Link to the joint research unit Eco&Sols « Functional Ecology & Biogeochemistry of Soils & Agro-ecosystems », from 3 research institutes: IRD, CIRAD and INRAE and a university, Institut Agro Montpellier.
http://www.umr-ecosols.fr/index.php/fr/
Eco&Sols aims at characterizing the concurrent evolution of plant and soil functions as a result of global change and land management.
Our studies describe and analyse ecological procesess driving primary production and the regulation of the fluxes of C and nutrients in agro-ecosystems. Particularly
- The cycles of major nutrients (Nitrogen and Phosphorus)
- The regulation services of ecosystems, namely carbon sequestration - storage of carbone and emissions of greenhouse gases - and the ecodynamics of biological proteinic contaminants (Bt, virus, prions).
Eco&sols focuses on mediterraneans and tropical agrosystems, in association with numerous international partners.
The contribution of the flux measuring network of Eco&Sols to continental and global meta-analyses is valuable, as it covers a unique range of plantation ecosystems in the humid tropics.