About
The project will contribute to unravel the complex interaction between pollinators and crop yields under future climatic and land-use driven scenarios in the selected case studies, and assess concomitant socio-economic impacts. This assessment will be carried out in collaboration with local stakeholders. We focus on synergies and trade-offs between pollination and other ecosystem services in forests, and will apply established macro-indicators (e.g., pollination-related share of agricultural production) and apply novel indicators (costs of pro-pollinator agricultural management) to the case studies. A web tool will be designed to disseminate project results among potential end-users and general public.
Project leader
I am Louis François, Professor at the University of Liège and led principal investigator of MAPPY. My research expertise is on vegetation modelling, climate change and paleoclimates. The idea of MAPPY was a downscaling of current climate and ecosystem models towards significantly higher resolutions, to provide more useful climate change impact information to stakeholders and policy makers. The integration of less frequently modelled processes, such as land use dynamics and pollination, was also a challenge towards more comprehensive projections.
Project consortium
University of Natural Resources and Life Sciences
Belgian Federal Science Policy Office
Potsdam Institute for Climate Impact Research
The Spanish National Research Council
University of Liège
University of Namur
Naturalis
Justus-Liebig University Giessen
Senckenberg Biodiversity and Climate Research Centre
Agencia Estatal de Investigación
The MAPPY study is coordinated by the University of Liège (Belgium), with expertise on crop and forest ecosystem modelling. The following partners are involved in the consortium: University of Namur (Belgium) – land use change modelling; the Naturalis Biodiversity Center, Leiden (Netherlands) – pollinator modelling; University of Utrecht (Netherlands) – socio-economic impacts; University of Kassel (Germany) – regional climate modelling; the Senckenberg Biodiversity and Climate Research Centre, Frankfurt (Germany) – forest ecosystem modelling; the Potsdam Institute for Climate Impact Research (Germany) – crop modelling; the Institute of Sustainable Agriculture (IAS) of the Spanish National Research Council (CSIC, Spain) – fruit crop modelling; and the University of Natural Resources and Life Sciences, Vienna (Austria) – socio-economic impacts. Subcontractor EcoRes, Brussels (Belgium), organizes the discussions and interactions with project stakeholders, as well as the dissemination of results towards potential end-users.
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