Themes

Themes

The BIOSEFAIR metaprogramme aims to meet a dual challenge: the sustainable management of the services and functions provided by ecosystems (nurturing, regulating or socio-cultural) and the conservation and restoration of biodiversity as a whole, both to maintain the services it provides and for its intrinsic values. BIOSEFAIR studies a broad spectrum of services such as the contribution to climate change mitigation, pollination, crop protection, natural risk prevention and cultural services. This metaprogramme marks an evolution in the way in which this diversity of services is taken into account, by favouring an approach centred on the socio-ecosystems formed around agricultural environments, livestock systems, forest and aquatic environments.

Interaction networks: How do the interfaces between environments and interactions between activities influence biodiversity and ecosystem services ?

Biosefair will focus on the study of interfaces between ecosystems, interactions between species and that between ecosystem services, and the study of the conflicts and synergies between activities and between stakeholders. The spatial diversity and range of practices among stakeholders are at the heart of this issue. 

Dynamics and resilience : What are the dynamics of ecosystem service networks in a context of global change and in response to management steps taken for these transitions ?

Ecosystem processes have their own dynamics in a fast-changing world, services can take time to manifest themselves, and the demands of society are known to change. 
Biosefair will use modelling and simulation to better explore the dynamics of biodiversity and ecosystem services in a variety of situations, and contribute to making conceptual and methodological adjustments by relying on, notably, long-term study sites.

Global health: what are the new challenges of preserving biodiversity ?

The Covid-19 pandemic has thrown into relief the societal stakes surrounding the links between health in a broad sense, and the state of ecosystems. The concept of “global health” attempts to establish links between biodiversity, the functioning of ecosystems, the health of organisms that make up those ecosystems, and human health. For Biosefair, this is a promising research frontier. The metaprogramme proposes to bring together diverse research bodies (animal and plant health, ecotoxicology, quality of products, biodiversity, ecosystem services, etc.) with different activities and knowledge-sharing to build conceptual frameworks and research approaches.

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Modification date: 07 November 2023 | Publication date: 16 March 2022 | By: Com