How should we prepare for Climate Change impacts on our biodiversity, plant and animal health and biosecurity?
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Question Group: Focused on creating climate-resilient landscapes through optimised land use, and climate-positive landscapes through research to reduce emissions and enhance natural carbon sinks. Emphasises systems thinking and leveraging data, modelling, and decision-support tools to mitigate climate impacts, enhance land management, and manage pressures on water resources while promoting a just transition.
Sub-questions: -How can we make plant and animal health decisions faster and more agile, through innovations in early detection of pests and pathogens and in risk assessments?
-What are the potential impacts of new plant and animal pests and pathogens and INNS on Scottish ecosystems, and their capacity to support viable food production systems?
-What can be done to improve the biosecurity of our ecosystems outside of intensive farms or croplands for both plant and animal health?
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This question was published as part of the set of ARIs in this document:
Environment natural resources agriculture research strategy 2027 2032
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Related UKRI funded projects
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Using microclimate to adapt conservation to climate change
Biodiversity represents the life support system on which society depends, but is increasingly threatened by human activities. As a result, there is an urgent need for tested methods to help biodiversity to adapt to emerg...
Funded by: NERC
Lead research organisation: UNIVERSITY OF EXETER
Why might this be relevant?
Partially relevant as it focuses on adapting conservation to climate change but does not directly address plant and animal health decisions.
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EO4AgroClimate: Improving modelling of pests and biological control agents to adapt to changing climates
Agriculture is facing a period of unprecedented change. Under the most conservative estimates, global climate models have estimated that global temperatures will increase by at least 1.5-2 degrees C by 2050. Associated w...
Funded by: STFC
Lead research organisation: CAB International
Why might this be relevant?
Addresses improving plant and animal health decisions in the face of climate change impacts.
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Ecological Interactions in a Warmer World
Our side-event aims to highlight the importance of climate change in relation to the ecology and viability of plant and animal species. Climatic patterns worldwide are changing rapidly with time - this inevitably has, or...
Funded by: NERC
Lead research organisation: University of Oxford
Why might this be relevant?
Focuses on ecological impacts of climate change on plant and animal species, partially relevant to the question.