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873 scientists
27 research units
ecosystems Mediterranean and tropical regions tree crops agroecological functioning ecology natural forests plant and garden cropping systems horticulture ruminant husbandry agronomy agri food sector livestock system animal product management varietal innovation climate environmental stresses forest resources cover crops direct seeding
Fabien Boulier
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Research units and teams involved in 'The functioning and engineering of natural and cultivated ecosystems'
873 scientists,
335 PhD students27 research units
Keywords : ecosystems, Mediterranean and tropical regions, tree crops,agroecological functioning, ecology, natural forests, plant and garden cropping systems, horticulture, ruminant husbandry, agronomy, agri food sector, livestock system, animal product management, varietal innovation, climate, environmental stresses, forest resources, cover crops, direct seeding
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Graduate School | Director |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| UPR HortSys
: Agroecological Functioning and Performances of Horticultural Cropping Systems
Inventing an ecologically intensive type of horticulture so as to feed people better: this is a wide-ranging mandate for the unit, whose main aim is to generate and capitalize on knowledge so as to assess and design sustainable horticultural cropping systems. |
Cirad | - | Eric Malézieux | |
| UPR SCA
: Annual Cropping Systems
In the light of the recent crises in terms of commodity prices, resource use and environmental management, it is now essential to find ways of producing that are not only efficient but also more ecofriendly, economical, varied and resilient, to ensure that farmers in developing countries live better in future. |
Cirad | - | Florent Maraux | |
| UPR SCBPA
: Banana, Plantain and Pineapple Cropping Systems
Although export fruit crops are a major source of jobs and currency, they are now often barely viable, in agronomic, economic or social terms. These fruit monocultures often cause pollution and impoverish the environment. The markets are increasingly competitive and consumers increasingly demanding. |
Cirad | François Cote | ||
| UMR BGPI
: Biology and Genetics of Plant/Pathogen Interactions
In-depth knowledge of interactions between plants and their pathogens constitutes the foundation for rational control of invasion by and acclimatization of pathogens introduced from elsewhere. Modelling on a regional scale should make it possible to propose control strategies based on cropping practices and land use planning |
Cirad, Inra, Montpellier SupAgro | MEB | SIBAGHE | Philippe Rott |
| UMR AMAP
: Botany and Computational Plant Architecture
Associating several disciplines—botany, ecology, applied mathematics and informatics—is a major technical and scientific challenge for modern agronomy and forestry. It enables the development of new applications and tools for identifying plants, managing crops, forests and the environment, and developing rural areas. |
Cirad, CNRS, Inra, IRD,UM2 | MEB | I2S, SIBAGHE | Pierre Couteron |
| UMR CBGP
: Center for Biology for Management of Populations
To improve control strategies against pests and identify means of conserving threatened natural populations, it is vital to modify the constraints to which they are subject, and thus to analyse the constraints on each set of organisms, and how those organisms adapt to changes in the constraints. |
Cirad, Inra, IRD, Montpellier SupAgro | MEB | SIBAGHE | Flavie Vanlerberghe |
| UMR CEFE
: Center for Evolutionary and Functional Ecology
Biodiversity, ecological change on a global level, and sustainable development, in particular of Mediterranean and tropical ecosystems, are the central research topics for UMR CEFE. |
Cirad, CNRS, IRD, Montpellier SupAgro, UM1, UM2, UM3 +EPHE |
- | I2S, SIBAGHE, TTSD | Phillippe Jarne |
| UPR SIA
: Conservation Agriculture and Engineering
Formerly: SCV Direct Seeding and Cover Crops systems |
Cirad | Jean-Claude Legoupil | ||
| UMR LEPSE : Ecophysioology Laboratory of Plants under Environmental Stress | Inra, Montpellier SupAgro | SIVeM | SIBAGHE | Bertrand Muller |
| UPR Recyclage et risque
: Environmental Risks of Recycling
Formerly: Recycling and risk |
Cirad | - | Hervé Saint Macary | |
| UMR Eco&Sols : Functional Ecology & Biochemistry of Soils & Agroecosystems (in French) | Cirad, Inra, IRD, Montpellier SupAgro | MEB | SIBAGHE | Jean-Luc Chotte |
| TGU AGAP
: Genetic Improvement and Adaptation of Tropical and Mediterranean Plants
Very Large Unit AGAP: Genetic Improvement and Adaptation of Tropical and Mediterranean Plants AGAP is a very large joint research unit and an applied plant biology and genetics platform of international importance. It results from the merger of several entities from joint research unit DAP (including UMR Inra, Cirad, Montpellier SupAgro, UM2) with teams from Inra (UMR DIAP-PC) and several Cirad units (AIVA, AGEMV, AGPH). |
Cirad, Inra, Montpellier SupAgro, CNRS +Inria |
- | SIBAGHE | Jean-Christophe Glaszmann |
| UR PSH : Horticultural Crops and Cropping Systems | Inra Avignon | SIVeM | Michel Génard | |
| UMR ITAP : Information and technologies for agroprocesses (in French) | Cemagref, Montpellier SupAgro | ILEE | I2S, SIBAGHE, SPSA | Véronique Bellon-Maurel |
| UMR INNOVATION
: Innovation and Development in Agriculture and the Agri-Food Sector
The processes through which agriculture adapts are founded on technical and organizational innovations, on both a collective and an individual level. |
Cirad, Inra, Montpellier SupAgro | - | EDEG, SIBAGHE | Christophe Soulard |
| UMR LISAH : Laboratoryt for the Study of Interactions between Soil, Agrosystems and Water Systems (in French) | Inra, IRD, Montpellier SupAgro | ILEE | SIBAGHE | Jérôme Molenat |
| UMR SELMET
: Mediterranean and Tropical Livestock Systems
SELMET results from merger of SEPA (UPR Cirad) with ERRC (UMR Inra,Montpellier SupAgro, Cirad). |
Cirad, Inra, Montpellier SupAgro | - | CBS2, SIBAGHE | Philippe Lecomte |
| UMR EMMAH : Mediterranean Environment and Modelling of Agro-hydrosystems (in French) | Inra Avignon +Univ. Avignon |
Liliana Di Pietro | ||
| UMS OREME : Observatoire de REcherche Méditerranéen de l'Environnement (in French) | CNRS, IRD, UM2 | - | Nicolas Arnaud | |
| UPR PSCPP : Performance of Tree Crop-Based Systems | Cirad | - | Eric Gohet | |
| UPR AMRBET
: Pests and Diseases: Risk Analysis and Control
Formerly: Controlling Pests and Diseases in Tree Crops Research Unit” UPR Pests and diseases hamper the productivity and sustainability of most crops, and some also affect product quality. |
Cirad | - | SIBAGHE | Christian Cilas |
| UR AVI-PATHO : Plant Pathology | Inra Avignon | Cindy Morris | ||
| US Ecotron
: The European Ecotron of Montpellier
The European Ecotron is a research platform dedicated to the study of ecosystems and organisms in the context of environmental changes |
CNRS | - | Jacques Roy | |
| UMR SYSTEM
: Tropical and Mediterranean Cropping System Functioning and Management
The unit generates knowledge and tools for use in assessing, steering and developing cropping systems. |
Cirad, Inra, Montpellier SupAgro | - | SIBAGHE | Christian Gary |
| UMR LSTM
: Tropical and Mediterranean Symbiosis Laboratory
The microorganisms, nitrogen-fixing bacteria and mycorrhizal fungi that live in symbiosis with plant species play a vital role in increasing and sustaining agricultural and forest production, but also in regenerating tropical and Mediterranean environments. |
Cirad, Inra, IRD, Montpellier SupAgro, UM2 | MEB | SIBAGHE | Michel Lebrun |
| UPR BSEF
: Tropical Forest Goods and Ecosystem Services: Facing Global Change
The emergence of global natural resource management instruments will be a determining factor in the future of tropical forests: ecosystem services, biodiversity conservation and management, biomass use for energy production, and also increased demand for land, and so on. By generating new activities, such policies can improve the capacity of rural societies to adapt. |
Cirad | MEB | Alain Billand | |
| US Analyses
: Water, Soil and Plant Analysis
Managing cultivated areas means knowing about soil fertility, measuring any changes, and monitoring plant nutrition. Any attempt to improve productivity depends on physicochemical analyses. |
Cirad | Daniel Babre |
Institutes and partners
AgroParisTech-
ENGREF: Paris Institute of Technology for Life, Food and Environmental Sciences
BRGM Montpellier: Geoscience for a sustainable Earth
Cemagref: Research institute in agricultural and environmental engineering
CHU de Montpellier: Montpellier University Hospital Center
CIHEAM/IAM.M: International Centre for Advances Mediterranean Studies - Mediterranean Agronomic Institute of Montpellier
CIRAD: Agricultural research for development
CNRS: National Scientific Research Centre
EMA: French Institute for Engineering and Applied Science
ENSCM: National High School of Chemistry of Montpellier
EPHE: Practical School for Higher Studies
Ifremer: French Research Institute for Exploitation of the Sea
Inra: National Agronomy Research Institute
INRIA: National Institute for Research in Computer Science and Control
IRD: Research Institute for Development
ISTOM: College of Advanced Studies in International Agro-Development
Montpellier SupAgro: International Center for Higher Education in Agriculture Sciences
Polytech'Montpellier: Polytechnic School Montpellier
Sup de Co: Montpellier Chamber of Commerce and Industry Business School
UM1: Montpellier 1 University
UM2: Montpellier 2 University
UM3: Montpellier 3 University
UNîmes: Nîmes University
Paris VI University
UPVD : Perpignan Via Domitia University
Research units form
IFR: Federative research institute
UMR: Joint research unit
UPR: Internal Research Unit
UR: Research unit
US: Service unit
USC: Unit under contract
Doctoral schools
CBS2 EDA 168: Chemical and Biological Sciences for health - UM1, UM2
DSP ED 461: Law and Political Science - UM1
EDEG ED 231: Economy and management - Montpellier SupAgro, UM1, UM2
E2 ED 305: Energy and environment - UPVD
I2S: Information Structures Systèmes
SPSA ED 306: Processes Sciences - Food Sciences - ENSCM, Montpellier SupAgro, UM1, UM2, Avignon University
SIBAGHE ED 477: Integrated Systems in Biology, Agricultural Sciences, Geosciences, Water Sciences, Environment - AgroParisTech-ENGREF, Montpellier SupAgro, UM1, UM2, UPVD, Univ. Avignon
TTSD ED 60: Territories, time, societies and development - UM3, UPVD
Federative research institutes
MEB (ex-IFR 119): Montpellier Environment Biodiversity
ILEE (ex IFR 123): Languedoc's Research Institute on Water and Environment
SIVeM (ex IFR 127 DAPHNE): Sciences Intégratives du Végétal - Méditerranée
FEDAP: " Food and processes" Montpellier - Avignon
Update on 27/04/11
Fabien Boulier
boulier@agropolis.fr
Tél. : +33 (0)4 67 04 75 64
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