Biodiversité

En Guadeloupe, l’écosystème des berges de rivières en milieu urbain est souvent impacté et fragilisé par des aménagements de génie civil réalisés pour protéger les biens et les personnes des risques naturels.

Around the end of 2019, wildfires in Australia were breaking records in terms of intensity, extent, and places of occurrence – at a point when the fire season was only just beginning. Such events illustrate how natural disturbances are increasingly affecting the world’s forests as a result of climate change, shifts in land use, fire suppression, and other human-related factors.

In the last Century, we have learnt much about the fundamental ecological and evolutionary roles of natural disturbances.