safeGUARDing biodivErsity aNd critical ecosystem services across sectors and scales

Informations projet

GUARDEN

N° de convention de subvention: 101060693

DOI

10.3030/101060693

Projet clôturé

Date de signature de la CE 8 Juin 2022

Date de début 1 Novembre 2022

Date de fin 31 Octobre 2025

Financé au titre de

• Food, Bioeconomy Natural Resources, Agriculture and Environment

Coût total

€ 4 556 888,75

Contribution de l’UE

€ 4 556 888,75

Coordonné par

CENTRE DE COOPERATION INTERNATIONALE EN RECHERCHE AGRONOMIQUE POUR LEDEVELOPPEMENT - C.I.R.A.D. EPIC
France

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Livrables

Websites, patent fillings, videos etc. (4)

D2.1 - MSP and functional requirements elicitation and analysis

MSP and functional requirements elicitation and analysis (DRAXIS) [M14]: Version including the MSP guidelines, and the methodological framework of the co-creation processes, providing the assessment of end-user needs according to the results and the produced matrixes.

D6.3 - Capacity building, literacy and trainings

Final version presenting the implemented capacity building activities and training material.

D6.1 - Dissemination, communication and data governance plan - Initial

Initial report presenting the dissemination, communication, and data governance plan and undertaken activities.

D6.2 - Dissemination, communication and data governance plan - Final

Updated report presenting the dissemination, communication, and data governance plan and undertaken activities.

Documents, reports (6)

D5.3 - Performance evaluation, impact assessment and replication guidelines - Initial

Initial report on the performance evaluation and impact analysis, as well as the replication guidelines.

D5.1 - Planning and setup handbook, and operational management report - Initial

Initial version including the planning and setup handbook

D2.2 - Case studies requirements, dimensions and target KPIs - Initial

Case studies requirements, dimensions and target KPIs (DRAXIS) [M07]: Initial version including the initial collection of (non-)functional requirements, selected KPIs and target values, following up on analysis and feedback from the technical deliverables and end-users’ final requirements.

D5.4 - Performance evaluation, impact assessment and replication guidelines - Final

Final report on the performance evaluation and impact analysis, as well as the replication guidelines.

D2.4 - Policy and impact indicators for biodiversity and NCPs

Version including the list of potential indicators based on the literature review, with the selected ones.

D2.3 - Case studies requirements, dimensions and target KPIs - Final

Final version including the initial collection of (non-)functional requirements, selected KPIs and target values, following up on analysis and feedback from the technical deliverables and end-users’ final requirements.

Other (11)

D4.3 - Integrated GUARDEN system and DSAs - Intial

Initial version of the integrated GUARDEN system and the five developed DSAs

D2.5 - GUARDEN system architecture design and technical specifications - Initial

GUARDEN system architecture design and technical specifications (INRIA) [M09]: Initial version with the technical specifications.

D3.3 - Improving species assemblages' prediction through species interactions - Initial

Initial version including the construction of species interaction networks.

D3.6 - Future trajectories of biodiversity and ecosystem services

Future trajectories of biodiversity and ecosystem services (HUA) [M25]: Version including data for future states of ecosystem service supply, flow and demand at the European and case studies levels.

D3.1 - Community-level species identification services

Community-level species identification services (NBC) [M22]: Version including the recognition algorithms of the web services of Community-level Species Identification.

D4.4 - Integrated GUARDEN system and DSAs - Final

Final version of the integrated GUARDEN system and the five developed DSAs, including the feedback received after users’ experience.

D4.2 - GUARDEN ICT tools - Final

Final version of the GUARDEN ICT tools after integrating the feedback received from the first validation cycle during the case studies

D4.1 - GUARDEN ICT tools - Initial

Initial version of the GUARDEN ICT tools

D3.5 - Maps of biodiversity indicators, habitats and ecosystem level

Maps of biodiversity indicators, habitats and ecosystem level (INRIA) [M24]: Version (after the first case studies’ cycle) of maps of biodiversity indicators, habitats and ecosystem levels.

D2.6 - GUARDEN system architecture design and technical specifications - Final

GUARDEN system architecture design and technical specifications (INRIA) [M18]: Final (B) version with the technical specifications and with the final GUARDEN system architecture.

D3.7 - Enhanced planning and management of ecosystem services

Enhanced planning and management of ecosystem services (HUA) [M26]: Version including the analysis of a set of management alternatives for ecosystem services and the plug-in function for the GUARDEN system, for the visualisation of scenarios.

Demonstrators, pilots, prototypes (1)

D5.2 - Planning and setup handbook, and operational management report - Final

Final version presenting the GUARDEN system validation and field trial results of the 5 undertaken case studies.

Publications

Conference proceedings (18)

Mapping biodiversity at very-high resolution in Europe

Auteurs: César Leblanc, Lukas Picek, Benjamin Deneu, Pierre Bonnet, Maximilien Servajean, Rémi Palard, Alexis Joly
Publié dans: arXiv, 2025
Éditeur: Cornell University
DOI: 10.48550/ARXIV.2504.05231

Expert Finding for Citizen Science

Auteurs: Bjoern Komander, Jesus Cerquides, Jaume Piera, Jeffrey Chan, Azadeh Alavi
Publié dans: Artificial Intelligence Research and Development, Numéro Volume 375: Artificial Intelligence Research and Development, 2023, ISBN 978-1-64368-448-2
Éditeur: IOS Press
DOI: 10.3233/FAIA230659

An approximate process for designing ethical environments with multi-agent reinforcement learning

Auteurs: An approximate process for designing ethical environments with multi-agent reinforcement learning Download PDF Arnau Mayoral Macau, Manel Rodriguez-Soto, Maite López-Sánchez, Juan Antonio Rodriguez Aguilar, Enrico Marchesini, Alessandro Farinelli
Publié dans: The Sixteenth Workshop on Adaptive and Learning Agents, 2024
Éditeur: OpenReview

Synergizing Digital, Biological, and Participatory Sciences for Global Plant Species Identification: Enabling access to a worldwide identification service

Auteurs: P. Bonnet, A. Affouard, J.-Ch. Lombardo, M. Chouet, H. Gresse, V. Hequet, R. Palard, M. Fromholtz, V. Espitalier, H. Goëau, B. Deneu, C. Botella, J. Estopinan, C. Leblanc, M. Servajean, F. Munoz, A. Joly
Publié dans: Biodiversity Information Science and Standards, Numéro 7.112545, 2023, ISSN 2535-0897
Éditeur: ARPHA
DOI: 10.3897/biss.7.112545

Spatio-temporal changes of forest boundaries with the use of landscape metrics, at the geographical edges of the Greek inland

Auteurs: Boutsios, S. & Drakou, E.
Publié dans: 11th Congress of the Hellenic Ecological Society, 2023
Éditeur: Hellenic Ecological Society

InsectSet459: an open dataset of insect sounds for bioacoustic machine learning

Auteurs: Marius Faiß, Burooj Ghani, Dan Stowell
Publié dans: arXiv, 2025
Éditeur: Cornell University
DOI: 10.48550/ARXIV.2503.15074

Overview of PlantCLEF 2025: Multi-Species Plant Identification in Vegetation Quadrat Images

Auteurs: Giulio Martellucci, Herve Goeau, Pierre Bonnet, Fabrice Vinatier, Alexis Joly
Publié dans: arXiv, 2025
Éditeur: Cornell University
DOI: 10.48550/ARXIV.2509.17602

Overview of GeoLifeCLEF 2023: Species Composition Prediction with High Spatial Resolution at Continental Scale Using Remote Sensing

Auteurs: Christophe Botella, Benjamin Deneu, Diego Marcos Gonzalez, Maximilien Servajean, Théo Larcher, César Leblanc, Joachim Estopinan, Pierre Bonnet, Alexis Joly
Publié dans: Working Notes of the Conference and Labs of the Evaluation Forum (CLEF 2023), Numéro Vol-3497, 2023, ISSN 1613-0073
Éditeur: CEUR-WS Workshop Proceedings

Quantifying spatio-temporal patterns of forest fragmentation in Hymettus Mountain, Greece

Auteurs: Lorilla, R.S. & Drakou, E.
Publié dans: 11th Congress of the Hellenic Ecological Society, 2023
Éditeur: Hellenic Ecological Society

Developing and Validating Tools for the Automated Analysis and Enhancement of Online Discussions

Auteurs: Bjoern Komander, Jesus Cerquides, Jaume Piera
Publié dans: Frontiers in Artificial Intelligence and Applications, Numéro Volume 368, 2023, ISBN 978-1-64368-394-2
Éditeur: IOS Press
DOI: 10.3233/FAIA230120

LifeCLEF 2024 teaser: Species Identification and Prediction Challenges

Auteurs: Joly & al
Publié dans: Advances in Information Retrieval, 2024, ISBN 978-3-031-56072-9
Éditeur: Springer Nature Switzerland
DOI: 10.1007/978-3-031-56072-9_3

Mapping joint species distribution model predictions on the known species interactions space to increase causal understanding.

Auteurs: Christophe Van Neste, Quentin Groom
Publié dans: European Conference on Ecological Modelling - ECOLOGICAL MODELLING FOR TRANSFORMATION, Numéro ECEM23, 2023
Éditeur: International Society for Ecological Modelling

Decision-making in citizen science technologies: a spectrum of possibilities

Auteurs: Karen Soacha Godoy and Jaume Piera
Publié dans: Conference XIX Biennial IASC Conference 'The Commons We Want: Between Historical Legacies and Future Collective Actions', 2023
Éditeur: IASC

A framework for assessing changes in ecosystem services within the priorities of the new EU Green Deal.

Auteurs: Lorilla, R.S. & Drakou, E.
Publié dans: Proceedings of the 11th Congress of the Hellenic Ecological Society, 2023
Éditeur: Hellenic Ecological Society

Overview of PlantCLEF 2023: Image-based Plant Identification at Global Scale

Auteurs: Hervé Goëau, Pierre Bonnet, and Alexis Joly
Publié dans: Working Notes of the Conference and Labs of the Evaluation Forum (CLEF 2023), Numéro Vol-3497, 2023, ISSN 1613-0073
Éditeur: CEUR-WS Workshop Proceedings

An Analytical Study of Utility Functions in Multi-Objective Reinforcement Learning

Auteurs: Rodríguez Soto, M., Rodriguez-Aguilar, J. A., & Lopez-Sanchez, M.
Publié dans: 2024
Éditeur: NeurIPS

Decoding Cheese Ripening: A Deep Learning Approach to Non-Invasive Monitoring

Auteurs: Daniel Pardo, Mehmet Oguz Mulayim, Manuel Castillo
Publié dans: Artificial Intelligence Research and Development, 2025
Éditeur: IOS Press
DOI: 10.3233/FAIA250613

Overview of LifeCLEF 2023: evaluation of AI models for the identification and prediction of birds, plants, snakes and fungi

Auteurs: Alexis Joly, Christophe Botella, Lukáš Picek, Stefan Kahl, Hervé Goëau, Benjamin Deneu, Diego Marcos, Joaquim Estopinan, César Leblanc, Théo Larcher
Publié dans: Experimental IR Meets Multilinguality, Multimodality, and Interaction, Numéro 14163, 2023, ISBN 978-3-031-42447-2
Éditeur: Springer, Cham
DOI: 10.1007/978-3-031-42448-9_27

Other (2)

Modelling Species Distributions with Deep Learning to Predict Plant Extinction Risk and Assess Climate Change Impacts

Auteurs: Estopinan, Joaquim; Bonnet, Pierre; Servajean, Maximilien; Munoz, François; Joly, Alexis
Publié dans: 2024
Éditeur: arXiv
DOI: 10.48550/ARXIV.2401.05470

The GeoLifeCLEF 2023 Dataset to evaluate plant species distribution models at high spatial resolution across Europe

Auteurs: Botella, Christophe; Deneu, Benjamin; Marcos, Diego; Servajean, Maximilien; Estopinan, Joaquim; Larcher, Théo; Leblanc, César; Bonnet, Pierre; Joly, Alexis
Publié dans: https://hal.science/hal-04152362, 2023, ISSN 0415-2362
Éditeur: hal
DOI: 10.48550/arxiv.2308.05121

Peer reviewed articles (6)

Mapping global orchid assemblages with deep learning provides novel conservation insights

Auteurs: Joaquim Estopinan, Maximilien Servajean, Pierre Bonnet, Alexis Joly, François Munoz
Publié dans: Ecological Informatics, Numéro 81, 2024, ISSN 1574-9541
Éditeur: Elsevier BV
DOI: 10.1016/j.ecoinf.2024.102627

Efficient Speech Detection in Environmental Audio Using Acoustic Recognition and Knowledge Distillation

Auteurs: Drew Priebe, Burooj Ghani and Dan Stowell
Publié dans: Sensors, Numéro 7, 2024, ISSN 1424-8220
Éditeur: MDPI
DOI: 10.3390/s24072046

Adapting a global plant identification model to detect invasive alien plant species in high-resolution road side images

Auteurs: Vincent Espitalier, Jean-Christophe Lombardo, Hervé Goëau, Christophe Botella, Toke Thomas Høye, Mads Dyrmann, Pierre Bonnet, Alexis Joly
Publié dans: Ecological Informatics, Numéro 89, 2025, ISSN 1574-9541
Éditeur: Elsevier BV
DOI: 10.1016/J.ECOINF.2025.103129

Spatial identification of areas suitable for other effective area‐based conservation measures in the European Union

Auteurs: George Kefalas, Roxanne Suzette Lorilla, Stefanos Boutsios, Dimitrios Bormpoudakis, Pierre Bonnet, Alexandra Demertzi, Camino Liquete, Ioannis Ν. Vogiatzakis, Joseph Tzanopoulos, Jasmin Upton, Emily Howland, Heather Bingham, Konstantina Apostolopoulou, Neil Burgess, Evangelia G. Drakou
Publié dans: Conservation Biology, 2026, ISSN 0888-8892
Éditeur: Wiley
DOI: 10.1111/COBI.70263

Revealing biases in insect observations: A comparative analysis between academic and citizen science data

Auteurs: Joan Díaz-Calafat, Sebastià Jaume-Ramis, Karen Soacha, Ana Álvarez, Jaume Piera
Publié dans: PLOS ONE, Numéro 19, 2024, ISSN 1932-6203
Éditeur: Public Library of Science (PLoS)
DOI: 10.1371/JOURNAL.PONE.0305757

Co-developing ecosystem services indicators for sustainable local decision-making

Auteurs: R.S. Lorilla, G. Kefalas, J. Ducrettet, A. Stritih, S. Boutsios, L. Sirvent, R. Palard, A. Joly, P. Bonnet, E.G. Drakou
Publié dans: Environmental and Sustainability Indicators, Numéro 30, 2026, ISSN 2665-9727
Éditeur: Elsevier BV
DOI: 10.1016/J.INDIC.2026.101233

Book chapters (1)

Overview of LifeCLEF 2025: Challenges on Species Presence Prediction and Identification, and Individual Animal Identification

Auteurs: Lukáš Picek, Stefan Kahl, Hervé Goëau, Lukáš Adam, Théo Larcher, Cesar Leblanc, Maximilien Servajean, Klára Janoušková, Jiří Matas, Vojtěch Čermák, Kostas Papafitsoros, Robert Planqué, Willem-Pier Vellinga, Holger Klinck, Tom Denton, Juan Sebastián Cañas, Giulio Martellucci, Fabrice Vinatier, Pierre Bonnet, Alexis Joly
Publié dans: Lecture Notes in Computer Science, Experimental IR Meets Multilinguality, Multimodality, and Interaction, 2025
Éditeur: Springer Nature Switzerland
DOI: 10.1007/978-3-032-04354-2_19

Thesis and dissertations (1)

A predictive approach to determining the joint conservation status of species

Auteurs: Joaquim Estopina
Publié dans: UM PhD Thesis, 2023
Éditeur: University of Montpellier