Project description
A closer look at the climate induced biodiversity crisis
Terrestrial biodiversity and ecosystems face severe challenges from global changes, particularly threats to agricultural and forestry systems, posing significant environmental and socio-economic risks. Climate change compounds these issues, intertwined with biodiversity and ecosystem service losses. In this context, the EU-funded MICROBES-4-CLIMATE project aims to unlock the mysteries of the impact of microbiomes on plants, soil, and the environment. By deepening our understanding through transnational access to world-class Research Infrastructures, the project will foster both frontier knowledge and practical applications for resilient agriculture in the face of climate challenges. This knowledge promises not only to advance scientific frontiers, but also to drive applied research, offering insights into harnessing plant-microbiome interactions for climate-resilient agriculture.
Objective
Terrestrial biodiversity and ecosystems are being challenged by global changes, and threats to agricultural and forestry ecosystems represent some of the most serious environmental and socio-economic menaces that the planet and humanity are facing. Climate change (CG) is widely recognised as one of the most impactful global changes, and since it goes hand-by-hand with biodiversity and services loss in terrestrial ecosystems, they should be tackled together. Microbes constitute the life support system of the biosphere, but they are its most overlooked fraction and are not considered in the context of CG. The overall understanding of the impact of CG on the assembly and functions of microbiomes is still very limited. How the complex microbes-plants-soil interactions and its consequences on plant performance and productivity are impacted by CG is still largely unknown. Additional knowledge also needs to be obtained on the overall ecosystem functioning, and to what extent microbiomes may mitigate stress conditions due to CG. The project MICROBES-4-CLIMATE will provide a wider community of users/researchers, irrespective of location, efficient access to a cluster of complementary world-class Research Infrastructures and their integrated, advanced services along with training and scientific and/or technical support, to address such need. An excellence-driven programme of Transnational Access, which is at the core of the project, will enable users to conduct curiosity-driven research addressing terrestrial biodiversity and ecosystems, in light of the abovementioned multidimensional and still poorly understood microbiomes-plants-soil-environment interactions, and its roles in CG responses, resilience, and mitigation. This will foster the advancement of frontier knowledge and also pave the way to applied research on harnessing plant-microbiome interactions to improve the climate resiliency of plants/crops and to enable e.g. precision, sustainable and resilient agriculture.
Fields of science
- natural sciencesearth and related environmental sciencesatmospheric sciencesmeteorologybiosphera
- natural sciencesbiological sciencesecologyecosystems
- natural sciencesearth and related environmental sciencesatmospheric sciencesclimatologyclimatic changes
- natural sciencesbiological sciencesmicrobiology
- agricultural sciencesagriculture, forestry, and fisheriesforestry
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46010 Valencia
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9000 Gent
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10561 Athina
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10124 Torino
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00185 Roma
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75007 Paris
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91190 Gif Sur Yvette
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4000 Liege
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00014 Helsingin Yliopisto
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35042 RENNES
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00790 Helsinki
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70010 Valenzano
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75794 Paris
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1080 Sofia
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52428 Julich
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75100 Matera
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85764 Neuherberg
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06466 Seeland Ot Gatersleben
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NG7 2RD Nottingham
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6708 PB Wageningen
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3584 CS Utrecht
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38098 San Michele All'Adige
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00184 Roma
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41071 Sevilla
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OX10 8DE Wallingford
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54701 EAU CLAIRE
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1210 Wien
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4150 356 Porto
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4704 553 Braga
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1206 Geneve
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