Microrefugia, defined as limited surface areas with favorable environmental conditions that permit the survival of flora population outside their main range margins, allow constraining climate change negative impacts by limiting migration needs and by enabling them to survive despite surrounding unfavorable conditions.

My Phd aims to improve the comprehension of functional connections between landscape heterogeneity and microclimate, including the effects of climate decoupling, then use this knowledge to create microclimatic maps and to model potential microrefugia for species threatened by global warming in the South Region of France, with spatial distribution models at fine scale.