Biodiversity & Ecosystem Service Sustainability (BESS)

Informations

Total budget: 52,947,730 EUR
Start date: 4/1/2012
URL: http://www.nerc.ac.uk/research/funded/programmes/
Fundings: -
End date: 4/30/2017

Description

Improving understanding of the role of biodiversity on ecosystem functioning and service provision at a landscape-scale. Biodiversity & Ecosystem Service Sustainability (BESS) is a six year (2011-2017) research programme, which aims to contribute to our understanding of the functional role of biodiversity in key ecosystem processes. Biodiversity underpins ecosystem goods and services through the functional role it plays within ecosystems. There is increasing concern that the ongoing loss of biodiversity may compromise the provision of ecosystem goods and services in the near future. The BESS programme will undertake research and activities in an integrated way and take a holistic approach to exploring the functional role of biodiversity in UK ecosystems across a range of environmental gradients and scales.

Projects

Name	Role	Start	End	Amount
Dispersal and biodiversity impacts on community assembly and ecosystem services in shallow lake landscapes	Grant	-	-	-
Quantifying the biodiversity threshold for peatland carbon service delivery	Grant	-	-	-
Temporal variation in biodiversity and ecosystem service delivery in grasslands (T-BESS)	Grant	-	-	-
A hierarchical approach to the examination of the relationship between biodiversity and ecosystem service flows across coastal margins	Grant	-	-	-
Fragments, functions and flows - the scaling of biodiversity and ecosystem services in urban ecosystems	Grant	-	-	-
Location, Configuration, Distribution: the Role of Landscape Pattern and Diversity in Ecosystem Services	Grant	-	-	-
Dynamics And Thresholds Of Ecosystem Services In Wooded Landscapes	Grant	-	-	-
Cooperative Participatory Evaluation of Renewable Technologies on Ecosystem Services (CORPORATES).	Grant	-	-	-
A hierarchical approach to the examination of the relationship between biodiversity and ecosystem service flows across coastal margins	Grant	-	-	-
Do realignment sites restore microbial biodiversity-driven nutrient cycling and trace gas fluxes comparable to natural coastal ecosystems?	Grant	-	-	-
Biodiversity and the provision of multiple ecosystem services in current and future lowland multifunctional landscapes	Grant	-	-	-
A hierarchical approach to the examination of the relationship between biodiversity and ecosystem service flows across coastal margins	Grant	-	-	-
Assessing and enhancing farmland biodiversity within the food industry: towards an evidence-based online tool	Grant	-	-	-
Diversity in Upland Rivers for Ecosystem Service Sustainability - DURESS	Grant	-	-	-
Delivering multiple ecosystem service benefits in real landscapes	Grant	-	-	-
Scaling and thresholds in earthworm abundance and diversity in grassland agricultural systems	Grant	-	-	-
Supporting ecosystem services on commercial farms: using evidence to inform land management decisions	Grant	-	-	-

Funding agencies

Name	Role	Start	End	Amount
Natural Environment Research Council	Lead Funder	-	-	-

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