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Welcome to the Biodiversity Mailbase
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This mailing list is run on behalf of the European Commissions BIOSTRESS Research
Project, Co-ordinated by Dr. Andreas Fangmeier at Justus-Liebig-Universität Giessen,
Germany. It is intended to facilitate discussions between participants and the wider
scientific community.

The principle aim of BIOSTRESS are: 1. To investigate the role of tropospheric ozone as a
driver of shifts in biodiversity, 2. Provide a better understanding of the mechanisms 
underlying changes in biodiversity caused by global change, 3. Quantify critical thresholds 
or the loss of biodiversity concerning stress imposed by global change components. 

The owner of this list is Colin Gillespie ([log in to unmask]), based at the 
Department of Agricultural Science at The University of Newcastle upon Tyne, UK, a 
member of the Air Pollution Research Group, currently working on the above EU project.
I have included our Lab's web page and aim to add additional wed 
sites of participants and other relevant information as the mailbase 
increases (please inform me by email any additional websites).

Thank you for joining, and we look forward to hearing from you.

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Associated Websites:	http://www.uni-giessen.de/biostress
	
Additional Websites:	http://www.ncl.ac.uk/airweb/
	http://www.ncl.ac.uk/gane/

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Colin Gillespie
Research Associate
Dept of AES
University of Newcastle
Newcastle upon Tyne
NE1 7RU
UK

Tel: (office) +44-(0)191-222-6589
       (lab) +44-(0)191-222-7899
Fax: +44-(0)191-222-5229
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