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Biodiversity: dynamics, interactions and conservation team

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The Biodiversity: dynamics, interactions and conservation team is interested in describing, quantifying and understanding biodiversity responses to global changes. Our approaches combine mathematical modelling, data analysis and epistemology. Among our favourite questions, we often ask: What is ecosystem stability? How can it be measured? What is the role of spatial structure and dispersal in ecosystem resilience? What is the role played by species’ interactions in community composition, network structure and trajectories and ecosystem properties? We also investigate problems and solutions in conservation biogeography: what are the major driving forces of biodiversity distribution and trends? What is the role of protected areas in the dynamics of biodiversity? How climate change and other anthropic activities are shaping natural communities? Another research axis of the team revolves around more fundamental epistemological and political issues: what is the history of specific concepts used in ecology? How knowledge and values influence policymaking and vice versa?

Coordination :
Researcher

Les membres

Guim Aguadé-Gorgorió

Postdoctoral fellow

Vasilis Dakos

Researcher

Vincent Devictor

Senior researcher

Krishna Girish

Short-term advanced research assistant IR

Claire Gougat-Barbera

Research assistant AI

Hsiao-Hang Tao

Postdoctoral fellow

Claire Jacquet

Researcher

Ismael Lajaaiti

PhD student

Antoine Le Vilain

PhD student

Emilio Mora

Postdoctoral fellow

Benoît Pichon

PhD student

Alejandro Viloria Cano

Postdoctoral fellow