Projects
The impact of rapid CLIMate change on the Biodiversity-health interface Institute of Tropical Medicine
Framing Climate Change Negotiations in Chinese News Media KU Leuven
Climate change is a pressing ‘wicked problem’ of our time. Given today’s controversies surrounding climate change, communication is part of problems as well as solutions. As a leading emerging economy and the world’s largest greenhouse gas emitter, China has been exerting growing influence on the area of global climate governance. Understanding how climate change is portrayed by Chinese media and how actors participate in the media ...
Assessing the sensitivity of forest plant populations to climate change using microclimate modeling and landscape genomics KU Leuven
Climate change has been identified as one of the most important human-induced global drivers of biodiversity loss. Moreover, climate models predict increases in frequency, intensity, and duration of climate-related disturbances in the next few decades. One of the main consequences of climate change is that temperature isoclines move towards the poles with unprecedented speed, driving species out of parts of their current distribution range. ...
Disentangling climate change effects on biodiversity and forest ecosystem functioning: from insights to solutions KU Leuven
Millennial-length temperature reconstructions based on advanced tree-ring data of bristlecone pine: essential input for climate change projections Ghent University
Global warming will have a destabilizing impact on society. Therefore, predicting future temperature increase is crucial. This can be done by studying trees as they are sensors of their environment, and they store this data in their rings: wide and small rings indicate varying growing conditions. Since trees register climate already far earlier than humans did, these ‘treemometers’ are key witnesses of global warming. Rings of ancient ...
Climate Change and Antarctic Microbial Biodiversity Meise Botanic Garden
Microbial services addressing climate change risks for biodiversity and for agricultural and forestry ecosystems: enabling curiosity-driven research and advancing frontier knowledge Ghent University
Terrestrial biodiversity and ecosystems are being challenged by global changes, and threats to agricultural and forestry ecosystems represent some of the most serious environmental and socio-economic menaces that the planet and humanity are facing. Climate change (CG) is widely recognised as one of the most impactful global changes, and since it goes hand-by-hand with biodiversity and services loss in terrestrial ecosystems, they should be ...
An integrated approach to the challenge of sustainable food systems: adaptive and mitigatory strategies to address climate change and malnutrition (SYSTEMIC) Ghent University
Securing sufficient and healthy food for all, while minimizing environmental impact is the great challenge we face already today. Local production limits and global trade challenge equal access to food. With climate change increasingly affecting food production in areas, which are already disadvantaged, unprecedented population (especially in urban and coastal areas) and ...
Climate change experiments in Arctic and Antarcticpolar desert soils - ExPoSoils Ghent University
The Arctic and parts of Antarctica are experiencing very rapid climate and environmental changes. Earth system models further predict increasing temperatures and changing precipitation patterns in the 21st century as a result of the polar amplification of global warming. It can be expected that these changes will affect the biodiversity and functioning of polar ecosystems, yet the resilience of these habitats and their vulnerability to change ...