Activities 2016
Our grand goal for the next three years is to bring to fruition some of our most impactful products, including a high impact perspectives paper on “Managing for a Changing Planet” and a book on methodologies associated with the ecometric approach. We plan to work toward securing institutional support for the iCCB mission in continuing to advance the research in trait-based approaches to conservation, as well as work towards planning a larger global change initiative under IUBS.
iCCB’s goals for 2016 were to publish collaborative high impact papers on the ongoing research, to start planning for the ecometrics book, and to organize a training workshop and hold at least one steering committee meeting. We published 10 papers, including one in PNAS and one in Science. We also have engaged Cambridge University Press in discussions about an Ecometrics book that synthesizes iCCB’s work on functional traits as a common currency for scaling data from paleontology, ecology, and climate change biology. A training workshop will be held in March 6-8 2017 in Nairobi, Kenya.