Join the collaborative workshops and events organised by the Working Group!
Climate change is profoundly affecting biodiversity and ecosystem processes, with implications at the global scale for primary productivity, standing biomass as well as potential impacts on human well-being and the achievement of SDGs. Biodiversity and ecosystem responses span through ecological scales, encompassing structural and functional components, from individual life cycles and energetics to inter-individual interactions, population and species densities and distributions, to ecological networks and ecosystem services.
The Workshop “Biodiversity and Ecosystem Responses to Climate Change” is organised by the LifeWatch ERIC Thematic Service Working Group on Biodiversity & Ecosystem responses to Climate Change and the National Biodiversity Future Center.
This workshop, organised with LifeWatch Italy, explored the role of LifeWatch ERIC in developing a suite tool and services on data curation, data analysis and modelling, to better understand ecological responses to climate change, describe scenarios of biodiversity and ecosystem functioning change under climate change, considering in particular how such changes affect ecosystem integrity and to what extent they could harm and decrease the benefits that healthy ecosystems provide to human beings.