Dear Colleagues,
I was at the LifeWatch WP3 meeting, dealing with the
organisation of an
european data proviedr platform on biodiversity (see more
about lifewatch
at
www.lifewatch.eu), together with the
representative of BALLOON, Elnet
and TWReferenceNET. Our support to the
LIfeWatch initiative was greatly
appreciated and the participation of our
networks to LifeWatch, as new
'accession' members' is going to be reported
also on the lifewatch
website. LifeWatch is now starting with some show cases
of how the
initiative will work to support the research on biodiversity
organisation
and conservation. We had the opportunity to organise one of the
show cases
on the hoierarchical scaling on biodiversity in the transitional
wtaer
ecosystems in Europe. As other Lagunet initiatives, the development of
the
show case is a bottom up initiative without economical support
from
lifewatch, at this stage; moreover, we have a short time to develop
and
close it. The good point is that it is an occasion to develop
common
research activities among networks (and within) and produce
coordinated
reserach papers to be submitted together for the publication.
Here you
will find the proposal that in behalf of the network we have
proposed at
the meeting I hope that you will agree with the responsibility
that I had
taken in the behalf of all of you but I think that it was really a
good
occasion given to the networks to show their actual interest in
Life
Watch. You will find attached the proposal and I am waitinbg for
you
reply. If you are interested in the proposal and you fulfill the
requirements that are listed in the attached file, please send in the due
time a confirmation to me
(alberto...@unile.it)
since I am taking the responsibility to coodinate this activity for the side of
LaguNet