Our current research focuses on bocage (hedgerow networks) structures with two key concepts: 1) ecological connectivity, i.e. whether the gaps between hedgerow networks allow species to move from one network to the next and 2) the bocage grain, a metric for the microclimatic regulation potential of bocage meshes. It can be used to define the conditions required to maintain animal and plant populations that require a forest environment. Both metrics are scale dependent, i.e., their measure must be tailored to the capacity of species to move and/or to perceive the surrounding environment.
Cartography is a central theme that requires collaboration with researchers in remote sensing and geomatics.
Time: landscapes are dynamics and are palimpsests
Current projects
Within the framework of the Bocage Monitoring System managed by IGN and OFB[1] , the aim is to validate the concept and methods for calculating bocage grain, in collaboration with INRAE.
Bocage grain is also used as part of the Ecocontribution research projects conducted with various hunting federations. In collaboration with the Fédération des Chasseurs des Côtes d’Armor (Côtes d’Armor Hunters’ federation), our support focuses on sampling and analysis methods for biodiversity data.
Pheasant and bocage project, with the Ille-et-Vilaine hunters’ federation. An analysis of pheasant deplacment in an agricultural bocage mosaic. To find out more; https://www.facebook.com/profile.php?id=100090927930979
– With EPFL (Ecole Polytechnique Fédérale de Lusanne, Swizerland), Lab-U (Urbanism), J Baudry is co-supervising Marine Villaret’s thesis on the development of basic principles for taking into account the living world in urban planning projects (directed by Elena Cogato). This collaboration involves the LETG (Littoral, Environment, Télédétection) Rennes.
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