(Fondi EU Nazionali - Biodiversa+) The project aims to form an international collaboration aimed at studying the biodiversity and ecosystem services associated with river riparian areas. Through the combination of remote-sensing and field data collection with coordinated approaches in the six study basins (Germany, Italy, Czech Rep., Sweden, Portugal), the results will contribute to the identification of riparian habitats with high conservation priority as hot- spot of diversity and key role as an ecological corridor. The project involves extensive dialogue with local and international stakeholders in order to guarantee the relevance of the results for the governance of conservation and management of aquatic and terrestrial ecosystems aiming at the 2030 Biodiversity Strategy.

FEM activities:
The main FEM activities will be linked to sampling and metagenomic analyzes relating to the study of the microbiological component of soil, sediments and water. FEM will also play a key role in the analysis and statistical modeling of the entire ensemble of data collected in the field and remotely.