Our activity focuses on achieving a better understanding of the vulnerability of continental water resources and aquatic ecosystems to diffuse pollution through an interdisciplinary and transversal approach (global change–water resources–agroecosystems). Our research is framed in the following Sustainable Development Goals: Goal 6 (availability and sustainable management of water), goal 13 (climate change) and goal 15 (sustainable management of terrestrial ecosystems) of the 2030 Agenda for Sustainable Development (UN Economic and Social Council).

We aim to promote the sustainability of agricultural systems in a context of climate change. Our research lies at the interface of soil biogeochemistry, soil microbial ecology, ecosystem science and agronomy, and combines experimental work in long-term field trials, urban agroecosystems and greenhouses with modeling and global observational datasets.

Our research is focused on the study of the Rhizobium-legume and the ectomycorrhizal symbioses and their tolerance to environmental stresses, with the aim of optimizing their application in agriculture and in the restoration of degraded soils and ecosystems.