Bischoff Armin

My research projects include the ecology of plant populations and communities applied to ecological restoration and agroecology:

(1) Functional biodiversity in agroecosystems, biological control through conservation and restoration of ecosystem services.
(2) Ecological restoration and plant community succession
(3) Local adaptation and the origin of plants in the context of ecological restoration

Axis 1 brings together around ten projects that have tested the effect of semi-natural habitats and more specifically the role of flora on the pest control in agroecosystems. Axis 2 consists of research into the trajectories of plant succession as a result of anthropogenic disturbances and on the factors that lead to ecological restoratione. Axis 3 represents research at the interface between evolutionary ecology and ecological restoration.

• Deputy Research Director of the IMBE (since 2024)
• Team Leader of IMBE research group 4: Restoration of natural and cultural heritage (2018-2023, with Gérald Culioli)
• Responsible for international relationships of the French Society of Ecology and Evolution (since 2017, sfe²)
• Invited member of the Scientific Board of the INRAE department ECODIV (since 2020)

• Study director of the biology department (agronomy) at the IUT Avignon (since 2021)
• Head of the agronomy option at the IUT Avignon, biology department (GB, 2019-2021)

• Member of the Research Council (CR) of Avignon University, 2019-2023
• Member of the Academic Council (CAc) of Avignon University, 2019-2023.
• Member of the administrative board of the teaching unit IUT at the University of Avignon, since 2015.
• Board member of the French Society of Ecology and Evolution (SFE²), since 2017.
• Delegate of the French Ecological Society (SFE²) in the Coucil of the European Ecological Federation (EEF), since 2017.

• Sustainable Viticulture for Climate Change Adaptation (LIFE VineAdapt), since 2020, European Union LIFE project international with German (coordinator), Austrian and Hungarian partners, LIFE19 CCA/DE/001224, funding of two IMBE positions including a PhD thesis. https://www.life-vineadapt.eu/en.
• "REMODE" Ecological restoration of open, degraded habitats, "France Relance" project, since 2021, with ECO-MED environmental consultancy.
• Effects of vineyard irrigation on plant, arthropod and soil communities, funding by Aristot consultancy (since 2021), PhD thesis grant ofEmile Melloul.
• "Project Brachypodium retusum", Call of Avignon University, 2022. Clonal growth and dispersal of Brachypodium retusum - a key species for ecological restoration of mediterranean steppes.
• 2P3P: Flowering plants for parasitoids and predators of apple pest insects, Call Tersys, 2020-2021. With INRAE Research Unit PSH.
• Joint research project including RTE (Réseau de Transport d'Électricité, financerur), Irstea Grenoble, ECO-MED (environmental consultancy) and IMBE/University of Avignon, 2017-2021 "Restoration of disturbed grasslands" in the framework of the construction of a new high voltage transmission line in Southern French Alps (Haute-Durance). Coordinator of the project.
• Ecosystem services of forest fragments in sugarcane dominated landscapes of Sao Paulo State (Brazil), since 2013, CAPES Brazil, Franco-Brazilian Chair of Sao Paulo state(Brazil), several mobility grants (Avignon University, IMBE-IRD), collaboration with Sao Paulo State University, UNESP (Brazil).
• "PIESO", Call ADEME, Optimised integration of renewable energy and control of increasing need of electricity (2016-2020 for the ecological restoration part), "Ecological integration of solar energy production". Coordination ECO-MED, Marseille.
• Agroecological structures in Luberon vineyards - ecological functioning and socio-economic constraints. Call Eccorev, 2019-2021. With INRAE Research Unit ecodevelopment.

• "PEERLESS", AAP ANR Agrobiosphère, 2013-2016, "Predictive Ecological Engineering for Landscape Ecosystem Services and Sustainability", leader of workpackage 2: "Ecological engineering and new technologies of farming and plant protection". Coordination: UR Plantes et Systèmes de culture Horticoles (PSH), Avignon.
• "Project Brachypodium retusum", Call of the University of Avignon (internal project), 2017, "Genetic analysis of population differentiation in Brachypodium retusum - a key species for ecological restoration of mediterranean steppes".
• "ECONADA", AAP Environment 2015 (Miljo2015), Norwegian Research Council, Knowledge building project with user involvement , 2011-2015, "Ecologically sustainable implementation of the Nature Diversity Act (Naturmangfoldloven) for restoration of disturbed landscapes in Norway". Coordination: Bioforsk Norwegian Institute for Agricultural and Environmental Research.
• "Florelocale" SNB (National Strategy for Biodiversity) call: Conservation and sustainable use of native plant species to provide a framework for plant and seed producers, 2012-2015, "A national label for the production of native plant species." http://www.fcbn.fr/vegetal-local-vraies-messicoles.
• "Ile de Raymond", SNB (National Strategy for Biodiversity) call: The restoration of remarkable or sensitive sites), 2012-2015, "Restoration of a degraded wetland ecosystem in the lower Garonne valley".
• "Brassinse" and "PBI-Pays" (double project), Call GIS (Scientific Interest Group) PICLeg and PAO (Pôle Agronomique Ouest), 2010-2013, "Integrated Biological Plant Protection (PBI) in Brassicaceae crops - changing the scale of insect management from landscape to field level", Co-leader task 4: Relation between field margin vegetation, pest insects and their natural enemies. Coordination UMR IGEPP, Rennes.
• Hay transfer for grassland restoration, National German Agency for Nature Conservation (BfN) and Word Wide Fund for Nature (WWF), 2007-2008, "The restoration of floodplain grasslands of the Elbe river". Coordination: Environmental consultancy "Landschaftsplanung Dr. Reichhoff", Dessau, Germany.
• "TLinks", 5th Framework programme of the European Union EVK2 - 2001 - 00091, 2001-2005, "Trophic Linkages". Scientific coordination of task 320 with Heinz-Müller-Schärer (University of Fribourg, Switzerland): The effect of the provenance of plant material on plant performance and on the diversity of organisms in other trophic levels. Coordination: CAER Centre of Agri-Environmental Research, University of Reading (UK).
• "NCCR Plant Survival", AAP NCCR (Swiss National Center of Competence in Research), Swiss National Research Foundation, 2001-2005. Scientific coordination of programme 8 with Heinz-Müller Schärer (University of Fribourg, Switzerland) : Restoring biodiversity in agro-ecosystems: the role of seed origin for vegetation establishment, weed invasion and its biocontrol success. Eight partners. Co-ordination: University of Neuchâtel (Switzerland).
• Dispersal and ecological restoration, grant of the National German Research Agency (DFG), 1998-2000. The importance of plant dispersal for the recolonisation of agroecosystems.
• "STRAS", German Ministry of Education and Research (BMBF), 1992-1995, Regeneration of agro-ecosystems in the Central German chernozem region. PhD thesis project and coordiantion of ecological work (with Ernst-Gerhard Mahn, University of Halle, Germany). Coordination : University of Halle.