Has been part of 27 CREAF projects Projects involved in HRLandCoverCCI ESA Climate Change Initiative (CCI), the High Resolution (HR) Land Cover (LC) Essential Climate Variable (ECV) DINFORREST Ecological evaluation of the results of forestry practices to enhance forest recovery and resilience after extensive wildfires Research groups this member belongs to BEEMed Biodiversitat i Evolució en Ecosistemes Mediterranis Related linksProjecte FAREM Josep.Espelta@uab.cat935814671Office: C5/1100PhD in Biological Sciences (UAB, 1992). I am a senior researcher at CREAF since 1998. My research focuses on forest ecology, particularly, in the factors and processes involved in forest dynamics in environmental gradients and in response to disturbances (e.g. wildfires, drought, herbivory). This is why I am interested in the factors driving the variability on seed production, the balance among positive and negative plant-animal interactions (seed predation or dispersal, herbivory) and, finally, seedling recruitment or resprouting patterns. As forests are subjected to the effects of an intense global change (climatic, fragmentation, habitat lost or expansion), in the core of my research, there is the aim of designing more efficient and adaptive forestry practices to face these uncertain ecological scenarios. I carry out most of my research in Mediterranean and tropical-dry forests. InterestsSeed predation and seed dispersal ecology, Management of natural regeneration after disturbances (wildfires, drought, grazing). Land use changes and “new” forest expansion.Recent publications under CREAF affiliation The effects of local climate on the correlation between weather and seed production differ in two species with contrasting masting habitBogdziewicz M., Szymkowiak J., Fernández-Martínez M., Peñuelas J., Espelta J.M.2019Agricultural and Forest Meteorology268: 109-115Doi: 10.1016/j.agrformet.2019.01.016 Influence of clay licks on the diversity and structure of an Amazonian forestMolina E., Espelta J.M., Pino J., Bagaria G., Armenteras D.2018Biotropica50: 740-749Doi: 10.1111/btp.12568 Severe wildfire in a mediterranean forestMolowny-Horas R., Borrego A., Riera P., Espelta J.M.2018Equivalency Methods for Environmental Liability: Assessing Damage and Compensation Under the European Environmental Liability Directive: 203-234Doi: 10.1007/978-90-481-9812-2_11 View more publications