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Project Profile: FATE

Future ArcTic Ecosystems (FATE): drivers of diversity and future scenarios from ethno-ecology, contemporary ecology and ancient DNA

Who?

Principal Investigators: Laura Saskia Epp, Alfred-Wegener-Institute Helmholtz-Centre for Polar and Marine Research, Germany
Partners: Joan Oloffson, Umeå University, Sweden
Douglas Nakashima, UNESCO, France
Samuel Roturier, Laboratoire Ecologie, Systématique, Evolution, France
Duane Froese, University of Alberta, Canada
Beth Shapiro, University of California Santa Cruz, United States
Florian Stammler, University of Lapland, Finland
Sponsors: Natural Sciences and Engineering Research Council, Canada
Quebec Research Fund, Canada (Quebec)
Academy of Finland, Finland
French National Research Agency, France
German Research Foundation, Germany
DLR Project Management Agency, Germany
Research Council of Norway, Norway
Formas, Sweden
National Science Foundation, United States

What?

Full Project Title: Future ArcTic Ecosystems (FATE): drivers of diversity and future scenarios from ethno-ecology, contemporary ecology and ancient DNA
Full Call Title: Biodiversity2017
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Why?

Project Objective: FATE will conduct a comprehensive inter- and transdisciplinary study using sedimentary ancient DNA, current ecological observations and anthropological investigations of indigenous peoples’ knowledge and interpretations
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, North America
Countries: Canada, Finland, Norway, Russian Federation, Sweden, United States of America (USA)

When?

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