CASCADE
CAtastrophic Shifts in drylands: how CAn we prevent ecosystem DEgradation?
| Coordinatore | WAGENINGEN UNIVERSITY
Organization address
address: DROEVENDAALSESTEEG 4 contact info |
| Nazionalità Coordinatore | Netherlands [NL] |
| Totale costo | 7˙715˙999 € |
| EC contributo | 5˙889˙999 € |
| Programma | FP7-ENVIRONMENT
Specific Programme "Cooperation": Environment (including Climate Change) |
| Code Call | FP7-ENV-2011 |
| Funding Scheme | CP-IP |
| Anno di inizio | 2012 |
| Periodo (anno-mese-giorno) | 2012-01-01 - 2017-06-30 |
Partecipanti
| # | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 |
WAGENINGEN UNIVERSITY
Organization address
address: DROEVENDAALSESTEEG 4 contact info |
NL (WAGENINGEN) | coordinator | 624˙468.10 |
| 2 |
STICHTING DIENST LANDBOUWKUNDIG ONDERZOEK
Organization address
address: Costerweg 50 contact info |
NL (WAGENINGEN) | participant | 802˙031.90 |
| 3 |
THE RESEARCH COMMITTEE OF THE TECHNICAL UNIVERSITY OF CRETE
Organization address
address: BUILDING E4 CAMPUS KONOUPIDIANA contact info |
EL (CHANIA) | participant | 465˙000.00 |
| 4 |
UNIVERSIDAD DE ALICANTE
Organization address
address: CAMPUS DE SAN VICENTE RASPEIG s/n contact info |
ES (ALICANTE) | participant | 465˙000.00 |
| 5 |
FUNDACION CENTRO DE ESTUDIOS AMBIENTALES DEL MEDITERRANEO
Organization address
address: "Parque Tecnologico, C/ Charles R. Darwin 14" contact info |
ES ("PATERNA, VALENCIA") | participant | 418˙730.20 |
| 6 |
CENTRE NATIONAL DE LA RECHERCHE SCIENTIFIQUE
Organization address
address: Rue Michel -Ange 3 contact info |
FR (PARIS) | participant | 387˙480.00 |
| 7 |
UNIVERSITAET BERN
Organization address
address: Hochschulstrasse 4 contact info |
CH (BERN) | participant | 387˙448.00 |
| 8 |
UNIVERSITA DEGLI STUDI DELLA BASILICATA
Organization address
address: Via Nazario Sauro 85 contact info |
IT (Potenza) | participant | 374˙880.00 |
| 9 |
UNIVERSIDADE DE AVEIRO
Organization address
address: CAMPO UNIVERSITARIO DE SANTIAGO contact info |
PT (AVEIRO) | participant | 374˙760.00 |
| 10 |
FONDAZIONE PER LO SVILUPPO SOSTENIBILE DEL MEDITERRANEO
Organization address
address: Via Roma 8 contact info |
IT (TITO) | participant | 369˙090.00 |
| 11 |
CYPRUS UNIVERSITY OF TECHNOLOGY
Organization address
address: ARCHBISHOP KYPRIANOS LIMASSOL SAVINGS CO OPERATIVE BANK BUILDING 3RD FLOOR 31 contact info |
CY (LIMASSOL) | participant | 362˙400.00 |
| 12 |
JRC -JOINT RESEARCH CENTRE- EUROPEAN COMMISSION
Organization address
address: Rue de la Loi 200 contact info |
BE (BRUSSELS) | participant | 311˙040.00 |
| 13 |
UNIVERSITEIT UTRECHT
Organization address
address: Heidelberglaan 8 contact info |
NL (UTRECHT) | participant | 294˙045.90 |
| 14 |
UNIVERSITY OF LEEDS
Organization address
address: WOODHOUSE LANE contact info |
UK (LEEDS) | participant | 207˙364.00 |
| 15 |
UNIVERSITAT DE BARCELONA
Organization address
address: GRAN VIA DE LES CORTS CATALANES 585 contact info |
ES (BARCELONA) | participant | 46˙261.02 |
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Obiettivo del progetto (Objective)
'The aim of CASCADE is to obtain a better understanding of sudden ecosystem shifts that may lead to major losses in biodiversity and ecosystem services, and to define measures that can be used to prevent such shifts. The focus of CASCADE is explicitly on drylands as being one of the most fragile and threatened ecosystems in Europe. CASCADE will investigate the historical evolution of dryland ecosystems in six Mediterranean study sites, and improve understanding of the biogeochemical mechanisms underlying sudden and catastrophic shifts through a combination of experimentation and modeling. Experiments in laboratory and field will be used to assess the biogeochemical processes that are thought to underlie regime shifts in drylands, to study the interplay between competition and facilitation, and to assess the effects of biotic and abiotic processes on vegetation structure and composition. Field surveys will identify changes in ecosystem structure and functions that indicate approaching or crossing of tipping points, link these findings to experimental results, and assess potentials for restoration. Models will be developed to describe regime shifts in the studied drylands in terms of changes in vegetation composition, abundance and spatial patterning. Based on both experimentation and modelling, CASCADE will develop management schemes for sustainable resource use and conservation of ecosystem services. By combining physical with socio-economic modeling, measures will be defined that work from an ecological as well as a socio-economic perspective. The results of CASCADE will be made accessible to natural resource and biodiversity managers, policy makers, and other audiences, using a variety of dissemination methods such as reports, booklets, newsletters, meetings, videos, and TV. All project results and recommendations will be stored and made accessible to the public by developing a web-based harmonized CASCADE information system (CASCADIS).'