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Infrastructure Priority Programme Exploratories for Large-Scale and Long-Term Functional Biodiversity Research (SPP 1374)
Termin:
30.04.2019
Fördergeber:
Deutsche Forschungsgemeinschaft (DFG)
This call is addressing research groups with expertise in investigating land-use effects on biodiversity, and of the functional and societal consequences of biodiversity changes. The DFG will fund empirical projects addressing these topics using comparative or experimental approaches. Other projects, including theoretical ones, or social-ecological ones on the societal background of land-use decisions or on the provisioning of and demand for ecosystem services are encouraged, too. Such projects should clearly relate to and use Biodiversity Exploratories data, and aim at conceptual and mechanistic advances. All proposals, new proposals as well as renewal proposals for Biodiversity Exploratories projects, must clearly describe how they will contribute to a mechanistic understanding of the studied processes, and how the planned research fits into the Biodiversity Exploratories framework, uses the common design, and complements existing research.
To create added value, it is essential that all research projects make use of the common research design. This involves three study regions, the so-called Exploratories. In each Exploratory, 500 plots in forests and 500 plots in grasslands were initially surveyed, and their land use, soil, and vegetation were inventoried. Out of these 3,000 plots, 50 forest plots and 50 grassland plots were selected in each Exploratory (150 grassland plots and 150 forest plots overall) and established for intensive research. These so-called experimental plots represent the gradient of land-use intensities in the study regions. To contribute added value to the joint data base, all proposed research projects need to use all experimental plots in grasslands, in forests, or both. For particularly labour-intensive investigations, the use of a predefined subset of plots (3 x 25 or 3 x 9 of the 150 grassland or forest plots; see website) may be planned. Proposed research may also make use of more than 300 of the initially inventoried 3,000 plots.
New manipulative multi-plot experiments will be established for the new phase, both in forests and in grasslands, and will be open for joint use by all new projects. The rationale and design of these new experiments is detailed at the website (link see below). Of course, further experiments are also welcome. These should be of split-plot nature replicated in many plots along the land-use intensity gradient, as this will reveal how experimental treatment effects differ among sites of different land use and biodiversity.
On 27 February 2019, there will be an information event open to all potential applicants. This event will take place from 2 pm to 5 pm at the HKK Hotel in Wernigerode. Presentations on the rationale, design and research of the Biodiversity Exploratories will be followed by a discussion of open questions. A summary of important information points from this event will be available on the project website soon after the event.
Further information:
http://www.dfg.de/foerderung/info_wissenschaft/info_wissenschaft_19_03/index.html
To create added value, it is essential that all research projects make use of the common research design. This involves three study regions, the so-called Exploratories. In each Exploratory, 500 plots in forests and 500 plots in grasslands were initially surveyed, and their land use, soil, and vegetation were inventoried. Out of these 3,000 plots, 50 forest plots and 50 grassland plots were selected in each Exploratory (150 grassland plots and 150 forest plots overall) and established for intensive research. These so-called experimental plots represent the gradient of land-use intensities in the study regions. To contribute added value to the joint data base, all proposed research projects need to use all experimental plots in grasslands, in forests, or both. For particularly labour-intensive investigations, the use of a predefined subset of plots (3 x 25 or 3 x 9 of the 150 grassland or forest plots; see website) may be planned. Proposed research may also make use of more than 300 of the initially inventoried 3,000 plots.
New manipulative multi-plot experiments will be established for the new phase, both in forests and in grasslands, and will be open for joint use by all new projects. The rationale and design of these new experiments is detailed at the website (link see below). Of course, further experiments are also welcome. These should be of split-plot nature replicated in many plots along the land-use intensity gradient, as this will reveal how experimental treatment effects differ among sites of different land use and biodiversity.
On 27 February 2019, there will be an information event open to all potential applicants. This event will take place from 2 pm to 5 pm at the HKK Hotel in Wernigerode. Presentations on the rationale, design and research of the Biodiversity Exploratories will be followed by a discussion of open questions. A summary of important information points from this event will be available on the project website soon after the event.
Further information:
http://www.dfg.de/foerderung/info_wissenschaft/info_wissenschaft_19_03/index.html