Impact of Human Drivers (Fire, Agriculture and Grazing) on Bio-Diversity in the Savannas

IHDBS

Call

  • Biodiversity 1

Project Website

Principal Investigator

Jacques Gignoux, Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique, France

Partners

Mahesh Sankaran, National Centre for Biological Sciences, Bangalore, India Giselda Durigan, Instituto Florestal do Estado de São Paulo, Brazil Florian Jeltsch University of Potsdam, The Netherlands William Bond, University of Cape Town, South Africa Sébastien Treyer, IDDRI Sciences Po, France Garry David Cook, CSIRO, Australia

Funders

  • ANR (The French National Research Agency), DFG (German Research Foundation), FAPESP (São Paulo Research Foundation), NRF (National Research Foundation)

Project Objective

This project aims at building biodiversity scenarios for savannas.

Call Objective

The objective of this call is to stimulate the formation of international networks of scientists and the advancement of the inter- and trans-disciplinary methodologies of scenario-building needed to enhance usefulness of biodiversity scenarios in decision-making.

Region

  • Africa, Asia, Australia, South America

Country

Duration

Call Date

June 9, 2014

Project Award Date

2014