The BiodivERsA database: a mapping of research on biodiversity and ecosystem services in Europe over 2005-2015. BiodivERsA Report.

This brochure (and its annex) describes and analyses the content of the BiodivERsA database on the biodiversity & ecosystem services research landscape: the authors studied 6650 projects funded over the 2005-2015 period by 18 national funding agencies/ministries that are main competitive funding sources for research on biodiversity and ecosystem services at the national scale in Europe, or by the European Commission. The aim was to: Give an overview of the methodology used to collect data, and present the content of the database; Analyse the level of funding for biodiversity research and the temporal funding trends over the 2005-2015 period; Test the existence of any coherent temporal trends in the type of research funded in this domain and identify the main research topics that are decreasingly or increasingly supported; Compare the type of biodiversity research funded between different national agencies in Europe