The BIOTA East Africa consortium works in the third funding phase for the completion of its mission, which got a sharper profile during phase II. Especially during the past two years all efforts focused on five overarching themes with their well-defined deliverables. All work packages contributed to this goal and adapted their programs to achieve BIOTA East Africa's objectives.
These cross-cutting themes are:
Overview "cross-cutting themes" BIOTA East Africa| Details | Theme 1 | Monitoring and assessment of biodiversity in space and time |  | Details | Theme 2 | Understanding natural processes of change |  | Details | Theme 3 | Understanding human use, value and impact in space and time |  | Details | Theme 4 | Recommendations and measures for sustainable use of biodiversity |  | Details | Theme 5 | Capacity building and information policy at local, national,and international levels |   
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|   | Subproject | Description | 
| Details | E01  | Conservation and sustainable use of East African rain forest ecosystems  | 
| Details | E02  | GIS and Remote Sensing in Support of Biodiversity Management at the Landscape Scale for Rainforests in Eastern Africa  | 
| Details | E03  | Regeneration of tropical trees - implications for forest conservation  | 
| Details | E04  | Flora and vegetation of rainforests in East Africa - conservation and sustainable use  | 
| Details | E10  | Towards conservation and sustainable use of pollinators  | 
| Details | E11  | Human impact on avian diversity, seed dispersal and regeneration processes of East African rainforests: management tools and recommendations  | 
| Details | E13  | Conservation and Management of Biodiversity for Rural Livelihoods: Developing Sustainable Strategies for Reconciling Stakeholders' Interests in Kakamega Forest  | 
| Details | E14a  | Rural livelihood and biodiversity conservation: Agriculture and biodiversity use  | 
| Details | E14b  | Sustainable use and management of biodiversity for rural livelihood  | 
| Details | E14c  | Sustainable Use and Management of Biodiversity for Rural Livelihoods: Economic Development in a Peripheral Region  | 
| Details | E15a  | Capacity building in biodiversity information systems for animals and plants in East Africa  | 
| Details | E15b  | Capacity building in biodiversity information systems for animals and plants in East Africa  | 
| Details | E16  | Ant and termite communities along a habitat degradation gradient: patterns and consequences for ecosystem function  |