FARM ECOS
The FARM ECOS project (2017-2021) will identify and outline the evidence base for novel, cost-effective measures to protect and enhance farmland biodiversity. Identified measures will increase habitat quantity, enhance habitat quality and improve ecological connectivity, from the farm to landscape scale. Measures will thus help halt biodiversity loss and enhance the provision of ecosystem services. […]
Ecosystem tipping points
Marine ecosystems are undergoing unprecedented change, with natural capital declining to the point that benefits accrued by humans are at risk. The Tipping Points project (2015-2019) aimed to collate and integrate datasets describing the Celtic Sea ecosystem, and to use this data to quantify how physical and biological ecosystem components have changed in recent decades […]
High nature value Ireland programme
This HNV farmland development project which has been running since 2010, provides seed funding for a number of initiatives including HNV network development, EIP operational groups, uplands and offshore islands work. GMIT’s ARD group is involved in the annual Burren Winterage School (https://www.burrenwinterage.com/) and the Farming For Nature network (https://www.farmingfornature.ie/), which also comes under this […]