Obiettivo Habitat degradation and climate change are generally considered the greatest threats to biodiversity globally. Together, these processes pose an urgent challenge to conservation science, requiring ever increasing efficiency in ecologically-based decision making, to slow down, and hopefully eventually reverse, the ongoing global loss of biodiversity. In responding to this challenge, I am proposing a project in which the over-arching goal is to provide improved conservation-oriented analytical methods and tools to underpin knowledge-based land-use planning and associated political decision making. The proposed work builds on a broad established history of research in the field of spatial ecology and conservation prioritization.Specific components of the proposal include: (i) developing the general conceptual, ecological, methodological and statistical basis of environmental and conservation resource allocation: (ii) combining species and community-level prioritization approaches for data-poor areas of the world; (iii) developing methods for alleviating the negative ecological consequences of climate change, based on connectivity both in geographic and environmental space; (iv) developing an uncertainty-analytic method for the planning of habitat restoration and calculation of compensation ratios for habitat that will be impacted due to economic activity, (v) developing methods for allocating alternative conservation actions (protection, maintenance, restoration) in combination with habitat-specific loss rates in spatial conservation prioritization, and (vi) implementing the proposed methods as publicly available, efficient and well-documented software packages. Particular emphasis will be placed on solving the algorithmic challenges involved in analyzing the large data sets that are becoming increasingly available as the distributions of environmental conditions and biodiversity features are derived from large-scale high-resolution remote-sensing data. Campo scientifico natural sciencescomputer and information sciencessoftwarehumanitieshistory and archaeologyhistorynatural sciencesbiological sciencesecologyecosystemsnatural sciencesearth and related environmental sciencesatmospheric sciencesclimatologyclimatic changes Programma(i) FP7-IDEAS-ERC - Specific programme: "Ideas" implementing the Seventh Framework Programme of the European Community for research, technological development and demonstration activities (2007 to 2013) Argomento(i) ERC-SG-LS8 - ERC Starting Grant - Evolutionary, population and environmental biology Invito a presentare proposte ERC-2010-StG_20091118 Vedi altri progetti per questo bando Meccanismo di finanziamento ERC-SG - ERC Starting Grant Istituzione ospitante HELSINGIN YLIOPISTO Contributo UE € 1 495 212,80 Indirizzo YLIOPISTONKATU 3 00014 Helsingin Yliopisto Finlandia Mostra sulla mappa Regione Manner-Suomi Helsinki-Uusimaa Helsinki-Uusimaa Tipo di attività Higher or Secondary Education Establishments Ricercatore principale Atte Jaakko Moilanen (Prof.) Contatto amministrativo Pilvi Toppinen (Ms.) Collegamenti Contatta l’organizzazione Opens in new window Sito web Opens in new window Costo totale Nessun dato Beneficiari (1) Classifica in ordine alfabetico Classifica per Contributo UE Espandi tutto Riduci tutto HELSINGIN YLIOPISTO Finlandia Contributo UE € 1 495 212,80 Indirizzo YLIOPISTONKATU 3 00014 Helsingin Yliopisto Mostra sulla mappa Regione Manner-Suomi Helsinki-Uusimaa Helsinki-Uusimaa Tipo di attività Higher or Secondary Education Establishments Ricercatore principale Atte Jaakko Moilanen (Prof.) Contatto amministrativo Pilvi Toppinen (Ms.) Collegamenti Contatta l’organizzazione Opens in new window Sito web Opens in new window Costo totale Nessun dato