Work Packages

DiadES is structured around several Work Packages (WPs), each WP led by a partner, with the contribution of other partners. To achieve their objectives, the WGs are organized around several Actions or Tasks, whose main result is a Deliverable. As the project progresses, these Deliverables will be available by clicking on the links.

Three of the Deliverables have been identified as the project main products: the INTERACTIVE WEB ATLAS, the SERIOUS GAME and the POLICY GUIDELINES, and will be delivered in the second half of the project.

In the WP Ecosystem services valuation, ecosystem services (ESs) provided by diadromous fishes will be identified, joint methodologies to assess these ESs will be agreed and the economic welfare estimated for these selected ESs.

The WP Development of new species distribution models will intend to develop new tools to predict the effect of climate change on diadromous fish distributions and therefore their related ecosystem services. These new models will include a basic population dynamics module with the colonization and mortality processes.

In the WP Biological and ecosystem services data collection and case studies, joint methodologies of data collection will be agreed among partners and both biological and socio-economic data will be acquired in the 9 case studies across the Atlantic Area (AA) that will feed the previously mentioned WPs Ecosystem services valuation and Development of new species distribution models WPs. New ecological data will mostly focus on species distribution at sea, metapopulation dynamics and dispersal.

As a result, the WP Awareness raising tools for diadromous fish management will develop and showcase the INTERACTIVE WEB ATLAS, which will link the diadromous fish presence and economic welfare and will pinpoint risk when resources and services might no longer be present due to climate change. The SERIOUS GAME will help stakeholders to envision alternative management scenarios in a globally changing environment. POLICY GUIDELINES will be drafted as part of a Declaration to be signed by regional, national, and European authorities as a commitment for the long-term and large scale management of diadromous fishes and their ESs.