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2011-2012 Joint call
BiodivERsA call for proposals on "Biodiversity dynamics: developing scenarios, identifying tipping points and improving resilience"
The European partners in the BiodivERsA network have joined efforts to organize and fund a pan-European call for international research projects on "Biodiversity dynamics: developing scenarios, identifying tipping points and improving resilience."
The call addressed the following themes, across all ecosystems and organisms:
- a) Developing integrated biodiversity scenarios
- b) Understanding and predicting biodiversity resilience and tipping points
- c) Decision support for biodiversity policy and management
9 projects were selected for €8.8 M funding among 8 different countries
See countries and agencies involved here
See the evaluation committee composition here
Funded projects:
â–º BUFFER: Partially protected areas as buffers to increase the linked social-ecological resilience in coastal ecosystems. Participating countries: FR (coordinator: Joachim Claudet), NO, PT, SE
â–º CoForTips: Congo basin forests: tipping points for biodiversity conservation and resilience of forested social and ecological systems. Participating countries: FR (coordinator: Claude Garcia), AT, BE
â–º EC21C: European Conservation for the 21st Century. Participating countries: PT (coordinator: Regan Early), FR, DE, SE
► FISHCON: Biodiversity scenarios for fragmented landscapes; freshwater connectivity 
and the future of fish diversity. Participating countries: NO (coordinator: Anders Finstad), DE, SE
â–º LIMNOTIP: Biodiversity dynamics and tipping points in our future freshwater ecosystems. Participating countries: SE (coordinator: Lars-Anders Hansson), NO, AT, DE
â–º REGARDS: Resilience of marginal grasslands and biodiversity management decision support.Participating countries: FR (coordinator: Sandra Lavorel), DE, AT, BE, NO
â–º SIGNAL: European gradients of resilience in the face of climate extremes.Participating countries: DE (coordinator: Anke Jentsch), BE, BG, FR
â–º TIPPINGPOND: Tipping points, biodiversity, resilience and ecosystem services: Ponds as model systems. Participating countries: BE (coordinator: Luc De Meester), DE, FR, SE
â–º TipTree: Scenarios for forest biodiversity dynamics under global change in Europe: Identifying micro-evolutionary scale tipping points. Participating countries: FR (coordinator: Sylvie Oddou-Muratorio), DE, SE
For more information:
- Analysis of the outputs of the BiodivERsA projects funded in 2010-2011; 2011-2012; 2012-2013
- For an overview of allocated funding, proposal submissions and success rates per countries, please see: BiodivERsA 2011-2012 call for proposals: "Biodiversity dynamics: Developping scenarios, identifying tipping points and improving resilience."