The European Ecotron
in Montpellier
CNRS UAR 3248
The Ecotron
Ecotron is a support and research unit of the CNRS Institute of Ecology and Environment (INEE). It is open to national and international research teams in the fields of ecology, population and community biology, and agronomy.
The Ecotron allows for the simultaneous climate conditioning of ecosystems of different sizes and the online measurement of material and energy flows linked to various ecophysiological processes.
This research infrastructure acts as an interface between experiments conducted in situ and those carried out in the laboratory.
Ecotron’s research topics include fundamental questions about biogeochemical cycles and the role of biodiversity in ecosystems.
However, the infrastructure is open to other scientific fields (epigenetics, paleoclimatology, etc.) that require the observation of samples under controlled environmental conditions.
The construction of the Ecotron is co-financed by the European Regional Development Fund (ERDF), AnaEE France, the Occitanie Region, and the CNRS’s Committee for Very Large Research Infrastructures (TGIR).
OUR PLATFORMS
Discover the different platforms that make up Montpellier’s Ecotron
01 MACROCOSMS
02 MESOCOSMS
03 MICROCOSMS
04 ISOFLUX
OUR SPECIAL FEATURES
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TEAM
EQUIPMENT
PUBLICATIONS
Did you know that collaborative projects based on an ongoing Mesocosm project are possible?
OUR PROJECTS
Discover the projects led by the CNRS Ecotron in Montpellier
MOVBIO – MESOCOSMES
ASSET – MACROCOSMS
UMI 17 WP2 – ISOFLUX
ICORDA – MICROCOSMES
OUR PARTNERS
The construction of the Ecotron is co-financed by the European Regional Development Fund (ERDF).
AnaEE France, the Occitanie Region, and the CNRS Committee for Very Large Research Infrastructures (TGIR)
