Resilience
Increasing the climate resilience of the Mediterranean, the mission of the European project CARDIMED
Trees’ risk of climate change-induced death is reflected in their wood
According to a study led by the Spanish National Research Council (CSIC), the way trees have responded to drought in the past could be a key indicator of their risk of mortality. The study examined growth rings to compare that response in dead and surviving trees.
Forest wildfires: learning from the beast
We are in the middle of the wildfire season, and the ecologist Francisco Lloret explains what we can learn about fires and how we can adapt to them to avoid catastrophic large wildfires.
To Jaume.
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.
To María Ángeles,
The weaknesses of ecological resilience
Empowerment of women will improve our ability to cope with global change
Ending perceptions of women and other disadvantaged groups simply as victims and instead empowering them as decision-makers in natural resource management are basic steps to deal with ecological crises more effectively. A new collection of studies addresses global environmental change from a feminist and interdisciplinary perspective.
CREAF researchers uncover how climate change-provoked substitutions of pines with holm oak affect soil respiration
Scots pine is the tree species with the greatest latitudinal distribution between Siberia and the Iberian Peninsula. The death of these pines due to drought does not affect CO2 emissions from forest soil.