Biodiversity & Ecosystem Service Sustainability (BESS)
Improving understanding of the role of biodiversity on ecosystem functioning and service provision at a landscape-scale.
Biodiversity & Ecosystem Service Sustainability (BESS) is a planned five year (2011-2015) research programme, which aims to contribute to our understanding of the functional role of biodiversity in key ecosystem processes.
Biodiversity underpins ecosystem goods and services through the functional role it plays within ecosystems. There is increasing concern that the ongoing loss of biodiversity may compromise the provision of ecosystem goods and services in the near future.
The BESS programme will undertake research and activities in an integrated way and take a holistic approach to exploring the functional role of biodiversity in UK ecosystems across a range of environmental gradients and scales. More about the Biodiversity & Ecosystem Service Sustainability research programme
Events and announcements
Announcement of Opportunity: BESS - Interdisciplinary studentships
13 Apr 2012
The Biodiversity and Ecosystem Service Sustainability (BESS) programme is inviting applications for five fully funded interdisciplinary PhD studentships. Announcement of Opportunity: BESS - Interdisciplinary studentships
The closing date is 25 May 2012
Biodiversity in Britain's landscapes
1 Mar 2011
Announcing a UK-wide research programme examining the role that biodiversity - which is vital for human life - plays in the ecosystems provided by Britain's landscapes. Biodiversity in Britain's landscapes
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