A coordinated set of ecosystem research platforms open to international research in ecotoxicology, AnaEE-France

Christian Mougin (1, 2, 3) , Didier Azam (4) , Thierry Caquet (5) , Nathalie Cheviron (1, 2, 3) , Samuel Dequiedt (6) , Jean-François Le Galliard (7, 8) , Olivier Guillaume (9) , Sabine Houot (1, 2) , Gérard Lacroix (7, 8) , Francois Lafolie (10) , Pierre-Alain Maron (6) , Radika Michniewicz (9) , Christian Pichot (11) , Lionel Ranjard (6) , Jacques Roy (12) , Bernhard Zeller (13) , Jean Clobert (9) , Andre Chanzy (10)

1 ECOSYS - Ecologie fonctionnelle et écotoxicologie des agroécosystèmes
2 Université Paris Saclay (COmUE)
3 Plateforme BIOCHEM-ENV
4 UEEA - Unité d'Ecologie et Ecotoxicologie Aquatiques
5 DEPT EFPA - Département Ecologie des Forêts, Prairies et milieux Aquatiques
6 Agroécologie [Dijon]
7 iEES - Institut d'écologie et des sciences de l'environnement de Paris
8 CEREEP-Ecotron Ile de France (UMS 3194)
9 SEEM - Station d’Ecologie Expérimentale du CNRS à Moulis
10 EMMAH - Environnement Méditerranéen et Modélisation des Agro-Hydrosystèmes
11 URFM - Ecologie des Forêts Méditerranéennes
12 CNRS - Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique
13 BEF - Unité de recherche Biogéochimie des Ecosystèmes Forestiers

The infrastructure for Analysis and Experimentation on Ecosystems (AnaEE-France) is an integrated network of the major French experimental, analytical, and modeling platforms dedicated to the biological study of continental ecosystems (aquatic and terrestrial). This infrastructure aims at understanding and predicting ecosystem dynamics under global change. AnaEE-France comprises complementary nodes offering access to the best experimental facilities and associated biological resources and data: Ecotrons, seminatural experimental platforms to manipulate terrestrial and aquatic ecosystems, in natura sites equipped for large-scale and long term experiments. AnaEE-France also provides shared instruments and analytical platforms dedicated to environmental (micro) biology. Finally, AnaEEFrance provides users with data bases and modeling tools designed to represent ecosystem dynamics and to go further in coupling ecological, agronomical, and evolutionary approaches. In particular, AnaEE-France offers adequate services to tackle the new challenges of research in ecotoxicology, positioning its various types of platforms in an ecologically advanced ecotoxicology approach. AnaEE-France is a leading international infrastructure, and it is pioneering the construction of AnaEE (Europe) infrastructure in the field of ecosystem research. AnaEE-France infrastructure is already open to the international community of scientists in the field of continental ecotoxicology.

Keywords: Ecotrons; Environmental survey; Process measurement; Biochemical markers; Genetic resources; Higher tier testing; Ecologically-based procedures; Mesocosms; Modeling

Keywords: Ecotoxicology; Environmental simulations; Environmental stressors; Information system

Domains: Environmental Sciences; Global Changes

Christian Mougin, Didier Azam, Thierry Caquet, Nathalie Cheviron, Samuel Dequiedt, et al.. A coordinated set of ecosystem research platforms open to international research in ecotoxicology, AnaEE-France. Environmental Science and Pollution Research, 2015, 22 (20), pp.16215-16228. ⟨10.1007/s11356-015-5233-9⟩. ⟨hal-02630722⟩