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2019-2020 Joint Call
Joint COFUND Call on “Biodiversity and Climate Change”
In the context of its BiodivClim COFUND Action, BiodivERsA launched in September 2019 a joint call to support research on “Biodiversity and climate change”. The call was co-funded by the European Commission and covered four non-exclusive themes:
- Consequences of climate change on biodiversity and nature’s contributions to people
- Climate-biodiversity feedback processes
- Potential of nature-based solutions for mitigating and adapting to climate change
- Synergies and trade-offs between policies on biodiversity, climate and other relevant sectors, and the role of agents of change.
The 21 shortlisted projects are academically excellent projects, mobilising a wide range of disciplines, engaging many relevant stakeholders, and addressing various pressing scientific and societal issues.
21 funded projects:
► ACORN - Identifying seed sources for highly adaptable oak forests in a changing climate. (AT, CH, DE, GR, TR).
► ASICS - ASsessing and mitigating the effects of climate change and biological Invasions on the spatial redistribution of biodiversity in Cold environmentS. (FR, AT, BE, CZ, ES, DK, NO, SA).
► BaltVib - Pathogenic Vibrio bacteria in the current and future Baltic Sea waters: mitigating the problem. (DE, EE, DK, FI, LT, PL, SE).
► BIOFAIR - BIOdiversity of soils and FArming Innovations for improved Resilience in European wheat agrosystems. (BE, CH, DE, ES, FR).
► CLAMBIO - Assessing the effects of past and future climate change on Amazonian biodiversity. (FI, BR, DE, UK).
► EASMO - EAStern Tropical Pacific reef fish on the MOve: biodiversity reorganisation and societal consequences. (DE, AU, CO, CR, NO, PT, SE, UK, US).
► EPICC - Environmental Policy Instruments across Commodity Chains: Comparing multi-level governance for Biodiversity Protection and Climate Action in Brazil, Colombia, and Indonesia. (BE, DE, BR, ID, NO, SE).
► FeedBaCks - Feedbacks between Biodiversity and Climate. (CH, CZ, DE, FR, SE).
► FUNPOTENTIAL - Potential of functional diversity for increasing the disturbance resiliency of forests and forest-based socio-ecological systems. (FI, DE, FR).
► FutureArcticLives - Future Arctic livelihoods and biodiversity in a changing climate. (DK, NO, SE).
► GenClim - Biodiversity on the run: evolutionary and socio-economic consequences of shifting distribution ranges in commercially exploited marine fishes. (DK, DE, PT, SA).
► GRADCATCH - Using natural environmental GRADients to decipher the adaptation of soil microbial Communities to climATe CHange. (DK, CH, ES, US, SA).
► MICROSERVICES - Predicting climate change impacts on the crop microbiome and cascading effects on ecosystem services delivery in agroecosystems. (CH, BE, ES, FR, DE, GR).
► MixForChange - Mixed Forest plantations for climate Change mitigation and adaptation. (FR, AT, BE, BR, CA, DE, IT, SE).
► NAPERDIV - Nature-based perennial grain cropping as a model to safeguard functional biodiversity towards future-proof agriculture. (DE, AT, BE, FR, PL, RO, SE).
► NordSalt - Climate Change Impacts and Biodiversity Interactions in Nordic Salt Marshes. (DK, DE, FI, SE, NO).
► PlantCline - Adapting Plant Genetic Diversity to climate change along a continental latitudinal gradient. (SE, BE, ES, FI).
► PRINCESS - Peatland Rewetting In Nitrogen-Contaminated Environments: Synergies and trade-offs between biodiversity, climate, water quality and Society. (DE, AT, BE, FI, PL, NO).
► RangeX - Mechanisms underlying the success and impacts on biodiversity and ecosystem functioning of range-expanding species under climate change. (CH, CL, DE, DK, FR, NO, SA, SE).
► RESTORE - Innovative biotechnological strategies to improve tree drought tolerance and microbial diversity for forest restoration purposes: the application of plant associative microorganisms and nature-based materials. (BR, DE, FR).
► SUSTAIN-COCOA - Sustainable sourcing policies for biodiversity protection, climate mitigation, and improved livelihoods in the cocoa sector. (CH, AU, BE, CO, SE).
More information:
► Composition of the Evaluation Committee
► Brochure presenting the BiodivERsA 2019-2020 Joint Call for research projects
► Kick-off meeting of the projects
BiodivClim, the ERA-NET Cofund action on biodiversity and climate change has received funding from the European Union Horizon 2020 research and innovation programme under grant agreement 869237. |
last modified 2021-08-24 at 16:13