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Why praise lianas?

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"Eloge des lianas" by Annick Schnitzler and Claire Arnold © Actes Sud

By: Caroline Lachowsky

1 min

Why praise lianas?

Unknown and ubiquitous, did you know that roses, jasmine, vines or sweet potatoes are creepers?

They are thought to be invasive, they are more often protective and nurturing, adapting to all environments, even the most degraded.

What if we were finally interested in lianas?

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Did you know that jasmine, vine or sweet potato are vines?

They are thought to be invasive but they are more often protective and nurturing, adapting to all environments, even the most degraded.

As essential to trees, animals and humans as we are, lianas, queens of adaptation, have a lot to teach us...

with

Annick Schnitzler

, professor and researcher in ecology at the Interdisciplinary Laboratory of Continental Environments (LIEC) of the University of Lorraine, and 

Claire Arnold

, doctor of biology at the University of Lausanne, for their work 

Eloge des Lianes, un monde méconnu

 published at Actes Sud.

At the beginning of the program we will hear the Burkinabe astrophysicist 

Marie Korsaga

who has just received the first prize awarded by the network of African women in astronomy 

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