Projects
Causes and functional consequences of soil fauna distribution patterns under global change Ghent University
Species distribution is shaped by (a)biotic factors, currently subject to fast global change inducing distributional shifts. Biodiversity is crucial to ecosystem functioning and changes in species distribution can thus have consequences for ecosystem services to mankind. Soils and their large biodiversity are involved in many ecosystem services such as nutrient cycling, carbon and water storage. Hence, understanding how soil organisms respond ...
Natural gradients in temperature and soil age:Iceland represents a unique environment to clarify longterm global change effects on nutrient dynamics,vegetation and microbial communities. University of Antwerp
Global climate change hotspots in terms of multi-risk assessment of hydro-climatic hazards KU Leuven
The natural hazards can have devastating consequences on the society in terms of human health and mortality and also on the ecosystem and the economy. In the last decade, five billion people have been affected by natural disasters resulting in approximately $1 trillion of economic losses around the world. The hydro-climatic natural hazards are becoming more dangerous as a result of climate change and as population and infrastructure continue ...
Macrophyte growth in a future world: the effect of Global Change on plant resilience to hydrodynamic forces, on litter quality and on decomposition. University of Antwerp
Open Water Network: impacts of global change on water quality Vrije Universiteit Brussel
innovation” of the IX strategic plan of UNESCO-IHP
The global response of surface air temperature to vegetation changes and its underlying biophysical mechanism Ghent University
Global warming and the rise of carbon dioxide have a profound impact on global vegetation. Recently, a large number of documents have proven that the vegetation in the world is greening.
At the same time, changes in vegetation will also have an impact on the surface temperature, such as absorbing carbon dioxide, and radiation. This greening of the Earth will virtually increase the carbon sequestration, potentially considered as the key ...
Detection and attribution of changes in global wildfire activity to anthropogenic drivers using machine learning Vrije Universiteit Brussel
catastrophic impact these extreme events have on communities,
ecosystems, and economies. Despite the growing concerns over
wildfire activity under continued climate warming, there is little
scientific evidence causally linking observed wildfire changes to
anthropogenic forcings, climatic or non-climatic. In addition, future
projections of ...
Hot or Cold? Did changes in volcanic activity influence global temperature evolution throughout geological climate-change events Vrije Universiteit Brussel
marine anoxia and organic-matter burial, particularly in the
Cretaceous, Devonian, and Silurian. CO2 emissions associated with
large igneous provinces are thought to have caused rapid climate
warming during the Cretaceous events (e.g., Early Aptian oceanic
anoxic event; OAE 1a: ~120 Ma). However, OAE 1a also featured
transient cold ...
Attribution analysis of changes in global droughts to anthropogenic influences KU Leuven
Drought is one of the most destructive natural disasters due to its prolonged and extensive socioeconomic impacts. It affects a massive number of people each year and inflicts significant challenges to the society and the environment. Compared to other natural hazards, the identification and characterization of drought are more challenging because of its slow onset and slow recovery, lack of a unified definition and the difficult ...