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R ationalising Biodiversity Conservation
in Dynamic Ecosystems
(RUBICODE)
Background & Project Structure
Funded under the European Commission
Sixth Framework Programme
Contract Number: 036890
For further information contact Paula Harrison (email: [email protected])
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Partners• Environmental Change Institute, University of Oxford, UK •
ALTERRA Wageningen UR, The Netherlands
•Median SCP, Spain
•Prospex bvba, Belgium
•University of Lund, Sweden
•University of Aegean, Greece
•University of Edinburgh, UK
•Slovak Academy of Sciences, Institute for Forecasting, Slovakia
•University of Duisburg-Essen, Germany
•Universidade de Coimbra, Portugal
•Rothamsted Research, UK
•Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique, France
•University of Salzburg, Austria
•University of Tartu, Estonia
•St. Istvan University, Hungary
• NERC Centre for Ecology and Hydrology, UK
• Helmholtz Centre for Environmental Research – UFZ, Germany•
Swedish University of Agricultural Sciences, Sweden
•University of Stellenbosch, South Africa
•IMBIV, Universidad Nacional de Córdoba, Argentina
•Charles Sturt University, Australia
•Lincoln University, New Zealand
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Background
• Over the past 50 years virtually all of Earth’s ecosystems have
been significantly transformed through human actions resulting
in a substantial and largely irreversible loss in biodiversity.
• Drivers of biodiversity change are likely to exert increasing
pressure on ecosystems in the future.
• There is a need to translate threats to biodiversity into
tangible and quantifiable factors for use by policy-makers indecision-making processes.
• RUBICODE will contribute to solving this by examining
what biodiversity does for us – focus on ecosystem services.
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Background
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Millennium Ecosystem Assessment (MA)
• 60% of the ecosystem services
evaluated are being degraded or
used unsustainably.
• The degradation of ecosystemservices often causes significant
harm to human well-being and
represents a loss of a natural
asset or wealth of a country.• The degradation of ecosystem
services could grow
significantly worse during the
first half of this century.
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MA ecosystem service categories
Provisioning
services
Regulatory
services
Pest control
Food production
Water purification
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MA ecosystem service categories
Cultural
services
Supporting
services
Pest control
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RUBICODE and the MA
• Scale – MA focus was predominantly global
– RUBICODE focus is local, national to European
• Both - Synthesis of information currently available.
• Both - Identification of major gaps in knowledge.• Research needs identified by the MA which are being
addressed in RUBICODE:
– a robust theoretical framework to link ecological
diversity with ecosystem service provision;– direct and indirect drivers of change in ecosystem
service provision;
– indicators of ecosystem services; and
– valuation of ecosystem services.
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RUBICODE research themes
1. Frameworks and concepts for the assessment of
ecosystem services in terrestrial and freshwater
ecosystems.
2. Approaches for linking ecosystem service
provision to functional traits.3. Indicators for monitoring ecosystem services.
4. Socio-economic and environmental drivers of
biodiversity change.
5. Strategies for conserving and managing biodiversity and the services it provides that take
account of drivers of biodiversity change.
6. Identification of current gaps in knowledge and
future research needs.
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RUBICODE structure
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RUBICODE: Coordination
Action
RUBICODE activities:
1. To review relevant concepts, methods and results from previous and
ongoing projects, the literature, databases, experts and policy
documents.
2. To organize workshops to evaluate the concepts and methods, raise
awareness and identify gaps in knowledge.
3. To synthesize knowledge from (1) and (2), and further develop various
concepts, frameworks or strategies to address gaps in knowledge and
inform future research needs.
Coordination Actions aim to achieve improved integration
of European research through the coordination of existing
research initiatives or projects for a specific purpose.
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RUBICODE Workshops
Workshop 1: Assessing and monitoring ecosystems – concepts, policies and
indicators; 27 February to 1 March 2007; Germany.
Workshop 2: Linking threats to biodiversity with action in the policy-making
process; 15-16 May 2007; Belgium.
Workshop 3: Ecosystem services and drivers of biodiversity change; 25-28February 2008; Sweden.
Workshop 4: Habitat management and conservation policy - strategies for a
new dynamic approach focussed on ecosystem service provision; 29-30 April
2008, Slovenia.
Workshop 5: The way ahead in ecosystem service and biodiversity research.
Workshop on ecosystem services and biodiversity conservation: knowledge
gaps and roadmap for future research; 12-14 January 2009, Germany.
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RUBICODE outputs
(i) A series of review papers (drivers, frameworks and
concepts for ecosystem service assessment, valuation,
indicators, traits and conservation strategies).
(ii) Workshops to evaluate the concepts and methods and
identify gaps in knowledge.
(iii) A series of concept papers that synthesize knowledge
from (i) and (ii), and further develop various concepts,frameworks or strategies to address gaps in knowledge.
(iv) Roadmap of future research needs.
All outputs available from the project website: www.rubicode.net