BioChange
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Client: Environmental Protection Agency
BioChange is an integrative, multi-disciplinary research framework to support national and local biodiversity policy in Ireland. It is administered by BEC Consultants. Core research within the cluster directly addresses the protection and management of ecological resources in the context of pressures that might lead to environmental change by focusing on habitat fragmentation and loss, impacts on non-native species, climate change, pollution and resource management. BioChange will provide an Irish framework to address the most significant biodiversity policy in Europe- halting the decline of biodiversity by 2010. The aims of the project include developing fundamental biodiversity research and capacity building in taxonomic skills, as well as development of biodiversity indicators and biomonitoring tools. |
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Two cross-cutting research projects will target the production of inventories and output of taxonomic data and the understanding of socio-economic processes, including public participation that shape biodiversity policies.
A thematic project within BioChange will aim to bring together groups of researchers from normally disparate areas to develop a coherent research framework. It will examine how BioChange project can develop strategically beyond the current project funding. We hope that other such groups might be developed around other research areas, from similar modest seed money. Click here to view the BioChange website |