Abstract Book & Presentations

COVER feder 2023

The LifeWatch ERIC Biodiversity & Ecosystem eScience Conference

Threats and challenges to biodiversity and ecosystem conservation from an eScience perspective.
Participation in the Conference is free.

Click on each Session Topics to see the associated presentations. Please note that we have published only those presentations we have received the authorisation for.

On the right side you will instead find our abstract book.

Do resident Lesser Kestrels forage over larger areas than migratory individuals during the non-breeding season Presenter: Javier Bustamante, Doñana Biological Station, CSIC | Download

Fine scale positioning and space use behaviour of the invasive species Callinectes sapidus in the Aquatina lagoon (SE Italy) Presenter: Vanessa Marrocco, LifeWatch ERIC | Download

Movement strategies of lesser and common kestrels across the annual cyclePresenter: Daniel García-Silveira, Doñana Biological Station, CSIC | Download 

Radar Aeroecology in the cloud, lowering the barrier to collaboration Presenter: Berend-Christiaan Wijers, University of Amsterdam | Download

 Environmental and Biodiversity Climate Change Lab (EnBiC2-Lab) Presenter: María Luisa Antequera Gómez, University of Málaga | Download

The ITINERIS project e-services for deepening current understanding on biodiversity and ecosystem responses to climate changes Presenter: Alberto Basset, University of Salento/LifeWatch ERIC | Download

Toward the adaptive co-management of Andalusian ecosystems: linking historical information with innovative science-policy processes at the Doñana National Park Presenter: Luis Santamaria, Doñana Biological Station, CSIC | Download

Tracking livestock movements to aid in the environmental management of the territory. Case studies from SUMHAL Project in Andalusia (Spain) | Presenter:  Antonio J. Pérez-Luque, Estación Experimental del Zaidín, CSIC-EEZ | Download

Upscaling phenology, water and CO2 fluxes with remote sensing for the validation of Earth Observation products Presenter: Ricardo Díaz-Delgado, Doñana Biological Station, CSIC | Download

Wind Energy and Bats: A Match Made in Hell Presenter: Sonia Sánchez-Navarro, Doñana Biological Station, CSIC | Download

Bio-Oracle Version 3: Enhancing High-Resolution Marine Datasets for Ecological Modelling and Climate Change Predictions | Presenter: Salvador Fernández Bejarano, Flanders Marine Institute, VLIZ | Download

Building up collective knowledge through semantics | Presenter: Martina Pulieri, University of Salento | Download

Camera trapping, artificial intelligence, citizen science, and hierarchical models for biodiversity monitoring: a promising journey | Presenter: Simone Santoro, University of Huelva | Download

Challenges and preliminary results in building virtual laboratories to monitor Proteus anguinus and its karst groundwater habitat | Presenter: Gregor Aljančič, Institute Tular Cave Laboratory | Download

Data mobilisation in the COST Action ParAqua | Presenter: Andrea Tarallo, National Research Council of Italy, CNR | Download

EOSC, FAIR data, Open science: what, why, how | Presenter: Katrina Exter, Flanders Marine Institute, VLIZ | Download

Essential Ecosystem Service Variables and Models in Mountain Areas: A case study in Sierra Nevada (Spain) | Presenter: Javier Martínez-López, Andalusian Inter-University Institute for Earth System Research, IISTA-CEAMA | Download

Functional Traits Thesauri: sharing and reusing knowledge through semantic resources | Presenter: Jessica Titocci, National Research Council of Italy, CNR | Download

How Belgian fish tracking research benefits from the LifeWatch Virtual Research Environment of ETN | Presenter: Jan Reubens, Flanders Marine Institute, VLIZ | Download

Long-term ecological research on marine hard-bottom communities using a network of genetic observatories, and introduction to the new LifeWatch workflow for data analysis | Presenter: Justine Pagnier, LifeWatch ERIC/University of Gothenburg | Download

MBON Europe: Marine Biodiversity Monitoring for Europe | Presenter: Juan J. Vergara, University of Cadiz | Download

Remote nevadensis: a tool for monitoring changes in Essential Biodiversity Variables in mountain ecosystems by means of remote sensing | Presenter: Javier Martínez-López, Andalusian Inter-University Institute for Earth System Research, IISTA-CEAMA | Download

The European Open Science Cloud as a Service | Presenter: Ron Dekker, Technopolis Group | Download

The European Research Infrastructure LifeWatch ERIC and its support to the Biodiversity and Ecosystem Research Community | Presenter: Christos Arvanitidis, LifeWatch ERIC | Download

Towards a network of Operational Marine Biology: the ANERIS project | Presenter: Jaume Piera, Institut de Ciències del Mar, ICM-CSIC | Download

 

 

A review of volunteered geographic information projects for ecosystem and habitat mapping | Presenter: Joaquín Osorio Arjona, University of Seville | Download 

Affinity factors and adjustment parameters for the economic valuation of vineyard ecosystems by benefit transfer | Presenter: Fernando Rodriguez, University of Salamanca | Download

AI applications developed in the context of Smart EcoMountains | Presenter: Rohaifa Khaldi, LifeWatch ERIC | Download

An approach of application of unmanned and remote-controlled multi-sensor platforms together with space-based assets in the Spanish and Bulgarian Antarctica bases for ecosystem and habitat monitoring and mapping | Presenter: Miroslav Tsvetkov, Nikola Vaptsarov Naval Academy | Download

Biodiversity monitoring through ecological interaction networks: plant canopy-recruit and plant-mycorrhizal fungi interactions in the Andalusian Red Natura 2000 | Presenter: Jorge Prieto-Rubio, Estación Experimental del Zaidín, CSIC-EEZ | Download

Herb stratum biomass estimation through ultra-high resolution UAS remote sensing | Presenter: Manuel de Figueiredo Meyer, University of Porto | Download

Pan-European data prism for ecopatch mapping | Presenter: Julien Radoux, Université catholique de Louvain | Download

An integrative overview of wildlife damage in a human-dominated world Presenter: Miguel De Gabriel Hernando, Doñana Biological Station, CSIC | Download

The LifeWatch Species Information Backbone: an update and perspectives | Presenter: Stefanie Dekeyzer, Flanders Marine Institute, VLIZ | Download

Towards digital twin oriented Virtual Research Environments Presenter: Peter van Tienderen, University of Amsterdam/LifeWatch ERIC | Download

 

A cross-domain VRE to accelerate research on Non-Indigenous Invasive Species (NIS) Presenter: Christos Arvanitidis, LifeWatch ERIC | Download

Communicating LifeWatch ERIC’s online services and tools to non-scientific audiences through a narrative communication strategy Presenter:  Julian Kenny, LifeWatch ERIC | Download

Designing a Biodiversity-Aware Vegetation Monitoring System for Post-Fire Recovery Transition in the Alta Murgia National Park Presenter:  Emanuele Costanzo, LifeWatch ERIC/National Research Council of Italy, CNR | Download

eScience solutions to address the known unknowns of invasion biology Presenter: Cristina Di Muri, National Research Council of Italy, CNR | Download

Improving biodiversity conservation: the role of the sRedList platform in streamlining and standardising Red List assessments Presenter:  Francesco De Leo, National Research Council of Italy, CNR | Download

Leveraging Digital Technology and Analytics for Sustainable Management of Regions in National Parks: The Case of Smart Poqueira Presenter: Julian Ignacio Urriza, University of Granada | Download

LifeWatch ERIC’s Biotope vulnerability workflow – CIMPAL (Cumulative IMPacts of invasive ALien species) version Presenter: Daniel Crespo, LifeWatch ERIC/University of Aveiro | Download

Nyctalus lasiopterus populations’ trends in Southern Europe: The Bermuda Triangle Presenter: Elena Tena López, Doñana Biological Station, CSIC | Download

The MARBEFES Project: MARine Biodiversity and Ecosystem Functioning leading to Ecosystem Services Presenter: Barbara Górska, Institute of Oceanology, Polish Academy of Sciences | Download

The role of renewable energy based power systems in the monitoring of biodiversity and ecosystems | Presenter: Diego Tejada, National Institute of Aerospace Technology, INTA | Download

Fund raising

  • End of January 2025 – Establishing a WG Committee on scouting project application opportunities and fundraising

Organising WG workshops and conferences

  • End of January 2025 – Setting priority research lines and contributions to the BEeS 2025 LifeWatch Conference for the session on the “Ecological responses to climate change”
  • March/April 2025 (TBD) – Workshop ‘Ecological modelling and eco-informatics to address functional responses of biodiversity and ecosystems to climate change’ co-organized with the University of Salento
  • 30 June – 3 July 2025 – Participation to LifeWatch 2025 BEeS Conference on “Addressing the Triple Planetary Crisis”

Implementing services

  • End of January 2025 – Internal distribution of a questionnaire on the most used/relevant model resources in the WG member research activity
  • February 2025 (TBD) – Online working table on setting priorities, timeline and milestones for the mapping service and model requirements by scientists and science stakeholders

Mapping user requirements

  • End of January 2025 – Catalogue of services already available in LifeWatch ERIC or research lines addressing ecological responses to climate change
  • February 2025 (TBD) – Online working table on setting priorities, timeline and milestones for the mapping service and model requirements by scientists and science stakeholders
Bulgaria

The Bulgarian National Distributed Centre is represented by the  Agricultural University-Plovdiv.

To know more about how Bulgaria contributes to LifeWatch ERIC, please visit our dedicated webpage.

Spain

The Spanish National Distributed Centre is supported by the Ministry of Science, Innovation and Universities, the Regional Government of Andalusia and the Guadalquivir River Basin Authority (Ministry for Ecological Transition-MITECO). Moreover, Spain is the hosting Member State of LifeWatch ERIC, the location of its Statutory Seat & ICT e-Infrastructure Technical Office (LifeWatch ERIC Common Facilities). 

To know more about how Spain contributes to LifeWatch ERIC, please visit our dedicated webpage.

Slovenia

The Slovenian National Distributed Centre is led by the Research Centre of the Slovenian Academy of Sciences and Arts (ZRC SAZU). It focuses on the development of technological solutions in the field of biodiversity and socio-ecosystem research.

To know more about how Slovenia contributes to LifeWatch ERIC, please visit our dedicated webpage.

Portugal

The Portuguese National Distributed Centre is managed by PORBIOTA, the Portuguese e-Infrastructure for Information and Research on Biodiversity. Led by BIOPOLIS/CIBIO-InBIO – Research Centre in Biodiversity and Genetic Resources, PORBIOTA connects the principal Portuguese research institutions working in biodiversity.

To know more about how Portugal contributes to LifeWatch ERIC, please visit our dedicated webpage.

Netherlands

The Dutch National Distributed Centre is hosted by the Faculty of Science of the University of Amsterdam. Moreover, The Netherlands hosts one of the LifeWatch ERIC Common Facilities, the Virtual Laboratory and Innovation Centre.

To know more about how The Netherlands contributes to LifeWatch ERIC, please visit our dedicated webpage.

Italy

The Italian National Distributed Centre is led and managed by the Italian National Research Council (CNR) and is coordinated by a Joint Research Unit, currently comprising 35 members. Moreover, Italy hosts one of the LifeWatch ERIC Common Facilities, the Service Centre.

To know more about how Italy contributes to LifeWatch ERIC, please visit our dedicated webpage.

Greece

The Greek National Distributed Centre is funded by the Greek General Secretariat of Research and Technology and is coordinated by the Institute of Marine Biology, Biotechnology and Aquaculture of the Hellenic Centre for Marine Research, in conjunction with 47 associated partner institutions.

To know more about how Greece contributes to LifeWatch ERIC, please visit our dedicated webpage.

Belgium

The Belgian National Distributed Centre makes varied and complementary in-kind contributions to LifeWatch ERIC. These are implemented in the form of long-lasting projects by various research centres and universities distributed throughout the country and supported by each respective political authority.

To know more about how Belgium contributes to LifeWatch ERIC, please visit our dedicated webpage.