Today, the priority fields of research in ecology are the organisation and monitoring of life history traits, interactions between the levels of complexities (genes, development, life history, biotic interactions) under environmental forcing, and the links between biodiversity and functions.
The objective of SETE is to address these issues through the development of a suitable instrumentation, in particular taking into consideration, simultaneously, the three dimensions: time-space-evolution that are necessary for developing predictions on the future state of the environment within a context of change.
Many SETE services are provided by the research infrastructure AnaEE France (Ecosystems Analysis and Experimentation), which offers full access to the study of continental terrestrial and aquatic ecosystems through its experimental platforms distributed throughout the national territory.
