Description du projet
Une meilleure compréhension des systèmes écologiques et socio-écologiques
Le déclin de la biodiversité constitue une menace environnementale importante, car nous assistons à la disparition de nombreuses espèces. Nous sommes confrontés à une crise environnementale d’une ampleur sans précédent. Le projet BIOSTASES, financé par le Conseil européen de la recherche, entend remédier à ce problème en élaborant une nouvelle doctrine sur la stabilité des écosystèmes et des systèmes socio-écologiques. Il poursuit quatre objectifs clés: proposer un nouveau cadre mathématique qui utilise la variabilité temporelle comme mesure de la stabilité, concevoir des signaux d’alerte précoce pour les transitions critiques, explorer les relations diversité-stabilité à différentes échelles et étudier la stabilité des méta-écosystèmes complexes. En atteignant ces objectifs, BIOSTASES proposera de nouvelles perspectives et comblera le fossé entre l’écologie théorique et empirique, contribuant ainsi à l’élaboration de nouvelles approches en matière de conservation de la biodiversité et de développement durable.
Objectif
Biodiversity loss is one of the greatest environmental challenges of our time. There is mounting evidence that biodiversity increases the stability of ecosystem functions and services, suggesting that it may be critical to the sustainability of ecosystems and human societies in the face of environmental changes. Classical ecological theory, however, has focused on measures of stability that cannot explain and predict these stabilizing effects, especially in spatial systems.
The goal of BIOSTASES is to develop a coherent body of new theory on the stability of ecosystems and coupled social–ecological systems and its relationships with biodiversity at multiple spatial scales that can better inform empirical research. BIOSTASES will reach this goal through four complementary objectives. First, it will propose a mathematical framework focused on temporal variability as an empirically relevant measure of stability, and use this framework to build robust early warning signals for critical transitions. Second, it will use dynamical metacommunity models to explore a wide range of novel questions related to ecosystem stability and diversity–stability relationships across scales. Third, it will study the stability of complex meta-ecosystems to provide new perspectives on the stability of food webs and on synergies and trade-offs between multiple ecosystem services across space. Fourth, it will develop novel theory to study the long-term dynamics and sustainability of coupled social–ecological systems.
BIOSTASES proposes an ambitious innovative research programme that will provide new perspectives on the stability and sustainability of ecological and coupled social–ecological systems in the face of environmental changes. It will contribute to bridging the gaps between theoretical and empirical ecology and between ecology and social sciences, and to developing new approaches in biodiversity conservation, landscape management, and sustainable development.
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ERC-ADG - Advanced GrantInstitution d’accueil
75794 Paris
France