Section: 9. Zones file | Biotope - Cumulative IMPacts of invasive ALien species (CIMPAL) version | LifeWatch ERIC Training Platform

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  • Biotope - Cumulative IMPacts of invasive ALien species (CIMPAL) version

    What this tutorial is about
    This tutorial will guide you during the use of the CIMPAL (Cumulative IMPacts of invasive ALien species) version of the Biotope vulnerability Workflow, which assesses the habitat vulnerability to the introduction and establishment of Invasive Alien Species (IAS) and the cumulative effects of their negative impacts. The tutorial will clarify how to prepare the input data, as well as the step-by-step use of the workflow.

    About the workflow
    You can access the workflow through My Lifewatch Platform at  https://my.lifewatch.eu under LifeWatch ERIC Products/ LifeWatch VREs/ Biotope/  Run a new workflow/ CIMPAL.
    For further information regarding the overall initiative that leaded to the design of the validation cases and the development of the workflows, please consult  the LifeWatch Internal Joint Initiative dedicated platform: https://www.lifewatch.eu/internal-joint-initiative/workflows/.

    Get in touch with the scientific team

    Heliana TeixeiraHeliana Teixeira, CESAM Centre for Environmental and Marine Studies, Biology Department, University of Aveiro


    Julien RadouxJulien Radoux, UCLouvain 


8. Biotope
10.-11. Creating and launching the workflow

9. Zones file

  • 9. Zones file

    Here, you can import any ecological zonation or administrative boundaries to extract spatial statistics out of the CIMPAL analysis. This data needs to be uploaded in your dashboard as a polygon shapefile.

    The input file(s) must be in .shp format that represent the spatial layer(s) for aggregating results at different scales or criteria (e.g., MSFD marine regions, countries, EEZ, EEA 10*10 km grid, any other resolution grid, or even the habitat categories used in previous steps (after some change to the input file – see below!).

    The zone shapefile must be in LAEA (EPSG:3035), and it must also contain a numeric field named "id_habitat" identifying each zone (unique zone code 1 to n). To upload this file into the platform you must first convert it to a .zip file.

    After the upload is complete, you must select the file before advancing to the next step. Dummy testing data is also available (zones.zip).

8. Biotope
10.-11. Creating and launching the workflow