Assesing large scale risks for biodiversity with tested methods (ALARM)

Description:

ALARM research focuses on assessment and forecast of changes in biodiversity and in structure, function, and dynamics of ecosystems. This relates to ecosystem services and includes the relationship between society, economy and biodiversity. In particular, risks arising from climate change, environmental chemicals, biological invasions and pollinator loss in the context of current and future European land-use patterns have been assessed.

The ALARM consortium published the Atlas of Biodiversity Risk to present an overview of a wide variety of research aspects relating to biological diversity and its major drivers. The atlas is not simply a collection of different maps. It follows the concept of thematic environmental atlases, where maps, figures, graphs and pictures are combined to tell multi-facetted stories.

Project information

Lead

Centre for Environmental Research Leipzig-Halle

Partners

Centre for Environmental Research Leipzig-Halle (UFZ) Germany Lund University (ULUND) Sweden Catholic University of Louvain (UCL) Belgium National Environmental Research Institute (NERI) Denmark University of Milano Bicocca (CoNISMa-UNIMIB) Italy Natural Environmental Research Council, Centre for Ecology and Hydrology (NERC) Great Britain Institute of Botany, Academy of Sciences of Czech Republic (IBOT) Czech Republic Georg-August University of Göttingen (GAUG) Germany University of the Aegean (AEGEAN) Greece Sustainable Europe Research Institute (SERI) Austria Estonian Institute for Sustainable Development (SEIT) Estonia Centre for Cartography of Fauna and Flora (CKFF) Slovenia University of Leeds (LEEDS) Great Britain Biomathematics & Statistics Scotland (BioSS) Great Britain OLANIS Expert Systems LTD. (OLANIS) Germany Finnish Environment Institute (SYKE) Finland Finnish Meteorological Institute (FMI) Finland University of Castilla-La Mancha (UCLM) Spain University of Hannover (GEOBOT) Germany University of Umea (UMU) Sweden Swiss Federal Institute of Technology (ETHZ) Switzerland Center for Ecological Research and Forestry Applications (CREAF) Spain University of Evora (UE) Portugal University of Vienna (VEGVIE) Austria Potsdam Institute for Climate Impact Research (PIK) Germany Jagiellonian University (UJAG) Poland Bourgas University (LMC) Bulgaria Lancaster University, Environmental Science Dept. (ULANC) Great Britain Utrecht University (IRAS-TOX) Netherlands University of Stockholm (ITM) Sweden University of Bern (UB) Switzerland Klaipeda University, The Coastal Research and Planning Institute (KUCORPI) Lithuania Zoological Institute of the Russian Academy of Sciences (ZIN RAS) Russia CAB International (CABI) Great Britain Marine Organism Investigations (MOI) Ireland University of Reading, School of Agriculture (Reading) Great Britain National Institute of Agronomic Research (INRA) France Martin-Luther-University Halle-Wittenberg (MLU) Germany Swedish University of Agricultural Sciences (SLU) Sweden University of Haifa (HAIFA)

Source of funding

FP6