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New servers available for landscape modelling and remote sensing analyses.
The ECOLAND lab group has a new computing facility aimed at better dealing with the needs from handling and modelling large spatial environmental data sets. This server cluster is a strategic step forward for the group and the CTFC as institution and involves a much improved situation in terms of ...
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New article: The combined effects of land-use and novel fire regimes on bird distributions in the Mediterranean
In a new article published in Journal of Biogeography co-authored with M.J. Fortin, members of the ECOLAND group have investigated whether fire regimes resulting from the combination of climate change, fire-fighting policy and the spatial legacy of historical land use may affect the distribution of species in Mediterranean landscapes. The ...
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New agreement signed with the PAU COSTA Foundation on the modelling of fire risk
ECO-LAND has recently signed a collaboration agreement with the Pau Costa Foundation to strengthen research links on fire risk modelling to the operative world of fire- fighting. The collaboration will involve exchange of expertise on forest fire modelling derived from the BIONOVEL project (i.e. spatial distribution modelling, MEDFIRE) and the ...
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New article: Effects of the non-native amphibian species Discoglossus pictus on the recipient amphibian community: niche overlap, competition and community organization
A new article led by Alex Richter-Boix (Uppsala University, Sweden) and Núria Garriga (Barcelona University, Spain), with support of Dani Villero from ECOLAND, examines the effects of the non-native Discoglossus pictus (Amphibia: Discoglossidae) on amphibian assemblages from the north-east of the Iberian Peninsula, suggesting that competition between native and non-native ...
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ATLAS OF TERRESTRIAL VERTEBRATES IN THE “PARQUE NATURAL DE BAIXA LIMIA”
Members of the ECOLAND group have participated in the elaboration of a new atlas of breeding terrestrial vertebrates of Natural Park Baixa Limia-Serra do Xurés and Baixa Limia in collaboration with University of Santiago de Compostela and Sorex Ecologia. This book was founded by CBC PROGRAMME SPAIN-PORTUGAL 2007-2013 (POCTEP). This ...
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Landsat 8 launching event: remote sensing applications to biodiversity research
Ecoland members were invited to the Landsat 8 launching event held in Barcelona by the GRUMETS research group. Magda Pla and Núria Aquilué attended the event and presented some of the applications based on remote sensing data that the group have been using in Biodiversity based research ------------------------------------------------------------------------ ECOLAND i ...
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