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Project Profile: InvasiBES

Understanding and managing the Impacts of INVASIve alien species on Biodiversity and Ecosystem Services

Who?

Principal Investigators: Montserrat Vilà, Estación Biológica de Doñana-Consejo Superior de Investigaciones Científicas, Spain
Partners: Laure Gallien, Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique, France
Jonathan Jeschke, Leibniz-Institute of Freshwater Ecology and Inland Fisheries & Free University of Berlin, Germany
Francisco A. Comín, Pyrenean Institute of Ecology (Spanish National Research Council), Spain
Cascade Sorte, University of California, Irvine, United States
Bacher Sven, University of Fribourg, Switzerland
Bethany Bradley, University of Massachusetts, Amherst, United States
Sponsors: French National Research Agency, France
German Research Foundation, Germany
DLR Project Management Agency, Germany
Ministry of Economy and Competitiveness, Spain
Swiss National Science Foundation, Switzerland
National Science Foundation, United States

What?

Full Project Title: Understanding and managing the Impacts of INVASIve alien species on Biodiversity and Ecosystem Services
Full Call Title: Biodiversity2017
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Why?

Project Objective: The overall objective of InvasiBES is to understand and anticipate the multi-faceted impacts of invasive alien species and to provide tools for their management.
Call Objective: The Call addresses two major (non-exclusive) priorities:

- Development and application of scenarios of biodiversity and ecosystem services across spatial scales of relevance to multiple types of decisions;

- Consideration of multiple dimensions of biodiversity and ecosystem services in biodiversity scenarios.

Where?

Regions: Europe, North America
Countries: France, Spain, United States of America (USA)

When?

Duration: 36 months
Call Date: December 9, 2016
Project Award Date: February 15, 2018