Events - conferences, seminars workshops, summer schools, etc.

ALTER-Net has organised several significant events. Recent events include:

• ALTER-Net & EKLIPSE Conference: The EU Biodiversity Strategy Beyond 2020 (Ghent, Belgium, 17-19 June 2019)
• ALTER-Net conference: Nature and society: synergies, conflicts, trade-offs (Ghent, Belgium, 2 - 4 May 2017)
• Policy brief - Pursing benefits for nature and society
• ALTER-Net-EC conference: Nature and Urban Wellbeing: Nature-Based Solutions to Societal Challenges (Ghent, Belgium, 18 - 20 May 2015)
• ALTER-Net-EC conference: 'Science Underpinning the EU 2020 Biodiversity Strategy' (Ghent, Belgium, 15-18 April 2013)
• Recommendations from the conference
• Session on green infrastructure at the ESOF 2012 conference (Dublin, Ireland, 15 July 2012)
• Seminar 'Ecosystem Services and Biodiversity: What is the link between the two?' (Vienna, Austria, 3-4 November 2010)
• Workshop 'Long term socio-ecological research: What do we know from science and practice?' (Helsinki, 14-17 June 2011)
• Annual ALTER-Net summer schools on biodiversity and ecosystem services

Publications: papers, books, chapters, reports, etc.

• From 2019 Conference: "Sustainability" special edition: Biodiversity and Ecosystem Service: Challenges for the Future (editors: Philip Roche and Sylvie Campagne)
• From 2019 Conference: Gosselin, F.; Galanaki, A.; Vandewalle, M.; Van Dijk, J.; Varumo, L.; Ventocilla, J.; Watt, A.; Young, J. MICESE: A New Method Used for the Formulation of Key Messages from the Scientific Community for the EU Post 2020 Biodiversity Strategy. Sustainability 2020, 12, 2385.
• From 2019 Conference: Varumo, L.; Yaneva, R.; Koppel, T.; Koskela, I.-M.; Garcia, M.C.; Sozzo, S.; Morello, E.; Dictor, M.-C. Perspectives on Citizen Engagement for the EU Post-2020 Biodiversity Strategy: An Empirical Study. Sustainability 2020, 12, 1532.
  
• From AHIA 2017-18 project: Lenormand, M. et al. Multiscale socio-ecological networks in the age of information. Physics and Society. Submitted May 2018. https://arxiv.org/abs/1805.00734
• From AHIA 2014/15 project: Bela, G., Peltola, T., Young, J. C., Balázs, B., Arpin, I., Pataki, G., Hauck, J., Kelemen, E., Kopperoinen, L., Van Herzele, A., Keune, H., Hecker, S., Suškevičs, M., Roy, H. E., Itkonen, P., Külvik, M., László, M., Basnou, C., Pino, J. and Bonn, A. (2016), Learning and the transformative potential of citizen science. Conservation Biology, 30: 990–999. doi:10.1111/cobi.12762
• From MSE III (dung beetles) project: Milotić, T., Quidé, S., Van Loo, T. et al. Oecologia (2016). doi:10.1007/s00442-016-3756-5
• From MSE III (dung beetles) project: Elham Omidezadeh Ardali, Pejman Tahmasebi, Dries Bonte, Tanja Milotić, Iraj Rahimi Pordanjani, Maurice Hoffmann (2016). Ecological Sustainability in Rangelands: The Contribution of Dung Beetles in Secondary Seed Dispersal (Case study: Chaharmahal and Bakhtiari province, Iran). European Journal of Sustainable Development 5, 3, 133-139. DOI: 10.14207/ejsd.2016.v5n3p133
• From Environmental History project: Chmielewski, T.J., Chmielewski, S., Kułak, A., Michalik-ŚnieŜek, M., Maślanko, W. (2015). Landscapes of the West Polesie: Regional identity and its transformation over last half century. 134pp. Lublin - Urzulin. ISBN:83-905476-8-6
• From Environmental History project: Güldner, D., Krausmann, F., Winiwarter, V., 2014. From farm to gun and no way back: Habsburg gunpowder production in the eighteenth century and its impact on agriculture and soil fertility. Reg Environ Change 1–12. doi:10.1007/s10113-014-0737-2
• From Environmental History project: Ross, L., Hester, A., Sier, A., Aarrestad, P.A., Alignier, A., Britton, A., Bullock, J., Dick, J., Gillet, F., Hroudova, Z., Kanka, R., Lennartsson, T., Petriccione, B., Petřik, P., Schmidt, W., Smart, S., Staszewski, T. and Tasser, E. Back to the Future: drivers of long-term vegetation change in major habitats across Europe (unpublished report to ALTER-Net)

• From LTER-Europe & ALTER-Net: Singh, S. et al. (2013). Long-Term Socio-Ecological Research: Studies in Society-Nature Interactions Across Spatial and Temporal Scales (Springer)
• From bioenergy case study: Eeva Furman, Riku Varjopuro and Taru Peltola, Interdisciplinary research framework for identifying research needs: Case: bioenergy-biodiversity interlinkages (Lambert Academic Publishing)

Key Messages

• Biodiversity Strategy Key Messages. The primary output of the 2019 ALTER-Net & EKLIPSE Conference on the Post-2020 European Biodiversity Strategy

Publications: brochures

• ALTER-Net: A European knowledge hub for biodiversity'. Brochure produced by ECNC and the ALTER-Net Management Board
• Connecting Science and Policy - The ALTER-Net Approach: Integrated Policy Relevant Research for Achieving the 2010 Biodiversity Target [PDF]

Videos

• From AHIA 2014/15 - Citizen science - in researching biodiversity
• From ALTER-Net Summer School - The ALTER-Net Summer School
• From ALTER-Net Summer School - The ALTER-Net Summer School in 15 seconds
  

Presentations

Selected slide presentations given by ALTER-Net members about ALTER-Net are available here.

Posters

A set of 5 posters about ALTER-Net, updated in May 2015 [PDF files]:

1. Overview
2. Research
3. LTER infrastructure
4. Communications & science-policy interfaces
5. Summer School

Policy briefs

Occasionally ALTER-Net produces policy briefs on biodiversity and ecosystem-related topics.
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Other outputs

• From AHIA 2017-18 project "Cultural Ecosystem Services: An empirical approach across European landscapes and beyond": Multiple outputs (paper, interactive web application, data repository, blog post, flyer)
• Other Phase 1 outputs (from ALTER-Net 2004-2009)

Progress reports

The final report from Phase I of ALTER-Net (EU FP6 funded phase, 2004 to 2009) and subsequent annual reports are available in this section.
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Note: If you are looking for a report from Phase I of ALTER-Net (2004-2009), please note that only a small selection of Phase I reports have been added to the website. However, you may contact Andrew Sier who can help locate the report you are seeking.