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1. Theme - Acronym - Start & end date - Budget
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FP7 theme: Food, Agriculture and Fisheries, Biotechnology
Projects acronym: Baccara EU contribution: 3 M€ |
2. Coordinator & address
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Name coordinator: Dr Hervé Jactel
Full address: Institut National de la Recherche Agronomique |
3. Full title & contract number
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Full title: Biodiversity and climate change, a risk analysis Contract number: FP7 - 226299 |
4. Type of project (large CP, small CP, NoE, SCA, SICA, etc)
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Small or medium scale focused research project |
5. Summary / objectives
| BACCARA has as its main goal to build scientific foundations for developing tools allowing forest managers and policy makers to evaluate risk of European forest biodiversity and productivity loss under climate change. The scope of BACCARA encompasses forest composition at multiple trophic levels, i.e. assemblages of forest symbionts (mycorrhiza), producers (keystone tree species), consumers (herbivores and pathogens) and their predators. The concept of the project is to construct a 3-dimensional risk assessment model linking climate change, functional diversity, and forest productivity through a three step process: 1) Effect of climate change on forest biodiversity will be evaluated through better understanding of the influence of climatic conditions on the ecological processes that shape assemblages of forest species. 2) Relationships between forest biodiversity and functioning will be deciphered through better understanding of the role of forest species richness and composition on biomass production. 3) The information will eventually be aggregated to predict the risk of forest productivity loss, considered as a function of climate change probability (hazard), susceptibility of forest to climate change according to its diversity (vulnerability), and effect of forest diversity on biomass productivity (exposure). This approach will be applied to the main European Forest Categories. As deliverables for forest managers and policy makers BACCARA will provide guidelines on "What-to-Grow" (tree species to maintain or introduce in order to sustain biomass production) and on "What-to-Combat" (pest and pathogen species to manage in order to prevent outbreaks) for the main European forest types and climate change scenarios. BACCARA will ultimately result in a multi-criteria decision analysis tool, which helps managers to choose new forest compositions according to various criteria, including risk of productivity loss under climate change. |
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1. Institut national de la recherche agronomique (INRA) France |
7. Project website
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Project weblink: http://www.baccara-project.eu |
