Work package 8 - Assigning and surveillance of NATURA 2000 habitats

Management: Parc National de la Vanoise
Duration: 09/2003 – 09/2006

In this work package the project partners relate the CIR habitat types identified in the aerial photographs with the NATURA 2000 habitat types cited in annex I of the Habitat Directive which are usually mapped on the ground.

The first step will be to compare both habitat classifications on paper. Once the first interpretation results of work package 7 are available, the project partners and their local experts will be able to check this correlation and to perform field verifications.

Photo: Agir pour la Sauvegarde des Territoires et des Espèces Remarquables ou Sensibles

Concurrently, intensive coordination work is foreseen with the aerial photography interpreters. This will allow to focus on particular surfaces and to compare and coordinate the field verification of both work packages. This will reveal the potential and the limitations of the CIR – NATURA 2000 correlation.

As external project expert the Bureau d'études biologiques supervises and coordinates local correlation work and field controls and synthesizes the standardized results into a common database on the alpine project level. The Centre Suisse de Cartographie de la Faune CSCF refines for a selected test area the correlation of both habitat classifications on the basis of additional ecological parameters. Regional coordinators are supporting the exchange between local and alpine project levels.

Based on the example of Berchtesgaden National Park and its two interpretation generations according to HABITALP standard the company Écologie et Médiation ECO-MED in its function as external expert of the alpine project level investigates the potential for the long term monitoring of landscape changes and develops for all partner areas common alpine rules for the surveillance of habitats.

Results related to this work package

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