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Press release
02 Aug 2018
Researchers at INRA and the University of Helsinki1 have worked together to release a unique database to the scientific community2. Assembling data collected under the auspices of an EU Cost Action, the database BeechCOSTe52 gathers over 860,000 measurements of phenotypic traits. These data, from more than 500,000 beech trees growing in plantations located in 38 European countries, cover the entire range of beech’s distribution. Over 15 years of work have gone into producing the database; a vital resource for analyzing and understanding the beech’s adaptive capacity to climate change and the potential effects of climate on its distribution range.
02 Jan 2018
At a global scale, just 12 grape varieties (or 1% of cultivated varieties) occupy up to 80% of vineyards in some countries. Scientists from INRA and Harvard University in the USA have suggested that one of the levers that could be operated to adapt wine-growing to climate change is to exploit the diversity of other cultivated varieties by planting those that are less well known, and thus encouraging winegrowers and consumers to adopt new practices. Their study is published in Nature Climate Change on 2 January 2018.
11 Dec 2017
With the certification of its first greenhouse gas measurement stations, ICOS, the Integrated Carbon Observation System, is now generating series of normalised data.
01 Dec 2017
Our environment is experiencing a number of changes, from biodiversity losses to global warming. INRA researchers were involved in a comprehensive European study that demonstrated that high plant species diversity does not always reduce ecosystem vulnerability under climate extremes. T
07 Feb 2017
Researchers have shown that sessile oak is very resistant to climatic variations (temperatures and precipitation). This overall resilience nevertheless belies differential responses between populations according to their origin. The findings have recently been published in the journal Global Change Biology.
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