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Systemic solutions for upscaling of urgent ecosystem restoration for forest related biodiversity and ecosystem services. KU Leuven

Karen Vancampenhout
Forest, Nature and Landscape

SUPERB pursues the overall goal to create a lasting enabling environment for transformative change towards large-scale forest and forest landscape restoration, which empowers decision makers to take just and informed decisions for restoration of biodiversity, ecosystem services and carbon sequestration in a manner that minimises region specific trade-offs and maximises synergies between ecosystem services. SUPERB develops and synthesises a ...

From LEAF to Terrestrial Biosphere Model: Integrating multi-scale observations of highly diverse tropical ecosystems for global scale simulations Ghent University

Hans Verbeeck
Department of Environment

The simplified representation of terrestrial ecosystems is a key source of uncertainty in future projections of the coupled carbon cycle/climatic system. Current Terrestrial Biosphere Models (TBMs) represent worldwide vegetation using just a dozen rigid Plant Functional Types (PFT), with empirical mechanisms calibrated on discrete observations. As a result, TBMs representing highly diverse ecosystems, such as tropical forests, may use only ...

Infrastructure for analysis and experimentation on ecosystems (ANAEE). University of Antwerp

Ivan Nijs
Ecosystem Management, Plant and Ecosystems (PLECO) - Ecology in a time of change
ANAEE will provide Europe with a distributed and coordinated set of experimental, analytical and modelling platforms to analyse and predict in a precise manner the response of the main continental ecosystems to environmental and land use changes. ANAEE will consist of highly equipped in natura and in vitro experimental platforms associated with sophisticated analytical and modelling platforms coupled to networks of instrumented observation and ...

POND Ecosystems for Resilient FUture Landscapes in a changing climate KU Leuven

Luc De Meester
Ecology, Evolution and Biodiversity Conservation

Ponds and “pondscapes” (networks of ponds) are crucial for biodiversity conservation and their multiple societally beneficial ecosystem services (ES) provide the means to play a crucial role in mitigating and adapting to climate change. However, ponds are largely neglected in water- and nature-related policies and there is insufficient knowledge on how to manage and restore ponds to maximize their role as nature-based solutions (NBS) to ...

The Cretaceous Greenhouse World and its impact on terrestrial ecosystems in Asia Vrije Universiteit Brussel

Pascal Godefroit, Philippe Claeys
Geology, Analytical, Environmental & Geo-Chemistry
The "Cretaceous Greenhouse World" refers to an episode of Earth history that lasted from about 110 to 90 million years ago and characterized by high atmospheric CO2 levels (estimated to be 3-8 times pre-industrial CO2 concentrations), general absence of polar ice caps, reduced temperature gradients from the Equator to the poles, and much warmer oceans (5-9°C in tropical latitudes) than today. This CO2 buildup resulted from intensive submarine ...

Will a future climate change the stress tolerance of plant and ecosystems? A study on multiple stressors: heavy metal pollution, water shortage and eutrophication. University of Antwerp

Ivan Nijs
Plant and Ecosystems (PLECO) - Ecology in a time of change
Current adaptation strategies to climate change assume that the tolerance of plant communities to stress will not change in a future climate. We challenge this assumption by testing whether stress responses are different in a warmer, high-CO2 world

Complex microbial ecosystems multiscale modelling: mechanistic and data driven approaches integration. KU Leuven

Jan Van Impe
Chemical & Biochemical Process Technology & Control (BioTec+)

European dairy industry is an important agri-food sector; it represents more than 300,000 jobs and 10 billion € positive trade balance. Five out of the ten top global dairy companies are European and more than 80% of European companies are SMEs. More than 300 cheeses and dairy products are sold all over the world and are protected as geographical indications or traditional specialties. Mastering cheese-ripening processes to avoid sanitary ...

Cyber Security Accelerator for trusted SMEs IT Ecosystems (FORTIKA) Vrije Universiteit Brussel

Paul De Hert
Law Science Technology and Society, Metajuridica
FORTIKA aims to (1) minimise the exposure of small and medium sized businesses to cyber security risks and threats, and (2) help them successfully respond to cyber security incidents, while relieving them from all unnecessary and costly efforts of identifying, acquiring and using the appropriate cyber security solutions.
To fulfil its vision the project adopts a security by design hybrid approach that adequately integrates hardware and ...