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Ecosystem services are the direct and indirect contributions of the ecosystems to the human well-being. Changes in the natural capital's properties influence soil processes, which support the provision of ecosystem services. The benefits produced by these...
The young researcher Nicasio T. Jiménez Morillo from IRNAS-CSIC was awarded with the Frontier-Labs Young Scientist Award to best scientific contribution in the form of poster presented during Pyro 2016. The young scientist was awarded last May 12th during a ceremony...
Since 25th May 2016, Jose Julio Ortega-Calvo, researcher at IRNAS-CSIC, is the first Spanish president of SETAC Europe. SETAC Europe is a geographic unit (GU) of the Society of Environmental Toxicology and Chemistry (SETAC, http://www.setac.org/), established...
Recent changes in climate registered globally during the last decades have the capacity to alter the distribution and population dynamics of tree species. However, populations located at the rear edge of species’ distribution might harbour important genetic resources...
Last July 18th, Malaga’s newspaper Sur published an article entitled “Matacabras, a jewel to discover”, echoing the works carried on in the painted shelter of Matacabras of the team involved in the research project funded by the Spanish Ministry for Economy and...
Forests are suppliers of important ecosystem services, provisioning (timber, foods, resins), regulating (improving air and water quality, soil protection, carbon sequestration) and cultural (recreation, aesthetic, spiritual) contributing to human well-being....
Mycorrhizal symbiosis is a mutualist association between plants and fungi which may be critical under stressful environmental conditions, like in Mediterranean forests constrained by water stress and resource scarcity. Researchers of the IRNAS-CSIC and the...
The contribution entitled “Research applied to the preventive conservation of the karstic system of La Garma (Omoño, Ribamontán al Monte, Cantabria)”, authored, among others, by IRNAS researchers Valme Jurado Lobo and Cesáreo Saiz-Jimenez, received last October 1st...
Shrubs are considered to be hotspots of soil fertility and biological activity in dry ecosystems. The use of shrubs, like “retama” (Retama sphaerocarpa (L.) Boiss.), as nurse plants to facilitate woody plant recruitment has been proved to be particularly useful...
