13.9. van Dijk
Keynote Presentations from the 4th ALTER-Net Summer School, Peyresq 5 - 17 September 2009
Speaker: Jiska van Dijk
jiska.van.dijk -at- nina.no
Norwegian Institute for Nature Research - NINA, Tungasletta 2, NO-7047 Trondheim, Norway
http://www.nina.no
Title of the talk: ALTER-Net continues (pdf: 3MB)
Summary of the talk and discussion by Espen Lie Dahl (pdf)
Abstract
ALTER-Net continuesALTER-Net, a long-term biodiversity, ecosystem and awareness research network, was a five year project (2004-2009) funded by the European Union's Framework VI programme and continues to day while getting support directly from its 22 partner institutes. The 22 partner institutes from 17 European countries are aiming to build lasting integration of biodiversity research, monitoring and communication capacity.
An overview of what has been achieved during the first 5 years of ALTER-Net as well as our plans for the future will be presented. Challenges, pitfalls and how ALTER-Net should proceed will be discussed and together with the summer school participants different scenarios how to get to a successful network will be elaborated.
Recommended background literature on this presentation:
- Sutherland WJ, Adams WM, Aronson RB, Aveling R, Blackburn TM, Broad S, Ceballos G, Côté IM, Cowling RM, da Fonseca GAB, Dinerstein E, Ferraro PJ, Fleishman E, Gascon C, Hunter Jr.M, Hutton J, Kareiva P, Kuria A, Macdonald DW, Mackinnon K, Madgwick FJ, Mascia MB, Mcnelly J, Milner-Gulland EJ, Moon S, Morley CG, Nelson S, Osborn D, Pai M, Parsons ECM, Peck LS, Possingham H, Prior SV, Pullin AS, Rands MRW, Ranganathan J, Redford KH, Rodriguez JP, Seymour F, Sobel J, Sodhi NS, Stott A, Vance-Borland K, Watkinson AR (2009) One hundred questions of importance to the conservation of global biological diversity. Conservation Biology 23: 557–567 doi: 10.1111/j.1523-1739.2009.01212.x
