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Predicting and managing plant population responses in human altered ecosystems (POP-CHANGE)

Start date: Mar 1, 2014, End date: Feb 28, 2018,

...l populations exist in. In order to make predictions about which populations will persist, which we are likely to lose and where to best place our management efforts for biodiversity conservation and ecosystem services we need a fundamental understanding of how the environment affects population growth and decline in human altered ecosystems. The proposed research seeks to leverage existing data-s ...
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Development trajectories of temperate forest plant communities under global change: combining hindsight and forecasting (PASTFORWARD) (PASTFORWARD)

Start date: Jun 1, 2014, End date: May 31, 2019,

...ts of global change drivers on forest herb layer communities is particularly striking, since the herb layer contains the largest part of vascular plant diversity in temperate forests and provides key ecosystem services. Therefore PASTFORWARD will build an integrative understanding of the interactive effects of land-use change, atmospheric deposition and climate warming on forest herb layer communi ...
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Protected Area Vocational Education and Learning

Start date: Jul 1, 2016, End date: Jun 30, 2018,

...ividual staff and ultimately to deal with the many challenges that protected areas face in an efficient and effective way.The mobility’s will focus on a number of themes including:• Ecosystem services and how to quantify them • Management effectiveness and Business development• Climate change• Engaging local communities and the public • Marketing the value of protected areas and its products The 2 ...
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Advancing the European Long-Term Ecosystem, critical zone and socio-ecological Research Infrastructure towards ESFRI (Advance_eLTER)

Start date: Jan 1, 2017, End date: Dec 31, 2017,

Advance_eLTER marks a crucial step in building the distributed European Research Infrastructure of Long-Term Ecosystem Research sites and socio-ecological research platforms (eLTER RI) to provide highest quality data and services complementary to the European and global environmental RIs. The project will conduct important conceptual work and preparatory steps towards enabling European-scale inves ...
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Developing middle-range theories linking land use displacement, intensification and transitions (MIDLAND)

Start date: May 1, 2016, End date: Apr 30, 2021,

...iii) Pathways of agricultural expansion and intensification in tropical landscapes; and (iv) The conditions for transformative governance of land systems to foster resilient landscapes that sustain ecosystem services and livelihoods. These results will then be integrated to move towards the next generation of land system science, which will be able to develop, test and be guided by theoretical mod ...
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Olive Alive: Towards the design and certification of biodiversity friendly olive groves. (LIFE Olivares Vivos)

Start date: Oct 1, 2015, End date: Sep 30, 2020,

...romote their integration and active participation in such a strategy; Provide an effective solution to the economic and environmental crisis that is affecting traditional olive farming; Improve the ecosystem services provided by olive farming through restoration actions and creation of green infrastructure in demonstration plots and define restoration strategies that are technically, environment ...
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Sea For Society (SFS)

Start date: Jun 1, 2012, End date: Nov 30, 2015,

...ve economic stakeholders, environmental organisations, local authorities, the public-at-large, and youth in a participatory process to identify challenges and barriers of coastal and marine ecosystem services vis-à-vis societal needs. While these actors may have very different and even conflicting perspectives, collective reasoning sessions will lead to co-authored recommendations for facing up to ...
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Global drivers of loss of biodiversity with eutrophication and their potential use for restoration ecology (GLOBEPURE)

Start date: Jul 1, 2012, End date: Jun 30, 2015,

"One of the most serious environmental issues facing mankind this century is the loss of biodiversity and its effect on ecosystem processes and services. Last year, United Nations International Biodiversity Year, has seen the announcement that the nations of the world, including those in Europe, have failed to meet the conservation targets set by the Convention on Biological Diversity and have not ...
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"Towards an Ecosystem-based Approach of Marine Resources: Linking BIOodiversity, Food WEBs, Ecosystem Services and Drivers" (BIOWEB)

Start date: Jun 1, 2012, End date: May 31, 2016,

"Marine ecosystems have been and are subjected to various anthropogenic and environmental disturbances since historic times, which are cumulative and sometimes can act synergistically, additively or antagonistically. These are human activities such as fishing, pollution, eutrophication, invasion of species and the climate change, and changes due to environmental drivers related to changes in ocean ...
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Macroecological studies of long-term historical constraints on functional diversity and ecosystem functioning across continents (HISTFUNC)

Start date: Jan 1, 2013, End date: Dec 31, 2017,

"Earth’s environment is ongoing massive changes with strong impacts on ecosystems and their services to human societies. It is thus crucial to improve understanding of ecosystem functioning and its dynamics under environmental change. I propose to do this by assessing the novel hypothesis that ecosystem functioning is subject to long-term constraints mediated by biodiversity effects and driven by ...
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Conservation of biodiversity in the Municipality of Bressanvido (LIFE Risorgive)

Start date: Oct 1, 2015, End date: Sep 30, 2019,

...dano-Veneta plain represents a unique environment at the European level, due to its rich spring systems. Water rivers and channels are considered as a ‘blue infrastructure’ that can provide ecosystem services aimed at both preserving biodiversity and developing tourism and recreational activities. Objectives The o ...
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AQUAtic INVAders: Early Detection, Control and Management (AQUAINVAD-ED)

Start date: Jun 1, 2015, End date: May 31, 2019,

Aquatic Invasive Species (AIS) are on the rise due to the synergistic effects of climate change and habitat destruction. The impacts of AIS on Biodiversity, human health, and loss of ecosystem services are well known, but their control and management has now become a worldwide priority. Successful management of AIS is challenging because it requires several steps in succession: (1) early detectio ...
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Quantification and valuation of ecosystem services to optimize sustainable re-use for low-productive drained peatlands (LIFEPeatLandUse)

Start date: Jul 1, 2013, End date: Jun 30, 2018,

...ing (i.e. the leaching of nutrients, suspended solids and organic matter from peatlands to downstream watercourses) and widely weakened the state of these water bodies. Northern peatlands, the target ecosystem, play an important role in the global carbon cycle. In their pristine state, mires sequester large amounts of atmospheric carbon dioxide (CO2), and peatlands have been major global carbon st ...
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Ecological Function and Biodiversity Indicators in European Soils (ECOFINDERS)

Start date: Jan 1, 2011, End date: Dec 31, 2014,

... soil strategies aimed at ensuring sustainable use of soils, including: i) Characterisation of European soil biodiversity; ii) Determination of relations between soil biodiversity, soil functions and ecosystem services; iii) Design of policy-relevant and cost-effective indicators for monitoring soil biodiversity. The project will: i) Develop and standardise tools and procedures to measure microbia ...
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Environmentally COherent measures and interventions to debottleneck HUBS of the multimodal network favoured by seamless flow of goods (ECOHUBS)

Start date: Nov 1, 2012, End date: Apr 30, 2015,

...to reduction in greenhouse gas emissions and other pollutants.The main outputs will be:1.Cooperative Model for Green Hubs enabling low-carbon, resource-efficient and secure transportation services2.Ecosystem for electronically connecting multimodal terminal network stakeholders and amplifying their joint capabilities when using the Cooperative Model. The result will be faster communications, share ...
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Belgian Nature Integrated Project (BNIP)

Start date: Dec 1, 2015, End date: Dec 31, 2023,

...tabases; Initiation of projects for a subset of action and management plans; and The biological monitoring and socio-economic surveys that lead to a better knowledge of habitats and species, and ecosystem functioning and services.In addition to the integrated project budget itself, the project will facilitate the coordinated use of €203 million of complementary funding from the European Agricu ...
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Next generation, Cost-effective, Compact, Multifunctional Web Enabled Ocean Sensor Systems Empowering Marine, Maritime and Fisheries Management (NeXOS)

Start date: Oct 1, 2013, End date: Sep 30, 2017,

...tified by the Marine Strategy Framework Directive for Good Environmental Status. Two of the new sensors will specifically contribute to the Common Fisheries Policy with variables relevant for an Ecosystem Approach to Fisheries. All new sensors will respond to multiplatform integration, sensor and data interoperability, quality assurance and reliability requirements. These will be specified for ea ...
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Transnational Ecological Networks in Central Europe (TransEcoNet)

Start date: Dec 31, 2008, End date: Apr 29, 2012,

...lled gaps, between protected areas. The project study areas are situated within or between the wide-ranging ecological networks of the Alps, Carpathians and of the Green Belt. The connection of these ecosystems decisively contributes to their pan-European interlinkage and to sustainable territorial development.The project partners are working in the fields of remote sensing, geoinformatics, nature ...
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Building cooperation, developing skills and sharing knowledge for Natura 2000 forests in Greece (LIFE ForestLife)

Start date: Jul 16, 2015, End date: Jul 15, 2019,

...increase acceptance of measures to reduce human disturbance. There is a lack of technical guidance on sustainable forest management and a lack of knowledge transfer among Member States. Insight into ecosystem services provided by forests in Natura 2000 sites is lacking, as well as an understanding of the conflicts between various policies and forest users. To address these problems, it was reco ...
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Trait diversity: assemblage of communities and their feedbacks to Ecosystem Multifunctionality (TANDEM)

Start date: Dec 1, 2014, End date: Nov 30, 2016,

In order to deal with the generalized losses in biodiversity and its adverse effect on the provision of ecosystem, services, it is critical to understand the mechanisms behind the assemblage and coexistence of species, including the relative effect of environmental and land-use factors, and its feedbacks to ecosystem functioning. There is growing consensus that the quantification of the kind, div ...
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Improving risk assessment in environmental decision making through robust uncertainty estimation (IMPROVE)

Start date: May 1, 2013, End date: Apr 30, 2015,

... that the EU should propose additional measures to address water problems in Europe. Increasing impacts of human-induced changes on our climate and our landscape threaten important freshwater-related ecosystem services and functions, while the pressure to water security for society increases. Uncertainty in environmental model predictions limits the value of model-based information for characteris ...
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ENVIRONMENTAL FOOTPRINT OF FLUVIAL TOURISM

Start date: Oct 1, 2015, End date: Sep 30, 2017,

...g significantly, and these actions have not always been carried out from an environmental point of view. At the same time tourists value more and more respectful behaviour in natural spaces and water ecosystems, which need to be protected. Protecting measures not only comprise the immediate actions, but also those measures that aim to raise awareness and information amongst all the stakeholders in ...
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"The ecological services, social benefits and economic value of the Ecosystem Services in Natura 2000 sites in Crete" (LIFE Natura2000ValueCrete)

Start date: Jul 1, 2014, End date: Jun 30, 2018,

...and Provide guidance to other managing bodies of Natura 2000 sites in Greece on ways to develop information and communication strategies to highlight the ecological, social and economic value of ecosystem services. Expected results: The development of a positive attitude and behaviour towards Natura 2000 site conservation; The reduction of human pressure on sensitive mountain and coastal habi ...
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Innovative solutions for increasing efficiency and reducing environmental impacts of future wood supply (OnTrack)

Start date: Sep 1, 2016, End date: Aug 31, 2018,

..., for adopting improved operation practices, and for efficient amelioration of ruts that have exceeded these thresholds.Overall, OnTrack will lead to significant improvement in the procurement of ecosystem services such as wood supply, carbon, water and nutrient regulation, biodiversity conservation, and recreation. Hence, the project provides intelligent tools for forest production while keeping ...
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Sustainability

Start date: Aug 1, 2016, End date: Nov 30, 2017,

...s farm on an organic level as well as we continually step by step develop the farm to be more sustainable. We would like to participate in making the global society more rich of options ex by using ecosystem services more.We have plant production, animal breeding, foresting and building, maintenance and development around that. We have permaculture education, a 5 step plan for perennial food prod ...
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FORest conservation and EcoSysTem Accounting. Towards the integration of private and public values into land use decisions modeling at farm scale. An application to Andalusia montes (FORESTA)

Start date: May 1, 2014, End date: Apr 30, 2016,

...stry measures accompanying of the Common Agricultural Policy) and market based (eg. Payments for Environmental Services) incentives to enhance forest resources conservation and increase the supply of ecosystem services.This project aims to create a theoretical framework able to consider all the relevant decision variables for social planners and private landowners, taking into account a bundle of ...
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Environmental Research Infrastructures Providing Shared Solutions for Science and Society (ENVRI PLUS)

Start date: May 1, 2015, End date: Apr 30, 2019,

...tal RI communities. The produced solutions, services and other project results are made available to all environmental RI initiatives, thus contributing to the development of a consistent European RI ecosystem.
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Transactional Environmental Support System (TESS)

Start date: Oct 1, 2008, End date: Jun 30, 2011,

...l assist policy makers to integrate knowledge from the EU, national, regional and local level into the decision making process while also encouraging local people to maintain and restore biodiversity ecosystem services. To achieve this, a transactional environmental decision support system will be designed, linking central policy planning to local livelihoods. To develop this system, TESS will fir ...
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Trait diversity: assemblage of communities and their feedbacks to Ecosystem Multifunctionality (TANDEM)

In order to deal with the generalized losses in biodiversity and its adverse effect on the provision of ecosystem, services, it is critical to understand the mechanisms behind the assemblage and coexistence of species, including the relative effect of environmental and land-use factors, and its feedbacks to ecosystem functioning. There is growing consensus that the quantification of the kind, div ...
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Green Belt of Bay of Santander: connecting nature and city (Life Anillo Verde)

Start date: Oct 1, 2015, End date: Sep 30, 2019,

...d one runway of Parayas Airport extends into the bay. Today, 38% of the estuary is still a natural environment of great ecological value. However, continual pressures threaten biodiversity and ecosystem services in the bay. Objectives The main LIFE Anillo Verde project objective is to contribute to nature conservation i ...
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Floods and fire risk assessment and management (FLIRE)

Start date: Oct 1, 2012, End date: Sep 30, 2015,

...ncluding loss of life, the destruction of private and public property and the disruption of economic activities and cultural heritage. Floods and fires also contribute to the degradation of Europe's ecosystem services. This ecological degradation becomes even more severe when events have overlapping effects. For example, a flood event becomes more probable and is likely to be more catastrophic wh ...
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Our forest - Live it and let it live! (OMONTEVIVO)

Start date: Jan 1, 2010, End date: Dec 31, 2012,

...s to restore. It is also responsible for millions of metric tonnes of carbon dioxide emitted into the atmosphere. Moreover, forest fires have great financial implications in terms of both the loss of ecosystem services and the cost of fighting them and restoring the destroyed forestland. Studies on the causes of the forest fires in Spain show that 80% of all fires have a human origin, whether they ...
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Knowledge based data services -improving the life cycle and accessibility of environmental data provided for public interest (LifeData)

Start date: Sep 1, 2011, End date: Dec 31, 2015,

...n the Protection of Forests in Europe) and the Council for Pan-European Biological and Landscape Diversity Strategy (PEBLDS) jointly recognized sustainable forest management to be consistent with the Ecosystem Approach. Finland is Europe's most forested country – three quarters of its land area is under forest cover – which highlights the important role of Finland in contributing to sustaina ...
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Up-scaling Arctic diversity analysis to link community organisation and ecosystem functioning (ARCDIV)

Start date: Jun 1, 2016, End date: May 31, 2018,

...l characteristics using 4th-corner models. Key is that such approaches link traits and environment without the necessity of including sample locations, holding promise for an approach that translates ecosystem function directly to services; look for indirect interactions and feedbacks between polar benthic macrofauna and ecosystem functioning by employing structural equation models. This enables f ...
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Sustainability

Start date: Jun 17, 2014, End date: Nov 16, 2015,

...nteers farm on an organic level as well as we continually step by step develop the farm to be sustainable. We would like to participate in making the global society more rich of options ex by using ecosystem services more. We have plant production, animal breeding, foresting, construction, maintenance and development around that. We have permaculture education, a 5 step plan for perennial food pr ...
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Understanding Social-Ecological Systems: Coupling population and satellite remotely sensed environmental data to improve the evidence base for sustainable development (USES)

Start date: Nov 1, 2015, End date: Oct 31, 2017,

...atural resources and environmental products for food, fuel, building materials and medicines. Rapidly changing socioeconomic conditions can have important consequences for environmental resources and ecosystem services. Consequently, the pressure that natural resources experience from population growth is a significant barrier to sustainable human development. This research project will broaden th ...
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Towards integrated management of freshwater Nature 2000 sites and habitats (FRESHABIT)

Start date: Jan 1, 2016, End date: Sep 30, 2022,

...on goal of protecting and regulating the use of the freshwater environment. To ensure future sustainable use of freshwater wetland systems, implementation of the multiple directives controlling ecosystem services, biodiversity, cultural heritage and renewable energy need to be harmonised. Actions are also needed to enhance catchment-level and cross-sectional cooperation among different administrat ...
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Enhanced real time services for an optimized multimodal mobility relying on cooperative networks and open data (TIMON)

Start date: Jun 1, 2015, End date: Nov 30, 2018,

Europe would be close to solving problems related to congestion, traffic safety and environmental challenges if people, vehicles, infrastructure and business were connected into one cooperative ecosystem combining integrated traffic and transport management with new elements of ubiquitous data collection and system self-management. The main objective is increasing the safety, sustainability, flexi ...
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"COMMUNITIES, GOVERNANCE AND PAYMENT FOR ECOSYSTEM SERVICES IN AMAZONIA" (CGPESA)

Start date: Sep 1, 2010, End date: Aug 31, 2012,

"This proposal is for a study of the local governance implications of Payments for Ecosystem Services (PES), especially hydrological services, in the Amazon basin. Such payments, which may also take the form of development projects, compensate local actors for the opportunity costs of maintaining their rainforest environment through sustainable practices - in the case of indigenous peoples in Amaz ...
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Understanding and predicting multispecies assemblages and interactions in space and time (MATES)

Start date: Apr 1, 2014, End date: Mar 31, 2016,

...d their dynamics are prerequisite for predicting community and biodiversity response to climate change and, thus, for designing strategies and policies to halt the loss of biodiversity and associated ecosystem services. We propose to investigate uncertainties in biodiversity response to climate change by improving and integrating existing approaches for modelling biotic interactions in large-scale ...
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