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BiodivERsA COFUND Call on
Understanding and managing biodiversity dynamics to improve ecosystem functioning and delivery of ecosystem services in a global change context: the cases of soils and sediments, and land- river and sea-scapes (habitat connectivity, green and blue infrastructures, and naturing cities)

In this joint COFUND Call, BiodivERsA has chosen to support research for understanding and managing biodiversity dynamics to improve ecosystem functioning and delivery of ecosystem services in a global change context. The call was co-funded by the European Commission and covered the two following independent themes:

  • Theme #1: Understanding and managing the biodiversity dynamics of soils and sediments to improve ecosystem functioning and delivery of ecosystem services
  • Theme #2:  Understanding and managing biodiversity dynamics in land-, river- and sea-scapes (habitat connectivity, green and blue infrastructures, and naturing cities) to improve ecosystem functioning and delivery of ecosystem services

Based on the ranking list established by an independent evaluation panel, the Call Steering Committee – composed of BiodivERsA partners participating to the call – has recommended for funding the top 26 research projects for a total amount of over 33 million euro.

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Funded projects
Under Theme 1
  • BIO-TIDE – The role of microbial biodiversity in the functioning of marine tidal flat sediments. Participating countries: BE (coordinator: Koen Sabbe), CH, FR.  
  • BIOINVENT – Generic bio-inventory of functional soil microbial diversity in permanent grassland ecosystems across management and climate gradients. Participating countries: DE (coordinator: Franck Rasche), CH, PT, SE. 
  • CLIMARCTIC – Climate change impacts on Arctic soil and lake microbiomes. Participating countries: BE (coordinator: Elie Verleyen), NO, CH, ES, DE.
  • DIGGING_DEEPER – Agro-ecosystem diversification: digging deeper. Participating countries: CH (coordinator: Marcel van der Heijden), DE, FR, ES, SE. 
  • REPEAT – REstoration and prognosis of PEAT formation in fens – linking diversity in plant functional traits to soil biological and biogeochemical processes. Participating countries: PL (coordinator: Wiktor Kotowski), RO, DE, NO, BE. 
  • SOILCLIM – Managing soil biodiversity and ecosystem services in agroecosystems across Europe under climate change. Participating countries: SE (coordinator: Klaus Birkhofer), ES, DE, CH, EE.
  • SOILFOREUROPE – Predicting European forest soil biodiversity and its functioning under climate change. Participating countries: FR (coordinator: Stephan Hättenschwiler), BE, SE, DE.
  • SOILMAN – Ecosystem services driven by the diversity of soil biota – understanding and management. Participating countries: DE (coordinator: Martin Potthof), FR, ES, SE, RO, EE.
  • URBANMYCOSERVE – Understanding and Managing Urban Ectomycorrhizal Fungi Communities to Increase the Health and Ecosystem Service Provisioning of Urban Trees. Participating countries: BE (coordinator: Olivier Honnay), FR, PT.
Under Theme 2
  • BEARCONNECT – Functional connectivity and ecological sustainability of European ecological networks – a case study with the brown bear. Participating countries: FR(coordinator: Wilfried Thuillier), DE, RO, PL, NO.
  • BIOGEA – Testing BIOdiversity Gain of European Agriculture with CAP greening. Participating countries: DE (coordinator: Katrina Marsden), ES, BG.
  • BIOVEINS – Connectivity of green and blue infrastructures: living veins for biodiverse and healthy cities. Participating countries: BE (coordinator: Roeland Samson), PT, FR, EE, PL, CH.
  • CROSSLINK – Understanding cross-habitat linkages between blue and green infrastructure to optimize management of biodiversity, ecosystem services and multiple human uses. Participating countries: SE (coordinator: Brendan McKie), BE, DE, NO, RO.
  • ENABLE – Enabling green-blue infrastructure in complex social-ecological regions – system solutions to wicked problems. Participating countries: SE (coordinator: Erik Andersson), DE, PL, NO, ES.
  • FUNGREEN– Functional connectivity and green infrastructure. Participating countries: SE (coordinator: Sara Cousins), ES, BE, DE.
  • GREENFUTUREFOREST – Scenarios for a sustainable future forest green infrastructure. Participating countries: SE (coordinator: Tord Snäll), DE, NO, CH.
  • IMAGINE – Integrative Management of Green Infrastructures Multifunctionality, Ecosystem integrity and Ecosystem Services: From assessment to regulation in socio-ecological systems. Participating countries: FR (coordinator: Philip Roche), EE, BE, DE, NO.
  • INFRAGECO – Inference, fragmentation, genomics and conservation. Participating countries: PT (coordinator: Lounes Chikhi), FR, DE.
  • MARFOR – Functional Variability and Dynamics of Responses of Marine Forests to Global Change. Participating countries: PT (coordinator:: Ester Serrao), DE, FR, SE, ES.
  • ODYSSEUS – Between Scylla and Charybdis – managing connectivity for freshwater fish. Participating countries: SE (Göran Englund), FR, NO, ES.
  • OSCAR – Optimising the configuration of woody riparian buffer strips along rivers to enhance biodiversity and ecosystem services. Participating countries: DE (coordinator: Daniel Hering), FR, NO.
  • PERCEBES – Tools for the transition to spatial management of coastal resources: the stalked barnacle fishery in SW Europe. Participating countries: ES (coordinator: José Luis Acuña Fernández), FR, PT.
  • RESERVEBENEFIT – Evaluating and managing connectivity in a network of Marine Protected Area to maintain genetic diversity and deliver fish beyond protected limits. Participating countries: FR (coordinator: Stéphanie Manel), DE, ES, SE.
  • SPONFOREST – Unraveling the potential of SPONtaneous FORest ESTablishment for improving ecosystem functions and services in dynamic landscapes. Participating countries: FR (Coordinator: Arndt Hampe), ES, PT, DE.
  • URBANGAÏA – Managing urban Biodiversity and Green Infrastructure to increase city resilience? Participating countries: PT (coordinator: António Dinis Ferreira), DE, LT, BE, ES.
  • WOODNET – Connectivity patterns and processes along a gradient of European landscapes with woody vegetation and spatial heterogeneity. Participating countries: FR(coordinator: Jacques Baudry), ES, BE.
Evaluation Committee
Chair and Vice Chair of the Committee
  • Chair of the Committee: Cara Nelson
  • Vice-Chair of the Committee: Judith Fisher
Other members of the committee

STEP 1

Scientific experts (21)

  • Asa Aradóttir
  • Susan Baker
  • Patrick Bohlen
  • Nana Bolashvili
  • James Bullock
  • Michael Brufford
  • Sarah Clement
  • Çiğdem Coşkun Hepcan
  • Carsten Dormann
  • Myra Finkelstein
  • Simonetta Fraschetti
  • Christopher Frissel
  • Michael Fullen
  • Jim Hallet
  • Steven Handel
  • Antonio Lo Porto
  • Guillermo Luna Jorquera
  • Matthew Potts
  • Bill Slee
  • Éric Wolanski
  • Joy Zedler

Policy/management experts (17)

  • Karma Bouazza
  • Peter Cochrane
  • Simon Gardner
  • Floyd Homer
  • Colin Hindmarch
  • Katia Hueso Kortekaas
  • Manuel Lago
  • Fernando Magdaleno
  • Vinod Mathur
  • Angela Morgado
  • Ivone Pereira
  • Jan Plesnik
  • Sunandan Tiwari
  • Liette Vasseur
  • Julia Da Silva Vilela
  • Sanaa Zebakh

STEP 2

Scientific experts (17)

  • Asa Aradóttir
  • Susan Baker
  • Patrick Bohlen
  • Nana Bolashvili
  • James Bullock
  • Michael Brufford
  • Carsten Dormann
  • Myra Finkelstein
  • Adriana Ford
  • Simonetta Fraschetti
  • Christopher Frissel
  • Jim Hallet
  • Steven Handel
  • George Kowalchuk
  • Guillermo Luna Jorquera
  • Matthew Potts
  • Bill Slee

Policy/management experts (15)

  • Karma Bouazza
  • Peter Cochrane
  • Simon Gardner
  • Floyd Homer
  • Colin Hindmarch
  • Katia Hueso Kortekaas
  • Manuel Lago
  • Fernando Magdaleno
  • Vinod Mathur
  • Angela MorgadoIvone Pereira
  • Jan Plesnik
  • Sunandan Tiwari
  • Liette Vasseur
National Contact Points

26 organisations from 22 countries (including Azores) will fund one or several research teams in this Joint Call.

Funding organisations

Names

E-mail

Phone
BELSPO Aline van der Werf aline.VANDERWERF@belspo.be +32(0)223 83 671
FWO Olivier Boehme
Toon Monbaliu		 eranet@fwo.be +32 2 550 15 45
+32 2 550 15 70
NSFB Violeta Milkova v.milkova@mon.bg 35924443508
ETAG Aare Ignat
Margit Suuroja		 aare.ignat@etag.ee
margit.suuroja@etag.ee
 +372 73 1 73 64
+372 73 1 73 61
ANR Sophie Germann sophie.germann@agencerecherche.fr +33 1 80 48 83 56
ADECAL Pablo Chavance pablo.chavance@adecal.nc +687 249077
Réunion Guadeloupe Vanessa Weck vanessa.weck@cr-guadeloupe.fr +590590 60 4668
Région Guyane Marc SAGNE
Aïra REZAIRE		 marc.sagne@guyane-cr.fr
aira.rezaire@cr-guyane.fr		 +594 288 009
+594 271 116
Région Réunion Josiane IRISSIN-MANGATA josiane.irissin-mangata@cr-reunion.fr +262 262 97 58 52
DFG Gaby Rerig gaby.rerig@dfg.de +49 (0) 228 885-2406
DLR Cornelia Andersohn
Rainer Sodtke		 Cornelia.Andersohn@dlr.de
Rainer.Sodtke@dlr.de		 +49 228 3821-1973
+49 228 3821-1561
VM Norbert Somogyi somogyi.norbert@naik.hu +36 28 526-220
RCL Audrius Žvikas audrius.zvikas@lmt.lt +370 5 21 05 335
RCN Per Backe-Hansen pbh@rcn.no +4722037303
NCN Marcin Liana marcin.liana@ncn.gov.pl 0048 12 341 9161
FCT Joana Pinheiro joana.pinheiro@fct.pt +351 213924381
FRCT Gisela Nascimento gisela.mc.nascimento@azores.gov.pt +351 296 308 948
UEFISCDI Adrian Asanica
Luciana Bratu		 adrian.asanica@uefiscdi.ro
luciana.bratu@uefiscdi.ro		 +40744450011
+40213071910
MINECO Esteban Manrique Reol dtma-bce@mineco.es +34916038622
GOBCAN Marimar Villagarcia marimar.villagarcia@plocan.eu +34 928134414 (429)
FORMAS Sandro Caruso sandro.caruso@formas.se +46 8 775 4064
SEPA Per Sjögren-Gulve Per.Sjogren-Gulve@naturvardsverket.se +46106981446
SNSF Veronique Planchamp veronique.planchamp@snf.ch +41 31 308 22 22
SNSF Veronique Planchamp veronique.planchamp@snf.ch +41 31 308 22 22
MFAL Turgut ORMAN
Esin Dilbirligi		 torman@tagem.gov.tr
edilbirligi@tagem.gov.tr		 +90 312 307 60 37
+90 312 307 60 32

The BiodivERsA project has received funding from the European Union’s Horizon 2020 research and innovation programme under grant agreement No 642420.