Objective
Biodiversity indicators and monitoring frameworks are currently developed at global and European levels. A key tool for monitoring progress in achieving the EU target to halt the loss of biodiversity by 2010 is the recently endorsed set of EU headline biodiversity indicators. A requirement by the EU is to complement the indicator set and the development of biodiversity monitoring frameworks with tools that are able to assess the impacts from Community policies on biodiversity in a cost-effective way. The BioScore project satisfies this requirement by developing a tool for linking pressures from policy sectors to the (change of) state of biodiversity as measured by the presence and abundance of individual species. The tool will contain information on the ecological preferences of individual species, in relation to individual sectoral pressures and relating to selected Community policies as well as the EU headline biodiversity indicators. This tool will be applied for assessing impacts and effectiveness of Community policies based on historic data as well as for forecasting future impacts based on existing scenario studies. The BioScore tool will be integrated into existing biodiversity monitoring frameworks and incentives for uptake will be formulated. Also the database will be made freely accessible on the Internet. The specific objectives are to: - assemble the necessary knowledge-base for developing the tool; - build a cost-effective impact assessment tool in the form of a European species database with sensitivity scores; - apply the tool for the purpose of assessing the impacts of key drivers and pressures on biodiversity; - apply the tool for analysing the effectiveness of European policy responses; - apply the tool for modelling European-wide scenarios for selected drivers; - integrate the knowledge into a common monitoring framework to assess the impact of selected pressures on biodiversity; - propose incentives for a wide uptake of the tool.
Fields of science (EuroSciVoc)
CORDIS classifies projects with EuroSciVoc, a multilingual taxonomy of fields of science, through a semi-automatic process based on NLP techniques. See: The European Science Vocabulary.
CORDIS classifies projects with EuroSciVoc, a multilingual taxonomy of fields of science, through a semi-automatic process based on NLP techniques. See: The European Science Vocabulary.
- natural sciences computer and information sciences internet
- natural sciences computer and information sciences databases
- natural sciences biological sciences ecology ecosystems
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Programme(s)
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Topic(s)
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Call for proposal
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FP6-2004-SSP-4
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Funding Scheme
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Funding scheme (or “Type of Action”) inside a programme with common features. It specifies: the scope of what is funded; the reimbursement rate; specific evaluation criteria to qualify for funding; and the use of simplified forms of costs like lump sums.
Coordinator
90154 TILBURG
Netherlands
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