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Rationalising Biodiversity Conservation in Dynamic Ecosystems

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R ationalising Biodiversity Conservation

in Dynamic Ecosystems

(RUBICODE)

Background & Project Structure

Funded under the European Commission

Sixth Framework Programme

Contract Number: 036890

For further information contact Paula Harrison (email: [email protected])




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Partners• Environmental Change Institute, University of Oxford, UK •

ALTERRA Wageningen UR, The Netherlands

•Median SCP, Spain

•Prospex bvba, Belgium

•University of Lund, Sweden

•University of Aegean, Greece

•University of Edinburgh, UK

•Slovak Academy of Sciences, Institute for Forecasting, Slovakia

•University of Duisburg-Essen, Germany

•Universidade de Coimbra, Portugal

•Rothamsted Research, UK

•Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique, France

•University of Salzburg, Austria

•University of Tartu, Estonia

•St. Istvan University, Hungary

• NERC Centre for Ecology and Hydrology, UK

• Helmholtz Centre for Environmental Research – UFZ, Germany•

Swedish University of Agricultural Sciences, Sweden

•University of Stellenbosch, South Africa

•IMBIV, Universidad Nacional de Córdoba, Argentina

•Charles Sturt University, Australia

•Lincoln University, New Zealand




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Background

• Over the past 50 years virtually all of Earth’s ecosystems have

been significantly transformed through human actions resulting

in a substantial and largely irreversible loss in biodiversity.

• Drivers of biodiversity change are likely to exert increasing

pressure on ecosystems in the future.

• There is a need to translate threats to biodiversity into

tangible and quantifiable factors for use by policy-makers indecision-making processes.

• RUBICODE will contribute to solving this by examining

what biodiversity does for us – focus on ecosystem services.




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Background




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Millennium Ecosystem Assessment (MA)

• 60% of the ecosystem services

evaluated are being degraded or

used unsustainably.

• The degradation of ecosystemservices often causes significant

harm to human well-being and

represents a loss of a natural

asset or wealth of a country.• The degradation of ecosystem

services could grow

significantly worse during the

first half of this century.




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MA ecosystem service categories

Provisioning

services

Regulatory

services

Pest control

Food production

Water purification




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MA ecosystem service categories

Cultural

services

Supporting

services

Pest control




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RUBICODE and the MA

• Scale – MA focus was predominantly global

– RUBICODE focus is local, national to European

• Both - Synthesis of information currently available.

• Both - Identification of major gaps in knowledge.• Research needs identified by the MA which are being

addressed in RUBICODE:

– a robust theoretical framework to link ecological

diversity with ecosystem service provision;– direct and indirect drivers of change in ecosystem

service provision;

– indicators of ecosystem services; and

– valuation of ecosystem services.




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RUBICODE research themes

1. Frameworks and concepts for the assessment of

ecosystem services in terrestrial and freshwater

ecosystems.

2. Approaches for linking ecosystem service

provision to functional traits.3. Indicators for monitoring ecosystem services.

4. Socio-economic and environmental drivers of

biodiversity change.

5. Strategies for conserving and managing biodiversity and the services it provides that take

account of drivers of biodiversity change.

6. Identification of current gaps in knowledge and

future research needs.




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RUBICODE structure




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RUBICODE: Coordination

Action

RUBICODE activities:

1. To review relevant concepts, methods and results from previous and

ongoing projects, the literature, databases, experts and policy

documents.

2. To organize workshops to evaluate the concepts and methods, raise

awareness and identify gaps in knowledge.

3. To synthesize knowledge from (1) and (2), and further develop various

concepts, frameworks or strategies to address gaps in knowledge and

inform future research needs.

Coordination Actions aim to achieve improved integration

of European research through the coordination of existing

research initiatives or projects for a specific purpose.




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RUBICODE Workshops

Workshop 1: Assessing and monitoring ecosystems – concepts, policies and

indicators; 27 February to 1 March 2007; Germany.

Workshop 2: Linking threats to biodiversity with action in the policy-making

process; 15-16 May 2007; Belgium.

Workshop 3: Ecosystem services and drivers of biodiversity change; 25-28February 2008; Sweden.

Workshop 4: Habitat management and conservation policy - strategies for a

new dynamic approach focussed on ecosystem service provision; 29-30 April

2008, Slovenia.

Workshop 5: The way ahead in ecosystem service and biodiversity research.

Workshop on ecosystem services and biodiversity conservation: knowledge

gaps and roadmap for future research; 12-14 January 2009, Germany.




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RUBICODE outputs

(i) A series of review papers (drivers, frameworks and

concepts for ecosystem service assessment, valuation,

indicators, traits and conservation strategies).

(ii) Workshops to evaluate the concepts and methods and

identify gaps in knowledge.

(iii) A series of concept papers that synthesize knowledge

from (i) and (ii), and further develop various concepts,frameworks or strategies to address gaps in knowledge.

(iv) Roadmap of future research needs.

All outputs available from the project website: www.rubicode.net

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