Landscape diversity enhances human health
Diverse agricultural and forest landscapes enhance human physical and mental health. Even small land use changes can introduce health risks into the environment.
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Biodiversity promotes healthy agricultural systems and benefits human health
The diversity of functions that insects provide is crucial to sustain agricultural production. Diversity supports wild bee health. Soil microbial diversity can protect crops from disease and insect pests.
Biodiversity mitigates health risks
Biodiversity can mitigate the spread of infectious diseases. Human disruptions alter ecosystems’ ability to protect our health.
The ability of scenarios to develop cross-sectoral capacities and support foresight and anticipatory governance in ensuring ecosystem resilience
This policy brief shows how scenarios focused on biodiversity can map potential pathways to enhance ecosystem resilience.
Nitrogen pollution and climate change reduce carbon storage and biodiversity of peatlands
This brief is based on findings of the PEATBOG project, illustrates a “win-win” between biodiversity-conservation and climate-change mitigation.
Adaptation of trees and forests to climate change: the importance of genetic variability
This brief is derived from the LinkTree project, which examined the genetic variation within forest tree populations in five European countries, and assessed how this variability and its management could help forests adapt to environmental changes.
Conservation of small mammals and associated ecosystems: the importance of European policies and actions
This brief is based on the Ecocycles research results, treats of the importance of European policies (for example, the Common Agricultural Policy, the EU Strategy on Climate Adaptation) and actions in the context of the conservation of small mammals and other species which depend on them.
Natura 2000 and Europe’s forests: understanding and tackling implementation challenges
This brief presents the key results from the BeFoFu project that investigated both ecological challenges related to the management of protected forests and governance challenges related to the implementation of Natura 2000.
Conservation of threatened insects in Europe: managing habitats for land use and climate change adaptation
This brief builds on the conclusions from the CLIMIT project focusing on the conservation of threatened and vulnerable insects in the context of changing land use and climate.
Wildlife diseases on the increase: a serious threat for Europe’s biodiversity
This brief highlights the increase and the threat posed by these diseases to Europe’s biodiversity, as demonstrated in the RACE project.