Colloque - Lluís Brotons : Rethinking the Role of Landscape Disturbance Dynamics in a Changing World

Sandra LavorelBiodiversité et écosystèmesCollège de France2025-2026Vers une écologie fonctionnelle du paysage pour un futur résilient et durableColloque - Lluís Brotons : Rethinking the Role of Landscape Disturbance Dynamics in a Changing WorldLluís BrotonsBiodiversity and Landscape Ecology Lab, Solsona, SpainRésuméDisturbance regimes such as fire are key drivers of biodiversity, structuring habitats and shaping species assemblages. Fire regimes are rapidly changing due to climate warming, land-use shifts, and long-term suppression policies. Altered fire frequency, size, and severity are reshaping landscape mosaics and affecting biodiversity, including bird community composition and functional diversity. This talk examines how changes in disturbance dynamics influence ecological resilience and explores the potential for the rewilding of disturbance regimes to better align biodiversity conservation with the realities of global change.Lluís BrotonsDr. Lluís Brotons is a research professor at CREAF (Centre for Ecological Research and Forestry Applications) and at the Spanish National Research Council (CSIC), specialising in biodiversity conservation under global change. His research focuses on understanding how land-use change, climate change and disturbance regimes—particularly wildfires—affect biodiversity patterns and ecosystem functioning across landscapes. He combines large-scale biodiversity monitoring, ecological modelling and scenario analysis to support evidence-based conservation and environmental policy. Dr. Brotons plays an active role in several European research initiatives linking science and policy, including biodiversity observation networks and international assessment processes. He has coordinated and participated in numerous European and national research projects and contributes to international scientific advisory and monitoring networks on biodiversity conservation.