Infrastructure for biodiversity that science and policy can act on: Sensors, AI, and the Nature Restoration Law

Infrastructure for biodiversity that science and policy can act on: Sensors, AI, and the Nature Restoration Law | Zenodo Skip to main Communities My dashboard Log in Sign up Zenodo is currently experiencing slowness and intermittent outages due to heavy automated traffic from bots and AI crawlers. We are aware of the problem, and our team is focused on stabilizing the service. Thank you for your patience. FAIR2Adapt: FAIR to Adapt to Climate Change Published May 6, 2026 | Version v1 Presentation Open Infrastructure for biodiversity that science and policy can act on: Sensors, AI, and the Nature Restoration Law Authors/Creators Fouilloux, Anne 1 Show affiliations 1. LifeWatch ERIC Description European biodiversity policy — from the Habitats Directive to the Nature Restoration Law — needs evidence at a scale and quality that fragmented, siloed observation networks cannot deliver alone. LifeWatch-ERIC works as a catalyst and connector: a federated e-Science infrastructure that composes capability where it lives, across eight member countries, three Common Facilities, and a network of partners spanning DiSSCo, eLTER, EMBRC, the ENVRI cluster, EOSC, and the major aggregators (GBIF, OBIS, EMODnet). The connective tissue is FAIR by design — FAIR Digital Objects, the I-ADOPT semantic layer, EcoPortal mappings, and provenance treated as first-class metadata — so that biodiversity observations become evidence that policy can actually cite. This talk, contributed through the Horizon Europe FAIR2Adapt project (which LifeWatch-ERIC coordinates), argues that AI matters most where the human work around biodiversity data is messiest — metadata harmonisation, semantic alignment, workflow composition, and provenance — and that the next frontier is moving inference to the edge so sensing networks stop behaving as passive pipes and start behaving as instruments that know what they observe. Both arguments are grounded in RECUP-DAS , a landscape-scale recovery experiment in the Iberian Pyrite Belt (Huelva, Spain), funded by ERDF Andalusia, where centuries of acid mine drainage are being reversed using DAS technology from the University of Huelva and monitored in real time through a digital twin with LoRa/NB-IoT sensors, edge AI for species ID, eDNA, and FAIR APIs — each event a citable FAIR Digital Object aligned with the Nature Restoration Law. The talk closes on the US/EU collaboration question — pick the protocol, not the platform — and opens three discussion threads for the workshop: hype versus evidence in biodiversity AI, edge-as-instrument without losing scientific accountability, and what a truly FAIR, transatlantic biodiversity commons should look like. Files Lifewatch-AnneFouilloux-SAGE.pdf Files (504.6 kB) Name Size Download all Lifewatch-AnneFouilloux-SAGE.pdf md5:5b27b8a2d2a194d3333ce1416cff3382 504.6 kB Preview Download 93 Views 63 Downloads Show more details All versions This version Views Total views 93 93 Downloads Total downloads 63 63 Data volume Total data volume 34.8 MB 34.8 MB More info on how stats are collected.... Versions External resources Indexed in OpenAIRE Communities Details DOI DOI Badge DOI 10.5281/zenodo.20058646 Markdown [](https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.20058646) reStructuredText .. image:: https://zenodo.org/badge/DOI/10.5281/zenodo.20058646.svg :target: https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.20058646 HTML <a href="https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.20058646"><img src="https://zenodo.org/badge/DOI/10.5281/zenodo.20058646.svg" alt="DOI"></a> Image URL https://zenodo.org/badge/DOI/10.5281/zenodo.20058646.svg Target URL https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.20058646 Resource type Presentation Publisher Zenodo Languages English Rights License Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International The Creative Commons Attribution license allows re-distribution and re-use of a licensed work on the condition that the creator is appropriately credited. Read more Citation Export Technical metadata Created May 6, 2026 Modified May 6, 2026 Jump up About About Policies Infrastructure Principles Projects Roadmap Contact Blog Blog Support Help FAQ Developers REST API OAI-PMH Contribute GitHub Donate Funded by Powered by CERN Data Centre & InvenioRDM Status Privacy policy Cookie policy Terms of Use This site uses cookies. Find out more on how we use cookies Accept all cookies Accept only essential cookies

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