Project Profile: WILDHEALTH
How does environmental biodiversity affect wildlife health?
Who?
| Principal Investigators: | Phillip Watts, University of Oulu, Finland |
| Partners: | Otso Huitu, LUKE: Natural Resources Institute Finland, Finland Frauke Ecke, Department of Wildlife, Fish, and Environmental Studies, Sweden Donald Spalinger, University of Alaska Anchorage, United States Tapio Mappes, University of Jyväskylä, Finland |
| Sponsors: | Academy of Finland, Finland Formas, Sweden National Science Foundation, United States |
What?
| Full Project Title: | How does environmental biodiversity affect wildlife health? |
| Full Call Title: | Biodiversity2017 |
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Why?
| Project Objective: | This project aims to test the hypothesis that forest management affects wildlife health via an impact on environmental biodiversity and the associated microbial community (microbiome). |
| 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: | Finland, Sweden, United States of America (USA) |
When?
| Duration: | 36 months |
| Call Date: | October 2, 2017 |
| Project Award Date: | July 13, 2018 |
