integrated Climate Change Biology (iCCB)
Website of the Programme
http://iccbio.org/
Introduction
A wealth of data now exists on biotic changes that occurred over the last one to two decades, but scientific understanding of the processes involved, the magnitude of the changes, and their likely outcomes is still in its infancy, largely due to the lack of long-term baselines against which to compare these data.
The iCCB is working to provide appropriate baselines by integrating data from long-term ecological studies and the even longer-term data provided by paleontology. A trait-based, community macroecology approach allows integration of data across the temporal and spatial scales at which climate change biologists, ecologists, and paleontologists work.
Leader
Jussi T. Eronen, A. Michelle Lawing, Jason Head
Jenny McGuire added to the leadership during 2017 to foster new research initiative and Johannes Müller as program secretary.
Steering Committee
Jussi T. Eronen, Mikael Fortelius, Jason Head, Michelle Lawing, P. David Polly, Christoph Scheidegger, Nils Chr. Stenseth
Countries involved
Finland, Norway, Germany, UK, Switzerland, USA
Field of Research
Climate Change Biology, Conservation Paleobiology, Global Change Ecology
Disciplines involved
Paleontology, Ecology & Evolution, Geology, Atmospheric Science, Conservation Science, Political Science
Questions addressed
- Develop methods that can be used to measure past, present and future.
- Develop modeling for trait evolution and community dynamics through time.
- Investigate what are functional “tipping points” before ecological collapse
- Can we jointly estimate detectability and occurrence in the fossil record?
- How can we use fossil record to inform about future environmental changes?