Taking the critical review of « Le ciel ne va pas nous tomber sur la tête » (‘the sky is not going to fall over our head’, a book edited by Brunel & Pitte in 2010) as a starting point, this paper aims to explain the reasons for the lack of dialogue between french geography and ecology, discussing in particular the stakes raised by possibilism and multiscalar approaches. A comparison with the anglo-american academic context is achieved through bibliometrical methods and the discussion of the example of rangelands’ new ecology.