Report from the RUBICODE e-conference on "Ecosystem Services and Drivers of Biodiversity Change" which took place in April 2008 is now available to download.

  The fourth edition of the RUBICODE Newsletter was published in August 2008 and focuses on two major workshops on ecosystem service assessment and biodiversity conservation - subscribe now!

  Nine reviews related to ecosystem service assessment on concepts, drivers, indicators, functional traits, values and habitat management strategies are available to download on the "Outputs" page.

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GENERAL
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WORKSHOP REPORTS
WS1: Assessing and monitoring ecosystems – concepts, policies and indicators
WS2: Linking threats to biodiversity with action in the policy-making process
WS3: Ecosystem services and drivers of biodiversity change - Background report
WS3: Ecosystem services and drivers of biodiversity change - Final report
E-conference on "Ecosystem Services and Drivers of Biodiversity Change" - Final Report
WS4: Habitat management and conservation policy - strategies for a new dynamic approach focused on ecosystem service provision

NEWSLETTERS
No. 1: Project overview
No. 2: Indicators
No. 3: Functional traits and ecosystem services
No. 4: Workshops on ecosystem service assessment and biodiversity conservation

REVIEWS
Identifying and assessing socio-economic and environmental drivers that affect ecosystems and their services. Stephanie Anastasopoulou, Veronika Chobotova, Terry Dawson, Tatiana Kluvankova-Oravska, Mark Rounsevell

Assessing and monitoring ecosystems – indicators, concepts and their linkage to biodiversity and ecosystem services.
Christian K. Feld, Francesco de Bello, Rob Bugter, Ulf Grandin, Daniel Hering, Sandra Lavorel, Owen Mountford, Isabel Pardo, Meelis Partel, Jörg Römbke, Pedro Martins da Silva, José Paulo Sousa, K. Bruce Jones

European habitat management strategies for conservation: Current regulations and practices with reference to dynamic ecosystems and ecosystem service provision
John R. Haslett, Pam M. Berry, Martin Zobel

Report comparing indicators targeting habitat area
P. Martins da Silva, J.P. Sousa, C.K. Feld and D. Hering

Review of concepts of dynamic ecosystems and their services
Marie Vandewalle, Martin T. Sykes, Paula A. Harrison, Gary W. Luck, Pam Berry, Rob Bugter, Terry P. Dawson, Christian K. Feld, Richard Harrington, John R. Haslett, Daniel Hering, K.Bruce Jones, Rob Jongman, Sandra Lavorel, Pedro Martins da Silva, Mari Moora, James Paterson, Mark D.A. Rounsevell, Leonard Sandin, Josef Settele, J.Paulo Sousa and Martin Zobel

Functional traits underlie the delivery of ecosystem services across different trophic levels
Francesco de Bello, Sandra Lavorel, Sandra Díaz, Richard Harrington, Richard Bardgett, Matty Berg, Pablo Cipriotti, Hans Cornelissen, Christian Feld, Daniel Hering, Pedro Martins da Silva, Simon Potts, Leonard Sandin, Jose Paulo Sousa, Jonathan Storkey and David Wardle

Review of the dynamics of economic values and preferences for ecosystem goods and services
A. Kontogianni, M. Skourtos and P.A. Harrison

Report comparing indicator systems targeting deviation from undisturbed areas and disturbance gradients
José Paulo Sousa, Pedro Martins da Silva, Christian K. Feld, Francesco de Bello, Maria João Feio, Ulf Grandin, Daniel Hering, Sandra Lavorel, Meelis Partel & Michael Samways

The effectiveness and appropriateness of existing conservation policies and their integration into other policy sectors
R.H.G. Jongman, G. Bela, G. Pataki, L. Scholten, Á. Méro and C. Mertens