On-going projects

As PI

• BaseRESTORE Project (2025-2027), Reconstructing historical ecosystems distributions and services to establish restoration baselines and their implications for policy and decision making. Projetc of “Consolidación Investigadora” (CNS2024-154503) funded by the Ministerio Ciencia, Innovación y Universidades – Agencia Estatal de Investigacion (Spain).

As WP lead or collaborator

• NaturaConnect Project (2022-2026), Building a resilient ecological network of conserved areas across Europe for nature and people. Funded by the European Commission, Horizon Europe program. Role: co-lead of WP3: Baselines and scenarios for European biodiversity. Project PI: Piero Visconti (IIASA).
  • Data set: Navarro, L. M. (2024). Metadatabase of available data on drivers, pressures, biodiversity, ecosystem services and conservation actions [Data set]. Zenodo.
  • Deliverable 3.1: Navarro, L., Cosentino, F., Hermoso, V., Maiorano, L., Paniw, M., Revilla, E., Sacchi, A., Santini, L., Tablado, Z., & Thuiller, W. (2024). Data availability on European biodiversity, drivers and protected areas and gap analysis for European tetrapods. ARPHA Preprints, 5, e142876.
• SANBIO Project (2022-2026), Impact of sand and other aggregate mining on biodiversity and transitions to sustainability. Funded by the Spanish Generalitat Valenciana. Role: Collaborator. Project PI: Aurora Torres (University of Alicante).

Past projects

As PI or co-PI

• BaseShift Project (2023-2024), Shifting the baseline and assessing its impact on the status and trends of biodiversity and its implication for decision-making in conservation. Funded by the European Commission (HORIZON-MSCA-2022-PF-01). Role: MSCA Fellow
• EuropaBON project (2020-2023*), Europa Biodiversity Observation Network: integrating data streams to support policy. Funded by the European Commission, H2020 program. Role: Co-PI of WP5 – Showcases. Project PI: Henrique Pereira (iDiv).
• iBON Project (2020-2024*), Integrating Biodiversity Observations and Networks. Funded by the German Centre for Integrative Biodiversity Research (iDiv) through the Deutsche Forschungsgemeinschaft (DFG). Project PIs: Jonathan Chase, Henrique M. Pereira, Laetitia M. Navarro, Birgitta König-Ries, and Marten Winter.
• TAO Project (2019-2022*), From Data to Decision: Collecting, Mobilizing, and Harmonizing Tropical Andes Observatory Data for Improved Conservation Planning. Funded by the European Commission, ERANet LAC program. Project PIs: Henrique M. Pereira and Laetitia M. Navarro.
• EBV2020 initiative (2019-2020), Essential Biodiversity Variables and Indicators for 2020 and beyond. Funded by the Secretariat of the Group on Earth Observations Biodiversity Observation Network (GEO BON). Project PIs: Laetitia M. Navarro, Henrique M. Pereira, HyeJin Kim.

(*I stepped down from my role in those projects during my maternity leave and subsequent change of research institute in the fall of 2021.)

As Participant

• SUMHAL Project (2021-2023), Sustainability for Mediterranean Hotspots in Andalusia integrating LifeWatch ERIC. Funded by FEDER funds for activities related to LifeWatch ERIC. Role: contracted researcher in WP3 - Exploring ways to generate, mobilize and disseminate long-term biodiversity information: from conservation baselines to management assessments. Project PI: Margarita Paneque (CSIC).
• SandLinks Project (2019-2022), Framing sand sustainability in a telecoupled world. Funded by the European Commission (H2020-MSCA-IF-2018). Role: Participant. Project PI: Aurora Torres (Universite catholique de Louvain and Michigan State University).
• eShape Project (2019-2023), EuroGEOSS Showcases: Applications Powered by Europe. Funded by the European Commission (H2020 No 820852). Role: Participant in the myVariables pilot (budget: 166 K€). Project PI: Thierry Ranchin (ARMINES).
• Globis-B project (2015-2018) GLOBal Infrastructures for Supporting Biodiversity research. Funded by the European Commission (H2020 No 654003). Role: Participant (2017-2018). Project PI: W. Daniel Kissling (University of Amsterdam).
• sChange synthesis working group- Quantifying Biodiversity Change through time. Funded by the synthesis center of the iDiv through the Deutsche Forschungsgemeinschaft (DFG). Role: Participant. Project PIs: Maria Dornelas (University of St Andrews), Sarah Supp (Denison University) and Mary O’Connor (University of British Columbia). 2016.
• HarmBIO COST Action (2012-2016) Harmonizing Global Biodiversity Modeling. Funded by the European Commission (COST action ES 1101). Role: Participant (2014-2016). Poject PI: Paul Leadley (Universite Paris Sud).
• PATHWAYS project (2013-2016) Exploring transition pathways to sustainable, low carbon societies. Funded by the European Commission (FP7 NO 603942). Role: Participant (2014-2016). Project PI: Detlef Van Vuuren (PBL).