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Partially protected areas as buffers to increase the linked social-ecological resilience – BUFFER
Coastal zones are complex social-ecological systems playing a crucial role in the economic, social and political development of many countries. However, they are amongst the areas of the world experiencing the highest rates of pressures (Jackson et al. 2001, Lotze et al. 2006). This concentration of
European Conservation for the 21st Century – EC21C
• Simulate changes and tipping points in ecosystem functions and services at landscape-scales (1km) across the EU, incorporating species dispersal data and alternative socio-economic climate and land-use scenarios • Incorporate dispersal and land-cover change (vegetation and land-use) into range-sh
REsilience of marginal GrAsslands and biodiveRsity management Decision Support – Regards
European marginal grasslands are biodiversity hot spots owing to ecological constraints, biophysical heterogeneity, and centuries of agriculture. Currently it is not clear whether these unique systems are vulnerable to ongoing environmental, socio-economic and political changes, or if they have deve
Scenarios for forest biodiversity dynamics under global change in Europe: identifying micro-evolutionary scale tipping points – Tiptree
Forests are a major reservoir of biodiversity and trees, as keystone organisms, directly impact the diversity and functioning of forest communities. Predicting the response of trees to ongoing global change (GC) is thus a critical scientific and societal issue. Along with phenotypic plasticity and m
Congo basin forests: tipping points for biodiversity conservation and resilience of forested social and ecological systems – CoForTips
Forests of the Congo Basin shelter an exceptional biodiversity, provide critical ecosystem services and support the livelihood of vulnerable communities. Under the pressure of global changes, these forested social and ecological landscapes are evolving. Climate change, deforestation, and degradation
TIPPING points, biodiversity, resilience and ecosystem services: PONDs as model systems – TIPPINGPOND
Ponds and shallow lakes have played a key role in the development of theory on regime shifts in ecosystems (Scheffer 2009), where resilience to environmental change is broken when a threshold disturbance is surpassed. Upon eutrophication or with temperature increase, ponds and lakes may shift from a