We enhance the knowledge base, facilitate its sharing and foster cross-sectorial policy dialogue for EU policy making in biodiversity and related fields.
The BiodivERsA 2018-2019 Call for Proposals aimed at supporting transnational research projects addressing issues at the nexus of biodiversity and health, properly taking into account socio-ecological contexts, and promoting innovative research for more informed decision-making. You will find below the links to the 10 funded projects.
SuppressSOIL - Soil biodiversity and suppressiveness of soil against plant diseases and insect pests
Duration: 01/03/2020 – 28/02/2023 Total grant: € 1,171,364
This project aims at developing an integrated understanding of the relation between soil biodiversity and crop protection, using soils of contrasting suppressiveness status in several countries, in a context of global change materialized by changes in crops and in pathogen/pest importance.
ANTIVERSA - Biodiversity as an ecological barrier for the spread of clinically relevant antibiotic resistance in the environment
Duration: 01/02/2020 – 31/03/2023 Total grant: € 2,121,268
This project aims to understand the impact of diversity on the invasion of natural microbial communities (microbiomes of aquatic stream biofilms and terrestrial soils) by ARBs, ARGs and their associated mobile genetic elements (MGEs).
BIODIV-AFREID: Biodiversity changes in African forests and Emerging Infectious Diseases: should we worry?
Duration: 01/03/2020 – 28/02/2023 Total grant: € 950,820
BIODIV-AFREID will investigate how biodiversity conditions (dis)favour transmissions of infectious agents from small mammals into human populations in African forests.
BioRodDis - Managing BIOdiversity in forests and urban green spaces: Dilution and amplification effects on RODent microbiomes and rodent-borne DISeases
Duration: 01/03/2020 – 28/02/2023 Total grant: € 1,123,930
This project aims at elucidating the relationship between biodiversity and diseases by integrating the influence of temporal dynamics, and the simultaneous consideration of host, microbiome and multiple pathogen diversity levels, focusing on dynamics of rodent-borne diseases in European temperate forests and urban green spaces.
DiMoC - Diversity components in Mosquito-borne diseases in face of Climate change
Duration: 01/03/2020 – 31/02/2023 Total grant: € 947,628
DiMoC will contribute to better understand the effects of biodiversity in mosquito-borne pathogen transmission, through the analysis of different organisational (hosts, insects, viruses, human population), spatial (continental, regional, local, organism) and temporal scales (current conditions / future projections).
Dr. FOREST - Diversity of forests affecting human health and well-being
Duration: 01/02/2020 – 31/01/2023 Total grant: €1,357,732
To better combine biodiversity conservation with ecosystem management that supports human health and well-being, a group of researchers has set out to quantify the impacts of forest diversity on human health.
METRODIVER - Unraveling the effects of marine protected areas on ecosystem services linked to fish and human health through the lens of trophic diversity
Duration: 01/04/2020 – 31/05/2023 Total grant: € 647,874
This project aims to investigate how to efficiently preserve and restore marine food webs. It will notably determine the effects of protection strategies such as marine protected areas on marine food webs.
NutriB2 - Nutrition as critical link between Biodiversity and Bee health
Duration: 01/03/2020 – 28/02/2023 Total grant: € 1,328,784
This project aims at gaining a better understanding of the complex relationships between wild bees’ nutrition, interaction with pathogens, bees’ health and their diversity in order to strengthen the protection of wild bees and consequently secure the future of our food supply.
VOODOO - Viral eco-evolutionary dynamics of wild and domestic pollinators under global change
Duration: 15/01/2020 – 14/01/2023 Total grant: € 2,037,760
VOODOO will generate new knowledge on the disease risk in different landscapes to pollinators arising from the effects of urban and agricultural land-use on floral resources, pollinator foraging and viral pathogen coinfection and transmission.
FunProd - Relationships between functional diversity and food production and quality under ecological intensification
Duration: 01/04/2020 – 31/04/2022 Total grant: € 242,936
This project will provide key operational knowledge for policy makers to guide the implementation of ecological intensification throughout Europe while preserving a competitive and healthy food production sector.
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