Software
AgroSatAdapt
The challenge: New environmental regimes in prodction landscapes are likley to take profit of resources to allow sustainable production at the level of biodiversity persistence, water savings and carbon retention lags. Several agriculture practices allow different performances in different of these enviornmental dimension, but all of them run with the expectation of high financial returns. Here we undertook a multiobjective framework to spatial identify the agricultural management regimes in each region that allow to trade-off biodiversity, water and carn retention targets, using financial tools for sustainability as complements to traditional financial markets.
Application1: We developed and implemented the software under the AgroSatAdapt project to inform on the optimized choices in agriculture production in 3 regions in Alentejo (a region in southern Portugal) to maximize multiple environmental gains (species climate adaptative movements, water saving and carbon retention), using European-borned incentives for environmental friendly production and with a predefined fraction of the financial pocket being originated from traditional selling markets.
iC5
Climate Change Concerned Conservation Corridors
an identifier
The challenge: Climate change sets species to relocate their distyribtuions with time. These responses vay species by species. Conservation needs to figure out the areas that are likely to maximize the persistence of sets of species while minimizing the area to be protected (or cost). Additionally, a dynamic system of area aquisition and leave back may allow that the cost of new areas is minimized across time without decreasing species persistence targets.
Application1: We used iC5 to identify the adaptve pathways of threatened European mammals up to 2080, assessing the areas where more pathways (of more species or of certain species) converge and the land use and protection regimes of those areas.
MulTyLink
Multiple Types Linkages
The challenge: When conservation planners aim is to identify corridors linking together patches of areas of similar type (e.g. areas occupied by different species), while minimizing the length/cost of the entire solution
Application1: We implemented MulTylink to link together protected areas of the Iberian Peninsula, classified by current climatic patterns
Appication2: We used MulTyLink at a regional scale to identify the areas best suited for the meta-population dynamics of bird species in production areas, aiming to realize which actions might incur in losses or gains in connectivity