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Beech forest. © INRA, CANTA René

Press release

02 Aug 2018

A unique database providing information to quantify the adaptive capacity of beech to climate change

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.

Couhins experimental winegrowing domain, Bordeaux. © INRA, MAITRE Christophe

Press release

02 Jan 2018

Exploiting the diversity of grape varieties to adapt to climate change

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.

ICOS greenhouse gas measurement station © Andra

Press release

11 Dec 2017

The ICOS carbon observation network is supplying high-precision data to serve research on climate change

With the certification of its first greenhouse gas measurement stations, ICOS, the Integrated Carbon Observation System, is now generating series of normalised data.

Natural grassland in the Auvergne mountains. © INRA, TOILLON Sylvie

Press release

01 Dec 2017

Plant biodiversity and ecosystem vulnerability under climate extremes

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

Difference of phenological behaviour between plants of different provenance. At right, a late Fontainebleau (France); at left, an early Nagybotany (Hungary). © INRA, Alexis Ducousso

Press release

07 Feb 2017

Resilience of sessile oak to climatic variations in Europe

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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