Projects around the university
The Center for Interdisciplinary Studies on Biodiversity, Agroecology, Society and Climate (C-BASC) funds a number of projects in the vicinity of the university, listed below. In particular, C-BASC is involved with local players in the VivAgriLab living lab.
Monitoring of cats and foxes
The project consists in monitoring biodiversity, in particular the quantification of the presence of mesopredators, cats and foxes, already monitored by means of a kilometre index of abundance. The
Evaluate the potential of a rust as a biocontrol agent
In the corn plots of the GQE laboratory on the Saclay plateau, black bindweed (Fallopia convolvulus) proliferates from May onwards, requiring repeated weeding. For several years, during the month of
Gardens, an opportunity for biodiversity conservation in peri-urban areas
In France, while urban development has slowed considerably since the late 1960s, the proportion of the population living in peri-urban areas continues to increase, a process of peri-urbanization that
Re-anchoring food flows and looping organic matter (compost...) flows on a territorial scale
The continuous extension of the metropolis leads the small and still functional agricultural regions of southwestern Ile-de-France (Plaine de Versailles, Plateau de Saclay, Triangle Vert) to
Reinforcing landscape structures conducive to the presence of declining vertebrate predators
In peri-urban agricultural environments, human activities and changes in land use have a particularly strong impact on local biodiversity. However, they are also an opportunity for certain species to
In the past, C-BASC's original structure has carried out projects on the following themes around the university:
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2016-2020 (the last 4 projects received European LEADER funding) |
2013-2016 |
| Soil mapping | Périurbain |
| Detection of agricultural drains | Ecologie territoriale (un important travail collectif) |
| Corn | Climat et occupation des sols |
| Quantifying ecosystem services | Développement périurbain et pollinisation |
| Organic waste products | |
| Crop pest control | |
| European wild apple conservatory orchard |