FunDivEUROPE Knowledge Transfer Platform - Ecosystem diversity
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refers a variety of ecosystems in a biosphere or the variety of species and ecological processes that occur in different physical settings. Source: Boundless Learning - CC BY-SA 3.0
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<div class="field field-name-field-intended-reader field-type-list-text field-label-inline clearfix"><div class="field-label">Intended Reader: </div><div class="field-items"><div class="field-item even">Forest Manager</div><div class="field-item odd">Researcher</div></div></div><div class="field field-name-body field-type-text-with-summary field-label-hidden"><div class="field-items"><div class="field-item even" property="content:encoded"><p>Biodiversity research of the last 15 years could demonstrate that <strong>multiple functions and services of an ecosystem are influenced by the number of species</strong> within this system. Most of these findings, however, are based on research within grassland systems. So science has to make the next big step and address those ecosystems that control a good portion of the carbon, nutrient and water balances of the earth: the forests.<br />
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<p>Within this project that started in October 2010, scientists from 24 institutions spread across 15 countries are quantifying the influence of <a aria-disabled="false" class="entity concept acknowledged" href="http://fundiveuropektp.boku.ac.at/tematres/vocab/?tema=22" rel="skos:related" resource="http://fundiveuropektp.boku.ac.at/tematres/vocab/?tema=22">biodiversity on forest</a> ecosystem functions and services. To achieve this, <a class="entity other acknowledged withSuggestions" href="http://fundiveuropektp.boku.ac.at/tematres/vocab/" rel="skos:related">FunDivEUROPE</a> is following different approaches:<br />
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<p><em>Firstly</em>, the project will work at the <strong>European sites of a global network of <a class="entity concept acknowledged withSuggestions" href="http://fundiveuropektp.boku.ac.at/tematres/vocab/?tema=32" rel="skos:related">tree diversity</a> experiments</strong>, established within the last ten years. Here, new little forests have been planted with 1, 2, 4, or 8 <a class="entity concept acknowledged withSuggestions" href="http://fundiveuropektp.boku.ac.at/tematres/vocab/?tema=44" rel="skos:related">tree species</a>, while keeping environmental variables as constant as possible. In this way, causal relationships between <strong class="withSuggestions">biodiversity</strong> and ecosystem functions can be derived.</p>
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<p><em>Secondly</em>, the project will use a newly designed <strong>network of comparative plots in existing mature forests</strong>. These are 250 plots in six European regions that differ in their <strong class="withSuggestions">tree species</strong> richness and composition representing important European forest types along the gradient from boreal forest to mediterranean forest.</p>
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<p><em>Third</em>, we will <strong>compile existing information from national forest inventories</strong> and other forest monitoring networks, in order to extract potential <a class="entity concept acknowledged withSuggestions" href="http://fundiveuropektp.boku.ac.at/tematres/vocab/?tema=33" rel="skos:related">diversity</a> signals in processes, such as forest growth, <a class="entity concept acknowledged withSuggestions" href="http://fundiveuropektp.boku.ac.at/tematres/vocab/?tema=149" rel="skos:related">mortality</a> and regeneration. Using modelling and state-of-the-art techniques for quantitative synthesis, the project will also integrate information gained from the different platforms to assess the performance of pure and mixed species stands under changing climate.</p>
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<p>In addition to these three research “platforms”, <strong class="withSuggestions">FunDivEUROPE</strong> will set up a <strong>web-based knowledge transfer platform</strong> in order to foster communication, aggregation and synthesis of individual findings and communication with stakeholders, policy makers and the wider public. The information gained should enable forest owners, forest managers and forest policy makers to adapt policies and management for the sustainable use of forest ecosystems in a changing environment, capitalizing on the potential effects of <a aria-disabled="false" class="entity concept acknowledged" href="http://fundiveuropektp.boku.ac.at/tematres/vocab/?tema=28" rel="skos:related" resource="http://fundiveuropektp.boku.ac.at/tematres/vocab/?tema=28">biodiversity for ecosystem</a> functioning.<br />
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<div class="video-embed-description">Michael Scherer-Lorenzen - What do the Researchers think about FunDivEUROPE?</div></div></div></div><div class="field field-name-field-biblio-evidence field-type-entityreference field-label-above"><div class="field-label">Evidence: </div><div class="field-items"><div class="field-item even"><a href="/node/54">A novel comparative research platform designed to determine the functional significance of tree species diversity in European forests</a></div></div></div><div class="field field-name-field-tags field-type-taxonomy-term-reference field-label-above clearfix"><h3 class="field-label">Tags: </h3><ul class="links"><li class="taxonomy-term-reference-0"><a href="/taxonomy/term/63" typeof="skos:Concept" property="rdfs:label skos:prefLabel" datatype="">FunDivEUROPE</a></li><li class="taxonomy-term-reference-1"><a href="/taxonomy/term/18" typeof="skos:Concept" property="rdfs:label skos:prefLabel" datatype="">Tree diversity</a></li><li class="taxonomy-term-reference-2"><a href="/taxonomy/term/47" typeof="skos:Concept" property="rdfs:label skos:prefLabel" datatype="">Species diversity</a></li><li class="taxonomy-term-reference-3"><a href="/taxonomy/term/12" typeof="skos:Concept" property="rdfs:label skos:prefLabel" datatype="">Ecosystem diversity</a></li><li class="taxonomy-term-reference-4"><a href="/taxonomy/term/49" typeof="skos:Concept" property="rdfs:label skos:prefLabel" datatype="">Forest Planning</a></li><li class="taxonomy-term-reference-5"><a href="/taxonomy/term/28" typeof="skos:Concept" property="rdfs:label skos:prefLabel" datatype="">forest management practices</a></li></ul></div><div class="field field-name-field-upload field-type-file field-label-above"><div class="field-label">Attachments: </div><div class="field-items"><div class="field-item even"><span class="file"><img class="file-icon" alt="PDF icon" title="application/pdf" src="/modules/file/icons/application-pdf.png" /> <a href="http://www.fundiveurope.eu/sites/default/files/FunDivEUROPE%20Factsheet_1_2011_final.pdf" type="application/pdf; length=296905">FunDivEUROPE Factsheet_1_2011_final.pdf</a></span></div></div></div><div class="field field-name-field-userrating field-type-fivestar field-label-inline clearfix"><div class="field-label">Userrating: </div><div class="field-items"><div class="field-item even"><div class="clearfix fivestar-average-stars fivestar-average-text"><div class="fivestar-static-item"><div class="form-item form-type-item">
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