Major Research Issues
Its aim is to provide expertise, tools, data and resources to a large scientific community to support the study, management and conservation of biodiversity in inland aquatic environments. As global and local environmental changes continue to multiply (overexploitation, water pollution, habitat degradation, flow modification, invasive species etc.), LIFE works to identify the respective and interactive roles of various anthropic pressures (local and global) that impact biodiversity in order to inform the decisions of population and environmental managers and to support acceptance by society. The targeted environments are both bodies of water (lakes and ponds) and watercourses (from headwaters to estuaries). LIFE provides services and expertise on fish as well as the entire biocoenosis: microbial communities, plants (micro/macrophytes), zooplankton and invertebrates.
The LIFE RI comprises four entities: U3E, ECP, OLA, EABX. LIFE is a part of the French national AnaEE RI and the European RI AQUACOSM.
LIFE has received funding from the Investments for the Future programme via AnaEE.