Terrestrial and marine ecosystems provide essential goods and services to human societies. In the last decades, however, anthropogenic pressure has produced a loss of ecosystem services that can seriously affect human wellbeing and climate processes at local and regional scale. In order to improve ecosystem benefits, knowledge-based conservation, management and restoration policies are urgently needed. Fundamental to all these is effective monitoring of the state and trends in ecosystem conditions and services. New monitoring methodologies are now available, combining approaches in geo- and bioscience, earth observation data, and in situ data. This digital poster synthesizes the objectives and methods of the ECOPOTENTIAL project, a European Horizon 2020 project started in June 2015, which has been designed to reach significant progress beyond the state of the art on ecosystem services. The project focuses its activities and pilot actions on a targeted set of internationally recognized protected areas (PA) in Europe, European Territories and beyond, over a broad range of habitats, ecosystems and landscapes, including wetlands, arid and mountain ecosystems.
Gli ecosistemi terrestri e marini forniscono beni e servizi essenziali alle società umane. Negli ultimi decenni, tuttavia, la pressione antropica ha prodotto una perdita di servizi ecosistemici che può seriamente influenzare il benessere umano e i processi climatici su scala locale e regionale. Al fine di migliorare i benefici degli ecosistemi, sono urgentemente necessarie politiche di conservazione, gestione e ripristino basate sulla conoscenza. Fondamentale per tutto questo è il monitoraggio efficace dello stato e delle tendenze delle condizioni e dei servizi ecosistemici. Sono ora disponibili nuove metodologie di monitoraggio che combinano approcci in geo- e bioscienze, dati di osservazione della terra e dati in situ. Questo poster digitale sintetizza gli obiettivi e i metodi del progetto ECOPOTENTIAL, un progetto europeo Horizon 2020 iniziato nel giugno 2015, che è stato progettato per raggiungere progressi significativi oltre lo stato dell'arte sui servizi ecosistemici. Il progetto concentra le sue attività e azioni pilota su un insieme mirato di aree protette (PA) riconosciute a livello internazionale in Europa, nei territori europei e oltre, su una vasta gamma di habitat, ecosistemi e paesaggi, comprese le zone umide, gli ecosistemi aridi e montani.
ECOPOTENTIAL: Using Earth Observations to Protect Natural Landscapes
Antonello Provenzale;Mariasilvia Giamberini;Carmela Marangi
2018
Abstract
Terrestrial and marine ecosystems provide essential goods and services to human societies. In the last decades, however, anthropogenic pressure has produced a loss of ecosystem services that can seriously affect human wellbeing and climate processes at local and regional scale. In order to improve ecosystem benefits, knowledge-based conservation, management and restoration policies are urgently needed. Fundamental to all these is effective monitoring of the state and trends in ecosystem conditions and services. New monitoring methodologies are now available, combining approaches in geo- and bioscience, earth observation data, and in situ data. This digital poster synthesizes the objectives and methods of the ECOPOTENTIAL project, a European Horizon 2020 project started in June 2015, which has been designed to reach significant progress beyond the state of the art on ecosystem services. The project focuses its activities and pilot actions on a targeted set of internationally recognized protected areas (PA) in Europe, European Territories and beyond, over a broad range of habitats, ecosystems and landscapes, including wetlands, arid and mountain ecosystems.I documenti in IRIS sono protetti da copyright e tutti i diritti sono riservati, salvo diversa indicazione.
