Tools

The RAT: a Risk Assessment Toolkit for Biodiversity in Europe

Glenn Marion is responsible for the coordination of the ALARM Risk Assessment Toolkit for European Biodiversity (RAT), and much of the work done by the BioSS team involves the production of assessments or methods that will fit very naturally within this framework.

The RAT is currently in preparation. Please follow the above link for more details.

Downscaled scenarios of future European land use

A key component of the ALARM project involved creating projections of future European land use, for the period 2006-2080, under six different policy scenarios. The original projections were at a relatively coarse spatial scale, and so could not be directly related to the results of ecological studies within relatively localised or heterogeneous areas. Edinburgh University and BioSS therefore used a statistical downscaling algorithm to translate the original projections onto a finer spatial grid, and made these projections available to scientists within ALARM.