ECOLAND

The main objective of the ECOLAND laboratory is to understand and predict the impacts of the different components of global change and their interactions on ecological communities .

We meet this need in terrestrial systems by integrating different disciplines ranging from ecology, landscape modeling and species distribution, to remote sensing and applied conservation science.

We unravel the causes of past changes in biodiversity patterns under environmental change (land use changes, climate change, agricultural intensification and disturbance regimes such as fires). The analysis of past changes facilitates the critical calibration and development of high-quality models that allow predicting future responses of biodiversity and ecosystems under specific scenarios of socio-economic change. This understanding allows ECOLAND to develop an active science-policy profile in the field of conservation biology and applied ecology.