Scenarios of Biodiversity and Ecosystem Services II (Biodiversity II 2017)

This Collaborative Research Action (CRA) was a follow up to the first Belmont Forum Scenarios of Biodiversity and Ecosystem Services CRA and as a joint call between the Belmont Forum and BiodivERsA   It sought proposals that would explicitly address a scenario dimension, taking into account the following definition of scenarios: Scenarios of biodiversity and ecosystem services are the outputs of the combination of scenarios of indirect drivers and direct drivers – such as land use change, invasive alien species, overexploitation, climate change or pollution – and models of impacts of these drivers on biodiversity and ecosystem services.   Proposals were invited to address the two following major (non-exclusive) priorities:  
  • Development and application of scenarios of biodiversity and ecosystem services across spatial scales of relevance to multiple types of decisions.
  • Consideration of multiple dimensions of biodiversity and ecosystem services in biodiversity scenarios.
  This CRA was launched in 2017 and ended in 2022. It was supported by:

Twenty one projects were selected:

ENVISION An inclusive approach to assessing integrative scenarios and visions for protected area management
BONDS Balancing biOdiversity conservatioN with Development in Amazon wetlandS
FutureWeb Climate and land use change threat to the vertebrate European food web structure and functioning
Future BirdScenarios Conservation policy in a changing world: integrating citizen science data from national monitoring schemes to model impacts of global change scenarios
ACCES De-icing of Arctic Coasts: Critical or new opportunities for marine biodiversity and Ecosystem Services?
AlienScenarios Developing and applying scenarios of biological invasions for the 21st century
LimnoScenES Developing improved social-ecological scenarios for biodiversity and ecosystem service changes in north temperate freshwater ecosystems over the next half century
FARMS 4 Biodiversity Farmer-led Agroecological Research in Malawi using Scenarios for Biodiversity
FATE Future ArcTic Ecosystems (FATE): drivers of diversity and future scenarios from ethno-ecology, contemporary ecology and ancient DNA
WILDHEALTH How does environmental biodiversity affect wildlife health?
Land2Sea Land to Sea: Integrated modelling of consequences of terrestrial activities and climate change for freshwater and coastal marine biodiversity and ecosystem services
OBServ Open Library of Pollinator Biodiversity and Ecosystem Services Scenarios
BioDiv-support Scenario-based decision support for policy planning and adaptation to future changes in biodiversity and ecosystem services
SALBES Scenarios for Agricultural Landscapes’ Biodiversity and Ecosystem Services
BIOESSHEALTH Scenarios for biodiversity and ecosystem services acknowledging health
SECBIVIT Scenarios for providing multiple ecosystem services and biodiversity in viticultural landscapes
ARCTIC-BIODIVER Scenarios of freshwater biodiversity and ecosystem services in a changing Arctic
SOMBEE Scenarios of Marine Biodiversity and Evolution under Exploitation and climate change
REEF-FUTURES The futures of reef services in the Anthropocene
GloBAM Towards monitoring, understanding and forecasting global biomass flows of aerial migrants
InvasiBES Understanding and managing the Impacts of INVASIve alien species on Biodiversity and Ecosystem Services