Konstantina Spiliopoulou published a new blog post on the Inspire4Nature fellows’ website Science4Wildlife. You can read here her article entitled Wind Farms in Greece.
Project News
Extraordinary Inspire4Nature Supervisory Board Meeting
Inspire4Nature’s Supervisory Board held an extraordinary remote meeting on the 20th April 2020 to discuss the effects of the ongoing covid19 pandemic on the project.
The Supervisory Board is the decision-making body governing the Inspire4Nature Consortium, responsible for the overall management and monitoring of the project. It is composed of one member of each participant organisation, as well as two representatives of the fellows as observers. This extraordinary meeting was convened to discuss how the ongoing covid19 epidemic is affecting the project, including effects on the fellows’ individual training programme and consequences for the project-wide training programme.
New blog post: A bird from the Netherlands and an airport in Portugal: local political decisions can threaten migratory birds from afar
”The bird and the airport case’ – João L. Guilherme published a new blog post on the Inspire4Nature fellows’ website Science4Wildlife. You can read here his article entitled A bird from the Netherlands and an airport in Portugal: local political decisions can threaten migratory birds from afar.
Inspire4Nature fellow at ENVI Council
Inspire4Nature fellow Matt Ford took part in a panel discussion at the official Meeting of the EU Climate and Environment Ministers with the Green 10 Organizations, where he gave an official intervention on conservation of freshwater biodiversity within the context of the Water Framework Directive, the bloc’s flagship freshwater legislation.
New blog post: Wildlife over-exploitation and the Coronavirus
Very topical ! Ivon Cuadros published a new blog post on the Inspire4Nature fellows’ website Science4Wildlife. You can read here her article called Wildlife over-exploitation and the Coronavirus.
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Vertebrate fast and slow species response to spatial heterogeneity
Inspire4Nature fellow Gonzalo Albaladejo presented an E-poster entitled Vertebrate fast and slow species response to spatial heterogeneity during the British Ecological Society annual meeting that took place in Belfast (Northen Ireland) from 10th to 13th of December 2019. Gonzalo presented a method to integrate life-history theory into species distribution modelling, using the theory of Island Biogeography as a bound mechanism between spatial heterogeneity due to land-use and life-history strategies respond to it. This new approach will serve to better understand the response of biodiversity to global changes from a functional perspective.
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Impact of RSPB lowland wet grassland reserves on wetland bird species
Fellow Sean Jellesmark presented at the British Ecological Societies Annual Meeting on the 12th of December in Belfast. He assessed the impact of RSPB lowland wet grassland reserves on wetland bird species using a quasi-experimental method.
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Measuring accuracy in population based global biodiversity indicators
Inspire4Nature fellow Shawn Dove did a presentation at the British Ecological Societies Annual Meeting on the 13th of December 2019 in Belfast, Northern Ireland. During the conference, Shawn presented a method that uses a model of accuracy built by comparing trends generated from synthetic datasets. It is the first method for measuring the accuracy of a time-series based biodiversity indicator.
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Modelling habitat-land cover associations for mapping species distributions
Inspire4Nature fellow Maria Lumbierres presented a poster entitled Modelling habitat-land cover associations for mapping species distributions on October 4, 2019 at the International Society for Ecological Modelling Global Conference in Salzburg, Austria. She presented a crosswalk model that determines the association between Copernicus Global Land Service land cover and IUCN Habitats Classification Scheme. This crosswalk serves as a way to improve the accuracy and repeatability of Area of habitat maps.
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New position: 23 month fellowship!
Applications are now open for a 23-month research fellowship on the effectiveness of Protected Areas at conserving biodiversity! Based in Montpellier (France), in collaboration with BirdLife International and the UN Environment World Conservation Monitoring Centre (UNEP-WCMC). Deadline: 8 November. For more information, see this page.