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Impact of Global Change on Microbial, Vegetal and Functional Diversity in Alpine Ecosystems

As part of the French National Research Agency's (Agence Nationale de la Recherche) " BIODIVERSA call for projects, we have put together a consortium of European laboratories to study the relationship between microbial, vegetal and functional variations on a landscape scale.  One of the objectives of this study is the development of a simple and standardised method for analysing ecosystem biodiversity based on on-site sampling followed by high throughput laboratory analysis.

Target Audience :

  • Research agencies or other organisations specialising in biodiversity analysis
  • Researchers specialising in field ecology

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This truly global approach to the analysis of ecosystems enables researchers or scientists to simplify and standardize current methods of understanding biodiversity.
The fact that this approach involves three levels of analysis (vegetal, microbial and functional) can enable a clear understanding of ecosystem functioning by providing strong biodiversity indices.

The Consortium :

  • The Ecological Alpine Laboratory (University Joseph Fourier)
  • The Institute of Biology, University of Tromsø Norway
  • The University of St Andrews, Department of Biology (UK) ;
  • Life and Environmental Sciences Division, Austrian Research Center (Austria).

Our Skill-set :

  • Field ecology
  • Molecular ecology
  • Microbiology
  • Statistics
  • Bioinformatics
  • Modeling 
The project's core objectives

  • Identification of the best estimators of microbial, vegetal and functional diversity in order to build robust diversity indices
  • Develop an understanding of the impact of global change by analyzing the evolution of these indicies across an altitudinal gradient.
  • Develop an evaluation method for biodiversity based on on-site sampling and the use of molecular and statistical tools.

The unique nature of the project lies in a three-pronged approach (vegetal, microbial, functional) coupled with the use of high throughput analytical tools

Developmental Opportunities

4055.jpgWe are currently looking for an industrial partner working in the fields of ecology or conservational biology, or other potential users of this technology, to enable us to drive the project towards the development of a powerful diagnostic biodiversity system.

 

Contacts
Mathieu TILQUIN
(Technology Transfer)
+33 (0)4 76 00 78 41

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