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 |
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BIOTA East Africa - Subprojects
Overview of the contributions of each subproject to the cross cutting themes within the BIOTA East Africa network (please click on a cross-cutting theme number or a subproject number to get details)