Objective
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 on various 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 framework for enhancing the effectiveness 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 range 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.
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FP7-ENV-2008-1
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CP-IP - Large-scale integrating projectCoordinator
04318 Leipzig
Germany
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Participants (30)
81100 Mytilini
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RG6 6AH Reading
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116 36 Praha 1
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546 36 THESSALONIKI
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LS2 9JT Leeds
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75794 Paris
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31-007 Krakow
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22100 Lund
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SN2 1EU SWINDON WILTSHIRE
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00790 Helsinki
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08197 SANT CUGAT DEL VALLES
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1111 Sofia
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95447 Bayreuth
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00014 Helsingin Yliopisto
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51005 Tartu
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75005 Paris
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3012 Bern
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2829516 Caparica
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4072 Brisbane
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2204 MIKLAVZ NA DRAVSKEM POLJU
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25280 Solsona
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SW1W 9NF London
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750 07 Uppsala
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LT-08412 Vilnius
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4032 Debrecen
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7034 Trondheim
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97070 Wuerzburg
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CT2 7NZ Canterbury, Kent
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2220 Lefkosia
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10617 Taipei
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