Webinar

Navigating Climate Change: Methodologies and Applications for Conservation

Resources

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Programme

Climate change is impacting our species and ecosystems, not just in the future, but already today. Adapting to these risks and understanding their effects are crucial, especially for the effective planning and management of protected areas.

This NaturaConnect webinar explored:

🔹 Quantitative tools for assessing climate change impacts on ecosystems and species-presented by NaturaConnect
🔹 A drought risk index developed by the RedBosques project, alongside adaptation strategies for Mediterranean forests
🔹 Adaptation strategies to address climate-driven food scarcity for large carnivores in the Danube-Carpathian region, as part of the ForestConnect project

Webinar highlights:
• Introduction to climate-resilient planning and methodologies – Moreno Di Marco, University of Sapienza
• NaturaConnect methodology and application for protected areas – Marta Cimatti, University of Sapienza
• Introduction to available tutorial – Valerio Mezzanotte, University of Sapienza
• Assessing forest vulnerability to drought and supporting adaptation strategies – José Atauri, EUROPARC Spain
• ForestConnect project: Pilot actions to adapt to climate-driven food scarcity for large carnivores – Maria Kachamakova, WWF Bulgaria

 

Useful Resources:

Sapienza publications:
  • Cimatti et al. (2025) Glob Change Biol, 31: e70261:​

The Accelerating Exposure of European Protected Areas to Climate Change

Marta Cimatti, Valerio Mezzanotte, Risto K. Heikkinen, Maria H. Hällfors, Dirk Nikolaus Karger, Moreno Di Marco

First published: 06 June 2025, freely available

DOI: https://doi.org/10.1111/gcb.70261Digital Object Identifier (DOI) 

 

  • Buenafe et al. (2025) Nat. Rev. Biodivers. 1, 284–297​ 

Current approaches and future opportunities for climate-smart protected areas 

Kristine Camille V. Buenafe, Daniel C. Dunn, Anna Metaxas, David S. Schoeman,  Jason D. Everett, Alice Pidd, Jeffrey O. Hanson, Lily K. Bentley, Sun Wook Kim, Sandra Neubert, Kylie L. Scales, Alvise Dabalà, Isaac Brito-Morales & Anthony J. Richardson 

Nature Reviews Biodiversity  volume 1, pages284–297 (2025), not freely available 

 

  • Cimatti et al. (2025) bioRxiv, 2025.10.26.684389:​ 

Synergies and trade-offs between maintaining climate niche variability and preserving climate stability 

 View ORCID Profile Marta Cimatti,  View ORCID Profile Thiago Cavalcante,  View ORCID Profile Heini Kujala,  View ORCID Profile Sara Si-Moussi,  View ORCID Profile Wilfried Thuiller,  View ORCID Profile Piero Visconti,  View ORCID Profile Moreno Di Marco 

DOI: https://doi.org/10.1101/2025.10.26.684389  

 

  • Cavalcante et al. (2025) bioRxiv,2025.10.27.684983​ 

Beyond species-level planning: The role of bioclimatic variation within species distributions 

 View ORCID Profile Thiago Cavalcante,  View ORCID Profile Marta Cimatti,  View ORCID Profile Sara Si-Moussi,  View ORCID Profile Wilfried Thuiller,  View ORCID Profile Moreno Di Marco,  View ORCID Profile Heini Kujala 

DOI: https://doi.org/10.1101/2025.10.27.684983  

 

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