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Country
Italy
Protected area
Highest peak
Gran Paradiso · 4,061 m
Partner team(s)
PNGP
About the site
Established in 1922, Gran Paradiso National Park is Italy’s oldest national park. It spans the Graian Alps between Valle d’Aosta and Piedmont and culminates at Gran Paradiso (4,061 m). The park was created to protect the Alpine ibex, and today hosts a rich community of wild ungulates.
As the most Alpine and least Mediterranean site of PRESINMED, Gran Paradiso anchors the temperate end of our climatic gradient: here, according to our hypothesis, wet meadows and snowbed grasslands should be less affected by summer drought than in the southern mountains. The park authority (PNGP) participates directly as a partner.
PRESINMED at Gran Paradiso
- Impacts of wild ungulates on wet meadows under drought (T1.1)
- Biodiversity monitoring of plants, arthropods and birds (T1.3)
- Exclosure experiments and monitoring (T2.2.2) and keystone species (T2.2.4)
- Stakeholder engagement led by the park authority (T3.1, T3.5)
The study plots, the Nature-based Solutions implemented and the local stakeholders involved will be described here as the project progresses.
Location
Tasks with this site’s teams
- T1.1 Impact of herbivory by domestic and wild ungulates under a drought scenario
- T1.2 Impact of tourism pressure under a drought scenario
- T1.3 Spatial and temporal analysis of biodiversity (plants, arthropods and birds)
- T2.1 Application of remote-sensing-derived variables and metrics to decision making and management
- T2.2.2 Monitoring plant community responses to water supply, livestock and tourist pressure
- T2.2.4 Active restoration of keystone species
- T3.1 Stakeholder engagement
- T3.4 Cultural ecosystem services model
- T3.5 Local and international collaboration, participation, training and shared governance
Team at Gran Paradiso
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