Workflows

The Internal Joint Initiative (IJI) was instigated by LifeWatch ERIC in 2019 to build the next generation of Virtual Research Environments (VREs). Informaticians at the ICT-Core in Spain and the Service Centre in Italy worked extensively with scientists from biodiversity & ecosystem communities across Europe to develop new platforms and tools that those researchers required to take their investigations to the next level.

This page gives an overview of the five validation cases on Non-indigenous & Invasive Species (NIS) and allows access to the corresponding workflows. Choose whichever is most relevant and click 'Go to the workflow'. You will find a login page, where even without LWOS credentials, (the LifeWatch operating system - a lifewatch.eu email address), access is available through your: ORCID ID, the persistent digital identifier for researchers; Google account - a gmail.com address and password; or EGI, the federation of computing and storage resources providers.

Watch this space for forthcoming training support in navigation within the workflows and Help Desk services.

Ailanthus
altissima

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It focuses on providing and integrating modelling and remote sensing techniques to monitor and control the spread of the invasive species Ailanthus altissima.
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ARMS

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It is a data chaining pipeline that uses both community composition and community metabarcoding data produced by a network of Autonomous Reef Monitoring Structures (ARMS).
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Biotope

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It aims at highlighting where the incidence of invasive alien species is the strongest and which areas (or habitats) are the most vulnerable to the negative impacts of invasive alien species.
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Crustaceans

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It operates as an analysis pipeline for isotopic data aiming at protecting the distribution of an invasive crustacean species.
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Metabarcoding

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It aims at developing an analytical pipeline to detect NIS in freshwater samples using metabarcoding techniques.
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Bulgaria

The Bulgarian National Distributed Centre is represented by the  Agricultural University-Plovdiv.

To know more about how Bulgaria contributes to LifeWatch ERIC, please visit our dedicated webpage.