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Human Brain Project (HBP)
Start date: May 1, 2011, End date: Apr 30, 2012,
The human brain can be seen as an immensely powerful, energy efficient, self-learning, self-repairing computer. If we could understand and mimic the way the brain works, we could revolutionize information technology, medicine and society. But to do so we have to bring together everything we know and everything we can learn about the inner workings of the brain's molecules, cells and circuits. The ...
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Swabian Danube valley (Schwäbisches Donautal)
Start date: Oct 1, 2006, End date: Jul 31, 2011,
Background
The Swabian Danube valley is a large, originally open fen and fluvial landscape, but agricultural land use is intensifying in the area, in particular through the conversion of meadows into arable fields, and site hydrology is being disturbed by drainage and faster discharge of water. The âDonauriedâ project area is also located in the midst ...
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Rosenheimer master basin bogs (ROSTAM)
Start date: Jul 1, 2005, End date: Oct 30, 2010,
Background
Europeâs pre-alpine moorlands contain priority habitats like active raised bogs, calcareous fens, bog woodland, and alluvial forests. Land use changes in some of these habitats have had an adverse affect on the habitatsâ functionality. For example, peat extraction and drainage can lead to land becoming dry and overgrown. Habitat connectivit ...
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Main valley between Hassfurt and Eltmann (Mainaue Hassfurt)
Start date: Aug 1, 2003, End date: Jul 31, 2008,
Background
The River Main is one of the principal tributaries of the Rhine. It runs for 524 km through the German states of Bavaria, Baden-Wurttemberg and Hesse and forms part of an important inland waterway link from the north. It has been extensively canalised and is a busy shipping route.
The river valley has been heavily settled and intensively farme ...
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Large freshwater mussels Unionoidea in the border area of Bavaria, Saxonia and the Czech Republic (Grossmuscheln)
Start date: Aug 1, 2002, End date: Jul 31, 2007,
Background
Although the Annex II freshwater mollusc Margaritifera margaritifera is colloquially named the freshwater pearl mussel, only one in 7 000 of these sensitive mussels produces tiny pearls. Some 30 000 of the species, 20% of the total population in Germany, live in streams in the project area, a species rich man-made landscape located at the bord ...
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