Assessing ecosystem and habitat type vulnerability to invasion/colonisation of non-indigenous species (NIS) is key to focus conservation actions protecting them from the negative impacts related to NIS invasiveness. This validation case aims at mapping ecosystem and habitat type vulnerability at the continental scale, inferring the relevance of key risk factors (e.g., vectors of invasion) and intrinsic resistance/resilience components (e.g., native biodiversity, food web structure, …) and design scenarios of change, in the context of expected climate changes, for ecosystem and habitat types found highly vulnerable to NIS.
This workflow aims at highlighting, at the scale of Europe, where the incidence of invasive alien species is the strongest and what areas (or habitats when possible) are the most vulnerable to the negative impact of invasive alien species. At present, the scale considered is one of the European countries and respective marine regions.