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Microorganisms in Warming Arctic Environments (MicroArctic)

Start date: Apr 1, 2016, End date: Mar 31, 2020,

The Arctic plays a key role in the Earth’s climate system and is an area of growing strategic importance for European policy. In this ETN, we will train the next generation of Arctic microbiology and biogeochemistry experts who, through their unique understanding of the Arctic environment and the factors that impact ecosystem and organism response to the warming Arctic, will be able to respond to ...
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Optimising the management and sustainable use of forest genetic resources in Europe (GenTree)

Start date: Mar 1, 2016, End date: Feb 29, 2020,

The goal of GenTree is to provide the European forestry sector with better knowledge, methods and tools for optimising the management and sustainable use of forest genetic resources (FGR) in Europe in the context of climate change and continuously evolving demands for forest products and services. To reach its goal, GenTree will make scientific, technological and implementation breakthroughs in: ( ...
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Detecting changes in essential ecosystem and biodiversity properties – towards a Biosphere Atmosphere Change Index: BACI (BACI)

Start date: Apr 1, 2015, End date: Mar 31, 2019,

The alarming rate of biodiversity loss and ecosystem transitions make it clear that new strategies are required to sustain functioning of the coupled ecological-societal system. Existing space data archives and data streams from the ESA Sentinels, offer unprecedented opportunities to provide rapid, high quality indicators necessary for informed management of key ecosystem services. Yet, it remains ...
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Distributed, integrated and harmonised forest information for bioeconomy outlooks (DIABOLO)

Start date: Mar 1, 2015, End date: Feb 28, 2019,

Europe’s bioeconomy is expected to foster economic growth and to tackle significant societal challenges with less harmful environmental effects through innovative, sustainable and inclusive use of European forest resources. Increasing demand for biomass and other ecosystem goods and services calls for changes in forest-related policies at different levels and across different sectors. Accordingly, ...
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Life in a cold climate: the adaptation of cereals to new environments and the establishment of agriculture in Europe (ADAPT)

Start date: Feb 1, 2014, End date: Jan 31, 2019,

"This project explores the concept of agricultural spread as analogous to enforced climate change and asks how cereals adapted to new environments when agriculture was introduced into Europe. Archaeologists have long recognized that the ecological pressures placed on crops would have had an impact on the spread and subsequent development of agriculture, but previously there has been no means of di ...
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INtegrated Spatial PlannIng, land use and soil management Research ActTION (INSPIRATION)

Start date: Mar 1, 2015, End date: Feb 28, 2018,

The aim of INSPIRATION is to adopt a funder and end-user demand-driven approach to establish and promote the adoption of the knowledge creation, transfer and implementation agenda for land use, land-use changes and soil management in the light of current and future societal challenges. Main objectives are: • Formulate, consult on and revise an end-user oriented strategic research agenda (SRA), • S ...
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Advancing the European Long-Term Ecosystem, critical zone and socio-ecological Research Infrastructure towards ESFRI (Advance_eLTER)

Start date: Jan 1, 2017, End date: Dec 31, 2017,

Advance_eLTER marks a crucial step in building the distributed European Research Infrastructure of Long-Term Ecosystem Research sites and socio-ecological research platforms (eLTER RI) to provide highest quality data and services complementary to the European and global environmental RIs. The project will conduct important conceptual work and preparatory steps towards enabling European-scale inves ...
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Understanding fire, weather and land cover interactions from long-term terrestrial observations and satellite data in a north to south transect in Europe and North Africa (GRADIENT)

Start date: Jul 1, 2016, End date: Sep 30, 2017,

Long-term historical fire records extending back to the late 1800s are very rare worldwide. Three such long-term historical fire data have been found for this research proposal; (i) Switzerland, central Europe (1900-2014), (ii) Greece, south Europe (1897-2014), and (iii) Algeria, north Africa (1870-2014) which together with the spatial-explicit reconstruction of recent fire history from Landsat sa ...
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Reinforced Vegetation Numerical Evaluation of Slopes (REVENUES)

Start date: Jan 1, 2013, End date: Dec 31, 2016,

Vegetation acts as a reinforcement for slopes due to the penetration of roots into the ground. Roots penetration is a time dependent phenomenon that is strongly connected to the hydrogeological condition of the slope and that interacts with soil properties. Roots reinforcement of soil is well documented and numerous formulae exist in literature. The reinforcement action is provided by roots penetr ...
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Sustainable futures for Europe’s HERitage in CULtural landscapES: Tools for understanding, managing, and protecting landscape functions and values (HERCULES)

Start date: Dec 1, 2013, End date: Nov 30, 2016,

European cultural landscapes are valued as everyday living environment, countryside, heritage, scenery with aesthetic and recreational qualities and unique biodiversity, and as a source of ecosystem services that they provide to society. Cultural landscapes, however, are undergoing rapid and fundamental transformations across Europe, mainly as a result of an on-going polarization of land use, with ...
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Understanding and predicting multispecies assemblages and interactions in space and time (MATES)

Start date: Apr 1, 2014, End date: Mar 31, 2016,

Understanding and modelling biotic interactions and their dynamics are prerequisite for predicting community and biodiversity response to climate change and, thus, for designing strategies and policies to halt the loss of biodiversity and associated ecosystem services. We propose to investigate uncertainties in biodiversity response to climate change by improving and integrating existing approache ...
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Effects of Climate Change on Air Pollution Impacts and Response Strategies for European Ecosystems (ECLAIRE)

Start date: Oct 1, 2011, End date: Sep 30, 2015,

ÉCLAIRE investigates the ways in which climate change alters the threat of air pollution on European land ecosystems including soils. Based on field observations, experimental data and models, it establishes new flux, concentration and dose-response relationships, as a basis to inform future European policies.Starting with biosphere-atmosphere exchange measurements, ÉCLAIRE quantifies how global w ...
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Building Resilience Amongst Communities in Europe (EMBRACE)

Start date: Oct 1, 2011, End date: Sep 30, 2015,

In an interdisciplinary, socially inclusive and collaborative context, emBRACE aims to improve the framing of resilience in the context of disasters in Europe. It will develop a conceptual and methodological approach to clarify how the resilience capacity of a society confronted with natural hazards and disasters can be characterized, defined and measured. On the basis of a systematic evaluation o ...
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Ice Phobic Coating Associated to Low Power Electromechanical Deicers (ICEAGE)

Start date: May 1, 2014, End date: Jun 30, 2015,

"The main objective of the IceAge project is to develop and evaluate a number of alternative – and highly innovative – icephobic coatings used as associated to low power electromechanical deicers.This goal will be achieved through two activities:• The development of durable and effective icephobic coatings that will facilitate and maintain laminar boundary layers on aerodynamic surfaces. These coa ...
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Distributed Infrastructure for EXPErimentation in Ecosystem Research (EXPEER)

Start date: Dec 1, 2010, End date: May 31, 2015,

EXPEER will bring together, major observational, experimental, analytical and modelling facilities in ecosystem science in Europe. By uniting these highly instrumented ecosystem research facilities under the same umbrella and with a common vision, EXPEER will form a key contribution to structuring and improving the European Research Area (ERA) within terrestrial ecosystem research.EXPEER builds ...
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Fostering European Drought Research and Science-Policy Interfacing (DROUGHT-R&SPI)

Start date: Oct 1, 2011, End date: Mar 31, 2015,

The project will reduce future Europe’s vulnerability and risk to drought by innovative in-depth studies that combine drought investigations in six case study areas in water-stressed regions (river basin and national scale) with drought analyses at the pan-European scale. Knowledge transfer across these scales is paramount because vulnerability is context-specific (e.g. physical, environmental, so ...
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Harmonised European Land Monitoring (HELM)

Start date: Jan 1, 2011, End date: Dec 31, 2013,

"The land surface is a decisive factor regarding the state of the environment and human well-being. To manage it well, regularly obtained up do date information on land use and land cover is needed. Land monitoring provides this information through thematic maps based on the interpretation of areal photography, satellite imagery and further sources. These maps aid spatial planning, nature protecti ...
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Knowledge-based approach to develop a cULTUre of Risk prevention (KULTURisk)

Start date: Jan 1, 2011, End date: Dec 31, 2013,

The extreme consequences of recent catastrophic events have highlighted that risk prevention still needs to be improved to reduce human losses and economic damages. The KULTURisk project aims at developing a culture of risk prevention by means of a comprehensive demonstration of the benefits of prevention measures. The development of a culture of risk prevention requires the improvement of our: a) ...
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The terrestrial Carbon cycle under Climate Variability and Extremes – a Pan-European synthesis (CARBO-Extreme)

Start date: Jun 1, 2009, End date: May 31, 2013,

The aim of this project is to achieve an improved knowledge of the terrestrial carbon cycle in response to climate variability and extremes, to represent and apply this knowledge over Europe with predictive terrestrial carbon cycle modelling, to interpret the model predictions in terms of vulnerability of the terrestrial – in particular soil – carbon pools and give according advice to EU climate a ...
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Models for Adaptive Forest Management (MOTIVE)

Start date: May 1, 2009, End date: Apr 30, 2013,

"The project MOdels for AdapTIVE forest Management (MOTIVE) will evaluate the consequences of the intensified competition for forest resources given climate and land use change. The project focuses on a wide range of European forest types under different intensities of forest management. In particular, MOTIVE examines impacts with respect to the disturbance regimes determining forest dynamics. MOT ...
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IMproving Preparedness and RIsk maNagemenT for flash floods and debriS flow events (IMPRINTS)

Start date: Jan 15, 2009, End date: Nov 14, 2012,

"The aim of IMPRINTS is to contribute to reduce loss of life and economic damage through the improvement of the preparedness and the operational risk management for Flash Flood and Debris Flow [FF/DF] generating events, as well as to contribute to sustainable development through reducing damages to the environment. To achieve this ultimate objective the project is oriented to produce methods and t ...
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Social Capacity Building for Natural Hazards: Toward More Resilient Societies (CapHaz-Net)

Start date: Jun 1, 2009, End date: May 31, 2012,

The main objectives of CapHaz-Net are to identify and assess existing practices and policies for social capacity building in the field of natural hazards and to elaborate strategies and recommendations for activities to enhance the resilience of European societies to the impacts of natural hazards. This will be achieved by bringing together different scientific disciplines and by enhancing and fos ...
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Advancing dynamic vegetation modeling for mountain systems vulnerable to climate and land-use change (MTVEGMOD)

Start date: Jul 1, 2009, End date: Jun 30, 2011,

"Significant uncertainties on the response of ecosystems to climate change remain to be addressed to advance the progress of the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change. We propose to investigate several of these uncertainties by improving regional-scale dynamic vegetation modeling for montane systems vulnerable to climate and land-use change. Our approach will modify a state-of-the-art dynamic ...
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HYDROSYS: Advanced spatial analysis tools for \non-site environmental monitoring and management (HYDROSYS)

Start date: Jun 1, 2008, End date: May 31, 2011,

HYDROSYS aims at providing a system infrastructure to support teams of users in on-site monitoring events analysing natural resources. The project introduces the innovative concept of event-driven campaigns with handheld devices, potentially supported by an unmanned aerial vehicle (UAV). In these campaigns, users can setup and retrieve data from mobile sensorstations, the UAV and external sources ...
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