CIMPAL Calculator (Cumulative IMPacts of invasive ALien species calculator)

This service aims at calculating a spatialized cumulative impact index, generating vulnerability maps, which is based on the spatially-explicit model of global geographical application "Cumulative IMPacts of invasive ALien species" by Katsanevakis et al. 2016.

It represents the Step 6 of the Biotope vulnerability Workflow within the Internal Joint Initiative.

Date ( Creation): 2019-07-04

Date ( Publication): 2021-03-17

Status: Under development / Pre operational

Principal investigator

CESAM - University of Aveiro - Heliana Teixeira

Principal investigator

UC Louvain - Julien Radoux

Custodian

LifeWatch ERIC ICT Core - Antonio José SÁENZ-ALBANÉS

Publisher

LifeWatch ERIC Service Centre - Lucia Vaira

Principal investigator

LifeWatch ERIC ICT Core - ICT Core Group

Keywords: climate change

Keywords: modelling

Keywords: index

Keywords: impacts

Keywords: vulnerability

Keywords: cumulative

Keywords: Biotope

Keywords: IJI

Keywords: alien species

Access constraints: License

Use limitation: The final license will be available soon

OnLine resource: Mapping the impact of alien species on marine ecosystems: the Mediterranean Sea case study (
WWW:LINK-1.0-http--link
)

Operation name: alientaxa.txt

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Description: It is a TXT file with TSV data that includes the alien taxa in the area of interest, from GRIIS or uploaded by the user.

Function: Input file

Operation name: occurrences.txt

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Description: It is a TXT file with TSV data about species occurrences in one country.

Function: Input file

Operation name: Biotope_NIS_impact_matrix.tsv

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Description: It links a species impact to a given biotope using predefined weights (defined by the user own criteria / framework). A species can impact multiple biotope categories with different impact weights. If available, the strength of evidence of each specific species-biotope impact weight can be provided, which will allow to calculate an "uncertainty averse" version of the CIMPAL index, otherwise only a "precautionary" version is calculated.

Function: Input file

Operation name: NIS_pathways_introduction.tsv

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Description: It is an optional file that lists the possible pathways or vectors of introduction (the categories are defined by the user) for each alien species. More than one pathway is allowed per species.

Function: Input file

Operation name: Biotopes.zip

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Description: It represents the habitat spatial layers, habitat names must match the biotope categories used in input file "Biotope_NIS_impact_matrix.csv". This information can be provided as a set of files with a single biotope per file (in which case the file must be named single_[name_of_biotope].shp )], as a file with multiple biotopes (in which case the name of each biotope is stored in a field called "Habitat"), or both. E.g. EUNIS, EMODNET, Corine, Copernicus.