Laboratory Biodiversity and Ecosystem Services
Carries out research activities in the areas of characterization, protection, planning and management of ecosystems, biodiversity conservation and evaluation of ecosystem services. It employs bio-indication methodologies for defining environmental quality, the effects of climate change and anthropogenic impacts.
In details, the BES laboratory:
Conducts studies for understanding environmental mechanisms and assessing long-term trends induced by natural changes and/or human activities on ecosystems and biodiversity.
Develops the knowledge base needed for territorial and environmental planning and the definition of conservation measures (Protected Areas, Natura 2000 Network, Ecological Networks, etc.).
Deals with aquatic (marine, river and wetlands) and terrestrial environments, using an integrated and multidisciplinary approach (biology, geology, chemistry, oceanography, computing ...).
Designs and implements short, medium and long-term observation systems, within national and international programs, for observing environments of interest and assessing the evolutionary trend of ecosystems.
Defines and develops policies, procedures, information systems and technologies (in collaboration with the Public Administrations, green and blue economy entrepreneurs and technology poles) to safeguard natural resources.
Defines management strategies and monitoring methodologies, in support of management, promoting, together with industrial partners, the development of appropriate observation and measurement technologies.
Implements tools/infrastructures for the storage and dissemination of data to research, land managers and the public.
Disseminates scientific culture and knowledge for the valorization and conservation of the natural capital, also through higher education.
Projects
Status: In corso
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Assistenza tecnica per l'introduzione di tecnologie innovative e strumenti per ridurre il rischio e la vulnerabilità e rafforzare l’adattamento al cambiamento climatico nell’ecosistema marino cubano
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Habitat mapping marino costiero: sviluppo di un piano nazionale dell'ambiente marino e di una rete di aree marine protette per la Repubblica di Vanuatu
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Rafforzare la gestione delle aree protette nel Regno di Tonga
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EMODnet - Ingestion and safe-keeping of marine data
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Progettazione, supporto alla realizzazione e monitoraggio di interventi prototipali di riqualificazione naturalistica di ambienti fluviali, integrati alle opere di sistemazione idraulica dell'asta del Torrente Lura
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Small MICROplastics bioindicaToRs in the changing ArctiC EnviRonment
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Bioconstructional organisms from the Ross sea under Climate Change: ecosystems and 'oasis’ of biodiversity to monitor and protect
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Metrology for Integrated Marine Management and Knowledge-Transfer Network
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No Microplastics Just waves
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Supporting tools for the integrated management of drinking water reservoirs contaminated by Cyanobacteria and cyanotoxins
Status: Concluso
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The European Marine Observation and Data Network
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Potenziamento, promozione e divulgazione della rete degli orti botanici e dei giardini storici d’Italia
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Dalla Flora d’Italia al territorio
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Ricostruzione delle comunità di mare profondo nei margini continentali iberici negli ultimi decenni/secoli"
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Organismi del benthos antartico responsabili della formazione di biocostruzioni e indicatori del cambiamento climatico: monitoraggio in situ ed esperimento di trapianto
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PARCO DEL LURA
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IMPLEMENTATION OF THE MSFD TO THE DEEP MEDITERRANEAN SEA
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European Marine Observation and Data Network (EMODnet)
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Managing Green Infrastructure in Central European Landscapes
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Prototype operational continuity for the GMES Ocean Monitoring and Forecasting service
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SeaDataNet II: Pan-European infrastructure for ocean and marine data management
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Pre-operational marine service continuity in transition towards Copernicus
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Extending the Ocean Data Interoparability Platform
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SeaDataCloud - Further developing the pan-European infrastructure for marine and ocean data management
