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Partners

The inter- and transdisciplinary team includes experts from climatology, limnology, geography and spatial modelling, landscape ecology and land use, and environmental economy.

LTER = Long term ecological research

The project is divided into three work packages (scientific leaders):

WP1: Short-term changes (R. Kurmayer)
WP2: Quantitative assessment of ecosystem services (U. Schirpke)
WP3: Ecosystem services importance and future management (V. Fontana)

The project combines the expertise of five partner institutions

P1: Research Department for Limnology, Mondsee, University of Innsbruck, Austria (R. Kurmayer)
P2: Department of Ecology of the University of Innsbruck, Austria and Institute for Alpine Environment, EURAC Research Bozen, Italy  (U. Schirpke)
P3: Institute for Alpine Environment, EURAC research Bozen, Italy (V. Fontana)
P4: Department of Public Finance, University of Innsbruck, Austria (M. Ohndorf)
P5: Zentralanstalt für Meteorologie und Geodynamik (ZAMG), Austria (C. Matulla)

and five co-operation partners.

C1: Department of Ecology of the University of Innsbruck, Austria (B. Ilyashuk, K. Koinig)
C2: Univ. of Barcelona, CREAF, Spain (S. Pla-Rabes)
C3: Faculty of Natural Sciences, University of Salzburg, Austria (C. Jersabek)
C4: Inst. of Hydrology and Water management, University of Natural Resources and Life Sciences, Vienna (K. Schulz)
C5: Biological Laboratory, Bozen, Italy (A. Stenico, R. Alber, S. Vorhauser)