Although the urban environment poses many challenges for study, the project aims to determine biodiversity-ecosystem relationships and deeper understanding by using 5 main steps:? Characterise the spatial ecological structure of urban areas? Determine the influence of connectivity on biodiversity-ecosystem relationships? Determine the flows of biodiversity and service delivery in selected cases? Determine the impact of these flows on ecosystem delivery? Integrate these finding in the form of a spatially explicit model
- Title Original : F3UES - Fragments, functions and flows ? the scaling of biodiversity and ecosystem services in urban ecosystems
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- Project start : 2011
- Project end : 2014
- Contact Person : Anna Jorgenson University of Sheffield a.jorgensen@sheffield.ac.uk
- Funding Agency : BESS Biodiversity and Ecosystem Service Sustainability
- Project Partners : Cranfield University: Ron Corstanje, Mark Tibbett, Paul Burgess, Humberto Perotto-Baldivieso and Tim Hess ? Sheffield University: Philip Warren, Karl Evans, Nigel Dunnett, Anna Jorgenson and Eckart Lange ? University of Exeter: Kevin Gaston, Karen Anderson and Patrick Devine-Wright