green infrastructure ecological structures, processes and integrity
Photo credit: Jane Thomas, Integration and Application Network, University of Maryland Center for Environmental Science (ian.umces.eduimagelibrary)
Objective
WP 1 aims to identify ecosystem attributes that could be linked to ES supply and other services (species mobility, conservation) by green infrastructure. This is based on two working hypotheses:
(1) ecosystem integrity is positively associated with regulation services and with GI capacity to support mobility and wildlife diversity; and
(2) ecosystem attributes can be used as functional links to quantify ecosystem services capacity.
Main tasks
Task 1.1: Define an operational framework for Ecological Integrity of green infrastructure elements and green infrastructure network
Task 1.2: Quantify the connectivity and the importance for connectivity of GI elements within the CSS
Task 1.3: Quantify and map GI Elements Structure, Processes and Ecological Integrity supporting ES
Lead partner: INRAe
Contact(s): Philip Roche philip.roche[@]inrae.fr, Sandra Luque sandra.luque[@]inrae.fr.