BiodivERsA’s third joint call funded nine research projects of scientific excellence and policy relevance for a total amount of 8.8M€. The call addressed the three following themes:
1/ Developing integrated biodiversity scenarios
2/ Understanding and predicting biodiversity resilience and tipping points
3/ Decision support for biodiversity policy and management
The kick-off meeting organised in Almeria (Spain) was the opportunity for a presentation of each projects and two keynote addresses.
For detailed information on the call, its implementation and results, please see the call brochure available HERE in PDF.
The 9 projects:
► BUFFER: Partially protected areas as buffers to increase the linked social-ecological resilience in coastal ecosystems. Participating countries: FR (coordinator: Joachim Claudet), NO, PT, SE (pdf presentation)
► CoForTips: Congo basin forests: tipping points for biodiversity conservation and resilience of forested social and ecological systems. Participating countries: FR (coordinator: Claude Garcia), AT, BE (pdf presentation)
► EC21C: European Conservation for the 21st Century. Participating countries: PT (coordinator: Regan Early), FR, DE, SE (pdf presentation)
► FISHCON: Biodiversity scenarios for fragmented landscapes; freshwater connectivity and the future of fish diversity. Participating countries: NO (coordinator: Anders Finstad), DE, SE (pdf presentation)
► LIMNOTIP: Biodiversity dynamics and tipping points in our future freshwater ecosystems. Participating countries: SE (coordinator: Lars-Anders Hansson), NO, AT, DE (pdf presentation)
► REGARDS: Resilience of marginal grasslands and biodiversity management decision support.Participating countries: FR (coordinator: Sandra Lavorel), DE, AT, BE, NO (pdf presentation)
► SIGNAL: European gradients of resilience in the face of climate extremes.Participating countries: DE (coordinator: Anke Jentsch), BE, BG, FR (pdf presentation)
► TIPPINGPOND: Tipping points, biodiversity, resilience and ecosystem services: Ponds as model systems. Participating countries: BE (coordinator: Luc De Meester), DE, FR, SE (pdf presentation)
► TipTree: Scenarios for forest biodiversity dynamics under global change in Europe: Identifying micro-evolutionary scale tipping points. Participating countries: FR (coordinator: Sylvie Oddou-Murato), DE, SE (pdf presentation)