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Project Profile: AlienScenarios

Developing and applying scenarios of biological invasions for the 21st century

Who?

Principal Investigators: Franz Essl, University of Vienna, Austria
Partners: Franck Courchamp, Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique & University Paris Saclay, France
Ingolf Kühn, Helmholtz Centre for Environmental Research, Germany
Jonathan Jeschke, Leibniz-Institute of Freshwater Ecology and Inland Fisheries & Free University of Berlin, Germany
Brian Leung, McGill University, Canada
Hanno Seebens, Senckenberg Gesellschaft für Naturforschung, Germany
Núria Roura-Pascual, University of Girona, Spain
Sponsors: Austrian Science Fund, Austria
Natural Sciences and Engineering Research Council, Canada
French National Research Agency, France
German Research Foundation, Germany
Ministry of Economy and Competitiveness, Spain

What?

Full Project Title: Developing and applying scenarios of biological invasions for the 21st century
Full Call Title: Biodiversity2017
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Why?

Project Objective: AlienScenarios will evaluate for the first time the range of plausible futures of biological invasions for the 21st century.
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?

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When?

Duration: 36 months
Call Date: October 2, 2017
Project Award Date: July 13, 2018