Spatial ecology in a changing world
In this new article published in the journal Ecography, ECO-LAND members lab, in collaboration with Andrew Fall and Marie-Josée Fortin, present the development of new tools to model the distribution changes of species in dynamic landscapes driven by perturbations such as fire. These developments are […]
In a new article published in Nature Climate Change, an international team of researchers including Lluís Brotons, Sergi Herrando (ICO) and Constanstí Stefanescu (Museu Granollers) has analysed the lags between climate changes and biological responses (climatic debts) in birds and butterflies in Europe. The results […]
In a new article published in Biological reviews, Lluís Brotons together with other CREAF researchers led by Jofre Carnicer, shed light on how adaptive traits contribute to the emergence and maintenance of species richness gradients. Empirical studies show that geographical clines in population parameters and […]
In this new article published in the journal the IBIS, members from EcoLand and BAC Labs together with engineers from the Polytechnics University of Catalonia and members of SIBOC, report on the use of a small UAS to monitor temporal changes in breeding population size […]
In recent times there is an increasing recognition of the importance of ecosystem services founded on ecological processes to society. Carol Puerta-Piñero of the ECO-LAND lab has lead an article in the European Journal of Forest Research addressing the economic value of ecological processes behind […]
Mediterranean forests are highly resilient to fires, showing a rapid recovery after disturbance. However, as shown by a recent article published in the journal ARDEA and led by Elena Lopez-Zozaya, in some cases tree regeneration of pre fire dominant tree species fails. This leads to […]
Species distribution models are the best tool to increase knowledge on the future and past of species distributions. To date, research on distribution modelling has mainly focused on model performance at relatively small sample sizes and the question of “how much data is enough” has […]
Despite the central importance of the niche concept for the ecological theory, current methods to quantify the species niche from qualitative resources, such as food or habitat types, remain insufficiently developed. Classically, information theory and diversity measures have formed the toolbox used for calculating resource […]
Different components of global change can have interacting effects on biodiversity and this may influence our ability to detect the specific consequences of climate change through biodiversity indicators. In a new article led by Miguel Clavero and published in PLOS-ONE, we analyze whether climate change […]
In a new article lead by Elena Lopez-Zozaya and published in the EBCC Cáceres conference special number of the journal Ardeola, the DINDIS bird monitoring data base is officially presented. The DINDIS database results from the monitoring of bird communities occupying all areas affected by […]
For preserving biodiversity of European-Mediterranean forest ecosystems in current and future scenarios of global change by means of sustainable forest management it is necessary to determine how environment and forest characteristics correlate with biodiversity. Two new articles published in the Journal Forest Systems and Journal […]
Heterogeneity in farmland has been identified as a key feature behind biodiversity patterns hosted in such humanised systems. In a new article published in Ecology letters, an international team of researchers addresses the concept of functional heterogeneity as a key to understand and assess how […]
New article lead by Sara Vallecillo in collaboration with Patrick Osborne at the University of Southhampton on how factors determining species distribution vary in space and how important this may be in modelling. Factors determining species distributions have frequently been shown to vary geographically, yielding […]
Two new articles on fire-triggered ecosystem changes has been published in Ecography, as a result of a collaborative work lead by Marco Moretti and with the participation of Miquel De Cáceres, and Journal of Animal Ecology by Miguel Clavero and Lluís Brotons in collaboration with […]
A letter on the issue of linguistic injustice in science by Miguel Clavero has been published in TREE. International scientific communication is monolithically dominated by English, particularly within natural sciences. The professional career of individual scientists relies on their ability to publish in internationally relevant […]
