Local climate change projections
We design tools to simulate expected changes in future climate and assess how they may affect us through risk and vulnerability analysis.
About the project
FORESTECCO – Strengthening Ecological Restoration and Green Infrastructure for the adaptation of forest species to Climate Change – is a project funded by the Biodiversity Foundation and the Ministry for Ecological Transition and the Demographic Challenge that seeks to improve scientific knowledge on ecological restoration, planning and management of Green Infrastructure (GI) and its relationship with biodiversity conservation in the context of climate change. To this end, it proposes the development of a digital tool to support decision-making in the planning and management of green infrastructure and ecosystem restoration.
Project objectives
The objective of the project is the development of a web platform with a viewer of potential distribution of forest species for different future climate scenarios. This platform will be fed with climate data from official scenarios, complemented with data from other updated scenarios generated to meet the needs of the project, and with Species Distribution Models (SDM) of the main peninsular forest species and their different regions of origin and genetic groups. This digital tool will support decision-making in two fundamental areas: the selection of forest species in the planning of ecological restoration projects and the planning and management of Green Infrastructure through the analysis of habitat fragmentation and the design of ecological connectivity strategies for landscape transformation. FORESTECCO also contemplates the development of a Guide for Climate Change Adaptation and Resilience of the IV.
FORESTECCO is supported by the Biodiversity Foundation of the Ministry for Ecological Transition and the Demographic Challenge (MITECO), within the framework of the Recovery, Transformation and Resilience Plan (PRTR), financed by the European Union – NextGenerationEU.
Some of the actions included in the project are:
- Compilation and generation of local future climate scenarios for the entire peninsular national territory.
- Development of Species Distribution Models (SDM) differentiating genetic groups with different adaptive responses to climate change.
- Analysis of the impact of climate change on Green Infrastructure (GI) elements and ecological connectivity and development of a GI guide.
Technical details
Line of action: Generation and management of knowledge
Status: In execution
Spatial scale of work: National (except Canary Islands)
Line of research: Strengthening of green infrastructure, connectivity and ecological restoration
Starting year: 2023
Duration: 01/05/2023 – 31/12/2025
Total budget: 262.756.00 €
Amount of the aid from the Fundación Biodiversidad: 249.618,00 €
Coordinating entity: Fundación para la Investigación del Clima (FIC)
Grouped entities: Instituto Nacional de Investigación y Tecnología Agraria y Alimentaria (INIA-CSIC), Universidad Autónoma de Madrid (UAM) and Fundación Internacional para la Restauración de Ecosistemas (FIRE).
Funded by
Ministry for the Ecological Transition and the Demographic Challenge through grants to third-sector entities or non-governmental organizations that carry out activities of general interest considered to be of social interest in the field of scientific and technical research and environmental protection under state jurisdiction. This research has been funded by the Ministry for the Ecological Transition and the Demographic Challenge but does not express its opinion.
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R&D&I
We work to contribute our knowledge in climate research, as a pioneer in statistical regionalization, and we offer training for the support and strengthening of scientific capacities.
