Projet de phytoécologie : Niveau Master 2 Ecologie et Environnement Spécialité Ecologie

Abstract

According to Haeckel (1866), ecology is the study of "the relationships between the environment and living beings." More precisely, we would say that the ecologist analyzes, describes, explains, evaluates, and predicts the relationships in question. Since this is primarily phytoecology, or plant ecology, animal ecology will obviously be relatively underrepresented. Generally speaking, the applications of plant ecology were initially those of biogeography. The "Louis Emberger phytoecological school" is represented by a team of young researchers from the Center for Phytosociological and Ecological Studies in Montpellier, a CNRS laboratory. L. Emberger, who held the chair of botany at the Faculty of Sciences in Montpellier from 1937 to 1968 and who created the new botanical institute in that city, understood the need for a renewal in the methods of studying vegetation and encouraged this renewal, first through research undertaken under his direction in North Africa, and later in France and other countries. The objectives of the North African experiment were clearly defined. They were, in fact: ...