| Titre : | Ecologia Mediterranea 30(1, Sp. Iss. SI) - 2004 |
| Type de document : | Bulletin |
| Paru le : | 00/00/0000 |
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Thirty years of ecological studies in the steppe of La Crau (Bouches-du-Rhone, sud-est de la France)
Elise Buisson, Auteur ;
Thierry Dutoit, Auteur ;
Axel Wolff, Auteur
Although the steppe of La Crau is unique in France, its ecological importance was only acknowledged in the second half of the 20th century. It is not until then that ecological studies were carried out on this plain, which was already subject to[...]
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Hundreds of inscriptions have been carved and drawn on the walls of the sheepfolds in the plain of La Crau between the 18th century and today. They represent the history of transhumance, seasonal movement of livestock (here, sheep) between mount[...]
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The cultivation of the Crau's natural steppe, the "coussoul", progressively gave place to a mosaic of pastoral and agricultural habitats, especially in the north of the plain. The consequences of these landscape changes for steppe birds are comp[...]
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Sylvain Fadda, Auteur ;
Jérôme Orgeas, Auteur ;
Philippe Ponel, Auteur ;
Thierry Dutoit, Auteur
The culture of cereals and rock melon, between 1965 and 1985, were very destructive for dry grasslands or "coussou" in Crau (southern France). Over a twenty-year period, three previously cultivated plots developed original old field floristic st[...]
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Christine Roemermann, Auteur ;
Markus Bernhardt, Auteur ;
Thierry Dutoit, Auteur ;
Peter Poschlod, Auteur ;
Christiane Rolando, Auteur
In Europe, the present landscape has been mainly influenced by human activities. Especially for dry semi-natural grasslands, agricultural intensification led to a considerable habitat loss and fragmentation. In the Crau, large parts of the forme[...]
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The information of the written sources relative to pastoralism in the Crau links this activity to the pebbles of Durancian Period that characterise this steppe-like plain. As is always the case, the origin of these stones has given rise to two e[...]
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Elise Buisson, Auteur ;
Thierry Dutoit, Auteur ;
Christiane Rolando, Auteur
Melon cultivation (1965-1985) greatly disturbed the composition, structure and species richness of the steppe vegetation, in the plain of La Crau, where a patch of the only Mediterranean steppe in France remains. In order to assess the autogenic[...]
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The plain of Crau has a strong patrimonial interest owning the last steppe landscape, known as "coussoul", of France and a wide floristics and faunistics assemblage of which an important Little Owl Athene noctua population. Until now, none asses[...]
