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From IAI CRN 2015
Welcome to DiverSus, the I.A.I.'s Collaborative Research Network N°2015
With partners and case-studies from across North and South America, we use an interdisciplinary approach to study the effects of functional biodiversity on ecosystem processes, ecosystem services and sustainability in the Americas. Our research network was set-up in July 2006 and is financed by the Inter-American Institute for Global Change Research until July 2011. Please read our executive summary for a quick overview of our activities.
Resources
- Who we are: The network's members
- What we do: Our research questions, concepts and methods
- What we offer: Training and education, publications and useful links.
- How we work together: Tasks, calendars, protocols, internal documents and resources for network members, including forms for IMBIV (access restricted, login required)
Current events
- DiverSus students from CINPE have presented their MSc theses on the economics of ecosystem services in Costa Rica (La Selva). You can download their work here:
- Análisis económico para entender la forma en que se asignan los bosques y otros usos de la tierra en el Corredor Biológico San Juan La Selva, Costa Rica (María Lixmania Pitacuar Meneses)
- Estudio de la rentabilidad social del bosque tropical, políticas y estrategias para la sostenibilidad: Caso Corredor Biológico San Juan la Selva (Rafael Sánchez Meza)
- Conclusions from the multistakeholder consultation on biodiversity, ecosystem services and human well-being in Latin America and the Caribbean are now available. You can download them on the website of the ICSU Regional Office.
- DiverSus members participated in the TRY workshop held in Cape Town in October 2009.
- Sandra Díaz published a paper in the new journal Current Opinion in Environmental Sustainability. The paper addresses the issue of biodiversity in forest carbon sequestration initiatives.
- The f-Diversity software was presented and discussed at the Annual Meeting of the International Association of Vegetation Science and the Diversitas Open Science Conference in Cape Town. You can learn more on the software through its presentation page: www.fdiversity.nucleodiversus.org
- Several members of DiverSus were awarded the Ecological Society of America's 2009 Sustainability Science Award for the network's publicacion in PNAS.
- Stakeholder workshops were held in Chancani (Argentina) during April-May and were a great success. Our workshop with education, conservation, agriculture and rural development institutions in Cordoba is mentioned on the provincial government's website.
- Sandra Díaz has been elected a foreign associate of the National Academy of Science of the United States, in the Section on Ecology and Environmental Sciences. Find out more on the NAS's website.
- As part of a joint initiative with ICSU and DIVERSITAS, DiverSus successfully organized a multi-stakeholder workshop in Rio de Janeiro (Brazil) aimed at identifying priorities for research, implementation and policy on the links between biodiversity and human well-being in Latin America and the Caribbean, following the conceptual framework and conclusions of the Millennium Ecosystem Assessment. Participants included members of the academic community, governmental sector and civil society organisations. Conclusions and syntheses are available on the website of the ICSU Regional Office.
- Our Second Project Workshop took place in the Quebrada del Condorito National Park (Argentina) on 2-4 December 2008. Progress was made in planning inter-site analyses of species and trait data, carrying out the decomposition experiment and framing the integration of ecological and social data.
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