Section: 5. Taxa | 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 


4. Occurrences and taxa
6. CIMPAL paths of introduction

5. Taxa

  • 5. Taxa

    The Alien Taxonomy Dataset Uploader will allow you to define which species are native or not, by uploading the list of alien species scientific names ‘manually’ prepared (via your own extractor or ‘personal’ database). 

    The input is a .txt file with TSV (tab separated values) with 2 columns, and its first row contains the headers:

    • scientificName (text): the scientific name of the alien species
    • dispersionRadius (numeric): a species potential daily range (as an individual trait, not an observation property), expressed in meter. A default value of 50 meters is used if the field is not provided.
    ATTENTION: Make sure to remove the empty lines at the end of file. To upload this file into the platform you must first convert it to a .zip file.

    To upload the .zip file with your dataset, press the three vertical dots at the end of the first line on the expanded file list, and choose ‘Upload file’ (e.g., Fig. 5). After the upload is complete, you must select the file before advancing to the next step. Dummy testing data is also available (taxa_cimpal.zip).

4. Occurrences and taxa
6. CIMPAL paths of introduction