Developing and applying scenarios of biological invasions for the 21st century

AlienScenarios

Call

  • Biodiversity 2

Project Website

Principal Investigator

Franz Essl, University of Vienna, Austria

Partners

Franck Courchamp, Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique & University Paris Saclay, France Ingolf Kühn, Helmholtz Centre for Environmental Research, Germany Jonathan Jeschke, Leibniz-Institute of Freshwater Ecology and Inland Fisheries & Free University of Berlin, Germany Brian Leung, McGill University, Canada Hanno Seebens, Senckenberg Gesellschaft für Naturforschung, Germany Núria Roura-Pascual, University of Girona, Spain

Funders

  • AEI (State Research Agency), ANR (The French National Research Agency), DLR (German Aerospace Center), FWF (Austrian Science Fund), NSERC (The Natural Sciences and Engineering Research Council of Canada)

Project Objective

AlienScenarios will evaluate for the first time the range of plausible futures of biological invasions for the 21st century.

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

Country

Duration

36 months

Call Date

October 2, 2017

Project Award Date

July 13, 2018