Biological Consequences of Global Change (BCGC)
Triennium: 2016-2018
Leader
Zhibin Zhang
Steering Committee
John Buckeridge, Nils Chr. Stenseth, Mauricio Lima, Zhibin Zhang, David B. Wake, Yury Yu. Dgebuadz, Alain Roques, Hari C. Sharma, Abraham Haim, Jürgen Heinze, Sarita Maree, Chunxu Han, Yvon Le Maho, Anthony Barnosky, Guangshun Jiang*, Chun Yan*
* early career scientists
List of the IUBS National Committees involved in the project
China National Committee for IUBS
National Natural Science Foundation of China
China Association for Science and Technology
Chinese Academy of Sciences
Russian National Committee for IUBS
IUBS Scientific Members involved in the project
International Society of Zoological Sciences (ISZS)
Field of research
Zoology, botany, ecology, statistics, biography, meteorology, anthropology, morphology, anatomy, biogeography, evolution, time series analysis, bio-matrix, molecular biology, biodiversity and conservation, risk assessment, biomathematics and modelling, etc.
Questions addressed by the project
- Impact of global change on outbreaks of biological disasters, such as diseases, insect and rodent pests, etc.
- Impact of global change on biological invasion of alien species
- Impact of global change on abundance and range shift of endangered species
- Impact of global change on community structure and biodiversity of different ecosystems
- Nonlinearity and interactions of global change in affecting biological populations