{"id":1683,"date":"2024-09-16T12:50:00","date_gmt":"2024-09-16T15:50:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/iai.int\/diversus-efectos-funcionales-de-la-biodiversidad-en-los-procesos-servicios-y-sustentabilidad-de-los-ecosistemas-en-las-americas-un-enfoque-interdisciplinario-crn-2015\/"},"modified":"2025-07-29T22:33:49","modified_gmt":"2025-07-30T03:33:49","slug":"diversus-efectos-funcionales-de-la-biodiversidad-en-los-procesos-servicios-y-sustentabilidad-de-los-ecosistemas-en-las-americas-un-enfoque-interdisciplinario-crn-2015","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/iai.int\/en\/diversus-efectos-funcionales-de-la-biodiversidad-en-los-procesos-servicios-y-sustentabilidad-de-los-ecosistemas-en-las-americas-un-enfoque-interdisciplinario-crn-2015\/","title":{"rendered":"DIVERSUS: Functional biodiversity effects on ecosystem processes, ecosystem services and sustainability in the Americas: an interdisciplinary approach (CRN 2015)"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p><img fetchpriority=\"high\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/iai.int\/admin\/site\/sites\/default\/files\/uploads\/2014\/03\/crn2015.jpg\" alt=\"crn2015\" width=\"690\" height=\"241\"\/><br\/><em>1) Land-use change can dramatically change biodiversity, with strong impacts on ecosystem properties and the various services they provide to society (photo Zayra Ramos).&#13;\n2) People\u2019s livelihoods depend on the continued provision of ecosystem services. Science cannot ignore the resulting conflicts between decision on use and conservation of ecosystems if it is to be relevant (photos: Daniel C\u00e1ceres, Georgina Conti, Fabien Qu\u00e9tier &amp; Esteban Tapella).<\/em><\/p>\n\n<h3 class=\"wp-block-heading\">Project information<\/h3>\n\n<p><div class=\"one-third first\"><strong>Principal investigator:<\/strong><\/div><\/p>\n\n<p><em>Sandra M. D\u00edaz<\/em>\u00a0(<a href=\"mailto:sdiaz@efn.uncor.edu\">sdiaz@efn.uncor.edu<\/a>)<br\/>Instituto Multidisciplinario de Biolog\u00eda Vegetal (Argentina)<\/p>\n\n<p><div class=\"one-third first\"><strong>Project website:<\/strong><\/div><\/p>\n\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.nucleodiversus.org\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">http:\/\/www.nucleodiversus.org\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n<p><div class=\"one-third first\"><strong>List of published papers:<\/strong><\/div><\/p>\n\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.citeulike.org\/user\/IAI\/tag\/crn2015\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">http:\/\/www.citeulike.org\/user\/IAI\/tag\/crn2015<\/a><\/p>\n\n<p>This research continued in\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/iai.int\/en\/meetings\/detail\/diversidad-funcional-ecosistemas-y-dinamica-social\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">SGP-CRA 2015, with the same title<\/a><br\/><br\/>\u00a0<\/p>\n\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/iai.int\/es\/meetings\/detail\/crn2015#summary\">Executive summary<\/a>\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/iai.int\/es\/meetings\/detail\/crn2015#investigadores\">Investigators<\/a>\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/iai.int\/es\/meetings\/detail\/crn2015#students\">Students<\/a><\/p>\n\n<h3 class=\"wp-block-heading\" id=\"summary\">Executive summary<\/h3>\n\n<p>The provision of ecosystem services is vulnerable to land cover change (LCC). Changing land-use patterns and practices affect the properties and biodiversity of ecosystems. This has implications for the delivery of ecosystem services. Ecological studies of land use change and its impacts on biodiversity and ecosystem properties must be integrated with an understanding of the multiple contributions of ecosystems to human well-being. This is a major challenge for science. The DiverSus Collaborative Research Network concentrates on this challenge by developing and testing a new interdisciplinary framework to analyze and compare field studies of land use change from the tropics to the tundra. Comparisons, focus on (1) functional biodiversity as a bridge between land-use patterns and ecosystem properties; and (2) ecosystem services as the key conceptual link between ecosystem properties and the livelihoods of social actors who benefit from them.<br\/><br\/><\/p>\n\n<p><strong>Goals<\/strong><\/p>\n\n<p>Construct a network of scientists to address links between LCC, changes in functional biodiversity, ecosystem responses and those ecosystem services that people use towards their livelihoods<br\/><br\/><\/p>\n\n<p>Develop the first comparison of the effects of land-use change on functional biodiversity and establish how this can modify ecosystem properties<br\/><br\/><\/p>\n\n<p>Examine links between functional biodiversity, ecosystem properties and ecosystem services as perceived by different stakeholder groups<br\/><br\/><\/p>\n\n<p>Develop a conceptual framework and a set of empirical tools and recommendations, available to a wide community of scientists, managers, and society to be used in land-use decisions that take into account ecosystem services and potentially conflicting interests of different stakeholders<br\/><br\/><\/p>\n\n<p><strong>First Results<\/strong><\/p>\n\n<p>Measure functional biodiversity (by assessing species composition and measuring the functional trait values of dominant species)<br\/><br\/><\/p>\n\n<p>Characterize ecosystem properties including C sequestration and nutrient cycling under contrasting land-uses in case studies in Alaska, Costa Rica, Brazil, Bolivia and Argentina<br\/><br\/><\/p>\n\n<p>Develop statistical tools to analyze the effects of functional diversity on ecosystem properties<br\/><br\/><\/p>\n\n<p>Identify ecosystem services through social surveys and describe stakeholder livelihoods (in Argentina) and the economics of ecosystem services (in Costa Rica)<br\/><br\/><\/p>\n\n<p>Desarrollar y aplicar un marco integrador para vincular el cambio en el uso de la tierra con los medios de vida de los actores sociales en todos los estudios de caso<\/p>\n\n<h3 class=\"wp-block-heading\" id=\"investigadores\">Project investigators<\/h3>\n\n<p>Sandra M. D\u00edaz \u2013\u00a0<a href=\"mailto:sdiaz@efn.uncor.edu\">sdiaz@efn.uncor.edu<\/a>Instituto Multidisciplinario de Biolog\u00eda Vegetal (Argentina)<\/p>\n\n<p><strong>Co-Investigators<\/strong><br\/>Alexandre Adalardo de Oliveira (Universidade de S\u00e3o Paulo &amp; INPA, Brasil), Syndonia Bret-Harte (University of Alaska at Fairbanks, EE.UU.), Daniel C\u00e1ceres (Universidad Nacional de C\u00f3rdoba, Argentina), Fernando Casanoves (Centro Agron\u00f3mico Tropical de Investigaci\u00f3n y Ense\u00f1anza (CATIE), Costa Rica), Bryan Finegan (CATIE, Costa Rica), Carlos Murillo (CINPE, Costa Rica), Lourens Poorter (IBIF, Bolivia &amp; Univ. of Wageningen, Pa\u00edses Bajos)<br\/><a class=\"external\" href=\"http:\/\/www.nucleodiversus.org\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Project Site<\/a><br\/><a class=\"external\" href=\"http:\/\/iaisrv1.iai.int\/bs?publications\/CRN2015.pdf\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">List of publications<\/a><br\/>Updated 2\/2010<br\/><a class=\"external\" href=\"https:\/\/sites.google.com\/site\/functionaldiversity\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">f-Diversity Software page<\/a><br\/><a href=\"https:\/\/iai.int\/admin\/site\/sites\/default\/files\/uploads\/2014\/03\/CRN2_15.pdf\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Pdf File<\/a><\/p>\n\n<h3 class=\"wp-block-heading\" id=\"students\">Students<\/h3>\n\n<p><em>Adelaneide Gomes-Lima<\/em>, maestr\u00eda, Universidade de S\u00e3o Paulo, Brasil.<br\/><em>Adina Chain-Guadarrama<\/em>, doctorado, CATIE, M\u00e9xico.<br\/><em>Aid\u00e9 Garc\u00eda-Vargas<\/em>, maestr\u00eda, CATIE, M\u00e9xico.<br\/><em>Albert Chan Dzul<\/em>, maestr\u00eda, CATIE, M\u00e9xico.<br\/><em>Amira Apaza Quevedo<\/em>, doctorado, Universidade de S\u00e3o Paulo, Bolivia.<br\/><em>Anibal Cuchietti<\/em>, doctorado, IMBIV-CONICET, Argentina.<br\/><em>Beatriz Salgado<\/em>, maestr\u00eda, CATIE, Colombia.<br\/><em>Berta Mart\u00edn-L\u00f3pez<\/em>, doctorado, Universidad Aut\u00f3noma Metropolitana, Espa\u00f1a.<br\/><em>Carolina Furey<\/em>, grado, IMBIV-CONICET, Argentina.<br\/><em>Daniela Tamburini<\/em>, doctorado, Argentina.<br\/><em>Diane Huebner<\/em>, maestr\u00eda, University of Alaska Fairbanks, EEUU.<br\/><em>Diego Bermeo<\/em>, maestr\u00eda, CATIE, Ecuador.<br\/><em>Eleni Marinidou<\/em>, Post doctorado, CATIE, M\u00e9xico.<br\/><em>Elise Suronen<\/em>, grado, University of Alaska Fairbanks, EEUU.<br\/><em>Esteban Kowaljow<\/em>, Post doctorado, IMBIV-CONICET, Argentina.<br\/><em>Esteban Tapella<\/em>, Post doctorado, Universidad Nacional de San Juan, Argentina.<br\/><em>Fabien Qu\u00e9tier<\/em>, Post doctorado, IMBIV-CONICET, Francia.<br\/><em>Fausto Bolom-Tom<\/em>, doctorado, CATIE, M\u00e9xico.<br\/><em>Felicitas Silvetti<\/em>, doctorado, Argentina.<br\/><em>Fernando Fern\u00e1ndez M\u00e9ndez<\/em>, maestr\u00eda, CATIE, Colombia.<br\/><em>Florence Baptist<\/em>, Post doctorado, Universit\u00e9 Joseph Fourier, Francia.<br\/><em>Georgina Conti<\/em>, doctorado, IMBIV-CONICET, Argentina.<br\/><em>Gisela Langidey<\/em>, grado, Instituto Boliviano de Investigaci\u00f3n Forestal, Bolivia.<br\/><em>Imole McDonald<\/em>, maestr\u00eda, Instituto Boliviano de Investigaci\u00f3n Forestal, Guyana.<br\/><em>Ines Geovana Carre\u00f1o<\/em>, doctorado, Instituto Boliviano de Investigaci\u00f3n Forestal, Bolivia.<br\/><em>Janett Juarez<\/em>, grado, Instituto Boliviano de Investigaci\u00f3n Forestal, Bolivia.<br\/><em>Jimena Esquivel-Sheik<\/em>, doctorado, CATIE, Colombia.<br\/><em>Jos\u00e9 Texeira Santos Neto<\/em>, maestr\u00eda, Universidade de S\u00e3o Paulo, Brasil.<br\/><em>Koert Geffen<\/em>, maestr\u00eda, Instituto Boliviano de Investigaci\u00f3n Forestal, Alemania.<br\/><em>Laura Hoyos<\/em>, doctorado, IMBIV-CONICET, Argentina.<br\/><em>Leda Lorenzo<\/em>, Post doctorado, Universidade de S\u00e3o Paulo, Espa\u00f1a.<br\/><em>Lorena Ashworth<\/em>, otros, IMBIV-CONICET, Argentina.<br\/><em>Lucas Enrico<\/em>, Post doctorado, IMBIV-CONICET, Argentina.<br\/><em>Maartje Bakker<\/em>, maestr\u00eda, Instituto Boliviano de Investigaci\u00f3n Forestal, Alemania.<br\/><em>Marcel Carita Vaz<\/em>, maestr\u00eda, Universidade de S\u00e3o Paulo, Brasil.<br\/><em>Mar\u00eda Eugenia Ferrero<\/em>, doctorado, IMBIV-CONICET, Argentina.<br\/><em>Mar\u00eda Eugenia Periago<\/em>, doctorado, IMBIV-CONICET, Argentina.<br\/><em>Maria Laura Bernaschini<\/em>, grado, IMBIV-CONICET, Argentina.<br\/><em>Mar\u00eda Laura Moreno<\/em>, doctorado, IMBIV-CONICET, Argentina.<br\/><em>Mar\u00eda Lucrecia Lipoma<\/em>, grado, IMBIV-CONICET, Argentina.<br\/><em>Mar\u00eda Poca<\/em>, grado, IMBIV-CONICET, Argentina.<br\/><em>Mar\u00eda Victoria Vaieretti<\/em>, Post doctorado, IMBIV-CONICET, Argentina.<br\/><em>Mar\u00eda Lixmania Pitacuar Meneses<\/em>, maestr\u00eda, CATIE, Ecuador.<br\/><em>Mark Burton<\/em>, grado, University of Alaska Fairbanks, EEUU.<br\/><em>Pablo Rodr\u00edguez-Bilella<\/em>, otros, Universidad 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