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DIVERSITAS is a very wide-ranging network on biodiversity research. Its Science Plan and Implementation Strategy (2002) - and those of the different Core Projects and Cross-cutting Networks – guide DIVERSITAS’ activities, establishing a set of priority research areas and themes while recognising the need for their constant evolution. Hence, DIVERSITAS is interested in your project.
Submitting your project for endorsement to DIVERSITAS gives your project the opportunity to obtain national and international recognition among the biodiversity science and policy stakeholders.
Projects submitted to DIVERSITAS for endorsement should make a significant contribution to the science plans of the DIVERSITAS Core Projects or Cross-cutting Networks.
In order to submit your project for endorsement as an official DIVERSITAS project, please look at the endorsement procedure.
| The Global Land Project – GLP |
The Global Land Project (GLP) is the successor of the jointly sponsored IGBP/IHDP (International Geosphere-Biosphere Programme / International Human Dimensions Programme for global change research) core project Land-Use and Land-Cover Change (LUCC) and of the IGBP core project on Global Change and Terrestrial Ecosystems (GCTE). The research goal of the GLP is to measure, model and understand the coupled human-environmental system (“land system”) as part of broader efforts to address changes in Earth processes and subsequent social, economic and political consequences, ranging from local to regional scales. Indeed, changes in coupled human-environmental systems also affect the rates of cycling of energy, water, elements, and biota at the global level, while global-level changes in political economy, such as international treaties and market liberalization, in turn affect decisions about resources at local and regional levels.
GLP’s Science Plan (2005) represents the research framework for the coming decade for land systems.
DIVERSITAS has been involved in discussions and in drafting parts of the GLP science plan. There are, in particular, common interests between DIVERSITAS and GLP on the topic of biodiversity and global environmental change. DIVERSITAS Dourdan, France). P Leadley is the contact person for this topic.
SSC meeting, SC-GLP
12-14 February 2006, Roma, Italy
At its first SSC meeting, the GLP scientific committee presented activities and possible connections/joint activities with other initiatives, among them with DIVERSITAS:
| BIOTA/FASESP Programme |
The BIOTA/FASESP Program: The Biodiversity Virtual Institute (http://www.biota.org.br) aims to inventory and characterize the terrestrial, fresh water and marine biodiversity of the State of São Paulo, Brazil, as well as to define the mechanisms for its conservation and sustainable use.
The program aims to achieve these goals by specifically
During the last six years, this program has supported 75 major research projects which trained successfully 150 MSc and 90 PhD students, produced and stored information about approximately 10000 species and managed to link and make available data from 35 major biological collections, and published 464 articles. In 2001, the program launched an open-access electronic peer-reviewed journal, Biota Neotropica, for original research on biodiversity in the Neotropical region. In 2002, the program started BIOprospecTA to search for new compounds of economic interest, which has already submitted 3 new drugs to patent.
Prof. Carlos A. Joly
BIOTA/FAPESP Program, Brazil
| TROPY-DRY |
TROPI-DRY’s goal is to bring together researchers in conservation biology, ecology and evolution, remote sensing and geographic information systems, sociology, anthropology, policy analysis, and forestry to develop a comprehensive, “state of the art” understanding of the status of tropical dry forests (primary and secondary) in the Americas.TROPI-DRY focuses on developing a common multidisciplinary strategy in collaboration with local and national policy making organizations in order to produce comprehensive and comparative land use/policy studies in tropical dry regions in the natural and social sciences.
Three basic levels are under scrutiny: 1) the context of conservation biology, 2) the context of the land use and land cover change taking place on this rich agricultural frontier and 3) the context of local and national development policies that contribute to the degradation of tdfs. More...
http://tropi dry.eas.ualberta.ca/index.html
| The Central African Program |
The Central African Program is led by Dr Miguel E. Leal, a leading botanist in Gabon who runs the Missouri Botanical Garden’s field program in Central Africa. Its goals are to measure, describe and map plant biodiversity in Central Africa to come to a better understanding and protection of its rain forest in face of human deforestation and global climate change. It plans to do the following research activities:
- Locating climatically stable forest in Gabon/Equatorial Guinea by assessing the biodiversity of potential area’s and proposing them as protected areas
- Compiling ethno-botanical knowledge from the native peoples (pygmies) of the Massif du Chaillu
- Contributions to the Flora of Gabon
- Conserving endemic plants and orchids in Sao Tome
- Studying the biogeography of endemic Orchids and Rubiaceae in Atlantic Central Africa
- Studying the ethno-ecology of anthropogenic fire in the savannas of Gabon
Dr. M.E. Leal
Central African Program, Missouri Botanical Garden
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