Project title: Spatial planning of alien species management activities in Romania
Project number: PN-III-P1-1.1-PD-2021-0378
Contract no.: PD 14/2022
Funding body: Executive Agency for Higher Education, Research, Development and Innovation Funding (UEFISCDI)
Budget: 249.990 RON
Period: 2022-2024
Research team:
Viorica Iuliana Miu – Project leader
Laurentiu Rozylowicz – Mentor
Aim
The proposal aims to develop a spatial prioritization framework for detecting areas with high risk of invasiveness while accounting for ecological and social sensitivity of invaded areas, climate change scenarios, and management cost restrictions. The output will be a flexible and adaptive framework for spatial prioritization of management activities aiming at eradicating or containment of invasive alien species, demonstrated for management of alien plant species in Romania.
Objectives
The objectives of the project are:
O1. To predict spatial patterns of alien plant invasions based on limited presence-only data and underlying environmental conditions;
O2. To predict the invasion outbreaks by including The Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPPC) scenarios in alien species distribution models;
O3. To develop an easy-to-use spatial prioritization model framework for detecting areas with a high risk of invasiveness while accounting for ecological and social sensitivity of invaded areas, climate change scenarios, and management cost restrictions;
O4. To inform policy- and decision-makers on the advantages of using spatial planning principles for prioritizing intervention decisions.
Main results
Articles
2022
Sirbu C., Miu I.V., Gavrilidis A.A., Gradinaru S.R., Niculae M.I., Preda C., Oprea A., Urziceanu M., Camen-Comanescu P., Nagoda E., Sirbu I.M., Memedemin D., Anastasiu P. (2022) Distribution and pathways of introduction of invasive alien plant species in Romania, NeoBiota 75: 1-21
Workshops
Conferences
2022
- Iulia V. Miu, Athanasios A. Gavrilidis, Simona R. Grădinaru, Paulina Anastasiu, Culita Sirbu. 2022. Invasive alien plant species in Romania: distribution and pathways of introduction. Geographical Research and Cross-Border Cooperation, Sixth Edition, Craiova, 6-8 Octombrie 2022.
- Iulia V. Miu, Athanasios A. Gavrilidis, Simona R. Grădinaru, Paulina Anastasiu, Culita Sirbu, Laurentiu Rozylowicz. 2022. Distribution and pathways of introduction of alien plant species in Romania. 6ᵗʰ European Congress of Conservation Biology “Biodiversity crisis in a changing world”, 21-26 August 2022, Praga, Cehia.
- Iulia V. Miu, Athanasios A. Gavrilidis, Simona R. Grădinaru, Paulina Anastasiu, Culita Sirbu, Laurentiu Rozylowicz. 2022. Distribution and pathways of introduction of alien plant species in Romania. 12th International Conference on Biological Invasions, 12-16 September 2022, Tartu, Estonia.
Reports
Scientific Report 2022 – Română