplete with only 0.6% of …

Résumé Disturbance regimes such as fire are key drivers of biodiversity, structuring habitats and shaping species assemblages. Fire regimes are rapidly changing due to climate warming, land-use shifts, and long-term suppression policies. Altered fire …

Résumé Recent satellite imagery has achieved the capability to accurately characterize vegetated surfaces at high temporal and spatial resolution, but standard satellite products often fail to capture the complex, fragmented, and heterogeneous spatial …

Résumé Sustainable development is often trapped in rigid social and ecological processes that drive environmental degradation and entrench poverty and marginalisation, leaving societies ill-prepared for accelerating environmental and technological change. …

Résumé Adaptation to climate change is not just about natural processes or human decisions alone: it emerges from the many relationships among people, within ecosystems, and between society and nature. Around the globe, societies respond in different …

Résumé Cette conférence évoquera  la naissance des sciences de la Préhistoire, au milieu du XIX e  siècle, autour de la figure haute en couleur de Jacques Boucher de Perthes : archéologue amateur et auteur prolixe, esprit inventif à l’imagination vive, il …

Résumé In the first lecture the issue of changing biblical interpretation in the South African context since the 1990s when Nelson Mandela was released and the ANC party unbanned, and since 1994 when the first democratic post-apartheid elections were …