BiodivERsA Project, funded by DFG
Duration: January 2019 to December 2021

The overall objective of the project is to develop an integrative framework of coupled models for predicting the immediate and long-term consequences of land-use and climate change for the delivery of nature’s contributions to people, including ecosystem services, and the underly-ing biodiversity and ecosystem processes in freshwater and marine ecosystems. Furthermore, a mechanism for the application of the framework to environmental policy and practice will be designed. Therefore, an interdisciplinary team of researchers will develop scenarios of human and global change associated pressures on terrestrial, freshwater and marine ecosystems.

On this basis, field experiments and modelling will be conducted at case studies in Ireland, Canada, Sweden and Germany. The resulting stress-response-relationships will be used to construct inte-grated frameworks of coupled models to predict the consequences of terrestrial anthropogenic activities and derive decision support tools for policy and environmental management.

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