The overall objective of Re-Livestock is to understand and mobilize adoption of innovative practices, applied cross-scale (animal, herd/farm, sector and region), to reduce the greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions of livestock farming and to increase the capacity for dealing with climate change impacts, in order to ultimately increase the overall resilience of the livestock sector.
This project aims to study the effect of four grassland mixtures on the productivity, nutritive value and palatability of the grass. To this end, we measured before every grazing rotation the yield, the nutritive value, the tannin content and the botanical composition.
This project aims to identify fodder trees and lianas for dairy cattle browsing. We study yield, nutritive value and appetence of 60 species in the OasYs experimental farm (Lusignan, France). Summer droughts and heatwaves affect more and more grassland production in western Europe.
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.
This project aims to study the vocal communication and the ecology of wild titi monkeys (Callicebus nigrifrons). To this end, we combine biological observations and experiments on the field to theoretical linguistic work.