U3E experimentation unit for aquatic ecology and ecotoxicology

U3E is attached to the INRAE ECODIV research department (Ecology and biodiversity of forest, grassland and aquatic environments)

It acts as a resource for research into aquatic ecosystems. Its work is carried out within the framework of national research infrastructures:

• AnaEE-France (Analyses et Expérimentations sur les Ecosystèmes) (research, analysis and experimentation on continental ecosystems and their biodiversity).
• The INRAE LIFE Living in Freshwater and Estuaries infrastructure
• ORE DiaPFC (monitoring of diadromous fish in their coastal river habitats and of the effects of environmental, climate and agriculture-related change).

Through its work, the originality of its tools and the breadth of its expertise, from population dynamics and ecology to ecotoxicology, aquatic ecosystem quality and aquaculture, U3E plays a part in interdisciplinary programmes alongside other French and non-French research bodies.