Consortium for Research in East African Tropical Ecosystems

28.01.2014

The Consortium for Research in East African Tropical Ecosystems CREATE was initiated by Maseno University and the University of Bayreuth Center of Ecology and Environmental Research (BayCEER). The first CREATE workshop will be held at Maseno University, Kenya, in February 2014 to promote information exchange and organization among consortium members interested in analyses of ecosystem processes and their potential shifts under global change.

The research initiatives of three working groups are featured, which examine

process controls in natural and anthropogenically impacted savanna,
promotion of native as well as adapted horticultural and agricultural crop species, and
the natural science and economic trade-offs and impacts that accompany land use shifts between forest and agriculture.

Goals are first to consider how to consolidate the efforts on existing projects, and secondly to identify future additional partners that can contribute to “bottom-up” organizational efforts that will ultimately provide synthetic analysis of Kenyan land use systems.

http://www.bayceer.uni-bayreuth.de/CREATE/en/workshops/gru/html.php?id_obj=118250