Spatial ecology in a changing world
Louis Imbeau is a professor in wildlife management affiliated to the Université du Québec en Abitibi-Témiscamingue, Canada, and is a regular member of the Center for Forest Research. Louis Imbeau will be with us for a complete year (until late June 2013). The main purpose […]
Francesc Sardà-Palomera in collaboration with colleagues from the Department of Animal Biology in the University of Barcelona (UB) and Lluis Brotons from ECOLAND, has lead a new article published in IBIS. Using the Common quail as a study model species, the article provides new insights […]
How can existing vegetation classifications be updated when new plot data are obtained? Can we use the properties of plots classed as outliers to identify gaps in our understanding of vegetation patterns and so direct future enquiry? In a paper recently published in Journal of […]
APPLICATION CLOSED (17/08/2012) We search for PhD candidates interested in developing a PhD on the applications of species distribution models (SDM) in the evaluation of the impacts of climate and land use changes on fire regimes and biodiversity. The successful candidate will work in the […]
ECOLAND has contributed to a new article published in in which a new methodology to identify the locations and causality of fire ignitions hotspots has been developed. The new article lead by Jose Ramon Gónzalez-Olabarria has been published in the International Journal of Wildland Fire. […]
Assu Gil-Tena has co-authored an article published in Ecological Indicators in which a new indicator of biological connectivity (i.e. species flow) was proposed and estimated from community assemblages through different regression techniques accounting for spatial autocorrelation and non-stationarity. Semi-natural grasslands of Brittany (NW France) were […]
ECOLAND has taken part in a European, multi-taxa study to test the prediction that beta diversity (species turnover) and the decay of community similarity with distance depend on spatial resolution (grain). This study is a contribution to the FP7 project SCALES and also addressed whether […]
The SITxell, developed by the Department of Territory and Sustainability (Barcelona Provincial Council), has been awarded with the first UNPSA 2012 price in the category Advanced knowledge management in governments. CONGRATULATIONS! Together with the Institut Català d’Ornitologia & MINUARTIA, ECOLAND has been, since 2003, helping […]
A new article led by Virgilio Hermoso at Griffith University (Brisbane, Australia), and in which Miguel Clavero has participated, provides new insights on the role that introduced species play in the homogenization process of freshwater fish communities and their relation with reservoirs. They evaluate the […]
ECO-LAND has become part of a new joint venture between the CTFC and the CREAF aiming at improving research on biodiversity and forest ecosystem dynamics in Mediterranean systems. The new agreement allows the consolidation of a long lasting collaboration with the CREAF having the MONTES-CONSOLIDER […]
Brendan Wintle from the University of Melbourne and the Center of Excellence for Environmental Decisions in Australia will spend some weeks with us at the CTFC during May-June 2012. He is an ecologist, Senior Lecturer and ARC Future Fellow. Brendan is interested in uncertainty and […]
A course on Spatial Statistics for Ecologists was held at Forest Sciences Center of Catalonia (CTFC), with Marie-Josée Fortin (University of Toronto) as main instructor. Instructor: Marie-Josée Fortin. Dates: 5th and 6th June 2012, 10h-13:30h and 15:30h-18h Venue: Centre Tecnològic Forestal de Catalunya (www.ctfc.cat), Solsona, […]
Adrián Regos has just joined the Biodiversity and Landscape Ecology Laboratory at the CTFC and CREAF, associated to the MONTES-CONSOLIDER and BIONOVEL projects. Specifically, his work will be focused on landscape modelling of Mediterranean landscapes in Catalonia (NE of Spain) using the MEDFIRE model. This […]
In a new article led by Josep Rost and published in Journal of Applied Ecology together with the team from the University of Girona, the impacts of postfire salvage logging on Mediterranean bird communities have been investigated. Salvage logging benefits a number of open-habitat species, […]
With the aim of promoting methodological standardization in classification across countries and vegetation scientists Miquel de Cáceres from Ecoland has led an article in the Journal of Vegetation Science. Vegetation classification is a useful tool for basic and applied research as well as for environmental […]
