🧠 The Role of Questionnaires in Invasive Alien Species Management and Decision-Making

Use a systematic review to understand how questionnaire-based studies contribute to invasive species management, policy development, and future research priorities.

#sciencepolicy #socialecology #systematicreview

🌿 Are biodiversity policy indicators really SMART?

Apply the SMART framework to indicators for monitoring invasive species and protected areas in Serra da Aboboreira, involving local stakeholders.

#SMART #indicator #protectedareas #stakeholderengagement

🔍 Evaluation of existing policy-relevant Biological Invasion Indicators

Assess the feasibility of operationalizing policy-relevant biological invasion indicators in Portugal through a SWOT analysis of data, institutions, and interoperability.

#conservation #governance #monitoring #indicators

🌍Assessing Risk

Combine pathway-related variables and species distribution predictions to map propagule-driver pressure and identify the European regions at highest risk of new introductions. In alignment with the @onestop-project.eu.

#introductionpathways #invasionrisk #Europe #riskmapping

🔥 How fire and land-use changes shape the future distribution of Acacia melanoxylon


Model current and future distribution of Acacia melanoxylon under fire, land-use, and climate scenarios in the Gerês–Xurés Biosphere Reserve.

#fireecology #landuse #climate #GeresXures #speciesdistribution

🛒 E-commerce invasion

Apply deep learning methods and computer vision to online trade platforms to automatically detect invasive alien plants and support monitoring and prevention.

#AI #deeplearning #computervision #ecommerce #detection #invasiveplants

📈 Modelling the Rate of Spread of Invasive Alien Species Using GBIF Data


Rethink how invasive alien species spread over space and time using GBIF data, estimating the rate of spread and its implications for early-warning indicators.

#GBIF #speciesdistribution #modelling #biodiversity #BigData