Networks/programmes
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Below are the networks as well as programmes which have been granted endorsement by the Scientific Steering Committee of GLP:
- MRI (Mountain Research Initiative)
The Initiative is concerned with developing a strategy to detect signals of global environmental change in mountain environments, to define the consequences of global environmental change for mountain regions as well as for lowland systems dependent on mountain resources, and to propose actions toward sustainable land, water and resource management for mountain regions at local to regional scales. Read more...
- ARIDnet (A Research Network for Studies of Global Desertification)
The goal of ARIDnet is to provide leadership for developing and testing a new synthetic paradigm for desertification. This paradigm, which ARIDnet call the Dahlem Desertification Paradigm, is based on the simultaneous roles of the meteorological and ecological dimensions of desertification (the biophysical factors) and the human dimensions of desertification (the socio-economic factors). Read more...
- TERACC (Terrestrial Ecosystem Response to Atmospheric and Climatic Change)
TERACC is an international research coordination network of global change scientists representing over 100 individual research sites worldwide. The central goals of TERACC are to: (1) integrate and synthesize existing research on ecosystem responses to individual global change drivers; (2) foster new research on whole-ecosystem responses to the combined effects of elevated atmospheric CO2, warming, and other aspects of global change, and (3) promote better communication and integration between experimentalists and modelers. Read more...
- NEESPI (Northern Eurasia Earth Science Partnership Initiative)
The long range goal of NEESPI is to develop a comprehensive understanding of the Northern Eurasian terrestrial ecosystem dynamics, biogeochemical cycles, surface energy and water cycles, and human activities and how they interact with and alter the biosphere, atmosphere, and hydrosphere of the Earth. Read more...
- KITE (York Institute for Tropical Ecosystem Dynamics)
The York Institute for Tropical Ecosystem Dynamics (KITE), a Marie-Curie funded Excellence Centre, is exploring the relationship between ecosystem dynamics, climate change, and human impacts in East Africa. The key elements of KITE research are to: (1) determine ecosystem response to climate change by focusing on an area of particularly high biodiversity; (2) determine the role of human impacts on present forest composition and long-term ecosystem functioning; (3) determine pollen-vegetation relationships and develop methods to link site-scale fossil data to landscape; (4) develop and test models to link past, present and future ecosystem functioning at different spatial scales; (5) produce results to inform management and policy formation both in the study area and more generically. Read more...
- Center for Systems Integration and Sustainability
The mission of the Center for Systems Integration and Sustainability is to develop and maintain a center of excellence that integrates ecology with socioeconomics, demography, and other disciplines for ecological sustainability from local, national, to global scales. The objectives are: (1) conduct cutting-edge research on emerging issues related to ecological sustainability; (2) train new generations of leading scholars for interdisciplinary research; (3) disseminate research findings across the globe. Read more...
- DiverSus (Functional biodiversity effects on ecosystem processes, ecosystem services and sustainability in the Americas: an interdisciplinary approach)
One of the main ways in which land use change can alter ecosystem functioning and services is by causing shifts in the plant functional biodiversity (i.e. the value, range and relative abundance of plant functional traits present in a given ecosystem, hereafter FB). These alterations modify the ecosystem services perceived by different stakeholders, both locally and remotely. The DiverSus project focuses on the design and implementation of a new interdisciplinary framework to analyze and compare field studies of land use change in the Americas from the tropics to the tundra. Read more...