How AnaEE research infrastructure will Change the European ecosystem research landscape

1. How AnaEE research infrastructure will Change the European ecosystem research landscape Analysis and Experimentation on Ecosystems Project coordinator : Dr. Abad Chabbi (INRA, France)

2. Addressing key scientific & societal challenges

3. Responding to a globally increased • food demand: the looming crisis • Climate change is projected to increase the • frequency and intensity of droughts Global shortage of food, water and energy “a perfect storm” by 2030 (John Beddington) The size is fixed • Need to predict which kinds of ecosystems are more or less responsive to disturbance… • Creating a positive nutrient budget B Status of the system A Impact Time

4. Ecosystem responses to disturbance: Detecting early warning Ecosystem Ecosystem services

5. Questions in ecosystem research – matter of scales 10-1m 100m 106m 102m 10-4m 10-9m courtesy: Martin Gerzabek, BOKU, Wien

6. Large disparity across sites depending on the focus of the research • Deficit to experimental manipulation with well experimentation design, • Deficit of highly sophisticated and integrated analytical platforms Project Coordinator : Dr. Abad Chabbi (INRA, France) 20 countries, 37 partners, EC contribution of 7.4 M€

7. Problems • Research gaps • Research duplication • Insufficient critical mass • Lack of multidisciplinarity: separate processes • Lack of standardization • Lack of technology exchange • Lack of analytical capacity • Insufficient linkage of data and models • Limited stakeholder involvement • ….. Current situation

8. What is ANAEE?

9. In natura experimentation Bench analytical platforms Modeling platform In vitro experimentation A distributed experimentalinfrastructure for enabling ecosystem research • A coordinated set of experimental platforms across Europe to analyse, test and forecast the response of ecosystems to environmental and land use changes. • ANAEE will be the key instrument for carrying out terrestrial ecosystem research within the European Research Area.

10. ANAEE architecture and services offer

11. 10 countries, 13 parteners, EC contribution of 3.5 M€

12. Countries Ecosystemservices Landscape fragmentation LUC Land management Ressource extraction Climate change AnaEE Mediterranean Central priority of what is important Agriculture Forest Ecosystems Food security Agriculture Field experiments Seeing the grand and diverse questions in the complexity without loosing the diversity Lakes Elevated CO2 Shrubland Grassland Field experiment France Data Denmark UK Models Italy Turkie Laboratory Platforms &experimentalservices Drinking water Carbon Nutrients Biodiversity Food scurity Ecotrons Drivers

13. ANAEE:Links to other Ris

14. What will happen if...? ANAEE will provide accurate and precise answers to the question…

15. Links with global networks ANAEE China NEON Brazil PAERIP TERN

16. Nature shows us the way... 70 % gain of efficiency Courtesy: Giorgio Clarotti, EC, Directorate General for Research. & Innov.

17. Facing Challenges... A formula: U x V x C x F > R Understanding, Vision, Capacity to Change, Feasibility, facing the Resistance to change A challenge for AnaEEand its partners

18. Many thanks for your attention!

19. For more information ANAEE Coordinator: Abad Chabbi, INRA, France abad.chabbi@lusignan.inra.fr + 33 6 82 80 02 85 ANAEE Support: Angela Baker INRA Transfert angela.baker@paris.inra.fr To find out more followwww.anaee.com