Assessing the capacity of quarry biodiversity and ecosystems to cope with climate challenges

The project will develop a tool to understand future scenarios of climate change in the current vegetation around the Rezola quarry in Arrigorriaga based on the most recent cartographic and remote sensing information found in public, free and open-access information repositories.

All this will be materialized by 2D and 3D visualizations. The study will analyze the distribution of species as well as their life cycle status in order to plan future substitution of forest stands. The results will be enriched with maps of habitats of community interest (HCI), distribution of protected species and the most relevant ecosystem services in the study area, which, validated with field information, will make it possible to identify areas of maximum environmental interest.

Finally, some basic guidelines will be established to replicate this analysis model anywhere in the world, providing a list of resources to do so.