Launch of the first field campaigns for the CANETE project

The project aims to gain a better understanding of how soil microorganisms utilise carbon and nitrogen in various French ecosystems: forests, grasslands and arable land.

This first site is an intensive timber production forest on sandy soils. Samples were taken from several plots to analyse the physical, chemical and biological properties of the soils.

The field campaign will then continue for nine weeks across France, at numerous representative sites:

• arable land,
• permanent and temporary grasslands,
• agroforestry systems,
• experimental agroecology plots.