Benoit Vanhee

Lille Catholic University · laboratoire écologie et biodiversité

Religion et Science se sont retrouvées en conflit sur le sujet de l'évolution dans la deuxième moitié de XIX e siècle et la première du XX e. Contrairement à certaines idées reçues, c'est grâce à une activité de recherche naturaliste en interne que l'Église a adopté la maxime « la théorie de l'évolution est plus qu'une hypothèse ». Cette activité d...

Despite its importance for human activities, soil biodiversity remains largely unknown. This gap of knowledge is a strong limit for studies including it such as in the agricultural field. Particularly, in France, no large-scale monitoring of soil biodiversity exist for the moment except for microorganisms (bacteria and fungi). Aware to this need, w...

Despite its importance for human activities, soil biodiversity remains largely unknown and threatened. Aware of the need for large-scale monitoring, we studied the feasibility to add a soil biodiversity survey (RMQS-Biodiversity) to the already existing French soil quality monitoring network (RMQS). We worked with soil biodiversity experts to coupl...

Despite its importance for human activities, soil biodiversity remains largely unknown and threatened. Aware of the need for large-scale monitoring, we studied the feasibility to add a soil biodiversity survey (RMQS-Biodiversity) to the already existing French soil quality monitoring network (RMQS). We worked with soil biodiversity experts to coupl...

Abstract Spoil tip production is one of the most extreme means of soil destruction, replacing the native soil with a coarse substrate. In this paper, we aim to determine the colonization of soil biota in new substrates, using collembola assemblages as an indicator. In Northern France, we sampled collembola communities in 11 coal mine spoil tips and...

DEVIGNE Laëtitia is first author

We sampled collembolan communities in 11 coal mine spoil tips (locally called 'terrils') from the North of France, and their surroundings, in various stages of vegetation development (bare soil, herb, shrub and tree vegetation). We wondered whether species, functional trait (Community Weighted Mean trait or CWM) composition and trait diversity (Rao...

Soil invertebrates are poorly studied in an urban context. Here we examine soil compaction in an urban environment, focusing on its persistence and its impact on biodiversity. This is achieved by studying a sensitive taxon, the collembolan (springtails). Soil core samples were taken in different location of a residential neighbourhood under constru...

Ils ont colonisé toutes les latitudes, les milieux les plus inhospitaliers et beaucoup d'entre eux se déplacent par sauts. Les collemboles, ces drôles de petits arthropodes, sont aussi des acteurs majeurs des écosystèmes.

Un agriculteur de Guînes a développé un réseau de bandes fleuries et de haies totalisant près de 3 hectares sur une plaine de 50 hectares de grandes cultures. Bien que les effets de tels aménagements soient décrits dans la littérature, leur développement par les agriculteurs reste relativement faible. Le Parc naturel régional des Caps et Marais d’O...

INTRODUCTION. In Northern France, more than 200 spoil tips are observed. They result from historic deposits of schists from Coal mining. These spoil tips became exemplary tools for the study of pioneer communities and the evolution of soil formation. In this study, we aim to know if the edaphic Collembola communities vary in abundance and species c...

In Northern France, more than 200 spoil tips are observed. They result from historic deposits of schists from Coal mining. These spoil tips became exemplary tools for the study of pioneer communities and the evolution of soil formation. In this study, we aim to know if the edaphic Collembola communities vary in abundance and species composition acc...