SoilForEurope / Below
2019-2023
NUMBER OF ROOMS USED
16
PROJECT DURATION
60 MONTHS
GOALS
By integrating research on the main forest ecosystems in Europe and using multiple tools and approaches ranging from genomics to socio-economics, SoilForEUROPE aims to establish a comprehensive scientific knowledge base on the importance of soil biodiversity in strategies for managing and producing the goods and services of these ecosystems in the context of climate change.
Predicting European forest soil biodiversity and its functioning under ongoing climate change
Researchers
Stephan Hättenschwiler ; Alexandru Milcu ; Johanne Nahmani ; Sandra Barantal ; Pierre Ganault
Informations
This research is funded by the European BiodivERsA COFUND 2015-2016 call for projects, as well as by the national agencies Agence Nationale de la Recherche (ANR, France), Belgian Science Policy Office (BELSPO, Belgium), Deutsche Forschungsgemeinschaft (DFG, Germany), Research Foundation – Flanders (FWO, Belgium), and The Swedish Research Council (FORMAS, Sweden).
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Consequences
In the experiment conducted on the mesocosm platform of the European Ecotron in Montpellier (16 units with a surface area of 1 m² and a soil depth of 1 m each), we manipulate the functional diversity of soil fauna to test ecosystem responses to extreme drought events. Using the Ecotron mesocosms allows us to test the interactive effects of increased soil functional diversity and extreme drought on H₂O and CO₂ fluxes. at the ecosystem level, thereby assessing the resistance and resilience of these composite ecosystems to intensifying drought events.
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