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CLIMANATRES – Climate proofing ecological restoration plans in the middle and lower Danube Region

Megvalósítás alatt lévő/Futó projekt

Summary:

Our project and we are committed to creation of habitat suitability models & maps for the region, apply them to climate change scenarios, produce decision support tools to underpin restoration mapping, test their applicability and work out their applicability in seamless restoration planning in the region.

Interreg Danube CLIMANATRES project aimed to ensure more efficient adaptation to the negative impacts of climate change on habitat types including EU priority types in the ecological corridor of the middle and lower Danube.

To achieve this goal, we aim at improving and applying existing potential habitat distribution models that reflect climate conditions. The ultimate aim of the project is to contribute to the national Nature Restoration Plans and management of protected areas and ecological corridors. Consequently, we focus on the well-represented and plausible confined lowland and low mountain areas for which we also have long developed and reliable modelling methodology to serve the needs of nature restoration planning.

However, in a region, where climate is expected to shift that in turn is expected to induce shifts in vegetations, single-country climate change impact assessments are suboptimal. The proposed project is the first, that would allow the coherent assessment of both habitat-environment relationships and climate change impact over a region, where present-future climate analogues can be found.

This project is supported by the Interreg Danube Region Programme co-funded by the European Union.