Spatial ecology in a changing world
Ecoland members led by Núria Roura have investigated the determinants of the parasite species European Misletoe (Viscum album) in Mediterranean pine forests. The study has been conducted in the context of MONTES project and in collaboration with Daniel Garcia from Oviedo University, and Regino Zamora […]
A new article published in Methods in Ecology and Evolution presents a novel statistical approach to determine ecological indicators using species data. Unlike in traditional indicator species analysis, the authors of this article led by Miquel de Cáceres allow indicators to be species combinations in […]
Using monitoring data from farmland birds in Catalonia as study case, a new article published in Biodiversity and Conservation shows the advantages and limitations of mapping species distributions from data obtained from different monitoring programs commonly used in Europe. In this article the authors show […]
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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
A new article recently published in Diversity and Distributions and led by Arnald Marcer from the CREAF, presents a novel method to derive fine-resolution species distribution maps which are robust enough to explain data at different scales present in biodiversity databases. The method takes advantage […]
ECOLAND is participating in the launching of a new journal regarding Nature Conservation issues. This journal has its roots in the FP7 project SCALES. In its first editorial co-signed by its editors, including Lluís Brotons, the journal introduces its role as a new open access, […]
In a new article published in Diversity and Distributions, two members of the ECO-LAND group (Miquel De Cáceres and Lluís Brotons) have studied the usefulness of a general-purpose bird monitoring programme (the common breeding bird survey of Catalonia, SOCC) for the calibration of dispersal parameters […]
In a new article published in the journal Landscape Ecology, members of the ECO-LAND lab led by Elena Lopez-Zozaya have analysed how landscape history and the pattern of recent fires determines the distribution dynamics of early succesional bird species in Mediterranean landscapes driven by land […]
