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project info
Start date: 1 January 2025
End date: 31 December 2026
funding
Fund: European Regional Development Fund (ERDF)
Total budget: 383 000,00 €
EU contribution: 229 800,00 € (60%)
programme
Programming period: 2021-2027
European Commission Topic
European Commission Topic

ECOTONES - Label of Excellence Objective 2024

While the relationship between ecotones and biodiversity is already well documented, the place of landscape change in this relationship, along different environmental and anthropogenic gradients, remains largely unknown. The project, at the intersection of geography and ecology, aims to better understand the links between the recent dynamics of interface landscapes and biodiversity, so as to optimise recommendations for public conservation/restoration policies. The project has three objectives, including exploring relationships between ecotone dynamics and biodiversity along anthropogenic and environmental gradients, modelling the future evolution of biodiversity in dynamic ecotones, and proposing territorially targeted biodiversity conservation recommendations to managers and public decision-makers. It ultimately aims to validate the methodological protocols so that they can be generalised to other territories and validate the main hypothesis relating to the positive relationship between landscape dynamics and specific diversity, at least in certain spatial contexts, in order to be able to envisage a widening of study areas at European level, as part of an ERC – Advanced Grant project.

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