Project: How, why and where will tree species survive increasing pressure: providing diagnosis and decision-making criteria to attenuate the effect of global change on biodiversity in the Congo basin forests
The Congo Basin hosts the second largest unfragmented area of rainforests, providing numerous services for local populations, states and the international community. In the coming decades, these forests will face increasing pressures from a changing climate and from human activities. The CoForChange team analysed how and where tree species could survive these increasing pressures to then produce diagnosis and decision-making tools to attenuate their effects on forests’ biodiversity. The main objectives of the research were to: 1. Assess whether climate or human activities are the main pressures on the region’s forests; 2. Project the impact of global change on forests’ characteristics; 3. Produce decision tools for conservation and management strategies to adapt to the consequences of global change.
| Acronym | CoForChange |
| Website | visit project website |
| Network | BIODIVERSA |
| Call | Biodiversity: Linking Scientific Advancement to Policy and Practice |
Project partner
| Number | Name | Role | Country |
|---|---|---|---|
| Agricultural Research for Development - Tropical Forest Goods and Ecosystem Services | Coordinator | France | |
| Forest Resources Management | Partner | France | |
| Institute of Evolution Sciences of Montpellier | Partner | France | |
| Joint Research Unit Geosciences Environment Toulouse | Partner | France | |
| University of Aberdeen - Department of Plant and Soil Science | Partner | United Kingdom | |
| University of Liège - Gembloux AgroBioTech | Partner | Belgium | |
| University of Oxford - Centre for the Environment | Partner | United Kingdom |