As part of the seventh international day dedicated to plant sciences entitled “Fascination of Plants Day – 2024”, the EFNO unit of the INRAE Val de Loire center will welcome 70 students from the Bernard Palissy high school in Gien (Loiret). This welcome will take place on May 7 at the OPTMix experimental device located in the Orléans forest.
High school students from 1st year “Speciality: biology” will therefore participate in various work devoted to the study of the forest ecosystem. In the program :
- Spot 1: estimation of tree biomass in relation to the ecosystem service of climate regulation
- Spot 2: regulation service on climate and water
- Spot 3: forest and climate change: OPTMIX project: what silvicultural strategy to adapt the functioning of this ecosystem to climate change (INRAE animation)
- Spot 4: interactions between species in their diversity
- SPot 5: research profession (INRAE animation)
- Spot 6: Environmental metrology (INRAE animation)
