FutureWeb - Climate and land use change threat to the vertebrate European food web structure and functioning

• Applicant: Professor Dr. Ulrich Brose
• Subject Area: Ecology and Biodiversity of Plants and Ecosystems ; Bioinformatics and Theoretical Biology
• Term: from 2018 to 2023
• Project identifier: Deutsche Forschungsgemeinschaft (DFG) - Project number 410854577

Future land used and climate change will modify the diversity, structure and functioning of ecological communities. Using the European vertebrate food web as an example FutureWeb will address these changes in a comprehensive way. The project will use the predicted changes in the diversity and composition of European vertebrate communities to predict changes in the quantitative food webs and associated functions. Expected modifications of services will be mapped on the European grid.

• DFG Programme: Research Grants
• International Connection: Finland, France, Netherlands, Switzerland, USA
• Partner Organisation: Academy of Finland (AKA); Agence Nationale de la Recherche / The French National Research Agency; National Science Foundation (NSF); Nederlandse Organisatie voor Wetenschappelijk Onderzoek (NWO); Schweizerischer Nationalfonds (SNF)
• Cooperation Partners: Professor James Clark; Professorin Dr. Catherine Graham; Atte Moilanen; Dr. Wilfried Thuiller; Professor Peter Verburg, Ph.D.