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Forests have multiple values for human wellbeing. They provide with raw materials (timber, wood, cork) and food (nuts, fruits, mushrooms, cattle, game animals). These ecosystem services of provisioning have economic value recognized by the society and the...
IRNAS researchers from the group of "Lignocellulosic Materials" participate in the European Project “New ENZymatic OXidation/OXyfunctionalization Technologies for Added Value Bio-Based Products (EnzOx2)”, a H2020 Research & Innovation Action funded with € 3...
World Soil Day (5th December) is the one day in the year that the United Nations asks us all to think about the role of soil in our daily lives and how it protects us from many environmental problems. If we look to the problems of food supply, flooding, and...
In the last decades widespread tree decline and mortality has been documented in forests worldwide. Trajectories of forest recovery and the probability of occurrence of permanent vegetation shifts are to a large extent determined by post-mortality regeneration...
Last March 10th was the first edition of the Heritage Innovation Talks (HI TALKS) in Évora (Portugal), organized by the Hercules Lab of the University of Evora. The goal of the HI TALKS is to present and discuss emerging issues in the framework of the sciences of...
Last March 22th, the members of IRNAS research group "Environmental Microbiology and Cultural Heritage" Cesareo Saiz-Jimenez and Ana Z. Miller, offered the conferences "Microbiology and Cultural Heritage: the case of Rock Art caves" and "Characterization of cave...
Understanding how different factors mediate the resistance of communities to climatic variability is a relevant question in ecology, to improve predictions about the impact of climate change on vegetation. Researchers from the IRNAS-CSIC (Ignacio Pérez-Ramos...
Researchers of the Group SOIL-PLANT, from the IRNAS, CSIC, participated in the RECARE project Plenary Meeting, devoted to prevention and remediation of degraded soils, which has been held at Hella (Iceland), from May 29th to June 2nd 2017. The Guadiamar Green Corridor...
The use of trees to immobilize contaminants (phytostabilization) is a low-cost and effective method of soil remediation. Researchers of IRNAS, CSIC and New Zealand have evaluated the potential of red gum (Eucalyptus camaldulensis) to phytostabilize soils contaminated...
