EuroDiversity

In this EUROCORES 27 public research funding agencies from 20 European countries cooperate: Austria, Belgium, Bulgaria, Check Republic, Denmark, Estonia, Finland, France, Germany, Hungary, Ireland, Italy, Luxemburg, Poland, Portugal, Slovakia, Spain, Sweden Switserland and the Netherlands.

The topics are:

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 Information

For more information see www.esf.org/eurocores. The call is now closed and 10 projects with dozens of part-projects have been approved. Dutch researchers participate in 12 of these part-projects, namely the following EuroDIVERSITY-proposals and NL-research groups:

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

No longer applicable.

Contacts

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

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