Jérôme Chave (Scientific Director of the CEBA, EDB) and Jérôme Orivel (EcoFoG) were appointed to sit on the Scientific Council of the French Agency for Biodiversity (AFB). The council counts a total of 22 members and met on January 19th for the first time.
The purpose of the French Agency for Biodiversity (AFB) is to suport the implementation of public policies in the field of knowledge, conservation, management and restoration of terrestrial biodiversity, aquatic and marine life. The agency connects several actors such as the Marine Protected Areas Agency, the Natural Areas Technical Workshop, the National Office for Water and Aquatic Environments and the National Parks of France.
For its governance, the agency has a Management Board, a Guidance Council and a Scientific Council, among other bodies. The Scientific Council will assist the Management Board in defining the Agency’s science policy and is chaired by Gilles Boeuf, the scientific advisor for biodiversity, environment and climate at the office of Ségolène Royal.
Among the 22 members of the Scientific Council, 2 of them are in the CEBA network : Jérôme Chave, scientific director of the Labex CEBA and deputy director of EDB in Toulouse and Jérôme Orivel, researcher in ecology at EcoFoG in Kourou.
Jérôme Chave studies the ecology of communities and evolutionary biology. His research work aims at understanding the mechanisms of species coexistence across scales. He is also interested in the biogeochemical cycling between the biosphere and the atmosphere. As for Jérôme Orivel, his work focuses on the functioning and evolution of plant/ ant interactions. He is interested in the structuring of ant communities, the influence of the anthropisation of ecosystems on the ecosystem processes in which they are involved, and the diversity and biochemistry of the peptides of their venoms.
