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Every month, the Joseph-Fourier University Library hosts a workshop on the dissemination of scientific culture: la science infuse.

In partnership with UGA's Ecological Transformation Department, we are delighted to welcome Florent Figon, Senior Lecturer at the Alpine Ecology Laboratory (LECA).

Anthropogenic global change, with its variety of mechanisms and spatio-temporal scales, generates complex pressures on biodiversity. This complexity represents a challenge not only for society, but also for ecological research, which aims to better understand and predict biodiversity responses. In this talk, we will explore the range of these responses by studying an ecosystem that is particularly sensitive to global change, the alpine environment, which is the focus of LECA's research. The study of color in animals will serve as a common thread for understanding how a physical characteristic can respond, adaptively or not, to multiple pressures that sometimes go in opposite directions. Finally, this immersion in science "in the making" at Grenoble Alpes University will be an opportunity to highlight current and future research issues, and the questions they raise.

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