This strategy is to be considered as an ongoing process and will undergo regular updates and revisions.

Strategy for Biodiversity Research in Europe (pdf)

History of development: The strategy was developed by EPBRS over the last two years:

•    First discussion of working group in June 2008 in London

•    First draft developed by EPBRS Working Group for the Paris EPBRS Meeting, November 2008,rediscussed at EPBRS meeting in Pruhonice, May 2009.

•    Meeting of Working Group in Berlin June 2009, development of second draft

•    Adoption of consultation draft at EPBRS meeting in Visby, September 2009

•    Autumn 2009:Open consultation on documents; list of contributors: (persons and institutions):Ian Burfield (Birdlife), Krisoker Saar (Farmers Voice, Bangladesh), Flora Pelegrin (BiodivERsA), Thomas Roedl , Barbara Di Giovanni (ENEA), Stefan Schröder (BLE), Anne-Hélène Prieur-Richard (DIVERSITAS), Simon Owens (Kew Gardens), Stefan Schindler (University of Vienna), Josef Efken (VTI), Ran Nathan (The Hebrew University of Jerusalem), Catherine Franche and Camille Pisani (ECSITE network), Sharon Ament, Edit Kovácsné Láng (Hungarian Academy of Sciences), Ceri Margerison (BES on behalf of EEA), Stefan Klotz (EEF), Bruno Petriccione (Italian Forest Service), Markus Fischer (University of Bern), Julian Rode (University of Barcelona), Allan Feest (Water and Environmental Management Research Centre), Josefa Anton (Universitat  d’Alacant), Dolors Vaqué (Institut de Ciències del Mar (CSIC)), T.R. Barton, Ana Cardon, Diana Gilbert and Lucy Quinn (University of Aberdeen), Ivelin Zvezdov (Scottish Oceans Institute), Hilary Tovey(Trinity College Dublin), Cliona O’Brien (Irish Heritage Council),

•    Final draft developed, discussed and adopted at EPBRS meeting in Palma de Mallorca, March 2010


The Steering Committee of EPBRS would like to thank all contributors as well as many EPBRS members and participants of the EPBRS meeting in Paris, Pruhonice, Visby and Palma de Mallorca.

If you want to be involved in the future process of bringing this strategy to life (see part 5), please contact carsten.nesshoever(a)ufz.de