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Biodiversity conservation and monitoring in protected areasWe have initiated an exciting new project: Biodiversity and monitoring of biodiversit of natural protected areas (ENPE) in Catalonia. This project is promoted by the Parcs service of the General direction of the natural environment of the Catalan government. The main objective of the ...
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Species distribution models should be used with caution!Land-cover changes from the last decades are leading to important declines in habitat quality, giving rise to changes in bird species distribution all over the world. However, land-cover changes result from a variety of different processes, and it is not clear how effective ...
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The Eco-land lab gets involved in a new EU funded project in partnership with the European Bird Census Council (http://www.ebcc.info/).Biodiversity and its effective management are inextricably related to scale. The main pressures on Europe’s terrestrial biodiversity and the socio-economic drivers behind these pressures act differently at different scales. Effective conservation ...
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The project MONTES started in december 2008. The kick-off meeting took place in Barcelona (UAB) between 12-13 february 2009.The MONTES program brings together researchers from 9 research groups: two from public centers that conduct research into forestry and environmental issues (CREAF, CTFC), two from the CSIC (EBD, ICTJA), three from ...
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Applications of species distribution modelling The CARTOBIO project developed by the Eco-land lab for the Catalan Government (DMAH) has entered its third year. The project aims at developing specific mapping applications for a number of species and taxa. These maps are then used by managers and planners for conflict solving ...
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Land abandonment is driving recent birds population changes in the North –western Mediterranean.A new article in the journal Biological Conservation issued from the collaboration with the Montpellier group lead by Jean Louis Martin and Clelia Sirami and Bird Life (Ian Burfield) has analysed a set of studies on recent bird ...
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