- Speaker: Francis Martin, Research Director at INRAE in Nancy
- Scientific Manager : Sylvie Ferrari, Professor in Economics, UMR Bordeaux Sciences économiques, University of Bordeaux
November 22, at 10:30 a.m.
Free entry
Contact : gp.sense@u-bordeaux.fr
Presentation of the conference
"Every tree is a tree-world. Let's discover how symbiosis, mutualism, predation and networks of exchange and interdependence animate forests, how they weave links between the world of trees and microbes. Let's try to understand how living things are interconnected in our forests.
From the primary forests of Yunnan to the garden forests of the Vosges valleys, Francis Martin, Research Director at INRAE in Nancy, will explain how scientists are discovering the secrets of an invisible and largely unknown underground world - the forest microbiota.
Symbioses between plants and fungi have shaped terrestrial ecosystems. These mutualistic associations open up new horizons in our knowledge of living things, and illustrate that it is also through cooperation between species that the ability to adapt can develop, particularly in response to the challenges posed by climate change. Provided that mankind gives the opportunity to do so."