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ATLAS OF BIODIVERSITY RISKThe present Atlas of Biodiversity Risk is the first of its kind to describe and summarise in a comprehensive, easy-to-read and richly illustrated form the major pressures, impacts and risks of biodiversity loss at a global level. The main risks identified are caused by global climate and ...
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Ecologists often face the task of studying the association between single species and one or several groups of sites representing habitat types, community types, or othercategories. Besides characterizing the ecological preference of the species, the strength of the association usually presents a lot of interest for conservation biology, landscape mapping ...
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Marco Moretti has visited the ECO-LAND lab the context of a collaboration with Miquel de Càceres.The stay of Dr. Marco Moretti from the Swiss Federal Institute for Forest, Snow and Landscape Research (WSL) in Switzerland has focussed on the development of community analyses aimed at determining cascade effects of fire ...
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From introduction to equilibrium: reconstructing the invasive pathways of the Argentine ant in a Mediterranean region.Determining the geographical range of invasive species is an important component of formulating effective management strategies. In the absence of detailed distributional data, species’ distribution models can provide estimates of the geographic range of an ...
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Sara Vallecillo will defend her PhD thesis on Decembre 18th in SolsonaLandscape changes and their effects on species distribution: modelling and application to the conservation of open habitat birds.The defence will take place at the CTFC headquarters in Solsona.----------------------------------------------------------------Tesi doctoral: Sara Vallecillo El dia 18 de desembre la Sara Vallecillo ...
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Pictures from burnt areas sampled in the context of the DINDIS and BIOPRED projects.-------------------------Fotos de zones cremades mostrejades en el context dels projectes DINDIS i BIOPRED ...
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