The quantification and monitoring of soil organic carbon (SOC) in croplands is crucial in a context of effective and precise agricultural management. Conventional methods to assess SOC changes pose some limitations on time and labor consumption to efficiently assess SOC distributions and dynamics in a spatial and temporal context.

The phage replication cycle begins with its adsorption to its host and ends with the release of new virions upon bacterial lysis. These steps are important, not only for the proper conduct of the phage life cycle, but also because proteins mediating attachment and lysis have a significant biotechnological potential.

Christian Messier is professor of forest ecology at the University of Québec in Montréal (UQAM) and in Outaouais (UQO), and Director of the Institute of Temperate Forest Sciences (ISFORT). This talk is organized in the frame for the international Francqui chair promoted by KU Leuven (B. Muys), Ghent University (K. Verheyen), Université Libre de Bruxelles – ULB (C.

GitHub (French) given by François Massonnet and Pierre-Yves Barriat. Register here

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As a consequence of the recognition that colluvial soil stores large amounts of soil organic carbon (SOC), the SOC cycle in colluvial soils has received increasing attention. The aim of this thesis was to evaluate and understand the SOC dynamics and controlling factors in colluvial soils in the context of climate change.

Modelling soil erosion is hampered by the complexity intrinsic to the short-term variability and dynamics between its physical properties, especially on the soil surface layer. Soil crust development, in particular, is one of the most important factors controlling runoff and erosion, but its properties are difficult to assess.

Michael E. Mann, 56 ans, est climatologue et géophysicien américain, actuellement directeur du Earth System Science Center de l'Université d'État de Pennsylvanie. Il est spécialiste des méthodes de reconstruction de l’évolution du climat et il a été l'un des auteurs principaux du 3e rapport d’évaluation du GIEC en 2001.

Dans de nombreuses régions du monde, le changement climatique exacerbe le stress préexistant des populations humaines et les oblige à se déplacer.