Publications by authors named "C Gascuel-Odoux"

A profound transformation of agricultural production methods has become unavoidable due to the increase in the world's population, and environmental and climatic challenges. Agroecology is now recognized as a challenging model for agricultural systems, promoting their diversification and adaptation to environmental and socio-economic contexts, with consequences for the entire agri-food system and the development of rural and urban areas. Through a prospective exercise performed at a large interdisciplinary institute, INRAE, a research agenda for agroecology was built that filled a gap through its ambition and interdisciplinarity.

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Agriculture disturbs the biogeochemical cycles of major elements, which alters the elemental stoichiometry of surface stream waters, with potential impacts on their ecosystems. However, models of catchment hydrology and water quality remain relatively disconnected, even though the observation that dissolved organic carbon (DOC) and nitrate (NO) have opposite spatial and temporal patterns seems relevant for improving our representation of hydrological transport pathways within catchments. We tested the ability of a parsimonious model to simultaneously reproduce intra-annual dynamics of stream flow, DOC and NO concentrations using 15 years of daily data from a small headwater agricultural catchment (AgrHyS observatory).

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Article Synopsis
  • Eutrophication significantly impairs water quality in both inland and marine environments, resulting in issues like toxic cyanobacteria blooms and green algae overgrowth.
  • The term is widely used and defined differently by scientists and policymakers, leading to debates over regulations aimed at managing its causes.
  • A collaborative effort by four French research institutes analyzed the latest findings on eutrophication over two years, involving 40 experts to guide better public policy.
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Despite global efforts to monitor water quality in catchments worldwide, tropical and subtropical zones still lack data to study the influence of human activities and climate variations on solute dynamics. In this study, we monitored ten solutes every two weeks for six years (2010-2015) in three nested catchments (2 to30 km), which contained heterogeneous landscapes composed of forests and agricultural land, and one small neighboring forested catchment (0.4 km).

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Management of agricultural diffuse pollution to water remains a challenge and is influenced by the complex interactions of rainfall-runoff pathways, soil and nutrient management, agricultural landscape heterogeneity and biogeochemical cycling in receiving water bodies. Amplified cycles of weather can also influence nutrient loss to water although they are less considered in policy reviews. Here, we present the development of climate-chemical indicators of diffuse pollution in highly monitored catchments in Western Europe.

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