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BIOTA
Understanding Biodiversity |
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Research carried out within the BIOTA cluster is the European scientific response to the Convention on Biological Diversity, WEHAB and the European Biodiversity Strategy, and aims to determine and promote strategic approaches to biodiversity conservation and management in Europe. Projects in the BIOTA cluster:
All projects are co-funded by the European Community, most of them under the FP7 Biodiversity values, sustainable use and livelihoods, FP6 Global Change and Ecosystems and under the FP5 Global Change, Climate and Biodiversity Key Action of the Energy, Environment and Sustainable Development Programme. For more information on the projects, including direct links to project websites, click on the individual BIOTA project links below. |
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| Ongoing projects: |
| Project Acronym | Project title | Project duration |
| BioStrat | Delivering the EU Biodiversity Strategy | November 2006 - October 2010 |
| CONGRESS | Conservation genetic resources for effective species survival | May 2010 - April 2013 |
| EBONE | European biodiversity observation network | April 2008 - March 2012 |
| Challenges in assessing and forecasting biodiversity and ecosystem changes in Europe | January 2007 - December 2011 | |
| EDIT | European Distributed Institute of Taxonomy | March 2006 - February 2011 |
| EVOLTREE | Evolution of trees as drivers of terrestrial biodiversity | April 2006 - September 2010 |
| HighArcs | Highland Aquatic Resources Conservation and Sustainable Development | January 2009 - December 2012 |
| HUNT | Hunting for sustainability | November 2008 - April 2012 |
| LiveDiverse | Sustainable livelihoods and biodiversity in riparian areas in developing countries | February 2009 - January 2012 |
| LifeWatch | E-Science and Technology Infrastructure for Biodiversity Data and Observatories | February 2008 - March 2011 |
| PALMS | Palm harvest impacts in tropical forests | January 2009 - December 2013 |
| PESI | A Pan-European species-directories infrastructure | January 2008 - January 2011 |
| SCALES | Securing the Conservation of biodiversity across Administrative Levels and spatial, temporal and Ecological Scales | May 2009 - July 2014 |
| SESAME | Southern European Seas: Assessing and Modelling Ecosystem Changes | November 2006 - October 2010 |
| SOILSERVICE | Conflicting demands of land use, soil biodiversity and the sustainable delivery of ecosystem goods and services in Europe | September 2008 - February 2012 |
| STEP | Status and trends of European Pollinators | February 2010 - January 2015 |
| TESS | Transactional Environmental Support System | October 2008 - March 2011 |
| Completed Projects: |
| Project Acronym | Project title | End of project |
| ALARM | Assessing Large Scale Risks for Biodiversity with Tested Methods | January 2009 |
| ALTER-Net | A Long-Term biodiversity, Ecosystem and awareness Research network | March 2009 |
| BABE | Beekeeping and Apis Biodiversity in Europe |
September 2004 |
| BioAssess | Biodiversity assessment tools project | July 2003 |
| BioCASE | A biological collection access service for Europe | January 2005 |
| BIOECON | Biodiversity and economics for conservation | January 2004 |
| BIOFORUM | European biodiversity forum - implementing the ecosystem approach | December 2005 |
| BioHab | A framework for the coordination of biodiversity and habitats | November 2005 |
| BIOMAN | A project about biodiversity and human impact in shallow lakes | January 2003 |
| BioPlatform | European platform for biodiversity | April 2005 |
| BioScene | Scenarios for reconciling the conservation of biodiversity with declining agricultural use in the mountains of Europe | November 2005 |
| BioScore | Biodiversity impact assessment using species sensitivity scores | February 2009 |
| BIOSTRESS | Biodiversity in herbaceous semi-natural ecosystems under stress by global change components |
December 2002 |
| CASCADE | Securing gene conservation, adaptive and breeding potential of a model multipurpose tree species (Castanea sativa) in a changing environment |
October 2003 |
| Coast Bird Diversity | Maintaining migratory coastal bird diversity: management through behaviour-based predictive population modelling |
December 2004 |
| COCONUT | Understanding effects of land use changes on ecosystems to halt loss of biodiversity due to habitat destruction, fragmentation and degradation |
November 2008 |
| CONSIDER | Conservation of soil organism diversity under global change |
February 2007 |
| CRAYNET | European crayfish as keystone species-linking science, management and economics with sustainable environmental quality |
November 2005 |
| DAISIE | Delivering Alien Invasive Species Inventories for Europe | January 2008 |
| ENBI | The European Network for Biodiversity Information | December 2005 |
| EPRECOT | Effects of precipitation change on terrestrial ecosystems - a workshop and networking activity | December 2006 |
| EuMon | EU-wide monitoring methods and systems of surveillance for species and habitats of Community interest | April 2008 |
| EuroCat | The catalogue of life: biodiversity resource and e-science gateway |
January 2006 |
| Euro-limpacs | Integrated project to evaluate impacts of global change on European freshwater ecosystems | January 2009 |
| EUR-OCEANS | European network of excellence for ocean ecosystems analysis | December 2008 |
| Fauna Europaea | European advantages in biodiversity indexing and infrastructures |
October 2004 |
| Euro+Med PlantBase | The information resource for Euro-Mediterranean plant diversity |
August 2003 |
| Fossilva | Dynamics of forest tree biodiversity: linking genetic, paleogenetic and plant historical approaches |
September 2003 |
| FRAP | Framework for biodiversity Reconcialition Action Plans |
April 2006 |
| FRAXIGEN | Ash for the future: defining European ash populations for conservation and regeneration |
June 2005 |
| Governance and ecosystems management for the conservation of biodiversity | January 2008 | |
| Giant Alien | Giant Hogweed (Heracleum mantegazzianum) a pernicious invasive weed: developing a sustainable strategy for alien invasive plant management in Europe |
April 2005 |
| GLOCHAMORE | Global change in mountain regions |
October 2005 |
| HERMES | Hotspot Ecosystem Research on the Margins of European Seas | March 2009 |
| IMEW | Integrated Management of European Wetlands |
July 2004 |
| IntraBioDiv | Tracking surrogates for intraspecific biodiversity: towards efficient selection strategies for the conservation of natural genetic resources using comparative mapping and modelling approaches |
December 2006 |
Landscape development, biodiversity and co-operative livestock systems in Europe |
October 2006 | |
A database on the life history of the Northwest European flora |
October 2005 |
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Minimisation of and Adaptation to Climate change: Impacts on biodiverSity |
November 2008 |
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Maculinea butterflies of the habitats directive and European Red List as indicators and tools for habitat conservation and management |
January 2006 |
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| MarBEF | Marine Biodiversity and Ecosystem Functioning | January 2009 |
Implementation of high-throughput genomic approaches to investigate the functionning of marine ecosystems and the biology of marine organisms |
February 2008 |
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| Metabird | Viability of bird metapopulations |
Febraury 2003 |
Designing and testing DNA microarrays as a molecular tool to monitor the diversity of freshwater cyanobacteria in European lakes |
October 2003 |
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| MODELKEY | Models for assessing and forecasting the impact of environmental key pollutants on marine and freshwater ecosystems and biodiversity | January 2010 |
Protocols for the assessment and conservation of aquatic life in the subsurface |
December 2004 |
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European crop wild relative diversity assessment and conservation forum |
October 2005 |
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Dynamics of plant dispersal-related traits in fragmented European habitats: consequences for species survival and landscape management |
September 2003 |
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Reconciling commercial exploitation of peat with biodiversity in peatland ecosystems |
May 2006 |
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Reconciling gamebird hunting and biodiversity |
May 2002 |
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| RUBICODE | Rationalising biodiversity conservation in dynamic ecosystems | March 2009 |
Creating a European Platform for SMEs and other stakeholders to develop a research programme for pro-biodiversity business |
August 2007 |
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Mobilising the European social research potential in support of biodiversity and ecosystem management |
January 2006 |
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| TLinks | Trophic linkages between above and below ground organisms as a key to successful restoration of biodiversity on ex-arable land across Europe |
April 2005 |
Determining the extinction risks and the re-introduction of plant species in a fragmented Europe |
February 2004 |
European Commission contact point: Astrid Kämena Programme officer, European Commission DG Research Office address: CDMA 3/163, Rue Champs de Mars 21 Mailing address: European Commission B-1049 Brussels Email: Astrid.Kaemena@ec.europa.eu |
Website coordinator: Fiona Grant Centre for Ecology and Hydrology Bush Estate Penicuik, Midlothian EH26 0QB, UK Email: fian@ceh.ac.uk |
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