GoalTo provide and make accesible layers of accurate information for scientists andpolicy makers, from interdisciplinary research, considering observation,experimentation and modelling approaches

ChallengesTo quantify population trends, species extinctions, habitats deterioration,identify causes, and foresee how natural complex ecosystems will responde inthe short- and long-run

Scheffers et al 2016, Science

Pacifi et al 2015, Nat Cl Change

Ecological networks

Bascompte et al 2019, Sci. Adv.

Biodiversity decline and loss: plants, animals, bacteria…and biotic interactions

Habitats: Forests (~30% of the land surface)

• Witnessess of climate change

• Dynamics and threats: Sylvopastoral management /

droughts / pathogens / fires

• C sequestration (~45% of terrestrial carbon)

But more trees ≠ higher C sequestration

Protect the carbon-rich old-growth ones

• Goods and ecosystem services: more than

timber! Water cycle, soil quality, biodiversity refugia…

• Influence on climate: regional scale, refugia for plants

and animals

Invasive Alien Species (IAS)

Impacts on Biodiversity and the Economy• IAS linked to > 50% past sps extinctions• Costs estimated in 7% of the world’sGDP

Climate Change will Foster Invasive Species Risk assessment of invasive species (following the IUCN Red Listing methods)

Future scenarios of invasion Potential distribution under climate change (Modelling 100 of the worst invaders in EU)

Big data, technology, predictive modelling, Citizen ScienceEnvironmental

DNA

Monitoringprograms

Phenocams

Multiparametric

stations

Topoclimatic models