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x This book developed out of the successful European conference “Biodiversity and Health in the Face of Climate Change” on 27–29 June 2017  in Bonn, Germany (for detailed conference documentation, see https://www.ecbcc2017jimdo.com/ european-conference-on-biodiversity-and-climate-change-ecbcc/downloads-pre- sentations/and  https://doi.org/10.19217/skr509). The conference was organized by the German Federal Agency for Nature Conservation (BfN) and the climate change interest group of the Network of European Nature Conservation Agencies (ENCA) in collaboration with the Helmholtz Centre for Environmental Research  –  UFZ and the German Centre for Integrative Biodiversity Research (iDiv) Halle-Jena-Leipzig. The World Health Organization (WHO) Regional Office for Europe co-sponsored the conference. More than 220 experts from 31 countries convened to discuss the importance of the interlinkages between biodiversity, human health, and climate change at this conference. The large number of presented papers and posters illus- trated the highly topical and relevant nature of this field in science, policy and prac- tice, and fueled stimulating debate. This work was supported by the BfN with funds of the German Federal Ministry for the Environment, Nature Conservation, and Nuclear Safety (BMU) through the research project “Conferences on Climate Change and Biodiversity” (BIOCLIM, project duration from 2014 to 2017, funding code: 3514 80 020A). Dr. Irvine’s involvement was funded by the Rural and Environment Science and Analytical Services Division of the Scottish Government. The editors have used their best endeavors to ensure URLs provided for external websites are correct and active at the time of going to press. However, the publisher has no responsibility for websites and cannot guarantee that contents will remain live or appropriate. Leipzig, Germany Melissa  R.  Marselle Isle of Vilm, Germany Jutta  Stadler Isle of Vilm, Germany Horst  Korn Aberdeen, Scotland, UK Katherine  N.  Irvine Leipzig, Germany Aletta  Bonn Acknowledgements