Links         

Global Change on the web:

Global Change and Terrestrial Ecosystem (GCTE) - an international scientific research programme established in 1986 by the International Council of Scientific Unions
gcte.org
Terrestrial Ecosystem Responses to Atmospheric and Climatic Change (TERACC)
http://www.umaine.edu/teracc/
Network of Ecosystem Warming Studies (NEWS):
Network of scientists involved in research projects dealing with ecosystem warming at the ecosystem scale:
http://www.gcte-focus1.org/warming.html
Global Warming - US Environmental Protection Agency:
www.epa.gov/globalwarming/index
AVEC - Integrated Assessment of Vulnerable Ecosystems under Global Change:
EU funded concerted action intending to connect experiences from recent and ongoing European scenario-orientated assessment projects:
http://www.pik-potsdam.de/avec
Global Temperature Patterns in Past Centuries: An Interactive Presentation
www.ngdc.noaa.gov/paleo/data.html
World Resource Institute hompage on climate change
www.wri.org/wri/index.html
Ecosystem Processes in Biogeochemical Cycles (EPIC) - focus 1 under GCTE - Focus 1 has the objective to understand and model the effects of global change on ecosystem processes such as the exchange of carbon and water with the atmosphere, nutrient cycling and storage, and carbon sources and sinks
www.gcte-focus1.org
The Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change
www.ipcc.ch/
WWF Global/Regional/National Scenarios
www.cru.uea.ac.uk/~mikeh/research/wwfscenarios.html
UK Climate Impacts Programme
www.ukcip.org.uk
A compendium of data on climate change:
http://cdiac.esd.ornl.gov/trends/trends.htm
The Pew Center on Global Climate Change 
 www.pewclimate.org
Global Warming Early Warning Signs
www.climatehotmap.org 
US Global Change Research Program 
www.usgcrp.gov/usgcrp/new.htm
Ask Dr. Global Change:
http://gcrio.ciesin.org/ask-doctor.html
 
 

Other Projects:

EPIDEMIE - EU project on invasion of exotic plants in the Mediteranean
www.ceh.ac.uk/epidemie
ACCELERATES - EU project on assessment of Climate Change effects on land use and ecosystems - especially the link between regional and European scale assessment
www.geo.ucl.ac.be/accelerates
ATEAM - EU project on Advanced Terrestrial Ecosystem Analysis and Modelling
www.pik-potsdam.de/ateam
MONARCH - UK project on Modelling Natural Resource Responses to Climate Change (MONARCH)
www.eci.ox.ac.uk/biodiversity/monarch.html

Partner Institutions:

Partner 1 - RISŲ National Laboratory
 http://www.risoe.dk

Partner 2 - Danish Forest and Landscape Research Intitute, DFLRI
 http://www.fsl.dk/eng/index.htm
Partner 3 - University In Amsterdam
http://www.frw.uva.nl/soil/welcome.htmll
Partner 4 - Plant Research International, PRI
http://www.plant.wag-ur.nl

Partner 5 - Centre for Ecology and Hydrology, CEH
 www.ceh.ac.uk

Partner 6 - Centre for Ecological Research and Forestry Application - CREAF
www.creaf.uab.es
 Partner 6A - University of Barcelona - UAB
www.uab.es
Partner 7 - University of Tuscia
http://www.unitus.it/dipartimenti/disafri/progetti/Popface/
Partner 7A - University in Sassari - Sardinia
http://hpj.area.ss.cnr.it
Partner 8 - University of Bangor
http://www.safs.bangor.ac.uk/
Partner 9 - Institute of Ecology and Botany, IEB-Hungary
no web
Partner 10 - Natural History Museum
http://www.naturhistoriskmuseum.dk/web/uk_start.htm
Partner 11 - University of Tartu
no web

End user organisations:

NUON - Dutch water and energy company with a "clean production" policy
www.nuon.nl
INNOGY - UK power industry with a "clean production" policy
www.innogy.com
Resource centre to private companies to include biodiversity protection in their management strategy
www.businessandbiodiversity.org
 

EU-links:

Community Research and development Information Service - general entrance to research and development activities under EU
www.cordis.org
 
 
 
 

 

 

 
Last updated November 2002