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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.
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Identification
- Date ( Creation )
- 2019-07-04
- Date ( Publication )
- 2021-03-17
- Status
- Under development / Pre operational
- Version
- 1.0
- 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
- 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
- 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
- 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
- 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
- Description
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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.
- Function
- Input file
- Operation name
- Vulnerability_maps.tiff
- Description
- It is the vulnerability of biotopes to invasive alien species according to the cumulative magnitude of impact reported.
- Function
- Output file
- Operation name
- cimpal_*_weight_wp.tiff
- Function
- Output file
- Operation name
- impact_*_weight_wp.tiff
- Description
- It represents the vulnerability of biotopes to the impacts of a given alien species according to the magnitude of impact reported.
- Function
- Output file
- Service Category
- data processing
- Service Language
- eng
- Service TRL
- TRL 7 – System prototype demonstration in operational environment
