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type: Concept

ECOBIO
type: Concept
in scheme: projects
definition: This project undertakes ecological monitoring, long term research, and studies on interspecific interactions between vertebrates, plants and invertebrates - in relation with climate change. Particular areas of interest are: Monitoring of flora and invertebrate fauna : phenology, fluctuations in abundance, establishment and expansion of introduced species (Crozet, Kerguelen); Impact of climate change on vegetation and soil erosion (Kerguelen); Impact of introduced predator species on the communities of terrestrial invertebrates : the domestic mouse Mus musculus and the beetle Oopterus soledadinus (Kerguelen); Interspecific relationships: Pringlea antiscorbutica, subantarctic Brassicaceae and Calycopteryx moseleyi, subantarctic Diptera (Kerguelen), Acaena magellanica, autochtonous Rosaceae and Taraxacum officinale, introduced Asteraceae (Kerguelen) / impact of the introduced Lumbricidae Dendrodrilus rubidus tenuis on the autochtonous edaphic fauna (Crozet). http://www.institut-polaire.fr/ipev/programmes_de_recherche/en_cours/136_api_137_et_170_changements_climatiques_actions_anthropiques_et_biodiversite_des_ecosystemes_terrestres_subantarctiques