The Foundation for Biodiversity Research (FRB) is a platform between scientists and stakeholders working on biodiversity.
The Foundation
CESAB
CESAB – Centre for the Synthesis and Analysis of Biodiversity – is a key program of the FRB (Foundation for Research on Biodiversity) and is an original, innovative and internationally recognized tool that offers researchers a place and time to synthesize and analyze already existing data and information in the field of biodiversity research.
CESAB in Montpellier. With the major crisis facing biodiversity, the need to synthesize scientific data in ecology has never been greater. An unprecedented work has been initiated by international experts within IPBES to assess the current status of biodiversity and its contribution to human societies. These reports are based on studies already published in scientific journals and databases already compiled. When pooled, these existing data can be used to address new issues, significantly advance knowledge and provide recommendations for decision-makers.
Since it was created in 2010, CESAB has been collecting and pooling existing data sets in the field of biodiversity and developing complex statistical methods to assess the state of biodiversity and model its future.
Located in Montpellier, it is at the heart of one of the most dynamic scientific communities in the world in ecology (the University of Montpellier was ranked first in the world in the Shanghai ranking in ecology in 2018 and 2019). CESAB offers an ideal working environment for scientific production.
Claire Salomon is deputy director of CESAB at the FRB, Nicolas Mouquet is scientific director.
CESAB publishes a newsletter every six months, presenting CESAB’s news and actions, as well as news from the different working groups, past and present.
- September 2024 [ENG] [FRA]
- January 2024 [ENG] [FRA]
- July 2023 [ENG] [FRA]
- January 2023 [ENG] [FRA]
- September 2022 [ENG] [FRA]
- January 2022 [ENG] [FRA]
- July 2021 [ENG] [FRA]
- January 2021 [ENG] [FRA]
- July 2020 [ENG] [FRA]
- January 2020 [ENG] [FRA]
- July 2019 [ENG]
Contacts
Claire SALOMON
Deputy director
Nicolas MOUQUET
Scientific director
Maud CALMET
Administrative Manager
Maija MIIKKOLA
Administrative Manager
Nicolas CASAJUS
Data Scientist
Camille COUX
Data Scientist
Violette SILVE
Communication officer
CESAB – FRB
5, rue de l’École de médecine
34000 MONTPELLIER
+33 (0)4 11 28 20 58
Calendar and events
Research projects and activities
The CESAB support different projects and activities: courses, “After”, etc.
See the projects and activities
Call for Proposals
ACTIAS project was a very constructive experience and offered a unique opportunity to bring expertise from various fields and address challenges of dealing with very large and heterogeneous biodiversity datasets.
Rodolphe Rougerie
PI of the group ACTIAS, finished in 2019
RAINBIO was the first large project I had to manage and was fundamental to my career development. Leading such a large group of international researchers was challenging but gave me a lot of experience.
Thomas Couvreur
PI of the group RAINBIO, finished in 2019
Synthesis work is where you go from individual experiments to general conclusions that can inform policy. A synthesis centre that brings experts from around the world together to work together on a hard problem greatly accelerates the pace of scientific results.
Brian McGill
member of the group FREE, ongoing since 2018
CESAB in a Zoom
59
Projects
funded since 2010
957
researchers
worked at CESAB
32
partners,
private and publics, contributed to fund the projects
311
scientific publications
published in scientific journals