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AGFORWARD
Start date: Jan 1, 2014, End date: Dec 31, 2017,
Agroforestry is the practice of deliberately integrating woody vegetation (trees or shrubs) with crop and/or animal systems to benefit from the resulting ecological and economic interactions. AGFORWARD (AGroFORestry that Will Advance Rural Development) is a four-year project, developed by 23 organisations at the forefront of agroforestry research, practice and promotion in Europe, with the goal o ...
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European Network for the Study of Adrenal Tumours - Structuring clinical research on adrenal cancers in adults (ENS@T-CANCER)
Start date: Jan 1, 2011, End date: Jun 30, 2016,
Among patients with adrenal masses Adrenocortical carcinoma (ACC) and malignant pheochromocytomas (MPH) are found with a low incidence but very unfavorable prognosis. Due to this poor clinical outcome, concomitant hormone dysregulation and limited treatment options the two cancer entities severely impact on affected patients. However, the rarity of the tumors also impedes clinical studies which ar ...
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The evolution of the Grassland biome: exploring past events to predict future scenarios (GRASSLANDS)
Start date: Aug 1, 2013, End date: Jul 31, 2015,
Knowledge of the evolution of the grassland biome throughout the Earth's environmental history is important for the reconstruction of links between diversification/extinctions events and climate. Biomes are now being impacted by anthropogenic environmental change on an unprecedented scale, and one mean of understanding how component species will react is to study the effects of past environmental ...
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geoland2 - towards an operational GMES Land Monitoring Core Service (geoland2)
Start date: Sep 1, 2008, End date: Dec 31, 2012,
geoland2 intends to constitute a major step forward in the implementation of the GMES Land Monitoring Core Service (LMCS). The three components (Local, Continental and Global) of the LMCS are addressed. The goal of geoland2 is (i) to prepare, validate and demonstrate pre-operational service chains and products that will underpin the LMCS, and (ii) to propose and demonstrate a concrete functional o ...
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"The cradle of flowering plants: biogeographical investigations in the most paleogeographically complex region on Earth, South-East Asia" (CRADLE)
Start date: Dec 1, 2010, End date: Nov 30, 2012,
"Since Darwin suggested that the cradle of flowering plants was found in an isolated southern continent now vanished, the spatial aspect of their origin has been neglected. In this project conducted with the support of Dr F. Forest from the Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew (UK), the applicant wish to address the following questions pertaining to the spatial origin of angiosperms: 1) Was the proto-South- ...
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