The sixth and final edition of the RUBICODE newsletter was published in September 2009 and is now available to download.

  Report of the Final RUBICODE Workshop: "The Way Ahead in Ecosystem Service and Biodiversity Research" which took place in January 2009 is now available to download.

  A roadmap describing research priorities for ecosystem services and biodiversity conservation can be downloaded from the Outputs page.

  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.

  Link to the restricted part of the website.

Related European links:

 European Commission Research on the Environment
 http://ec.europa.eu/research/environment/index_en.htm

 European Platform for Biodiversity Research Strategy
 http://www.epbrs.org/

 BIOTA - The Biodiversity Project Cluster
 http://www.edinburgh.ceh.ac.uk/biota/

 ALARM - Assessing large scale risks for biodiversity with tested methods
 http://www.alarmproject.net/alarm/

 ALTER-Net - A long-term biodiversity, ecosystem and awareness research network
 http://www.alter-net.info/default.asp

 BioScore - Biodiversity impact assessment using species sensitivity scores
 http://www.ecnc.nl/StateOfEuropeanNatur/Bioscore_529.html

 BIOSTRAT - Developing the EU biodiversity research strategy
 http://www.biostrat.org/

 BRANCH - Biodiversity requires adaptations in northwest Europe under a changing climate
 http://www.branchproject.org.uk/

 CarboEurope - Assessment of the European terrestrial carbon balance
 http://www.carboeurope.org/

 COCONUT - Understanding effects of land use changes on ecosystems to halt loss of biodiversity due to habitat destruction, fragmentation and degradation
 http://www.coconut-project.net/

 DAISIE - Delivering alien invasive inventories for Europe
 http://www.daisie.ceh.ac.uk/

 Ecosystem services: Living within environmental limits
 http://www.ecosystemservices.org.uk/

 ENSEMBLES - Ensemble-based predictions of climate changes and their impacts
 http://www.ensembles-eu.org/

 EUMon - EU-wide monitoring methods and systems of surveillance for species and habitats of Community interest
 http://eumon.ckff.si/

 EurOcean - European Centre for Marine Science and Technology
 http://www.eurocean.org/

 EURO-LIMPACS - Evaluate the impacts of global change on European freshwater ecosystems
 http://www.eurolimpacs.ucl.ac.uk/

 European Forest Institute
 http://www.efi.fi/

 FRAP - Framework for biodiversity reconciliation action plans
 http://www.frap-project.net/

 GLOCHAMORE - Global change in mountain regions
 http://mri.scnatweb.ch/content/category/3/10/31/

 HERMES - Hotspot ecosystem research on the margins of European Seas
 http://www.eu-hermes.net/

 IntraBioDiv - Tracking surrogates for intraspecific biodiversity: towards efficient selection strategies for the conservation of natural genetic resources using comparative mapping and modelling approaches
 http://intrabiodiv.vitamib.com/

 MACIS - Minimisation of and adaptation to climate change: Impacts on biodiversity
 http://www.macis-project.net/

 MARBEF - Marine biodiversity and ecosystem functioning
 http://www.marbef.org/

 Marine Genomics - Implementation of high-throughput genomic approaches to investigate the functioning of marine ecosystems and the biology of marine organisms.
 http://www.marine-genomics-europe.org/

 MarLIN - Marine Life Information Network for Britain and Ireland
 http://www.marlin.ac.uk/

 MODELKEY - Models for assessing and forecasting the impact of environmental key pollutants on marine and freshwater ecosystems and biodiversity
 http://www.modelkey.org/

 Probioprise - Creating a European Platform for SMEs and other stakeholders to develop a research programme for pro-biodiversity business
 http://www.efmd.org/html/Projects/cont_detail.asp?id=051202bysd&aid=051202ljdn&tid=1&ref=ind

 SENSOR - Sustainability impact assessment: Tools for environmental social and economic effects of multifunctional land use in European regions
 http://www.sensor-ip.eu/

 SoBio - Mobilising the European social research potential in support of biodiversity and ecosystem management
 http://www.ecnc.nl/doc/projects/sobio/index.html


Related international links

 AmphibiaWeb - Information on amphibian biology and conservation
 http://amphibiaweb.org/

 APIRS - Database of aquatic, wetland and invasive plants
 http://plants.ifas.ufl.edu/search80/NetAns2/

 ARCBC - Asean regional centre for biodiversity conservation
 http://www.arcbc.org/

 Biodiversity hotspots
 http://www.biodiversityhotspots.org/xp/Hotspots

 BioNet - Global network for taxonomy
 http://www.bionet-intl.org/opencms/opencms/index1.jsp

 CoML - Census of marine life
 http://www.coml.org/

 CI - Conservation International
 http://www.conservation.org/xp/CIWEB/

 CBD - Convention on biological diversity
 http://www.biodiv.org/default.shtml

 Forest conservation portal
 http://forests.org/

 GBF - Global biodiversity forum
 http://www.gbf.ch/

 GBIF - Global biodiversity information facility
 http://www.gbif.org/

 GISD - Global invasive species database
 http://www.gbif.org/

 GLORIA - Global observation research initiative in alpine environments
 http://www.gloria.ac.at/

 IPCB - International press centre biodiversity research
 http://www.biodiversityresearch.net/

 IUCN red list
 http://www.iucn.org/themes/ssc/redlist_archive/index_archive.htm

 IUCN - World conservation union
 http://www.iucn.org/

 MEA - Millennium ecosystem assessment
 http://www.millenniumassessment.org/en/index.aspx

 Nature Valuation Network
 http://topshare.wur.nl/naturevaluation

 Species 2000 - Indexing the world's known species
 http://www.sp2000.org/

 UNESCO People, biodiversity and Ecology
 http://www.unesco.org/mab/index.shtml

 WWF - World wildlife fund
 http://www.wwf.org/