NaturaConnect - Designing a resilient and coherent Trans-European Network for Nature and People

Project Information

NaturaConnect

Grant agreement ID: 101060429

DOI

10.3030/101060429

EC signature date 7 June 2022

Start date 1 July 2022

End date 30 June 2026

Funded under

• Food, Bioeconomy Natural Resources, Agriculture and Environment

Total cost

€ 9 709 202,75

EU contribution

€ 9 709 202,75

Coordinated by

INTERNATIONALES INSTITUT FUER ANGEWANDTE SYSTEMANALYSE
Austria

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Deliverables

Documents, reports (2)

Guidelines for connectivity conservation and planning in Europe with supporting web-based inventory and databases

This guidelines will be the product of tasks 6.1 and 6.2In 6.1 we will co-design a framework for multi-scale connectivity assessment and planning together with stakeholders from MS administrations, EU policy bodies and other relevant EU programs and platforms: LIFE projects, EuropaBON, KCBD, EEA, etc. This framework will be published in the connectivity guidelines together with the output of task 6.2 which include a synthesis report of the input data, statistical models and predictions of species dispersal kernels using agent-based models.

Scenario framework for TEN-N, translation of NFF storylines into indicators and scenario settings

The report will document the methods for the production of scenarios and the storylines of these scenarios using the IPBES Nature Futures Framework.

Websites, patent fillings, videos etc. (1)

NaturaConnect Moodle with all capacity building and training materials

All capacity building sessions, material and media will be housed in an online NaturaConnect Moodle which will host online tutorials, demo recording, presentations. The Moodle will complement live and interactive training sections, delivered online or in-person.

Data sets, microdata, etc (1)

Spatial opportunities and constraints for green infrastructure network design

The datasets will include spatially explicit data representative of socio-economic and land-use opportunities and constraints for creating or modifying GI. This includes all protected areas, relevant remotely sensed variables (from Copernicus) and proxies of farmland management intensity, which allows to delineate potential high nature value as well as high-intensity farmlands (which are unlikely to be taken out of production). We will also map direct and indirect threats to biodiversity (e.g., hunting pressure) and proxies for opportunity costs, such as land value, and human population density.

Publications

Peer reviewed articles (43)

Potential sources of time lags in calibrating species distribution models

Author(s): Franz Essl, Adrián García‐Rodríguez, Bernd Lenzner, Jake M Alexander, César Capinha, Pierre Gaüzère, Antoine Guisan, Ingolf Kühn, Jonathan Lenoir, David M Richardson, Sabine B Rumpf, Jens‐Christian Svenning, Wilfried Thuiller, Damaris Zurell, Stefan Dulli
Published in: Journal of Biogeography, Issue 51, 2023, ISSN 0000-0000
Publisher: John Wiley & Sons Ltd
DOI: 10.1111/jbi.14726

Are threatened species important for glueing interaction networks together?

Author(s): Pamela González-del-Pliego, Núria Galiana, Juan David González-Trujillo, Frederico Mestre, Miguel Bastos Araújo, Vinicius A.G. Bastazini
Published in: Perspectives in Ecology and Conservation, Issue 22, 2024, ISSN 2530-0644
Publisher: Elsevier BV
DOI: 10.1016/J.PECON.2024.11.003

Modelling the regional potential for reaching carbon neutrality in Finland: Sustainable forestry, energy use and biodiversity protection.

Author(s): Mäkelä, Annikki, Francesco Minunno, Heini Kujala, Anna-Kaisa Kosenius, Risto K. Heikkinen, Virpi Junttila, Mikko Peltoniemi, and Martin Forsius.
Published in: Ambio, Issue 52, 2023, ISSN 0000-0000
Publisher: Springer
DOI: 10.1007/s13280-023-01860-1

Narratives for Positive Nature Futures in Europe

Author(s): A D'Alessio, C Fornarini, N Fernandez, AS Namasivayam, P Visconti, J Dertien, M Hällfors, M Jung, F Moreira, L O’Connor, M Osti, L Quintero-Uribe, MM Viti, A Lauta, HM Pereira, PH Verburg, C Rondinini
Published in: Environmental Management, 2025, ISSN 0364-152X
Publisher: Springer
DOI: 10.1007/S00267-025-02123-3

A comprehensive framework to assess multi‐species landscape connectivity

Author(s): Marie‐Caroline Prima, Julien Renaud, Isabelle Witté, Léa Suarez, Paul Rouveyrol, Martina Fernando, Andrea Sacchi, Francesca Cosentino, Luca Santini, Luigi Maiorano, Francisco Moreira, Jeremy Dertien, Néstor Fernández, Wilfried Thuiller
Published in: Methods in Ecology and Evolution, Issue 15, 2024, ISSN 2041-210X
Publisher: Wiley
DOI: 10.1111/2041-210X.14444

Identifying ‘climate keystone species’ as a tool for conserving ecological communities under climate change

Author(s): Marjakangas, Emma‐Liina, Andrea Santangeli, Heini Kujala, Stefano Mammola, and Aleksi Lehikoinen
Published in: Diversity and Distributions, 2023, ISSN 0000-0000
Publisher: John Wiley & Sons Ltd.
DOI: 10.1111/ddi.13764

Expanding European protected areas through rewilding

Author(s): Miguel B. Araújo, Diogo Alagador
Published in: Current Biology, Issue 34, 2024, ISSN 0960-9822
Publisher: Elsevier BV
DOI: 10.1016/J.CUB.2024.07.045

Mapping current and future European potential vegetation to support restoration planning

Author(s): Jung, M.
Published in: Earth ArXiv, 2024, ISSN 2331-8422
Publisher: California Digital Library (CDL)
DOI: 10.31223/X59H71

Novel community data in ecology-properties and prospects

Author(s): Hartig, F., Abrego, N., Bush, A., Chase, J. M., Guillera-Arroita, G., Leibold, M. A., Ovaskainen, O., Pellissier, L., Pichler, M., Poggiato, G., Pollock, L., Si-Moussi, S., Thuiller, W., Viana, D. S., Warton, D. I., Zurell, D., Yu, D. W.
Published in: Trends in Ecology & Evolution, Issue 3, 2024, ISSN 1872-8383
Publisher: Elsevier
DOI: 10.1016/J.TREE.2023.09.017

Introduction to deep learning methods for multi‐species predictions

Author(s): Hu Y., Si‐Moussi S., Thuiller W.
Published in: Methods in Ecology and Evolution, 2025, ISSN 2041-210X
Publisher: Wiley
DOI: 10.1111/2041-210X.14466

The exposure of the world’s mountains to global change drivers

Author(s): Dragonetti, Chiara; Daskalova, Gergana; Di Marco, Moreno
Published in: iScience, 2024, ISSN 2589-0042
Publisher: Elsevier
DOI: 10.21203/RS.3.RS-3008744/V1

The road to success and the fences to be crossed: considering multiple infrastructure in landscape connectivity modelling

Author(s): Botting, Isla, Fernando Ascensão, Laetitia M. Navarro, Maria Paniw, Zulima Tablado, Jacinto Román, Eloy Revilla, and Marcello D'Amico
Published in: Wildlife Biology, 2023, ISSN 0000-0000
Publisher: Blackwell Publishing Ltd
DOI: 10.1002/wlb3.01187

Prioritizing global land protection for population persistence can double the efficiency of habitat protection for reducing mammal extinction risk

Author(s): Nicholas H Wolff, Piero Visconti, Heini Kujala, Luca Santini, Jelle P Hilbers, Hugh P Possingham, James R Oakleaf, Christina M Kennedy, Joseph Kiesecker, Joseph Fargione, Edward T Game
Published in: One Earth, Issue 6, 2023, ISSN 0000-0000
Publisher: Elsevier
DOI: 10.1016/j.oneear.2023.10.001

Input data resolution affects the conservation prioritization outcome of spatially sparse biodiversity features

Author(s): Tanhuanpää, Topi, Ninni Mikkonen, Heini Kujala, Einari Heinaro, Janne Mäyrä, and Timo Kumpula.
Published in: Ambio, Issue 52, 2023, ISSN 0000-0000
Publisher: Springer Netherlands
DOI: 10.1007/s13280-023-01885-6/

Integrating food webs in species distribution models improves ecological niche estimation and predictions

Author(s): Poggiato, Giovanni, Jérémy Andréoletti, Laura Shirley, and Wilfried Thuiller.
Published in: Ecography, 2025, ISSN 1600-0587
Publisher: Wiley
DOI: 10.1111/ECOG.07546

Using the Nature Futures Framework as a lens for developing plural land use scenarios for Europe for 2050

Author(s): Dou, Yue, Cecilia Zagaria, Louise O'Connor, Wilfried Thuiller, and Peter H. Verburg.
Published in: Global Environmental Change, Issue 83, 2023, ISSN 0000-0000
Publisher: ScienceDirect
DOI: 10.1016/j.gloenvcha.2023.102766

Trends in Ecology and Ecolution

Author(s): Dansereau, G., Braga, J., Ficetola, G. F., Galiana, N., Gravel, D., Maiorano, L., Montoya, J. M., O'Connor, L., Pollock, L. J., Thuiller, W., Poisot, T., Barros, C.
Published in: Trends in Ecology and Evolution, 2025, ISSN 0169-5347
Publisher: Elsevier BV
DOI: 10.32942/X23P73

Land‐use intensity influences European tetrapod food webs

Author(s): Christophe Botella, Pierre Gaüzère, Louise O'Connor, Marc Ohlmann, Julien Renaud, Yue Dou, Catherine H. Graham, Peter H. Verburg, Luigi Maiorano, Wilfried Thuiller
Published in: Global Change Biology, Issue 30, 2024, ISSN 1354-1013
Publisher: Wiley
DOI: 10.1111/GCB.17167

Predict first–assemble later versus assemble first–predict later: Revisiting the dilemma for functional biogeography

Author(s): Deschamps, Gabrielle, Giovanni Poggiato, Philipp Brun, Clovis Galiez, and Wilfried Thuiller
Published in: Methods in Ecology and Evolution, Issue 14, 2023, ISSN 0000-0000
Publisher: Wiley (society journal run by BES)
DOI: 10.1111/2041-210X.14203

Global relationships between crop yield and pollinator abundance

Author(s): Liam Vezzani; Aafke M. Schipper; Wilfried Thuiller; Peter H. Verburg; Henrik G. Smith; Alexandra Marques
Published in: Journal of Applied Ecology, 2025, ISSN 1365-2664
Publisher: Wiley
DOI: 10.1111/1365-2664.70042

Potential sources of time lags in calibrating species distribution models

Author(s): Essl, F., García-Rodríguez, A., Lenzner, B., Alexander, J. M., Capinha, C., Gaüzère, P., Guisan, A., Kühn, I., Lenoir, J., Richardson, D. M., Rumpf, S. B., Svenning, J.-C., Thuiller, W., Zurell, D., & Dullinger, S.
Published in: Journal of Biogeography, 2024, ISSN 1365-2699
Publisher: Wiley
DOI: 10.1111/JBI.14726

Biodiversity modeling advances will improve predictions of nature’s contributions to people

Author(s): Kass, Jamie M.; Fukaya, Keiichi; Thuiller, Wilfried; Mori, Akira S.
Published in: Trends in Ecology & Evolution, Issue 4, 2024, ISSN 1872-8383
Publisher: Elsevier
DOI: 10.1016/J.TREE.2023.10.011

The accelerating exposure of European protected areas to climate change

Author(s): Cimatti, M., Mezzanotte, V., Heikkinen, R. K., Hällfors, M. H., Karger, D. N., Di Marco, M.
Published in: Global Change Biology, 2025, ISSN 1365-2486
Publisher: Wiley
DOI: 10.1111/GCB.70261

An interoperable and standardized protocol for reporting systematic conservation planning projects

Author(s): Martin Jung; Vanessa M. Adams; Diogo Alagador; Jorge G. Álvarez‐Romero; Miguel B. Araujo; Anni Arponen; Maria Beger; Jutta Beher; Silvia B. Carvalho; Sylvaine Giakoumi; Jeffrey O. Hanson; Virgilio Hermoso; Kerstin Jantke; Heini Kujala; Jennifer McGowan; Anna Metaxas; Louise O'Connor; Jose Salgado‐Rojas; Richard Schuster; Bob Smith; Piero Visconti
Published in: Conservation Science and Practice, 2025, ISSN 2578-4854
Publisher: Wiley
DOI: 10.1111/CSP2.70097

The Role of Brownfields and Their Revitalisation for the Functional Connectivity of the Urban Tree System in a Regrowing City

Author(s): Manuel Wolff; Dagmar Haase; Jörg Priess; Tobias Leander Hoffmann
Published in: land, Issue 12, 2023, ISSN 0000-0000
Publisher: mdpi
DOI: 10.3390/land12020333

Dependence of Europe's most threatened mammals on movement to adapt to climate change

Author(s): Diogo Alagador
Published in: Conservation Biology, Issue 39, 2025, ISSN 0888-8892
Publisher: Wiley
DOI: 10.1111/COBI.14315

Ecological Indicators

Author(s): Manuel Wolff; Benjamin Labohm; Dagmar Haase; Erik Andersson
Published in: Ecological Indicators, 2024, ISSN 1470-160X
Publisher: Elsevier BV
DOI: 10.18452/32865

An assessment of the state of conservation planning in Europe

Author(s): Martin Jung; Diogo Alagador; Melissa Chapman; Virgilio Hermoso; Heini Kujala; Louise O'Connor; Rafaela Schinegger; Peter H. Verburg; Piero Visconti
Published in: Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society B: Biological Sciences, Issue 1902, 2024, ISSN 1471-2970
Publisher: The Royal Society
DOI: 10.1098/RSTB.2023.0015

Transnational conservation to anticipate future plant shifts in Europe

Author(s): Yohann Chauvier-Mendes; Laura J. Pollock; Peter H. Verburg; Dirk N. Karger; Loïc Pellissier; Sébastien Lavergne; Niklaus E. Zimmermann; Wilfried Thuiller
Published in: Nature Ecology & Evolution, 2023, ISSN 2397-334X
Publisher: Springer Nature
DOI: 10.21203/RS.3.RS-2599463/V1

Integrating carbon sequestration and biodiversity impacts in forested ecosystems: Concepts, cases, and policies

Author(s): Alam, Syed Ashraful, Sonja Kivinen, Heini Kujala, Topi Tanhuanpää, and Martin Forsius.
Published in: Ambio, Issue 52, 2023, ISSN 0000-0000
Publisher: Springer Netherlands
DOI: 10.1007/s13280-023-01931-3

Gradual or abrupt? An algorithm to monitor urban vegetation dynamics in support of greening policies

Author(s): Cortinovis, Chiara, Dagmar Haase, and Davide Geneletti
Published in: Urban Forestry & Urban Greening, Issue 86, 2023, ISSN 0000-0000
Publisher: Urban & Fischer
DOI: 10.1016/j.ufug.2023.128030

Ten steps towards integrated decision making for ecological restoration in cities: Rewilding the European beaver (Castor fiber) in Berlin, Germany

Author(s): Sophia Rouella Edejer, Dagmar Haase, Matthew Dennis, Annegret Larsen
Published in: MethodsX, Issue 13, 2024, ISSN 2215-0161
Publisher: Elsevier BV
DOI: 10.1016/J.MEX.2024.102827

Biodiversity modeling advances will improve predictions of nature’s contributions to people

Author(s): Kass, Jamie M., Keiichi Fukaya, Wilfried Thuiller, and Akira S. Mori
Published in: Trends in Ecology & Evolution, 2023, ISSN 0000-0000
Publisher: Elsevier
DOI: 10.1016/j.tree.2023.10.011

Meeting European Union biodiversity targets under future land-use demands

Author(s): Melissa Chapman; Martin Jung; David Leclère; Carl Boettiger; Andrey L. D. Augustynczik; Mykola Gusti; Leopold Ringwald; Piero Visconti
Published in: Nature Ecology & Evolution, Issue 9, 2025, ISSN 2397-334X
Publisher: Nature Springer
DOI: 10.31219/OSF.IO/YNQFX_V2

Role of data uncertainty when identifying important areas for biodiversity and carbon in boreal forests

Author(s): Kujala, Heini, Francesco Minunno, Virpi Junttila, Ninni Mikkonen, Annikki Mäkelä, Raimo Virkkala, Anu Akujärvi, Niko Leikola, and Risto K. Heikkinen
Published in: Ambio, Issue 52, 2023, ISSN 0000-0000
Publisher: Springer
DOI: 10.1007/s13280-023-01908-2

A practical approach to constructing a knowledge graph for soil ecological research

Author(s): Le Guillarme, N., and W. Thuiller
Published in: European Journal of Soil Biology, Issue 117, 2023, ISSN 0000-0000
Publisher: Elsevier
DOI: 10.1016/j.ejsobi.2023.103497

An assessment of the state of conservation planning in Europe

Author(s): Jung, Martin, Diogo Alagador, Melissa Chapman, Virgilio Hermoso, Heini Kujala, Loiuse O'Conoor, Rafaela Schinegger, Peter Verburg, and Piero Visconti
Published in: OSF Preprints, 2024
Publisher: OSF Preprints
DOI: 10.1098/rstb.2023.0015

Linking biodiversity, ecosystem function, and Nature’s contributions to people: a macroecological energy flux perspective

Author(s): Ana Carolina Antunes, Emilio Berti, Ulrich Brose, Myriam R. Hirt, Dirk N. Karger, Louise M.J. O’Connor, Laura J. Pollock, Wilfried Thuiller, Benoit Gauzens
Published in: Trends in Ecology & Evolution, Issue 39, 2024, ISSN 1872-8383
Publisher: Elsevier BV
DOI: 10.1016/J.TREE.2024.01.004

Habitat Suitability of European Land Systems for Terrestrial Vertebrates

Author(s): Louise M. J. O'Connor, Julien Renaud, Yue Dou, Dirk Nikolaus Karger, Luigi Maiorano, Peter H. Verburg, Wilfried Thuiller
Published in: Global Ecology and Biogeography, Issue 33, 2025, ISSN 1466-822X
Publisher: Wiley
DOI: 10.1111/GEB.13903

Generation length of the world's amphibians and reptiles

Author(s): G. Mancini; L. Santini; V. Cazalis; F. Ficetola; S. Meiri; U. Roll; S. Silvestri; D. Pincheira-Donoso; M. Di Marco
Published in: Ecography, 2025, ISSN 1600-0587
Publisher: Wiley
DOI: 10.1101/2024.05.23.595540

Navigating the integration of biotic interactions in biogeography

Author(s): Thuiller, Wilfried, Irene Calderón‐Sanou, Loïc Chalmandrier, Pierre Gaüzère, Louise MJ O'Connor, Marc Ohlmann, Giovanni Poggiato, and Tamara Münkemüller.
Published in: Journal of Biogeography, 2023, ISSN 0000-0000
Publisher: Wiley
DOI: 10.1111/jbi.14734

2030 conservation targets for European terrestrial mammals using the favourable conservation status concept

Author(s): Alessandra D’Alessio; Marco Davoli; Carlo Rondinini; Michela Pacifici
Published in: Scientific Data, 2025, ISSN 2052-4463
Publisher: Springer Nature
DOI: 10.1038/S41597-025-04878-0

Vulnerability of terrestrial vertebrate food webs to anthropogenic threats in Europe

Author(s): Louise M. J. O'Connor, Francesca Cosentino, Michael B. J. Harfoot, Luigi Maiorano, Chiara Mancino, Laura J. Pollock, Wilfried Thuiller
Published in: Global Change Biology, Issue 30, 2024, ISSN 1354-1013
Publisher: Wiley
DOI: 10.1111/GCB.17253

Conference proceedings (1)

Designing a resilient and coherent Trans-European conservation Network for Nature and People

Author(s): Visconti, P.; Jung, M.; Beher, J.; Osti, M.; Fernandez, N.; Pereira, H.; Fernandez, M.
Published in: 2022, ISSN 0000-0000
Publisher: No publisher

Other (2)

State of play and future steps for the EU Biodiversity Strategy (EU BDS) dashboard

Author(s): Robuchon, M., Liquete Garcia, M.D.C., Dubois, G., Petri, E., Braz, P., Dalla Costa, S., Borg, J., Grizzetti, B., Paracchini, M. and Visconti, P.
Published in: 2023, ISSN 0000-0000
Publisher: European Commission

Standardized reference grids for spatial analyses at various grain sizes

Author(s): Jung, M.
Published in: 2023, ISSN 0000-0000
Publisher: No publisher

Thesis and dissertations (1)

Ecological Connectivity and Habitat Banking in Doñana, Spain

Author(s): Ingvarsson, M.
Published in: 2024
Publisher: N/A