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Establishment of a cross-European field site network in the ALARM project for assessing large-scale changes in biodiversity

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The field site network (FSN) plays a central role in conducting joint research within all Assessing Large-scale Risks for biodiversity with tested Methods (ALARM) modules and provides a mechanism for integrating research on different topics in ALARM on the same site for measuring multiple impacts on biodiversity. The network covers most European climates and biogeographic regions, from Mediterranean through central European and boreal to subarctic. The project links databases with the European-wide field site network FSN, including geographic information system (GIS)-based information to characterise the test location for ALARM researchers for joint on-site research. Maps are provided in a standardised way and merged with other site-specific information. The application of GIS for these field sites and the information management promotes the use of the FSN for research and to disseminate the results. We conclude that ALARM FSN sites together with other research sites in Europe jointly could be used as a future backbone for research proposals.

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  1. Department of Community Ecology, Centre for Environmental Research (UFZ) Leipzig-Halle, Theodor-Lieser-Str. 4, 06120, Halle (Saale), Germany

    V. C. Hammen, S. Klotz, I. Kühn & J. Settele

  2. Institute of Integrative and Comparative Biology and Earth and Biosphere Institute, University of Leeds, Leeds, LS2 9JT, UK

    J. C. Biesmeijer & W. E. Kunin

  3. Swedish University of Agricultural Sciences, Ulls v.16, 75007, Uppsala, Sweden

    R. Bommarco

  4. Institute of Ecology of Vilnius University, Akademijos 2, 08412, Vilnius, Lithuania

    E. Budrys

  5. Lund University, PO Box 117, 221 00, Lund, Sweden

    T. R. Christensen

  6. Finnish Environment Institute, P.O. Box 140, 00251, Helsinki, Finland

    S. Fronzek

  7. OLANIS Expert Systems GmbH, Permoserstr. 15, 04318, Leipzig, Germany

    R. Grabaum

  8. Institute for Biological Research “Sinisa Stankovic”, University of Belgrade, Belgrade, Serbia

    P. Jaksic

  9. Jagiellonian University, Gronostajowa 7, 30-387, Krakow, Poland

    P. Kramarz & H. Szentgyörgyi

  10. Institute of Ecology and Botany of the Hungarian Academy of Sciences, Alkotmány u. 2-4., 2163, Vácrátót, Hungary

    G. Kröel-Dulay

  11. Federal Environment Agency, Spittelauer Lände 5, 1090, Vienna, Austria

    M. Mirtl

  12. Institute of Ecology and Earth Sciences, University of Tartu, Lai St.40, Tartu, 51005, Estonia

    M. Moora & M. Zobel

  13. Laboratory of Biogeography and Ecology, Department of Geography, University of the Aegean, University Hill, 81100, Mytilene, Greece

    T. Petanidou

  14. Center for Ecological Research and Forestry Applications, Edifici C, 08193, Bellaterra, Barcelona, Spain

    J. Pino

  15. Centre for Agri-Environmental Research (CAER), University of Reading, Reading, RG6 6AR, UK

    S. G. Potts

  16. Laboratoire Evolution, Génomes, Spéciation, CNRS UPR 9034, 91198, Gif-sur-Yvette, France

    A. Rortais

  17. Department of Population Ecology, Faculty of Life Sciences, University of Vienna, Althanstraße 14, 1090, Vienna, Austria

    C. H. Schulze

  18. Department of Animal Ecology I, University of Bayreuth, Universitätsstraße 30, 95447, Bayreuth, Germany

    I. Steffan-Dewenter & C. Westphal

  19. School of Natural Sciences, Trinity College Dublin, Dublin 2, Republic of Ireland

    J. Stout

  20. University of Milano Bicocca, Piazza della Scienza 1, 20126, Milan, Italy

    M. Vighi

  21. Centre for the Balkan Biodiversity Conservation, PMF, Departman za biologiju i ekologiju, Trg Dositeja Obradovića 6, Novi Sad, Serbia

    A. Vujic

  22. Institute of Geography, University of Leipzig, Johannisallee 1l, 04103, Leipzig, Germany

    T. Wolf

  23. University of Castilla-La Mancha, Plaza de la Universidad 2, 02071, Albacete, Spain

    G. Zavala

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Hammen, V.C., Biesmeijer, J.C., Bommarco, R. et al. Establishment of a cross-European field site network in the ALARM project for assessing large-scale changes in biodiversity. Environ Monit Assess 164, 337–348 (2010). https://doi.org/10.1007/s10661-009-0896-7

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