Project title: DivLand, Center for Landscape and Diversity
Founded by: TAČR
Program: Prostředí pro život
Duration: 2021–2026
Principal investigator: RNDr. Dušan Romportl, Ph.D.
Project partners: Research Institute for the Landscape, Nature Conservation Agency of the Czech Republic, Institute of Botany of the Czech Academy of Sciences, Czech Geological Survey, Czech University of Life Sciences, Czech Hydrometeorological Institute, Masaryk University, Mendel University in Brno, Charles University, Palacký University Olomouc, T. G. Masaryk Water Research Institute
The main goal of the DivLand project is to create and develop a research centre, which will generate outputs useful for both strategic decision-making in the field of nature conservation, landscape and biodiversity and for solving ongoing problems in landscape and its ecosystems. The centre aims to form new monitoring systems and create an integrated system of evaluation of phenomena and understanding the current development of nature and landscape, evaluating current trends in changing ecosystems or revealing the spatial distribution of biodiversity and threatening factors - these are the main research tasks that the DivLand project focuses on. As part of their work, individual teams will design monitoring systems, develop sets of evaluation indicators and analyse existing and newly created databases on the Czech landscape, its ecosystems and biodiversity. The project will culminate in a proposal for strategic measures to be taken for sustainable landscape management, ecosystem management and biodiversity protection in the context of climate change.
The main objective of the DivLand project is to establish and develop a research centre that will produce results useful both for strategic decision-making in the field of nature conservation, landscape and biodiversity, and for solving current problems in the landscape and its ecosystems. The centre aims to develop new monitoring systems and create an integrated system for assessing the phenomena and processes that determine the current form of the landscape, ecosystems and associated biodiversity.
