In an increasingly arid world, every drop of water counts. And where is there any water left that we humans are not using? One of the most poetic places to look for them is within the fog, clouds of tiny droplets in suspension. This has been the driving force behind the LIFE Fogs project for the past four years.
A detailed study recently published in the journal New Phytologist reveals how understory species in Europe have changed in the last four decades.
At present, the socio-environmental challenges that we have to face are increasingly urgent, and the research on climate change and nature that is carried out within CREAF cannot ignore this reality. We need to understand how our research has served to improve political action, social awareness and territorial management, and look at how to do this even more strongly and with more scope.
This data has been calculated using mathematical modelling and has been published in the journal Nature Communications.
CREAF has summarized 10 proposals based on science to improve the management of Catalonia’s forests and presented them to the European Parliament.
On 7 November, the European Parliament was the venue for an unprecedented seminar entitled “The need for forest management. The case of Mediterranean forests”, organised by Catalan MEP Jordi Solé, vice-president of the Greens/EFA parliamentary group.
An international team led by CREAF has published a new method to characterise which of the world’s forests are most vulnerable to water shortage.
The report, addressed to the more than 140 governments that constitute the IPBES, describes almost 300 species that require control and eradication actions, in the case of 172 blacklisted species, and monitoring and surveillance in the case of 125 on the watchlist.
Josep Peñuelas and Sandra Nogué warn in a perspective article in the National Science Review that it is necessary to recognize the possibility of ecosystems and societies collapsing due to climate change.
The article published in PNAS led by CREAF concludes that nature adapts and evolves more often and faster than Charles Darwin anticipated.
