Green Urban Actions for Resilient fire Defence of the Interface Area. 2018-2021. European Union. UIA Program. Total budget: 5,494,755 € (EU contribution: 4,395,804 €). Coordinator: Ribarroja del Turia municipality. The project takes place in a highly urbanized environment with WUI subjected to risk of forest fires, further impacted by the effects of climate change. The […]
González-Sanchis, M., Ruiz-Pérez, G., Del Campo, A. D., Garcia-Prats, A., Francés, F., & Lull, C. (2019). Managing low productive forests at catchment scale: considering water, biomass and fire risk to achieve economic feasibility. Journal of environmental management, 231, 653-665. Semi-arid forests are water limited environments considered as low-productive. As a result, these forests usually end […]
Del Campo, A. D., González-Sanchis, M., Molina, A. J., García-Prats, A., Ceacero, C. J., & Bautista, I. (2019). Effectiveness of water-oriented thinning in two semiarid forests: The redistribution of increased net rainfall into soil water, drainage and runoff. Forest Ecology and Management, 438, 163-175. Water is the key element that modulates the provision of goods […]
Del Campo, A. D., Segura-Orenga, G., Ceacero, C. J., González-Sanchis, M., Molina, A. J., Reyna, S., & Hermoso, J. (2020). Reforesting drylands under novel climates with extreme drought filters: The importance of trait-based species selection. Forest Ecology and Management, 467, 118156. Having regard to the substantial world-scale forest restoration needs, the efforts must be done […]
Vale, C. G., & Brito, J. C. (2015). Desert-adapted species are vulnerable to climate change: Insights from the warmest region on Earth. Global Ecology and Conservation, 4, 369-379. Climate change is eroding biodiversity and conservation efforts have focused on species’ potential responses to those changes. Biological traits associated with sensitivity and adaptive capacities may contribute […]
Sheil, D., & Bargués-Tobella, A. (2020). More trees for more water in drylands: myths and opportunities. ETFRN News. The restoration of tree cover influences water availability. Many people—some experts too—believe incorrectly that greater tree cover has an invariably negative impact on local water availability. Where do these beliefs come from? Here we summarise the origin […]
Del Campo, A. D., González-Sanchis, M., Ilstedt, U., Bargués-Tobella, A., & Ferraz, S. (2019). Dryland forests and agrosilvopastoral systems: water at the core. Unasylva 251: Forests: nature-based solutions for water, 251(1), 27. Dryland systems occur on all continents and cover about 41 percent of the Earth’s land surface, with little variation in this figure in […]
Bastin, J. F., Finegold, Y., Garcia, C., Mollicone, D., Rezende, M., Routh, D., … & Crowther, T. W. (2019). The global tree restoration potential. Science, 365(6448), 76-79. Climate change is expected to cause an increase in the global area of drylands of 10–23 percent, depending on dryland subtype, by the end of the twenty-first century, […]
Cunningham, S. C., Mac Nally, R., Baker, P. J., Cavagnaro, T. R., Beringer, J., Thomson, J. R., & Thompson, R. M. (2015). Balancing the environmental benefits of reforestation in agricultural regions. Perspectives in Plant Ecology, Evolution and Systematics, 17(4), 301-317. Reforestation is an important tool for reducing or reversing biodiversity loss and mitigating climate change. […]
Suding, K. N. (2011). Toward an era of restoration in ecology: successes, failures, and opportunities ahead. Annual review of ecology, evolution, and systematics, 42. As an inevitable consequence of increased environmental degradation and anticipated future environmental change, societal demand for ecosystem restoration is rapidly increasing. Here, I evaluate successes and failures in restoration, how science […]
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