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©Sarah Gwillym                        Working as a team

WP 9 Dissemination, Promulgation, Exploitation
(Lead Contractor: UFZ)

WP 9 has the task of putting the scientific and applied results from all WPs (especially WP 8) into the public domain and enabling their wide ranging exploitation. Not only will it concentrate on integrated presentations of the major outcomes (booklets, text books, CD-ROMs, models) but also on collating all the outputs of the project, which we expect to consist of many scientific papers in high profile refereed journals as well as more restricted local publications for people working in nature conservation and management in individual nations and regions. To guarantee a wide exploitation, it will create the conditions (e.g. by negotiating the legal frame conditions in terms of copyright) which are needed for all users to have adequate access to the results, especially the tools developed within this project. As a guaranteed exploitation component, the subcontractors have free access to the results for their future practical conservation work.



 


©Sarah Gwillym      Discussing Myrmica matters

 


WP 8 Co-ordination, synthesis & testing
(Lead Contractor: UFZ)

Objectives:

  • To co-ordinate the entire project
  • To manage the data bank
  • To pool and exploit knowledge in order to manage sites and define landscape carrying capacities across Europe for the 5 Maculinea species listed in the European RDB and Habitats’ Directive, and for their ants, food plants and parasitoids (mainly based on results of WPs 4-7)
  • To exploit the role of Maculinea butterflies as indicators for biodiversity (mainly based on results of WP 2 & 3)
  • To exploit the role of Maculinea butterflies as tools for the management of biodiversity (mainly based on the results of WP 4 – 7)

At the end of the Project management tools and recommendations will be provided.


©Sarah Gwillym      Protected biotope


 


©Sarah Gwillym   Tall-herb humid Molinia meadow