SALBES is funded through the 2017-2018 Joint BiodivERsA-Belmont Forum Call on "Scenarios of Biodiversity and Ecosystem services" (BiodivScen) and through the national funding agencies: BMBF /DLR-PT (Bundesministerium für Bildung und Forschung /Deutsches Zentrum für Luft- und Raumfahrt e.V. – Projektträger), ETAg (Estonian research council), FWF (Austrian Science fund), FNSNF (Swiss National Science Foundation)