Teams & cross-disciplinary themes

Research at LECA aims to address critical issues related to global change, biodiversity loss and chronic pollution. Our skills are focused on ecology, environment and evolution. In accordance with the very definition of biodiversity, our study scales range from (populations of) genes to ecosystems and landscapes, including the processes acting at each scale. Our originality comes from the model system on which we focus : the mountains. This choice was made for reasons of territorial coherence, but above all because these environments and the species that inhabit them are particularly sensitive and vulnerable to global environmental changes. We are one of the few laboratories in France to work on these environments. Our research is based on observation (short and long term), experimentation and modelling. Our work allows us to develop models that predict the response of biodiversity to change. We apply them to solve societal issues related to the valuation of ecosystem services, environmental management, and biodiversity conservation.

Our research is developed around two scientific teams, in which researchers-teachers-technical staff participate, and three transversal axes which favour the interface between these teams and methodological developments :

Research in the laboratory is carried out in several technical platforms.