How does environmental biodiversity affect wildlife health?

WILDHEALTH

Call

  • Biodiversity 2

Project Website

Principal Investigator

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

Funders

  • aka (Academy of Finland), FNRS (National Fund for Scientific Research), NSF (National Science Foundation)

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.

Region

  • Europe, North America

Country

  • Finland, Sweden, United States of America (USA)

Duration

36 months

Call Date

October 2, 2017

Project Award Date

July 13, 2018