Census of species and their evolution in the context of new infrastructures-SYSTRA

The next step of this part of the project is to understand precisely what are the processes filtering species along the ecological succession and according to the two different disturbance regimes (mown/unmown). To do so, other component of foliar plant trait values distribution will be analysed. Flowering phenology data, gathered from the long term (one year long) monitoring of all species flowering, will also be analysed to understand the structuring role of reproductive functions in road side plant communities.
Results from these analyses will be presented and discussed through the writing of at least 2 other journal articles and –hopefully- thanks to presentations at the 58th Congress of International Association for Vegetation Science that will take place in Brno (Czech Republic) in July and at the 2015 annual meeting of the British Ecological Society taking place in December in Edinburgh (United Kingdom).