International Scientific Workshop

" Climate change and biodiversity on agricultural lands"

IUNG PIB Pulawy, 25-27 April, 2012

organized within the PROFICIENCY project

The main focus was put on different climate change mitigation strategies implemented in selected European countries (UK, Netherlands, Switzerland). The results on possible consequences of climate change on birds population based on the Polish Common Breeding Bird Monitoring Scheme was presented by Przemek Chylarecki.

The presentation of Wioletta Wawer on the environmental changes and expansion of thermophilous species was also a very interesting input to the workshop. The conclusions  of the workshop indicate  on close links between climate change and biodiversity. However this influence is often accompanied by strong influence of  other, mainly anthropogenic factors, which predominate and cover climate effects..
The workshop was divided into 3 sections, one conference session and two field sessions (to valuable natural habitats being a part of a Natura 2000 Net along the Wieprz river and to the IUNG experimental station to visit energatic plants plantation ).
The workshop gathered  50 participants from 9 countries (UK, Austria, Cyprus, Ireland, Spain, Latvia, Switzerland, Norway and Poland) and was o good platform for discussions about future common projects.