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

FutureWeb

Call

  • Biodiversity 2

Project Website

Principal Investigator

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

Funders

  • aka (Academy of Finland), ANR (The French National Research Agency), DFG (German Research Foundation), NSF (National Science Foundation), NWO (The Netherlands Organisation for Scientific Research), SNSF (Swiss National Science Foundation)

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.

Region

  • Europe

Country

Duration

36 months

Call Date

October 2, 2017

Project Award Date

July 13, 2018