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.
CREAF pre-doctoral researcher Gerard Codina has received the ‘Impulsa Barraquer Grant’ awarded by the Barraquer Ophthalmology Centre, which will co-finance part of his doctoral thesis and promote his research on the resilience of Mediterranean forests.
Adrian Descals has received a Leonardo 2023 Grant distinction in the Environmental and Earth Sciences section for his project on impact of fire emissions on tropical forest productivity.
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 article has been recently published in PLOS Computational Biology. It has been led by the Department of Ecology of the University of Alicante (UA), with the collaboration of CREAF, among other research centres.
William Anderegg has been distinguished for his work on how trees absorb and release carbon dioxide in a context of climate change.
