This section explains ALTER-Net's key long-term activities. Follow the links in the main menu (left) for more information, or use the links below to access external websites directly.
Annual progress reports
These reports provide more information on ALTER-Net's work. Reports produced during ALTER-Net's second phase (from April 2009) are listed:
Common Research Strategy
More information soon
Communication and Knowledge Transfer
ALTER-Net's communication and knowledge transfer activities are aimed at a range of audiences including network partners, the academic research community, policymakers and other decision-makers and the wider public. ALTER-Net has developed a number of tools and approaches to communication including the International Press Centre for Biodiversity Research, science-policy connections, a partnership with the museum/science centre community through the Ecsite network, the Nature and Biodiversity News & Views website (aimed at the wider public) and the Biodiversity Communication Resource Centre, providing information for science communicators.
Read more | IPCB website | News & Views | BioCRC
Common Training Programme
More information coming soon | ALTER-Net 2010 Summer School
Data Sharing Policy
The general aim of ALTER-Net's Data Sharing project is to strengthen the link between ALTER-Net, LTER-Europe and LifeWatch in a proactive way, by means of studying how to build a data sharing community, based on ALTER-Net and LTER-Europe communities.
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LTER-Europe
LTER-Europe is an initiative to develop a network of research and monitoring sites suitable for long-term studies of changes to ecosystems. It involves a wider group of partners than ALTER-Net. However, the development of such a network is a key aspect of ALTER-Net's work. LTER-Europe was formally established on 15 June 2007 at a meeting organised by ALTER-Net. ALTER-Net is developing the capacity for both conventional long-term ecological research and monitoring and socio-economic studies (through the development of network of Long-Term Socio-Ecological Research sites, or LTSER).
Read more | LTER-Europe website | LTER InfoBase - database of LTER sites
ALTER-Net and LifeWatch
ALTER-Net is a founder organisation of LifeWatch, a European plan to link ecological monitoring data collected from marine and terrestrial environments with the vast amount of data in physical collections.
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Interdisciplinary Research
Despite its ecological content, biodiversity cannot be protected without knowledge which elucidates the interlinkages of the society and ecosystems. This requires research, which is produced jointly by scholars of different disciplines and which includes other experts in the society into the research process. ALTER-Net has taken this interdisciplinary approach to long term biodiversity research.
Read more | Governance of Ecosystem Services project | Bioenergy pilot study
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