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Article published in PNAS

How elephants contribute to carbon storage in rainforests

The impacts of megaherbivores, i.e. species reaching a weight of more than 1000 kg, on the structure and functioning ...

Seminar friday 9 december 2022

Environmental DNA (eDNA) as a tool for biodiversity monitoring

Julie Guenat, PhD student at the University of Lausanne, Switzerland

Friday 9 december 2022 at 11.00 ...

Seminar friday 25 november

Biogeochemistry at the interfaces: mechanisms and applications from dolomites to bio-cement

Maria Dittrich, Earth Sciences Department, University of Toronto

Friday 25 november, 14 h 30, Thénard amphitheater

Abstract ...

Seminar friday 18 november

Conserving avian diversity in Sub-Saharan human-dominated landscapes

Gabriel Marcacci (Swiss Ornithological Institute, Sempach)

Friday November 18th 2022, 11.00 am, Billet amphitheater

European ...

Article published in Science Advances

A world genomic study shows why invasive species are so successful

Ragweed (Ambrosia artemisiifolia) is an annual weed species that is native to North America with a ...

Article published in Nature

Plate tectonics controlled ocean oxygenation over the last 540 million years

Ocean oxygenation paced marine biodiversity changes at the geological time scale. It is widely admitted that ...

Alexandre Pohl article published in Nature

Environmental stability on Earth allowed marine biodiversity to flourish

Modern ocean biodiversity, which is at its highest level ever, was achieved through long-term stability of the location ...

Indigenous communities hold a huge and unique source of ecological knowledge

A study has found that indigenous people in the rainforests of Gabon have knowledge of plant and fruit-eating animal interactions that exceeds that found in academic ...

seminar thuesday 14 december 2021

Microplastics in the freshwater ecosystem: unveiling the drivers of their spatio-temporal variability and of their ingestion by aquatic organisms

Aline De Carvalho, postdoc at Biogéosciences, will present ...

Alexandre Pohl article published in Nature Communications

Picturing our planet and its climate, 520 million years ago, when animals diversified throughout the oceans

Complex forms of animal life, including the ancestors of most of ...

City and forest ants are surprisingly similar genetically

City life could lead to differential evolution between urban and forest populations. Aurelie Khimoun and her collaborators showed, in their article published in Biology Letters, that urban ...

seminar – Friday 20th December 2019

A tale of two symbioses: molecular mechanisms underlying insect-microbe associations

Aurélien Vigneron

Amphitheatre Guyton de Morveau, 11 AM

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