Expertise
Belgian experts
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Projects / Programmes
Belgian projects / programmes
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International projects / programmes
ACCELERATES
Assessing Climate Change Effects on Land use and Ecosystems; from Regional Analysis To the European Scale
EU FP5 project
ALARM
Assessing LArge scale environmental Risks with tested Methods
EU FP6 project
ATEAM
Advanced Terrestrial Ecosystem Analysis and Modelling
EU FP5 project
BRANCH
Biodiversity Requires Adaptation in NW Europe under a changing climate
EU INTERREG Programme / UK project (English Nature et al.)
CIRCLE
Climate Impact Research Co-ordination within a Larger Europe
FP6 ERA-net
CLIMATOOLS
A research programme into tools that can assist us in adapting to climate change
Swedish project (Royal Institute of Technology, Umea University and Uppsala University)
ECOCHANGE
Biodiversity and ecosystem changes in Europe
EU FP6 project
ESPACE
European Spatial Planning: Adapting to Climate Events
EU INTERREG IIIB Programme /UK project (Office of the Deputy Prime Minister)
MACIS
Minimisation of and Adaptation to Climate change Impacts on biodiversity
EU FP6 project
MARCLIM
Marine Biodiversity and Climate Change
Multi-partners funded project
MONARCH
MOdelling NAtural resource Responses to climate Change
UK project (English Nature et al.)
UKCIP
UK Climate Impacts Programme
UK project (Department for Environment, Food & Rural Affairs)
International working groups
UNEP-WCMC The UNEP World Conservation Monitoring Centre
CCB Standards The climate, community and biodiversity alliance
Relevant publications
International reports
- "Species susceptibility to climate change impacts", The IUCN Red List of Threathened Species (2008) link
- "Impacts of Europe's changing climate — 2008 indicator based assessment", EEA Report No 4/2008 (September 2008) link
- Report of the meeting of the group of experts on biodiversity and climate change (convention on the conservation of European wildlife and natural habitats), Sevilla, Spain (March 2008) link
- Planning for biodiversity in a changing climate - BRANCH project final report, Natural England, UK (September 2007) link
- Conserving European biodiversity in the context of climate change (July 2007) link
- 4th national communication on climate change - Impacts of climate changes in Belgium (July 2007) link
- Summary report from the international conference “Biodiversity-climate interactions: adaptation, mitigation and human livelihoods”, The Royal Society, London, UK (June 2007) pdf
- "Impacts, Adaptation and Vulnerability", Contribution of Working Group II to the Fourth Assessment Report of the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (2007) link
- Recommendations of the EPBRS meeting on climate change and biodiversity conservation: knowledge needed to support development of integrated adaptation strategies (October 2005) pdf
- "Climate change and biodiversity in Europe: a review of impacts, policy responses, gaps in knowledge and barriers to the exchange of information between scientists and policy makers", report presented at the European Platform for Biodiversity Research Strategy meeting held under the UK Presidency (October 2005) pdf
- "Climate change and nature: Adapting for the future", IUCN (2003) pdf
- Summary report from the international conference “Global climate change and biodiversity”, Norwich, UK (April 2003) pdf
- "Climate change and biodiversity", Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change technical paper V (April 2002) pdf
Scientific papers
- Araujo M. B. & C. Rahbek (2006) How Does Climate Change Affect Biodiversity? Science 313: 1396-1397 link pdf
- Bailey S. (2007) Increasing connectivity in fragmented landscapes: An investigation of evidence for biodiversity gain in woodlands. Forest Ecology and Management 238: 7–23 link pdf
- Hampe A. & R. J. Petit (2005) Conserving biodiversity under climate change: the rear edge matters. Ecol. Lett. 8(5): 461-467 link
- Hannah L., G. Midgley, S. Andelman, M. Araújo, G. Hughes, E. Martinez-Meyer, R. Pearson, P. Williams. (2007) Protected area needs in a changing climate. Front Ecol. Environ. 5(3): 131-138 link pdf
- Harrison P.A., P.M. Berry, N. Butt & M. New (2006) Modelling climate change impacts on species' distributions at the European scale: implications for conservation policy. Environmental Science & Policy 9: 116-128 link pdf
- Hulme P.E. (2005) Adapting to climate change: is there scope for ecological management in the face of a global threat? J. Appl. Ecol. 42(5): 784-794 link pdf
- Knight A. T., R. M. Cowling, M. Rouget, A. Balmford, A. T. Lombard, B. M. Campbell (2008) Knowing but not doing: selecting priority conservation areas and the research-implementation gap. Conserv. Biol. 22(3): 610-617 link
- Lee T. M. & W. Jezt (2008) Future battlegrounds for conservation under global change. Proc. R. Soc. (B) 275(1640): 1261-1270 link
- Mace G. M. & A. Purvis (2008) Evolutionary biology and practical conservation: bridging a widening gap. Mol. Ecol. 17(1): 9-19 link
- Mcdonald R. I., P. Kareiva, R. T. T. Forman (2008) The implications of current and future urbanization for global protected areas and biodiversity conservation. Biol. Conserv. 141(6): 1695-1703 link
- Noss R. F. (2001) Beyond Kyoto: Forest management in a time of rapid climate change. Conservation Biology 15 (3): 578-590
link pdf - Ohlemuller R., E. S. Gritti, M. T. Sykes, C. D. Thomas (2006) Quantifying components of risk for European woody species under climate change. Global Change Biology 12, 1788–1799 link pdf
- Pearson R. G. & T. P. Dawson (2003) Predicting the impacts of climate change on the distribution of species: are bioclimate envelope models useful? Global Ecology & Biogeography 12: 361-371 link pdf
- Pearson R. G. (2006) Climate change and the migration capacity of species. Trends in Ecology and Evolution 21 (3): 111-113 link pdf
- Pyke C. R., R. Thomas, R. D. Porter, J. J. Hellmann, J. S. Dukes, D. M. Lodge, G. Chavarria (2008) Current Practices and Future Opportunities for Policy on Climate Change and Invasive Species. Conserv. Biol. 22(3): 585-592 link
- Ravindranath N. H. (2007) Mitigation and adaptation synergy in forest sector. Mitigation and adaptation Strategies for Global Change 12(5): 843-853 link
- Reid H. (2006) Climate change and biodiversity in Europe. Conservation and Society 4 (1): 84-101 pdf
- Sutherland W. J. et al. (2008) Future novel threats and opportunities facing UK biodiversity identified by horizon scanning. J. Appl. Ecol. 45(3): 821-833 link
- Thomas C. D., A. Cameron, R. E. Green, M. Bakkenes, L. J. Beaumont, Y. C. Collingham, B. F. N. Erasmus, M. Ferreira de Siqueira, A. Grainger, L. Hannah, L. Hughes, B. Huntley, A. S. van Jaarsveld, G. F. Midgley, L. Miles, M. A. Ortega-Huerta, A. Townsend Peterson, O. L. Phillips & S. E. Williams (2004) Extinction risk from climate change. Nature 427: 145-148 link pdf
- Thuiller W., S. Lavore, M. B. Araujo, M. T. Sykes, I. C. Prentice (2005) Climate change threats to plant diversity in Europe. PNAS 102 (23): 8245-8250 link pdf
- Thuiller W., C. Albert, M. B. Araujo, P. M. Berry, M. Cabeza, A. Guisan, T. Hickler, G. F. Midgley, J. Paterson, F. M. Schurr, M. T. Sykes, N. E. Zimmermann (2008) Predicting global change impacts on plant species’ distributions: Future challenges. Perspectives in Plant Ecology, Evolution and Systematics 9: 137-152 link pdf
- Travis J.M.J. (2003) Climate change and habitat destruction: a deadly anthropogenic cocktail. Proc. R. Soc. (B) 270 (1514): 467-473 link
pdf - Van der Veken S., M. Hermy, M. Vellend, A. Knapen, K. Verheyen (2008) Garden plants get a head start on climate change. Front. Ecol. Environ. 6(4): 212-216 link pdf
Studies with a focus on Belgium
Books
- Climate change and biodiversity (2004) Thomas E. Lovejoy and Lee Hannah (eds) Yale University Press 440pp. link
