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[REPORT SUMMARY] Final Report Summary - EUCLIPSE (EU Cloud Intercomparison, Process Study and Evaluation Project)
The FP7 European Union Cloud Intercomparison, Process Study and Evaluation Project (EUCLIPSE) helped propel European climate science to the forefront of the field internationally. EUCLIPSE germinated one of the most important new international climate science...
Programme: FP7-ENVIRONMENT
Record Number: 165787
Last updated on: 2015-06-12
[REPORT SUMMARY] Final Report Summary - ECLISE (Enabling CLimate Information Services for Europe - ECLISE)
Executive Summary:The awareness that the climate is changing has raised concerns world-wide on safety of lives and goods against weather extremes. Infrastructures that protect against extreme weather, or those that are sensitive to it, have to be adapted to accommodate the...
Programme: FP7-ENVIRONMENT
Record Number: 157146
Last updated on: 2015-02-25
[REPORT SUMMARY] Periodic Report Summary 2 - DEWFORA (Improved Drought Early Warning and FORecasting to strengthen preparedness and adaptation to droughts in Africa)
The principal aim of the DEWFORA project has been the development of a framework for the provision of early warning and response for Africa. The objective of this framework is that it covers the whole chain...
Programme: FP7-ENVIRONMENT
Record Number: 155753
Last updated on: 2015-01-21
[REPORT SUMMARY] Cross-cutting paper, carbon capture and storage and renewable energy technologies (Bob van der Zwaan)
Today overwhelming evidence exists that mankind is modifying the Earth s environment and is provoking an increase of the average global atmospheric temperature and the associated detrimental effects of regional and local climate change (IPCC, 2001). In order to minimize the ri...
Programme: FP5-EESD
Record Number: 42977
Last updated on: 2008-04-15
[REPORT SUMMARY] Measuring genetic variation
In a context of habitat fragmentation, plant populations decrease their size and increase their degree of isolation. From a genetic point of view, genetic diversity of fragmented plant populations is likely to decrease over time. Demographic and genetic mechanisms explain such...
Programme: FP5-EESD
Record Number: 37410
Last updated on: 2005-09-21
[REPORT SUMMARY] Torrent hazard control - Guidelines for the application of reconstructive methods by end-users
The use of reconstructive methods for past torrent process activity by non-specialist end-users is possible only to a limited degree. All relevant theoretical and practical backgrounds were brought together in a study, the results of which are accessible.
Detailed guidelines ...
Programme: FP5-EESD
Record Number: 35143
Last updated on: 2005-02-02
[REPORT SUMMARY] Microsatellite markers for Pholidoptera griseoaptera
Twelve novel polymorphic microsatellite loci have been developed for the dark bush cricket Pholidoptera griseoaptera. All loci are polymorphic, with up to 37 alleles per locus. These molecular marekrs will be useful tools to study the influence of landscape structure and land-...
Programme: FP5-EESD
Record Number: 41321
Last updated on: 2006-08-01
[REPORT SUMMARY] Demography
The survival probabilities of local populations in fragmented landscapes depend on the local demography of the species. The demography is determined by the vital rates of the plant species, i.e. the survival and growth of individuals, their reproduction and the establishment o...
Programme: FP5-EESD
Record Number: 37415
Last updated on: 2006-02-13
[REPORT SUMMARY] Matrix and LTRE analyses
Population demographic field data provide a wealthy source of information on the status of the population. Specific data give immediate insight in aspects of the life cycle, such as the structure of individual plant sizes telling about the survival and growth opportunities, an...
Programme: FP5-EESD
Record Number: 37428
Last updated on: 2006-08-23
Scientific result and Key innovative features:
The research and development work carried out in the project has lead to a prototype version of a Decision Support System aimed at integrated planning and policy support at the watershed level in Mediterranean regions prone to des...
Programme: FP5-EESD
Record Number: 41313
Last updated on: 2006-08-01
List retrieved on: 2017-08-02
