H2020Индивидуална стипендия2018–2021

LUCCA · Land Use and Climate Change Attribution for biodiversity impact assessments

„Хоризонт 2020“ — Действия „Мария Склодовска-Кюри“

Период: 2018-09-01 → 2021-09-01
Финансиране от ЕС: 212 195 €
Участници: 1
Схема: MSCA-IF-EF-ST

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Накратко на български

Комбинираното влияние на климатичните промени и промяната в начина на използване на земята върху разпространението на видовете се анализира чрез сателитни снимки и данни от граждани. Това помага за по-доброто разбиране и предвиждане на заплахите за биоразнообразието.

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Land Use and Climate Change Attribution for biodiversity impact assessments

Anthropogenic environmental change poses severe threats to biodiversity across the globe. Much research has focused on impacts of climate change on natural ecosystems, but we know little about combined effects with land use changes. Halting biodiversity loss and mitigating the impacts of climate change are among the UN Sustainable Development Goals and the EU’s 2020 Biodiversity Strategy. To achieve those goals, there is an urgent need for understanding how species have responded to global environmental change, and for improving predictions of impacts under future scenarios. The overall aim of MSCA-IF project LUCCA was to develop a framework for assessing the combined effects of land use and climate change on biodiversity. More specifically, the project had four objectives: 1) Synthesize the literature on land use change impacts on biodiversity, providing recommendations for future research 2) Assess the degree to which land use change may influence biodiversity change patterns attributed to climate change 3) Assess the effects of climate and land use change on species’ populations and distributions over time 4) Test the potential for high-resolution remote sensing imagery and citizen science based habitat descriptions for land use-biodiversity research

Текст от CORDIS, на английски · Данни: CORDIS, © Европейски съюз

Цел на проекта

Across the globe, species are shifting their distributions to track the warming temperatures, and habitat conversion is reducing species diversity. However, while both climate and land use change are recognized as top threats to biodiversity, studies on their synergistic effects are very rare. This is at least partly due to 1) a lack of consistent definitions and measures of land use change that can be directly related to biodiversity responses, and 2) difficulties in attributing change to either driver because of correlations, scale-dependencies, and interaction effects between the two. This project will develop a framework for separating the effects of land use and climate change on biodiversity using a range of methodologies such as meta-analysis, fieldwork, and modeling. The project will assess the land use definition and driver attribution challenges in the past literature, explore the potential of high-resolution remote sensing products and Google Street View to measure land use changes, and use unprecedented long-term monitoring citizen science programs to disentangle impacts of land use and climate change on bird populations as a case study. The Fellowship is a timely answer to recent calls to account for multiple environmental change drivers and improve our predictive ability of future biodiversity changes. The outputs will be of relevance for conservation management and policymaking in the EU and beyond. The host institute (CMEC) is at the forefront of macroecology and climate change research, and will give me access to worldwide experts in areas directly relevant to the project. The research and training opportunities offered by CMEC will broaden my field of study and strengthen my analytical and teaching skills – crucial for helping me establish an independent research career and become a leading figure within the field of integrative global change ecology in Europe.

Оригинален текст от CORDIS (на английски).

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