LIFEWATCH-2019-09-CSIC-13 - SUMHAL Sostenibilidad para los “puntos c

WP3. Exploring ways to generate, mobilize and disseminate long-term biodiversity information: from conservation baselines to management assessments. The general aim of this work package is to explore venues on how to mobilise, harmonise and disseminate historical information on biodiversity and its management in order to generate reference conditions for conservation, improve research and enhance its interface with management. The vision of the WP is that the proposed exploratory examples would serve as a basis for the mobilization and distribution of historical information on biodiversity and its management at the Andalusian, Spanish, European and Global levels.

WP4. Combining field data, citizen science, and IoT to monitor anthropogenic impacts on Andalusian biodiversity and society. The main goal of this project is to translate to the society and relevant stakeholders the ecological and socio-economic impacts derived from three main human-induced drivers of global change (biological invasions, land-use changes, and food subsidies), by combining and translating to LifeWatch ERIC historical information gathered at EBD-CSIC through traditional long-term field studies, citizen science, wireless sensor networks, and the most innovative bio-logging devices, and making this information accessible through Virtual Research Environments. We will develop an autonomous smart-nest box and refuge that can be deployed to record breeding activity or refuge use by animals, logging the information recorded by sensors and transmitting it through a wireless network to a central node. We will use bird movement as centinels of human activity (fishing discards, illegal refuse dumps, agrochemical use, effect of invasive species) using biologgers deployed on birds and downloaded though wireless network nodes. Data will be contributed to LifeWatch virtual labs like virtual Lab for bird movement modelling

WP5. eLabs-BioINTERACT: ecological interactions as Biodiversity and ecosystem service components. In this LifeWatch initiative and action, we propose to take advantage of the most recent developments for the characterization and quantification of ecological functions within complex networks of ecological interactions among species. As case studies we will focus on mutualisms and antagonisms of plants and animals (seed dispersal, predation, pollination, herbivory, parasitism, mycorrhizae), as well as food web information (predator-prey, host-parasite, host-parasitoid, etc.) in the Doñana National Park (Doñana Natural Area-END) and extensions of protected natural areas of Andalusia within the Natura 2000 Network (RN2000). In addition we will update all the existing information on ecological interactions in core study areas centered in RN2000 spaces.

WP6. Developing protocols and indicator for multiscale land condition monitoring and assessment. Land condition refers to the state of ecological maturity under opposing forces of human exploitation and ecological self-organisation. At coarse scales, it addresses the degree of human intervention in the landscape, and ultimately land degradation. At fine scales, it conveys the concerned ecosystem structure, functions and services. Multi-scale and multi-temporal approaches substantiate with scale-dependent processes and the main challenge is to develop associated scale-specific methods to downscale and upscale them according to in situ validation. Once assessed the project will implement them to monitor Ecosystem Integrity making the workflows available for any other location. This project seeks to link scale intervals through a unifying approach.