The goal of the Environmental Ministry to establish zones of ecological, faunal and floral importance using a multidisciplinary approach in each region based on a common national methodology encountered several difficulties in the Provence-Alps-French Riviera (PACA) region due primarily to : - contraints for sampling and parameters to be sampled ; - problems of the size of the ZNIEFF (National Zones of Ecological, Faunal and Floral Importance), i.e. the scale, and the ecological links, the organizational level of information within each zone ; - reflexions on unit structure, and thus on the zoning considering the differences which exist, particularly for fauna, between the biology of, for example, invertebrate populations and that of the ...