Biodiversity
The freshwater, land and marine realms are connected and conservation planning should reflect this.
Publications
The INSPIRE framework: structured decision making for integrated conservation planning. Sylvaine Giakoumi, Jutta Beher, Silvia Carvalho, Martin Jung, Stelios Katsanevakis, Katherine Yates, Astrid Zabel, and Virgilio Hermoso. https://osf.io/preprints/osf/bysaf
Jung, M., Beier, J., Beher, J., Huchler, K., & Hanger-Kopp, S. (2024). Integrated Conservation and Restoration Planning within a Central-European Cross-border Region. In: European Congress for conservation biology, 17-21 June 2024, Bologna. https://pure.iiasa.ac.at/id/eprint/19838/
Valentini Stamatiadou, Antonios D. Mazaris, Paraskevi Sidera, Theodoros Chalazas, Adonis F. Velegrakis, Stelios Katsanevakis. Valuing and mapping cultural ecosystem services in coastal areas: an integrated approach applied to recreational seascape tourism in Greece, Ecosystem Services, Volume 80, 2026, 101869, ISSN 2212-0416,
https://doi.org/10.1016/j.ecoser.2026.101869
Vigo, M., Markantonatou, V., Hermoso, V., Papazekou, M., Tragou, E., Katsanevakis, S., & Giakoumi, S. (2026). Designing networks of freshwater and marine conservation areas accounting for cross-realm connectivity and threat propagation. Journal of Applied Ecology, 63, e70347. https://doi.org/10.1111/1365-2664.70347
Vigo M., Markantonatou V., Hermoso V., Papazekou M., Katsanevakis S., and Giakoumi S., 2024. Conservation planning in the Eastern Mediterranean Sea accounting for cross-realm threat connectivity. Oral presentation at the 7th International Marine Conservation Congress hosted by the Society for Conservation Biology – Global Marine Program, 13-18 October 2024.
Wands M., Yates K., Zabel A. (2026). Cross-realm biodiversity integration of the EU environmental policy mix. Biological Conservation. Volume 321, September 2026, 111941. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.biocon.2026.111941
The INSPIRE project Zenodo contains technical reports and datasets, accessible here
Resources for Stakeholders
INSPIRE Partnership
This research was funded by Biodiversa+, the European Biodiversity Partnership, in the context of the INSPIRE project under the 2021-2022 BiodivProtect joint call. It was co-funded by the European Commission (GA No. 101052342) and the following funding organisations: Agencia Estatal de Investigación (Spain), Ministerio dell´Università e della Ricerca (Italy), Swiss National Science Foundation (Switzerland), Fundaçao para a Ciência e a Tecnologia (Portugal), Der Wissenschaftsfonds (Austria), General Secretariat for Research and Innovation (Greece) and Salford University (UK).
