Line of action:

Knowledge generation and management

Status:

En ejecución

Spatial scale of work:

National (except Canary Islands)

Line of research:

Strengthening green infrastructure, connectivity and ecological restoration

Execution date:

2023

Duration:

01/05/2023 - 31/12/2025

Total budget:

262.756,00 €

Amount of aid from the Biodiversity Foundation:

249.618,00 €

Coordinating entity:

Foundation for Climate Research (FIC)

The objective of the project is the development of a web platform with a viewer of potential distribution of forest species for different future climate scenarios. This platform will be fed with climate data from official scenarios, complemented with data from other updated scenarios generated to meet the needs of the project, and with Species Distribution Models (SDM) of the main peninsular forest species and their different regions of origin and genetic groups. This digital tool will support decision making in two fundamental areas: the selection of forest species in the planning of ecological restoration projects and the planning and management of Green Infrastructure through the analysis of habitat fragmentation and the design of ecological connectivity strategies for landscape transformation. FORESTECCO also contemplates the preparation of a Guide for the Adaptation to Climate Change and Resilience of the IV.

Some of the actions included in the project are:

• Compilation and generation of local future climate scenarios for the entire peninsular national territory.
• Development of Species Distribution Models (SDM) differentiating genetic groups with different adaptive responses to climate change.
• Analysis of the impact of climate change on Green Infrastructure (GI) elements and ecological connectivity and development of a GI guide.