Overview of the project

The understanding of the local impact of climate change on biodiversity is essential to shape environmental and natural areas management policies. The lack of knowledge at the regional level has led to the development of a research programme called the “Sentinels of Climate”.

This programme aims to study the effects of climate change in Nouvelle-Aquitaine through the monitoring of indicators based on species or group of species with weak motion capacity. The “sentinel species” are distributed within different ecosystems. They gather around twenty specific species, like the Pyrenean frog.

This applied research programme regroups around 15 partner structures, associations, research laboratories which participate in knowledge-building analysis and reporting works. This programme is also based on the development of mediation tools to disseminate scientific information to the general public.