Securing the Conservation of biodiversity across Administrative Levels and spatial, temporal, and Ecological Scales
Public support
Provider
Ministry of Education, Youth and Sports
Programme
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Call for proposals
FP7-ENV-2008-1
Main participants
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Contest type
RP - Co-financing of EC programme
Contract ID
MSMT-1837/2013-310
Alternative language
Project name in Czech
Securing the Conservation of biodiversity across Administrative Levels and spatial, temporal, and Ecological Scales
Annotation in Czech
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 onvarious 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 framwork for enhancint the effectivenes 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 reange 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.
Scientific branches
R&D category
ZV - Basic research
CEP classification - main branch
EH - Ecology - communities
CEP - secondary branch
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CEP - another secondary branch
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OECD FORD - equivalent branches <br>(according to the <a href="http://www.vyzkum.cz/storage/att/E6EF7938F0E854BAE520AC119FB22E8D/Prevodnik_oboru_Frascati.pdf">converter</a>)
10618 - Ecology<br>10619 - Biodiversity conservation
Completed project evaluation
Provider evaluation
U - Uspěl podle zadání (s publikovanými či patentovanými výsledky atd.)
Project results evaluation
Following the condition that the candidate of financial contribution was evaluated and afterwards selected by international provider in accordance with the rules of the program the Ministry of Education, Youth ans Sports does not realize the evaluation of project results. The project is evaluated only after its approval by an international provider.
Solution timeline
Realization period - beginning
May 1, 2009
Realization period - end
Jul 31, 2014
Project status
U - Finished project
Latest support payment
Mar 12, 2014
Data delivery to CEP
Confidentiality
S - Úplné a pravdivé údaje o projektu nepodléhají ochraně podle zvláštních právních předpisů
Data delivery code
CEP15-MSM-7E-U/01:1
Data delivery date
Jul 2, 2015
Finance
Total approved costs
1,191 thou. CZK
Public financial support
1,191 thou. CZK
Other public sources
0 thou. CZK
Non public and foreign sources
0 thou. CZK