EuroDiversity

In deze EUROCORES werken 27 publieke onderzoeksfinanciers samen uit 20 Europese landen, te weten: Oostenrijk, Belgie, Bulgarije, Tsechie, Estland, Finland, Frankrijk, Duitsland, Hongarije, Ierland, Italie, Luxemburg, Polen, Portugal, Slowakije, Spanje, Zweden, Zwitserland, Verenigd Koninkrijk en Nederland,.

De topics zijn:

1. Understanding biodiversity change
   • Ecological, evolutionary and socio-economic processes that drive biodiversity change, and the interplay between these processes.
   • Causes and predictive value of biodiversity patterns, including macroecological and other emergent properties of complex systems across levels of biological organisation.
   • Effects of genetic biodiversity within and among species on population, community and ecosystem processes.
2. Understanding impacts of biodiversity change on ecosystem services
   • Impacts of biodiversity changes (including biological invasions) on ecosystem functioning, stability and services, and their underlying mechanisms.
   • Functional role of microbial biodiversity in ecosystems.
   • Consequences of food-web and non-trophic interactions for ecosystem functioning.
   • Spatial processes across systems, metacommunities, and the dynamics of biodiversity and ecosystem processes at landscape to regional scales.
3. Exploring the interface between biological and social systems
   • Socioeconomic consequences of changes in ecosystem services driven by biodiversity; assessment of opportunities for, and limits to, substitution between these services and man-made capital.
   • Identifying the basis of social choice (values, incentives) for the conservation, restoration and management of biodiversity.
   • Dynamics of coupled social and ecological systems: effects of cross-scale interactions and mismatch between ecological processes, socio-economic processes and management institutions.

Extra Informatie

Zie voor meer informatie www.esf.org/eurocores. De Call is intussen gesloten en er zijn 10 projecten met enkele tientallen deelprojecten gehonoreerd. Aan 12 van deze deelprojecten nemen Nederlandse onderzoekers deel.

het betreft de volgende EuroDIVERSITY-voorstellen en NL-onderzoeksgroepen:

• ASSEMBLE: Plant functional traits and assembly of plant metacommunities in fragmented landscapes. Dr. J.P. Bakker/RUG, dr. J.M. van Groenendael/RUN, dr. J. Schaminee/WUR
• BEGIN: Biodiversity of European grasslands- the impact of atmospheric nitrogen deposition dr. R.Bobbink/UU
• MICROSYSTEMS: Microbial diversity and functionality in cold-water coral reef ecosystems dr. J. Sinninghe Damste/NIOZ; dr. Tj. van Weering/NIOZ
• AGRIPOPES: Agricultural policy-induced landscape changes: effects on biodiversity and ecosystem secvices dr. F. Berendse/WUR
• METHECO: The role of microbial diversity in the dynamics and stability of global methane consumption: microbial methane oxidation as a model-system for microbial ecology. Dr. P.L.E. Bodelier/Centrum voor Limnologie,NIOO
• BIOPOOL: Connectivity, dispersal and prority effects as drivers of biodiversity and ecosystem function in pond and pool communities dr. W.M. Mooij/NIOO
• ECOTRADE: Ecological thresholds for reshaping ecosystem networks: ameliorating landscapes driven by economic developments dr. P. Opdam/WUR
• BioCycle: Biodiversity and biogeochemical cycles: a search for mechanisms across ecosystems dr. R. Aerts/VU; dr. F. Berendse an dr. M. Scheffer/WUR

Criteria

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Contactpersonen

• Mw. dr. I. Jonckheere (Programma co-ordinator EuroDIVERSITY)
  e-mail: ijonckheere@esf.org

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