Welcome to SYNTHESYS: the European Union-funded Integrated Infrastructure Initiative grant. This five year project which began in February 2004, comprises 20 European natural history museums and botanic gardens, aims to create an integrated European infrastructure for researchers in the natural sciences. SYNTHESYS is split into two activities: Access and Networking Activities. ... [Information of the supplier]
ViBRANT is a European Union FP7 funded project starting in December 2010 that will support the development of virtual research communities involved in biodiversity science. Our goal is to provide a more integrated and effective framework for those managing biodiversity data on the Web. ViBRANT provides: (1) A virtual research environment (Scratchpads) where users can safely store, share and manage their research information; (2) Analytical services for users to build identification keys and phylogenetic trees; (3) A publication platform for users to automatically compile biodiversity science manuscripts from their research database; (4) A portal for users to centrally access publicly accessible biodiversity research information and literature; (5) Training, helping research communities to use these tools and services; (6) A standards compliant technical architecture that can be sustained by biodiversity research community. ... [Information of the supplier]
The i4Life Project (Indexing for Life) is to create a Virtual Research Community that will develop and harmonise the various species catalogues used by six of the world’s global biodiversity programmes using the Catalogue of Life as a yardstick. One of the great issues in biodiversity science is how to synthesize a comprehensive view of the entire biodiversity to better understand how it functions, and to model and forecast how it will respond to major anthropogenic pressures. Harmonising the differing catalogues of species is a crucial part of this synthesis and has enormous practical significance in indexing the knowledge needed to protect biodiversity. Six ‘global biodiversity programmes’, the Global Biodiversity Information Facility (GBIF), the European Nucleotide Archive (part of INSDC), the Barcode of Life initiatives, the IUCN Red List, the new LifeWatch programme, and the Encyclopedia of Life, join in this project with the Catalogue of Life to initiate this harmonisation and to explore the full extent of species surveyed in the different programmes. The target is to enable each programme to enhance its catalogue with the assistance of the others, and to create a harmonised list for the entire set of organisms. ... [Information of the supplier]
Biodiversity information constitutes an important source of knowledge for many disciplines. For example, it is fundamental to supporting conservation and for understanding the potential impacts of climate change. External and internal factors call for an urgent modernization of the production and accessibility of these data, information and knowledge. These external factors include the need for biodiversity data to support decisions for regional and taxon focused conservation. Internal factors are a consequence of the opportunities of the digital revolution, and the need to reconcile the escalating volume of data with the requirement to curate it by a fixed number of taxonomists. The pro-iBiosphere project has been launched for a period of two years (September 1st, 2012 to August 31st, 2014), with the goal of addressing technical and semantic interoperability challenges and preparing the ground for the creation of a system for intelligent management of biodiversity knowledge which will improve the present system of taxonomic literature. ... [Information of the supplier]
BiodivERsA is a network composed of national organisations funding or managing research programmes on biodiversity across Europe. The objectives of this ERA-Net are to promote the cooperation between funding agencies in the field of biodiversity research and to coordinate research programmes at strategic and management levels to eventually develop and implement joint activities. The European partners in the BiodivERsA network have joined efforts to organize and fund a Pan-European call for international research projects on biodiversity and ecosystem services. ... [Information of the supplier]
The Nutrient Network (NutNet) is a grassroots research effort within a coordinated research network comprised of more than 40 grassland sites worldwide. NutNet goals:a) To collect data from a broad range of sites in a consistent manner to allow direct comparisons of environment-productivity-diversity relationships among systems around the world. This is currently occurring at each site in the network and, when these data are compiled, will allow us to provide new insights into several important, unanswered questions in ecology. b) To implement a cross-site experiment requiring only nominal investment of time and resources by each investigator, but quantifying community and ecosystem responses in a wide range of herbaceous-dominated ecosystems (i.e., desert grasslands to arctic tundra). ... [Information of the supplier]
The Network of Knowledge BiodiversityKnowledge is being developed and communicated by the EU-project KNEU - Developing a Knowledge Network for EUropean expertise on biodiversity and ecosystem services to inform policy making economic sectors, funded under FP7 as coordination action (Grant No.265299). The project comprises a consortium of 18 leading institutions in Europe on biodiversity and ecosystem services research and governance. The consortium understands itself as a facilitator in developing the Network of Knowledge, aiming at a broad involvement from partners across the biodiversity knowledge landscape. ... [Information of the supplier]
Nach den Bakterien sind Pilze die am weitesten verbreitete Lebensform der Erde. Sie finden sich in der Tiefsee und im Hochgebirge, in Gesteinen und im Wasser, auf und in anderen Lebewesen, in Wüsten, Regenwäldern und an den Polen. Sie sind artenreicher als Pflanzen, Fische und Säugetiere zusammen, und Schätzungen zufolge sind mindestens 90 % ihrer Arten noch unentdeckt. Doch bereits mit dem kleinen Anteil der Arten, der derzeit wirtschaftlich genutzt wird, werden Hunderte von Milliarden Euro erwirtschaftet, sowohl in der Lebensmittelproduktion als auch in der Pharmaindustrie. Auch zahlreiche zelluläre Prozesse wurden erstmals an Pilzen entdeckt. Allerdings ist die grundlagen- und anwendungsorientierte Forschung auf nur wenige Organismen beschränkt und lässt das große Potenzial der Diversität bekannter und noch unbekannter Pilze ungenutzt. Ziel des LOEWE Schwerpunktes für Integrative Pilzforschung (IPF) ist es daher, die Expertise im Bereich der Diversitätsforschung und Modellorganismen-basierter Forschung in synergistischer Weise zusammenzuführen, so dass es zu einer nachhaltigen Stärkung der hessischen Wirtschaft und Forschung in einem expandierenden Forschungsfeld mit großem wissenschaftlichem und wirtschaftlichem Potenzial kommt. ... [Information des Anbieters]
