Interacting impacts of land use and climate changes on ecosystem processes: from cyclic herbivores to predators of conservation concern
Ecocycles
Ecocyles is a European collaborative project that links science with policy to improve ecosystem conservation.
Climate change and human-induced shifts in land use have caused dramatic changes in ecosystem processes and functioning across Europe. Particularly spectacular have been changing populations of keystone herbivores such as voles and moths with cyclical dynamics.
Understanding how ecosystem processes are affected by the cascading effects of changing small herbivore dynamics is a knowledge gap with tremendous conservation implications.
Ecocycles combines ecosystems in Norway, UK, France and Spain to conduct research on ecosystem processes and influential management issues.
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News
December 2010
National fora are held in Spain and France. Summary results from these meetings are to be made available on the website shortly.
22nd September 2010
Scottish Ecocycles National Consultative Forum held in Aberdeen.
Title: Using upland biodiversity reserach to inform policy and practice.
A group of researchers and stakeholders involved with upland management research and practice discussed research priorities in the Scottish uplands and ways of improving the use of research findings in upland management and policy.
9th-10th March 2010
Presentation of Ecocycles at the final conference of Biodiversa in Paris. See link below.
Ecocycles presentation
1st February 2010
Project annual report submitted to Biodiversa
1st-2nd February 2010
A workshop was held for representatives from each partner country in Aberdeen to develop methods for WP5. Methods for running national consultative fora and characterising science to management and policy pathways were developed.
21st-22nd January 2010
Presentation of our work "Changes in vole population dynamics in space and time" at the workshop "Linking spatial variation in demography and life-history to population dynamics", University of Aberdeen
27th/28th September 2009
Ecocycles meeting at the University of Aberdeen
Representatives from each partner country attended a two day meeting and workshop in Scotland
21st/22nd September 2009
Ecocycles is represented at a Biodiversa meeting in Lisbon
April 2009
Ecocycles begins
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