Funders

This is a three-year project funded by the ERA-Net BiodivERsA, with several national funders, part of the BiodivERsA 2011 call for research proposal. The project ran from April 2012 to March 2016.

The French teams are funded by the French National Research Agency.

The German team is funded by the German Ministry of Research and Education (BMBF) and the German Research Foundation (DFG).

The Spanish team is funded by the Spanish Ministry of Economy and Competitiveness. Complementary funding comes from Generalitat de Catalunya and Banco Santander as well as FGCSIC via the Steppe ahead project.

The U.K. and Canadian teams are self-funded partners.

The U.K. team is funded by the UK Department for the Environment, Food and Rural Affairs (Defra).

The Canadian team is funded by a grant from the Natural Sciences and Engineering Research Council of Canada, in their program called Strategic Project Grants. The project is called Landscape indicators and agri-environmental policies for biodiversity enhancement on agricultural lands. The grant was for CDN$498917.