Section: 8. Biotope | 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 


7. Weight file
9. Zones file

8. Biotope

  • 8. Biotope

    In this step, you will provide the spatial layers for each habitat.

    The polygon dataset must contain one or more shapefiles that delineate the biotopes used in the weight file to determine the impact of each NIS in a particular place. Each file should be named as single_<habitatname>.shp (write all habitat names in lower case). Alternatively, a file with multiple biotopes (in which case the name of each biotope is stored in a field called "Habitat"), such as those provided by e.g. EUNIS, EMODNET, Corine, Copernicus, could be used.

    Please make sure that the names in the shape file match the names in the weight file (e.g., Fig. 8). Project the habitat shapefiles in LAEA (EPSG:3035) .

    All files must be provided as a single .zip file. After the upload is complete, you must select the file before advancing to the next step. Dummy testing data is also available (shps.zip).

7. Weight file
9. Zones file