SCALES - Securing the Conservation of biodiversity across Administrative Levels and spatial, temporal, and Ecological Scales / Edukad projektid

programme [ FP7 ] search term [ University of the Aegean-Research Unit ]

Securing the Conservation of biodiversity across Administrative Levels and spatial, temporal, and Ecological Scales

acronym:	SCALES
start:	2009-05-01
end:	2014-07-31

programme:	FP7 - Euroopa Liidu 7. raamprogramm
sub-programme:	ENV - Keskkond, sealhulgas kliimamuutused
instrument:	CP-IP - Suuremahulised integreeritud projektid
call identifier:	FP7-ENV-2008-1
project number:	226852
duration in months:	63
partner count:	31

abstract:	Our capacity to effectively sustain biodiversity across spatial and temporal scales is an essential component of European environmental sustainability. Anthropogenic and environmental pressures on biodiversity act differently at different scales. Consequently, effective conservation responses to these threats must explicitly consider the scale at which effects occur, and therefore it is crucial that administrative levels and planning scales match the relevant biological scales. The SCALES project will provide the scientific and policy research needed to guide scale-dependent management actions. It will assess and model the scaling properties of natural and anthropogenic processes and the resulting scale-dependencies of the impacts of these pressures on various levels of biodiversity from genes to ecosystem functions. To facilitate these assessment methods for upscaling and downscaling biodiversity data will be reviewed and improved. SCALES will further evaluate the effectiveness of management and policy responses to biodiversity loss in terms of their scale-relevance and will develop new tools for matching their scales to relevant biological scales. Finally, a resulting methodological and policy framework for enhancing the effectiveness of European biodiversity conservation across scales will be developed and tested. This framework focuses on networks of protected areas and regional connectivity. This framework will be disseminated to a wide range of relevant users via a web based support tool kit (SCALE-TOOL) and by means of further dissemination channels, such as conferences, publications, and the mass media.

partner no and role		partner name	country	contact person	web page
1	coordinator	HELMHOLTZ-ZENTRUM FUER UMWELTFORSCHUNG GMBH - UFZ	DE	Annette Schmidt	http://www.ufz.de
2	partner	University of the Aegean-Research Unit	EL	Panayiotis Tsokaros	http://www.aegean.gr
3	partner	THE UNIVERSITY OF READING	UK	Liz Stansfield	http://www.rdg.ac.uk
4	partner	UNIVERZITA KARLOVA V PRAZE	CZ	Darja Zoubková	http://www.cuni.cz
5	partner	ARISTOTELIO PANEPISTIMIO THESSALONIKIS	EL	Petridou Georgia	http://www.auth.gr
6	partner	UNIVERSITY OF LEEDS	UK	Kathy Brownridge	http://www.leeds.ac.uk
7	partner	CENTRE NATIONAL DE LA RECHERCHE SCIENTIFIQUE	FR	Armelle Barelli	http://www.cnrs.fr
8	partner	UNIWERSYTET JAGIELLONSKI	PL	Malgorzata Grodzinska-Jurczak	http://www.uj.edu.pl
9	partner	LUNDS UNIVERSITET	SE	Martin T. Sykes	http://www.lu.se
10	partner	NATURAL ENVIRONMENT RESEARCH COUNCIL	UK	Hannah Gilbert	http://www.nerc.ac.uk
11	partner	SUOMEN YMPARISTOKESKUS	FI	Ulla Haapanen	http://www.environment.fi/syke
12	partner	Median SCP	ES	Sybille Van Den Hove	http://www.median-web.eu
13	partner	Pensoft Publishers Ltd	BG	Lyubomir Penev	http://www.pensoft.net
14	partner	UNIVERSITAET BAYREUTH	DE	Peter Schindler	http://www.uni-bayreuth.de
15	partner	HELSINGIN YLIOPISTO	FI	Sanna-Maija Miettinen	http://www.helsinki.fi/university
16	partner	Tartu Ülikool	EE	Martin Zobel	http://www.ut.ee
17	partner	MUSEUM NATIONAL D'HISTOIRE NATURELLE	FR	Lydie Saury	http://www.mnhn.fr
18	partner	UNIVERSITAET BERN	CH	Excoffier Laurent	http://www.unibe.ch
19	partner	FUNDACAO DA FACULDADE DE CIENCIAS E TECNOLOGIA DA UNIVERSIDADE NOVA DE LISBOA.	PT	Ana Luisa Baiao	http://www.fundacao.fct.unl.pt/fundacao
20	partner	THE UNIVERSITY OF QUEENSLAND	AU	Karen Hurley	http://www.uq.edu.au
22	partner	CENTER ZA KARTOGRAFIJO FAVNE IN FLORE ZAVOD	SI	Mladen Kotarac	http://www.ckff.si
23	partner	CENTRE TECNOLOGIC FORESTAL DE CATALUNYA	ES	Lluís Brotons	http://www.ctfc.cat
24	partner	INSTITUTE FOR EUROPEAN ENVIRONMENTAL POLICY, LONDON	UK	Clair Froomberg	http://www.ieep.eu
25	partner	SVERIGES LANTBRUKSUNIVERSITET	SE	Riccardo Bommarco	http://www.slu.se
26	partner	Gamtos tyrimų centras	LT	Anna Budriene	http://www.gamtostyrimai.lt
27	partner	DEBRECENI EGYETEM	HU	Zoltán Pozsonyi	http://www.unideb.hu
28	partner	STIFTELSEN NORSK INSTITUTT FOR NATURFORSKNING	NO	Stein-Erik Aagaard	http://www.nina.no
29	partner	JULIUS-MAXIMILIANS UNIVERSITAET WUERZBURG	DE	Christian Gloggengiesser	http://www.uni-wuerzburg.de
30	partner	UNIVERSITY OF KENT	UK	Ruth Woodger
31	partner	ANOIKTO PANEPISTIMIO KYPROU (OPEN UNIVERSITY OF CYPRUS)	CY	Christopher Christodoulides	http://www.ouc.ac.cy
32	partner	NATIONAL TAIWAN UNIVERSITY	TW	Rita S. W. Yam	http://www.ntu.edu.tw