{"id":2242,"date":"2019-01-31T12:32:59","date_gmt":"2019-01-31T11:32:59","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.fondationbiodiversite.fr\/la-frb-en-action\/programmes-et-projets\/le-cesab\/actias\/"},"modified":"2026-01-27T17:17:07","modified_gmt":"2026-01-27T16:17:07","slug":"actias","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/www.fondationbiodiversite.fr\/en\/the-frb-in-action\/programs-and-projects\/le-cesab\/actias\/","title":{"rendered":"ACTIAS"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The <em><strong>ACTIAS<\/strong> <\/em>project stemmed from the observation that large-scale studies of spatio-temporal patterns of terrestrial biodiversity are biased toward vertebrates and plants, leaving insects largely untouched at that scale. <strong>Yet, insects are key organisms in ecosystems and their species and populations are severely impacted by global changes.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>Large-scale biodiversity studies have built on the outstanding development in the recent past of infrastructures, methods and tools to manage and analyze very large datasets. \u201cBig Data\u201d analyses stimulated invaluable advances in the field of macroecology, biogeography and evolutionary biology, and have fueled better informed conservation policies in a world that we unfortunately now understand as entering what has been termed its \u201csixth extinction\u201d period.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>Our project aimed at:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>erecting a set of two families of moths \u2013 <strong>Saturniidae and Sphingidae<\/strong> \u2013 as the first models for large-scale diversity studies in insects,<\/li>\n<li>carrying out the first large-scale investigation of macroecological patterns and of the processes governing them,<\/li>\n<li>and ultimately at informing the <strong>fate of insect diversity and help design adapted conservation strategies<\/strong>.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"Projet ACTIAS  : Que peut-on apprendre de deux des familles les mieux connues de L\u00e9pidopt\u00e8res ?\" width=\"640\" height=\"360\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/MTGKPWMPQJ4?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share\" referrerpolicy=\"strict-origin-when-cross-origin\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The ACTIAS project stemmed from the observation that large-scale studies of spatio-temporal patterns of terrestrial biodiversity are biased toward vertebrates and plants, leaving insects largely untouched at that scale. 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