Securing the Conservation of Biodiversity across Administrative Levels and Spatial, Temporal, and Ecological Scales - Research Needs and Approaches of the SCALES Project

Klaus Henle (1) , William Kunin , Oliver Schweiger (2) , Dirk S. Schmeller , Vesna Grobelnik , Yiannis Matsinos , John Pantis , Lyubomir Penev (3) , Simon G. Potts , Irene Ring , Jukka Similä , Joseph Tzanopoulos , Sybille van den Hove , Michel Baguette (4, 5) , Jean Clobert (5) , Laurent Excoffier (6) , Erik Framstad (7) , Małgorzata Grodzińska-Jurczak , Szabolcs Lengyel (8, 9) , Pascal Marty (10) , Emmanuelle Porcher (11) , David Storch (12) , Martin T. Sykes (13) , Martin Zobel (14) , Josef Settele (15)

1 Department of Conservation Biology
2 UFZ - Helmholtz Zentrum für Umweltforschung = Helmholtz Centre for Environmental Research
3 Pensoft
4 ISYEB - Institut de Systématique, Evolution, Biodiversité
5 SEEM - Station d’Ecologie Expérimentale du CNRS à Moulis
6 UNIBE - Universität Bern / University of Bern
7 NINA - Norwegian Institute for Nature Research
8 Department of Zoology
9 Départment of Ecology
10 LIENSs - LIttoral ENvironnement et Sociétés
11 CESCO - Centre d'Ecologie et des Sciences de la COnservation
12 UK - Univerzita Karlova [Praha, Česká republika] = Charles University [Prague, Czech Republic]
13 Department of Earth and Ecosystem Sciences [Lund]
14 Dept Bot
15 Department Community Ecology [UFZ Leipzig]

Biodiversity conservation measures and biological processes often do not match in scale. The EU funded project SCALES (Securing the Conservation of biodiversity across Administrative Levels and spatial, temporal, and Ecological Scales) is intended to solve this challenge. SCALES analyses how selected pressures (climate change, habitat loss, fragmentation, disturbance), their drivers, and their impacts on biodiversity change with spatial and temporal scale. The project develops methods for a better understanding of scaling properties of biological processes from the genetic level to populations, communities, and ecosystem functions. SCALES also seeks ways to integrate the issue of scale into policy, decision-making, and biodiversity management, focusing on networks of protected areas, regional connectivity, and biodiversity monitoring.

Mots clés: anthropogenic drivers; fragmentation; climate change; biodiversity impacts; policy instruments; scale; science-policy interface

Domaines: Géographie; Etudes de l'environnement

Klaus Henle, William Kunin, Oliver Schweiger, Dirk S. Schmeller, Vesna Grobelnik, et al.. Securing the Conservation of Biodiversity across Administrative Levels and Spatial, Temporal, and Ecological Scales - Research Needs and Approaches of the SCALES Project. GAIA - Ecological Perspectives for Science and Society, 2010, 19 (3). ⟨halshs-01225982⟩