GLOBALCHANGEBIOLOGY · A physiologically-based weather-driven geospatial modelling approach to global change biology: tackling a multifaceted problem with an interdisciplinary tool
FP7 — People (Marie Curie Actions)
- Duration
- 2008-11-01 → 2012-10-31
- EU contribution
- €100,000
- Participants
- 1
- Scheme
- MC-IRG
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Results in brief
Final Report Summary - GLOBALCHANGEBIOLOGY (A physiologically-based weather-driven geospatial modelling approach to global change biology: tackling a multifaceted problem with an interdisciplinary too
This is the periodic report of GLOBALCHANGEBIOLOGY project funded under the European Union (EU)-funded framework programme (FP) seven. The long-term goal of the GLOBALCHANGEBIOLOGY project is to develop interdisciplinary tools for the analysis of ecological and agro-ecological problems that emerge at the interface between global change and biological systems (i.e., global change biology); tools to help European governmental agencies develop sound response policy to cope with these problems. The report coherently describes in detail the background and the main objectives of the project, the work performed within it; and the results achieved so far.
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Project objective
Analytical tools that provide a synthesis of ecological data are increasingly needed to design and maintain sustainable agroecosystems increasingly disrupted by global change in the form of agro-technical inputs, invasive species, and climate change. This is particularly relevant to the Mediterranean Basin, a climate change hot-spot already threatened by local environmental changes including desertification. The project will provide important tools for summarizing, managing, and analyzing ecological data in agricultural systems to address global change effects using grape and olive as model systems. The project will integrate weather driven physiologically based Ecosystem Modelling (EM) and Geographic Information Systems (GIS) to derive a dynamic understanding of complex agricultural systems in the face of global change including climate warming. Multivariate analyses will be used to summarize the main effect of model predictions in a space and time independent way to provide a solid but flexible basis for managing Mediterranean grape and olive systems in a changing global environment. The integrated EM/GIS system may be viewed as a library of the current knowledge about agroecosystems that can be extended to other systems, updated with new knowledge and used to help guide multidisciplinary research on local and regional scales. The need for extensive weather datasets to drive the models requires that the EM/GIS technology be linked with remote sensing (RS) to enhance spatial resolution of the approach and increase its real-world applications. This combined innovative EM/GIS/RS tool will provide European governmental agencies with the scientific basis for developing policy required to adjust to global change including climate warming.
Original text from CORDIS.
Participants
- AGENZIA NAZIONALE PER LE NUOVE TECNOLOGIE, L'ENERGIA E LO SVILUPPO ECONOMICO SOSTENIBILE · RomaCoordinatorItaly
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