Since 1990, my research has focused on gaining a better understanding of how recent and/or past human activities have modified our environment, and more specifically plant communities. I have been interested in the influence of anthropogenic impacts, particularly over the very long term, by studying their resistance, persistence, resilience and regeneration after the cessation of various disturbances and/or the implementation of various conservation or ecological restoration techniques. I have focused in particular on the soil seed bank, which is considered to be a veritable seminal memory of plant communities due to the time lag that exists between the viability of seeds in the soil and their expression in above-ground vegetation. The majority of my work is experimental and based on practical conservation, restoration or ecological engineering operations.
- Programme "Underground"2024-2025 (SFR Tersys Université d'Avignon). Effects of sealing and unsealing on the functioning and biodiversity of a steppe soil. (Coordinator)
- Programmes "Polmusol-Dephysol"2024-2025 (IMBE - FR ECCOREV). Rehabilitation of steppe soil polluted by munitions. (Coordinator)
- CIFRE "Gagneraud Construction” 2022-2025. Nature-based solutions for restoring Mediterranean steppe grasslands. (Coordinator)
IMBE – UMR CNRS 7263 / IRD 237 / Aix Marseille Université / Avignon Université.
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