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In Chizé, I am indebted to all the people who
contributed to the large-scale weed surveys at
the CNRS-Chizé study site, including Damien
Charbonnier, Luc Bianchi, Laurent Grelet,
Anne-Caroline Denis, Safia Médiène,
Dominique Le Floch, Florence Strbik, Emilie
Cadet, Bruno Chauvel, Fabrice Dessaint and
many others; I am also indebted to the numerous
people who contributed to land-use monitoring
and have maintained the database since 1995,
including Vincent Bretagnolle, Alban Thomas,
Rodolphe Bernard, Pablo Inchausti, Isabelle
Badenhausser, David Pinaud, Sylvie Houte,
many other former short-term employees,
master, and PhD students, and also more recent
ones including Adrien, Vincent, Boen, Olivier,
Steve, Alex, Frédéric, Thibault, Thomas, and
Audrey; and to all the farmers that we met on
their fields…
In Gießen, I would like to thank Lutz Eckstein,
Tobias Donath, Birgit Reger, Ralf Schmiele,
Sandra Burmeier, Linda Jung, Arben Mehmeti
and Miriam Bienau for some interesting
discussions and statistical advices; Prof. Otte,
Ms Ackermann, Mr Trebitz, and Mr Frenger for
finding bureaucratic solutions for the bi-national
cotutelle project and the organisation of the
video-conference for the defence; Gefion for
hosting me in Gießen, Kathleen and David for
accommodation half-way in Strasbourg, and
Sören, Maja and Berny for that in Freiburg;
In Prague, Pavel Saska and Stanka Koprdová
gave some helpful advice for the seed predation
studies.
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I would like to thank Richard Gunton and
another reviewer for improving the English
spelling, grammar and style, and several
anonymous reviewers and journal editors for
suggesting improvements to and ways to shorten
the articles. Undoubtedly I have forgotten a lot of
people who contributed in one way or another or
acted in the background making this PhD project
possible.
I would also like to thank several agencies and
institutions that helped to finance this research
including the French ANR projects ‘ECOGER-
Chizé’ and ‘SYSTERRA-ADVHERB’, the UMR
BGA (INRA), AgroSup Dijon (Appel d’Offre
Interne), the European ENDURE Network
‘Diversifying crop protection’.
During these last few years I have been
supported by many friends and family members.
À Dijon, j’ai passé des moments excellents, en
particulier avec les ‘louploups’ et des musiciens.
Leider konnte ich meine Familie und Freunde in
Deutschland nicht so oft sehen, wie ich es mir
gewünscht hätte. Trotzdem haben sie mir von
Ferne aus sehr geholfen, meine Arbeit zu
vollenden, besonders meine lieben Eltern Ruth
und Lothar, und mein Bruderherz Stefan, und
meine Oma, die es geschafft hat, wenige Tage
vor Abgabe der Arbeit 100 Jahre alt zu werden!
Last but not least, I would like to thank Ann-
Katrin (Nadjenka) who put up with my strange
research interests and backed and encouraged me
throughout this period.