The key ongoing and foreseen contributions of the Inspire4Nature scientific results are:
- Contributions to Key Biodiversity Areas methods and data, including: through the development of a package for identifying Key Biodiversity Areas from tracking data; contributing to the testing and refinement of KBA Criterion E; bringing together data from a large diversity of taxonomic groups to identify potential KBA sites in Greece.
- Contributions to evaluating the effectiveness of Protected Areas, including by: investigating the effectiveness of tropical and subtropical PAs at preventing deforestation; analyzing the permeability of protected areas to non-native species; quantifying the effects of conservation management on wetland birds; demonstrating the effect of protected areas in tropical forest biodiversity hotspots at conserving birds; evaluated the coverage of threatened species by the Natura 2000 network; investigating if Marine Protected Areas in the Atlantic Ocean are well-placed to conserve migratory seabirds.
- Development of IUCN Red List of Threatened Species, by: advancing knowledge on the status of European Endemic fishes; production of new global map of terrestrial habitats; production of Area of Habitat maps for the world’s terrestrial birds and mammals.
- Contribution to the development of biodiversity indicators, namely global coverage of protected areas and coverage of protected areas by KBAs, and the Living Planet Index.]
- Investigating how species’ traits affect their responses to climate and land cover changes in order to better predictions of the responses of biodiversity to future global change. n).
- Guide priorities for international cooperation to conserve migratory birds, both marine and terrestrial.
With each Individual Research Project designed to be at the interface between the science and the policy of international biodiversity conservation, most of the results obtained in these projects (databases, methods, spatial layers, analytical results) are feeding, and will continue to feed, direction into the ongoing work of the non-academic partners to inform, influence and monitor biodiversity-relevant international policy processes such as those ongoing discussions for the Convention on Biological Diversity’s post-2020 Global Biodiversity Framework.
