Projects

Project Profile: FutureWeb

Climate and land use change threat to the vertebrate European food web structure and functioning

Who?

Principal Investigators: Wilfried Thuiller, University Grenoble Alpes, France
Partners: Mike Harfoot, UNEP World Conservation Monitoring Centre, England
James Clark, Duke University, United States
Ulrich Brose, German Centre for Integrative Biodiversity Research, Germany
Neil Burgess, UNEP World Conservation Monitoring Centre, England
Atte Moilanen, University of Helsinki, Finland
Peter Verburg, VU University Amsterdam, The Netherlands
Catherine Graham, Swiss Federal Research Institute, Switzerland
Luigi Maiorano, University of Roma "La Sapienza," Italy
Sponsors: Academy of Finland, Finland
French National Research Agency, France
German Research Foundation, Germany
DLR Project Management Agency, Germany
Swiss National Science Foundation, Switzerland
Netherlands Organisation for Scientific Research, The Netherlands
National Science Foundation, United States

What?

Full Project Title: Climate and land use change threat to the vertebrate European food web structure and functioning
Full Call Title: Biodiversity2017
Website:

Why?

Project Objective: The overarching objective of FutureWeb is to produce robust projections of the impacts of global change on multi-trophic biodiversity, ecosystem functioning and services in Europe.
Call Objective: The Call addresses two major (non-exclusive) priorities:

- Development and application of scenarios of biodiversity and ecosystem services across spatial scales of relevance to multiple types of decisions;

- Consideration of multiple dimensions of biodiversity and ecosystem services in biodiversity scenarios.

Where?

Regions: Europe
Countries:

When?

Duration: 36 months
Call Date: October 2, 2017
Project Award Date: July 13, 2018