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Agriculture is facing many challenges. Among them, climate change is a major concern for the future of humanity, with implications for food security, the environment, biodiversity and health. Livestock breeding and farming practices are strongly affected by climate change and contribute significantly to greenhouse gas emissions. There is therefore an urgent need to adapt crop and livestock systems to make them more resilient to climate trends and extreme events. At the same time, it is necessary to reduce emissions from the agricultural sector and increase carbon sequestration to mitigate longer-term climate impacts.

This book reviews the current state of knowledge on climate change and its impacts on water and soil in temperate regions. It then presents methods for analysing and anticipating the consequences for production and the functioning of sectors. It describes and quantifies the observed or foreseeable impacts for the main animal and plant sectors (field crops, pastures, vineyards, fruit trees). It describes how actors can be supported in designing, assessing and implementing adaptation solutions. Finally, it sheds light on the public policies implemented to address climate change.

This book is intended for researchers and students in higher education. It is an up-to-date reference for all actors in the agricultural sector and for public policy makers.

Designed as an identification tool, this atlas describes the woods produced by broadleaved tree species growing in France’s metropolitan forests.

It provides an essential overview for understanding the changes that will increasingly impact not only the species composition of forests but also the growth rate of trees, as well as the quality and density of their wood.

Developed from an exceptional sampling of 114 species — some of them rare — this work uniquely combines a multi-scale approach and explores the relationship between material and resource.

For each species, macroscopic descriptions are illustrated by photographs of a wood cylinder and cross-sections of the wood and bark. At the microscopic level, wood anatomy is described using the criteria defined by the IAWA (International Association of Wood Anatomists).

This work was carried out as part of the XyloDensMap project — a collaboration between INRAE, IGN, and the University of Lorraine — which assessed the biomass of French forests by measuring the basic density of core samples collected during the national forest inventory conducted from 2016 to 2019. The study results are supported by dendrometric measurements provided by the IGN.

All broadleaved forest species recorded during the study period are presented in detail, including currently secondary species that may become dominant in the future.

Like its companion volume, Atlas of Softwood Species of France, this atlas is intended for all forest and wood sector professionals, particularly experts, researchers, educators, and students.