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Research

Through excellence in science, CREAF pushes the frontiers of knowledge of some of the biggest and more complex challenges currently faced by society.

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Research done in our center is now classified into six cross-cutting topics and four research areas.

  • Forests
  • Mediterranean Basin
  • Ecosystem services
  • Sustainability
  • Citizen science
  • Big data and data quality

Biodiversity

  • Species distribution and phenology
  • Behavior, ecology and evolution
  • Population and community dynamics
  • Ecological networks and species interactions
  • Evolutionary ecology

Ecosystem functioning

  • Stores and flows of water, carbon, and nutrients
  • Atmosphere-biosphere interactions
  • Soil function and restoration
  • Functional biogeography
  • Chemical ecology, ecotoxicology, metagenomics, and metabolomics

Global Change

  • Climate change
  • Land use change and landscape dynamics
  • Fires
  • Biological invasions
  • Integrative and adaptive management of water and the territory
  • Urbanization and biodiversity

Earth Observation

  • Long term ecosystem monitoring
  • GIS and remote sensing methodologies and applications
  • Regional and global environmental information services
  • Geospatial products and international standards
wildE

Climate-smart rewilding: ecological restoration for climate change mitigation, adaptation and biodiversity support in Europe

European Union ProjectsActive Project
AquaINFRA

Infrastructure for marine and inland water research

European Union ProjectsActive Project
LIFE UNCINATA

Restoration, conservation, and resilience CO2

European Union ProjectsActive Project
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  • MountainLab (MtnLab) - Research and development of mountain systems

    How are mountain systems responding to the effects of global change?

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