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 |
