Objective
By bringing together leading scientists working at the edge between biology and environmental science, PHOTOCHANGE aim is to disseminate our current knowledge, and to enhance our understanding of how plant photosynthesis and carbon metabolism will be affected and will respond to environmental changes driven by anthropic activities or by the climate. The global change is affecting the environment at a pace faster and to an extent bigger than it was predictable. The consequence of global change on plant life (whether positive or negative) need to be assessed timely, and the negative effects need to be mitigated especially in environmentally fragile areas. In Europe many areas share these characteristics.
Among these areas is the Mediterranean, where the climatic conditions (water scarcity, increasing soil salinity, extreme summer temperatures) and the anthropogenic pressure (bringing to soil and water over-exploitation for agricultural and industrial practices, and polluting the environment) led to an increasing menace of desertification with potentially catastrophic consequences for plant biodiversity, agricultural and forestry activities, and the whole environment. Photosynthesis is the cornerstone on which plant life is built and this biological process is very sensitive to the environmental changes.
It is necessary to learn as much details as possible on how photosynthesis is and will be affected by the predicted environmental changes. At the end of PHOTOCHANGE, the attendees will have a thorough picture of the currently known responses of photosynthesis to virtually each environmental factor influenced by global changes, and will hopefully perceive the steps necessary to optimise or sustain photosynthesis, and plant life and productivity.
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 earth and related environmental sciences environmental sciences
- social sciences economics and business economics production economics productivity
- natural sciences biological sciences ecology ecosystems
- natural sciences biological sciences botany
- agricultural sciences agriculture, forestry, and fisheries forestry
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Coordinator
00016 MONTEROTONDO
Italy
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