Description: Das Projekt "Forest biodiversity characterization and in situ service quantification - Sub-project: smallFOREST - Biodiversity and ecosystem services of small forest fragments in European landscapes" wird vom Umweltbundesamt gefördert und von Albert-Ludwigs-Universität Freiburg, Institut für Biologie II, Lehrstuhl für Geobotanik durchgeführt. In many parts of Europe, the original forest cover has strongly reduced and forests presently occur as small fragments, often embedded in an intensively used agricultural matrix. Despite their small size, these forest patches often act as refugia for biodiversity. And these small fragments may provide a wide range of ecosystem services (ES) to human society. Biodiversity and ES of small forest fragments are mutually dependent as they are determined by a similar set of drivers. However, the nature and strength of the relationships between biodiversity and ES will vary, depending on the taxonomic group and ES under consideration, and on the landscape context including the type and intensity of the surrounding land-use and the land-use history. Moreover, the value attributed to an ES will differ between different regions. All these sources of variation remain largely unknown and their effects on human perception, hence on decisions about management, planning and policy, is poorly understood. Therefore, the main objective of the small FOREST project is to quantify ES and biodiversity in small forest fragments among agricultural landscapes and across different regions in Europe, to analyse how their mutual relationships vary between landscapes and regions and to assess the extent to which ES are valued differently. The contribution from our work package is 1) the description of the taxonomic, functional and structural diversity of the forest patches. And 2) Quantification of in situ ES. We will focus on wood production as an ecosystem service and on an important ecosystem dis-service provided by forests, which is tightly related to human well-being, namely the presence of ticks (Ixodes spp.) and diseases they carry.
Types:
SupportProgram
Origin: /Bund/UBA/UFORDAT
Tags: Freiburg ? Schlichtemittel ? Brunnen ? Geobotanik ? Main ? Agrarlandschaft ? Wirkung ? Wohlstand ? Holz ? Waldfläche ? Waldbiodiversität ? Flächennutzung ? Holzproduktion ? Management ? Mensch ? Wirkung ? Europa ? Ökosystemleistung ? in situ ? Dienstleistung ? Krankheit ? Landwirtschaft ? Ökosystem ? Verpackung ? Wald ? Planung ? Landschaft ? Gebiet ? Landschaftstyp ? Politik ? Änderung ? Biodiversität ? Arbeit ? Biomasseproduktion ? VERWANDT ? ENTSCHEIDUNG ? STARK ? GEBRAUCHT ? STRUKTURDIVERSITAET ? ABHAENGIG ? TEIL ? GRUPPE ? BEWERTEN ? Muskelarbeit ? UMLAND ? PROJEKT ? UNTER ? BEITRAG ? WERT ? WICHTIG ? BESCHREIBUNG ? Bemessung ?
Region: Baden-Württemberg
Bounding box: 9° .. 9° x 48.5° .. 48.5°
License: cc-by-nc-nd/4.0
Language: Deutsch
Time ranges: 2012-04-01 - 2014-03-31
Webseite zum Förderprojekt
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