Vegetation

New proposals to understand how the planet's vegetation works

An international team -where Josep Peñuelas has participated- explores the factors that most affect plant behavior and how they can be included in predictive models to improve them. The result, published in Nature Plants wants to improve understanding of the global carbon cycle and ecosystem services and their future if forests change due to climate change.

Climate change Forests Global carbon cicle Global change Plants Predictive models Vegetation Vegetation dynamics

Riding resilience

The use of the term 'resilience' has been extended. But success entails risks. When dealing with complex concepts encapsulated in a word, the risk translates into confusion. It is therefore worth entertaining the passage and meditate for a while.

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To María Ángeles,

The weaknesses of ecological resilience

Climate Climate change Disturbances Droughts Ecology Environment @en Fire Forests Francisco lloret @en Gale Psichology Resilience Socioecology Sociology Vegetation