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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 


Before running the workflow
1.-2. Workflow overview and description

Accessing the workflow

  • Accessing the workflow

    The Workflow is accessible on the web-portal of LifeWatch, using the link https://www.lifewatch.eu/internal-joint-initiative/workflows/. 
    Here, select the ‘Biotope’ workflow. Several login options are available, including LWOS (LifeWatch), Google, or EGI / EOSC credentials (Fig. 1).

    Login interface. The user can access the workflow using LWOS (LifeWatch), ORCID, Google.

    Fig. 1. Login interface. The user can access the workflow using LWOS (LifeWatch), Google, or EGI‑EOSC credentials.

    This will route to your personal space on the Tesseract, opened on the workflow information page. On the left side panel, you will find the available workflows. The Biotope vulnerability Workflow is currently available in three versions (Fig. 2):

    a) the Incidence version

    b) the Incidence GBIF version 

    c) the Cimpal version.

    In the Dashboard you will find the status of your workflows.

    Both Incidence versions have dedicated tutorials and will not be further discussed here.

    Under the dropdown menu, you will also find a link to the Workflow information. At any moment, in the lower right corner, there is a shortcut (an orange attention icon) to e-mail the development team.

    Access links to the Biotope workflow versions, available on the left side panel.

    Fig. 2. Access links to the Biotope workflow versions, available on the left side panel.

Before running the workflow
1.-2. Workflow overview and description