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Environmental Research Observatories
INRA is involved in 7 Environmental Research Observatories (ORE, the French abbreviation) which associate natural observation and experimentation sites, called “workshop sites”, organised as a network. The purpose of Environmental Research Observatories is to provide measurements, parameters and data in order to understand the evolution of ecoystems under the effect of human activities and climate change. They carry out long term observations, often covering more than 20 years.
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Environmental Research Observatories provide databases open to the scientific community which constitute an important source for understanding and modelling the functioning and dynamics of natural ecosystems or managed ecosystems – forests, agriculture and freshwater. In 2008, in the absence of new calls for proposal between organisations, INRA set up three more observatories under its own name.
Since 2009, INRA manages 6 ORE and is involved in the ORE F-ORE-T run by the GIP ECOFOR.
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Agro-ecosystems, biogeochemical cycles and biodiversity (ACBB)
The ORE ACBB studies the evolution dynamics of grassland and cultivated ecosystems under the impact of human activity and its consequences on the environment. Transfer of water and solutes (C, N) is monitored in the soil under grasslands and crops. INRA pilots three platforms which cover the main types of agricultural land use: a platform in Lusignan on grassland cultivated in rotation with cereal crops (mixed cropping), another platform in Estrées-Mons in Picardy on cereal crops, and a third in Theix on permanent grassland.
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Mediterranean observatory on the rural environment and water resources (OMERE)
This observatory analyses the impact of human activities on the physical and chemical erosion of Mediterranean soils and on water quality. This observatory uses two experimental catchment areas situated in Languedoc and in Tunisia. These two catchment areas represent two different typical states of cultivated Mediterranean landscape intensification.
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Agro-hydro Systems (AgrHyS)
This observatory has two sites: the catchment area of Kervidy-Naizin and the catchment areas of Kerbernez, situated in Brittany in western France in a region underlain by old bedrock characterised by a temperate, humid oceanic climate and by intensive agriculture.
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Small coastal rivers (PFC)
This observatory provides data to document research on the evolution of these ecosystems up against the different human pressures to which they are subjected, locally and globally: evolution of agricultural activities, modification of land use, climate change, biological invasions, etc. The ORE for Small Coastal Rivers uses 3 coastal rivers on the Atlantic and English Channel coasts: the Oir River, the pilot site in Normandy, the Scorff River in Brittany and the Nivelle River in the Basque Country.
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The three largest natural lakes in France are at the centre of this project: Lake Geneva, Lake Bourget and Lake Annecy. This observatory provides scientific data to understand and model the evolution of the state and ecological functioning of lake systems subjected to a change in local anthropisation pressures and climate change.
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Functioning of forest ecosystems (F-ORE-T)
This observatory is a network of forest sites to study the transfer of air coupled with water and carbon. It is constituted of 15 workshop-sites, including nine INRA sites of the Renecofor network. Ten of the fifteen sites are in France and five in humid intertropical regions (French Guiana and Congo).
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Organic residue products (PRO)
The ORE-PRO studies the quality of organic waste recycling, its positive and negative impacts on soil and water. It is made up of a network of platforms for spreading residue products.
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Written by :
Communications Department
Label for the news :
Research observatories
Date for the news :
2011.09.20
Date of creation : 20/09/2011
Date of last update : 27/09/2011
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