Farmers’ endorsement is crucial to conserve biodiversity in permanent grasslands, but the lack of visibility on their economic value is a major obstacle. We studied the production costs (i.e., the cost to produce one Mg of dry matter) and the …
European permanent grasslands are the main source of livestock fodder and the main hotspot of botanical diversity, but the trade-offs between fodder production and botanical diversity conservation remain debated. This study aims to identify what …
Grasslands are at the heart of multiple expectations on the part of farmers and society. The objective of this study was to assess the services provided by semi-natural grasslands, and the trade-offs between these services. Starting from a survey of …
This project aims to understand biotic and abiotic drivers of permanent grasslands characteristics.
We study traditional characteristics (e.g. yield, pastoral value, or botanical composition) but also original characteristics of fodder quality, ecology and carbon storage.
Assessing trade-offs between forage production and ecological characteristics delivered by grasslands is a growing concern for stakeholders and scientists. We sampled 50 grasslands from the Vosges Mountains (north-eastern France), and measured the …
Consequences of a decline in pollination function in semi‐natural ecosystems are largely unknown due to variability in pollinator effectiveness, that is, their contribution to pollen deposition alone. While pollination effectiveness has been shown to …
Les surfaces en herbe ont une place majeure dans les agrosystèmes mondiaux. En France, les prairies permanentes sont associées à des propriétés agronomiques, car elles assurent près de la moitié de la production fourragère. Elles sont aussi associées …
Permanent grasslands produce highly diverse ecosystem goods and services, which need to be easily assessed by decision makers. Naturalists and agronomists classify grasslands in different ways to predict ecological, agronomic and environmental …
Dans cet article, nous avons cherché à prédire simplement les rendements des prairies, les coûts de production et la performance économique. Pour cela, nous avons comparé le pouvoir prédictif d’une typologie agronomique à celui d’une simple …
Il a été possible de classer 252 prairies permanentes du massif vosgien selon 3 typologies (phytosociologique, agronomique et fonctionnelle). L’étude a comparé les capacités de ces typologies à prédire les propriétés des prairies via l’estimation de …