SoilForEUROPE

Predicting European forest soil biodiversity and its functioning under ongoing climate changeCallDuration 01-2017 to 12-2019 Total Grant € 1,590,754 More information Dr. Stephan Hättenschwiler stephan.hattenschwiler@cefe.cnrs.fr Partners of the project CNRS, Montpellier, FRANCE (Coordinator) KU Leuven, Leuven, BELGIUM University Gent, Gent, BELGIUM Institut Nationale de Recherche Agronomique, Bordeaux, FRANCE CNRS/European Ecotron, Montpellier, FRANCE UFZ Centre for…

SOILCLIM

Managing soil biodiversity and ecosystem services in agroecosystems across Europe under climate changeCallDuration 12-2016 to 12-2019 Total Grant € 1,428,238 More information Prof. Dr. Klaus Birkhofer klaus.birkhofer@biol.lu.se klaus.birkhofer@b-tu.de Partners of the project Lund University, Lund, SWEDEN (Coordinator) University of Tartu, Tartu, ESTONIA Georg August University, Göttingen, GERMANY Spanish National Research Council, Almeria, SPAIN Research Institute…

REPEAT

REstoration and prognosis of PEAT formation in fens – linking diversity in plant functional traits to soil biological and biogeochemical processesCallDuration 01-2017 to 01-2020 Total Grant € 1,452,722 More information Dr. Wiktor Kotowski w.kotowski@uw.edu.pl Partners of the project University of Warsaw, Warsaw, POLAND (Coordinator) University of Antwerp, Antwerp, BELGIUM Charles University, CZECH REPUBLIC University of…

Digging-deeper

Agro-ecosystem diversificationCallDuration 12-2016 to 12-2019 Total Grant € 1,446,965 More information Prof. Dr. Marcel van der Heijden marcel.vanderheijden@agroscope.admin.ch Partners of the project Agroscope, Zürich, SWITZERLAND (Coordinator) INRA, Dijon, FRANCE Freie Universität Berlin, Berlin, GERMANY Rey Juan Carlos University, Móstoles, SPAIN Swedish University of Agricultural Sciences, Uppsala, SWEDEN Context Biological diversity is of pivotal importance for…

CLIMARCTIC

Climate change impacts on Arctic soil and lake microbiomesCallDuration 03-2017 to 02-2020 Total Grant € 1,349,921 More information Prof. Dr. Elie Verleyen elie.verleyen@ugent.be Website www.climarctic.ugent.be Partners of the project Ghent University, Ghent, BELGIUM (Coordinator) University of Rostock, Rostock, GERMANY The Arctic University of Norway, Tromsø, NORWAY Universidad Autónoma de Madrid, Madrid, SPAIN Swiss Federal Research…

BIOINVENT

Generic bio-inventory of functional soil microbial diversity in permanent grassland ecosystems across management and climate gradientsCallDuration 02-2017 to 01-2020 Total Grant € 1,684,974 More information Prof. Dr. Frank Rasche frank.rasche@uni-hohenheim.de Website bioinvent.uni-hohenheim.de Partners of the project University of Hohenheim, Stuttgart, GERMANY (Coordinator) Regionalentwicklung Oberallgaeu, Altusried, GERMANY Universidade de Lisboa, Lisbon, PORTUGAL Universidade dos Açores, Punta…

BIO-Tide

The role of microbial biodiversity in the functioning of marine tidal flat sedimentsCallDuration 03-2017 to 02-2020 Total Grant € 880,613 More information Prof. Koen SABBE koen.sabbe@ugent.be Partners of the project Ghent University, Ghent, BELGIUM (Coordinator) Muséum National d’Histoire Naturelle, Paris, FRANCE Université de Nantes, Nantes, FRANCE Ecole Polytechnique Fédérale de Lausanne, Lausanne, SWITZERLAND University of…

WILD HEALTH

How does environmental biodiversity affect wildlife health?CallDuration 12-2018 to 03-2022 Total Grant € 746,013 More information Phillip Watts pcwatts@jyu.fi Partners of the project University of Oulu, FINLAND University of Jyväskylä, FINLAND Natural Resources Institute, Tampere, FINLAND Swedish University of Agricultural Sciences, Umeå, SWEDEN University of Alaska, Anchorage, USA Context We are experiencing a biodiversity crisis…

SOMBEE

Scenarios of Marine Biodiversity and Evolution under Exploitation and climate changeCallDuration 03-2019 to 03-2022 Total Grant € 1,281,536 More information Dr Yunne Shin yunne-jai.shin@ird.fr Dr Bruno Ernande bruno.ernande@ifremer.fr Website www.sombee.org Partners of the project Institut de Recherche pour le Développement (IRD), Sète, FRANCE Institut Français de Recherche pour l’Exploitation de la Mer (IFREMER), Boulogne-sur-Mer, FRANCE…

SECBIVIT

Scenarios for providing multiple ecosystem services and biodiversity in viticultural landscapesCallDuration 01-2019 to 03-2022 Total Grant € 1,510,834 More information Silvia Winter Silvia.winter@boku.ac.at Website www.secbivit.boku.ac.at Partners of the project University of Natural Resources and Life Sciences, Vienna, AUSTRIA Institut National de la Recherche Agronomique (INRA), Villenave-d’Ornon, FRANCE Julius Kühn-Institute, Federal Research Centre for Cultivated Plants,…