COMMUNICATIONS
Participative evaluation of the best measures for remediating contaminated soils: Guadiamar Green Corridor
The Guadiamar Green Corridor (in Sevilla province, Spain) is one of the 17 case studies within the European project RECARE (2014-2018), which main aim is to find ways of assessing the current threats to soils and finding innovative solutions to prevent further soil...
The conservation of the paintings of Altamira Cave, in danger
Last March 6th, the newspaper El Pais echoed the loss of pigments by washing in Polychromes Hall. This phenomenon, documented from 2014-2015, and still in action, was never detected in real time. The article is interested in the opinions of Sergio Sánchez Moral (from...
The dolmens look
Last March 31st, 2016 La 2 television channel broadcasted the documentary “The dolmens look”, in which Miguel Ángel Rogerio Candelera, member of the IRNAS research group “Environmental Microbiology and Cultural Heritage” was interviewed among other researchers. The...
IRNAS-CSIC Member awarded with the prestigious Philippe Duchaufour Medal 2016
This past April 19th during an emotive ceremony organized during the European Geosciences Union General Assembly (EGU 2016) in Vienna (Austria), the Philippe Duchaufour Medal 2016 was imposed to Prof. Heike Knicker from the Institute for Natural Resources and...
Doctoral thesis on functional traits of Mediterranean woody species
Enrique García de la Riva has defended his doctoral thesis entitled “Composition and functional diversity of Mediterranean woody plants: from the leaf to the community” in the University of Córdoba (Spain), on April 11th 2016. The thesis has been supervised by...
Researchers from IRNAS investigate how the shrublands of Doñana National Park respond to an extreme climatic event
The frequency and intensity of extreme climatic events are expected to be increase in the future according to climate change predictions. Researchers from “Instituto de Recursos Naturales y Agrobiología de Sevilla (IRNAS)”, “Centro de Investigación Ecológica y...
The Ecological Society of America reviews recent research of IRNAS members
The prestigious international journal Frontiers in Ecology and the Environment (ISSN: 1540-9295), published by the Ecological Society of America publishes in the section Dispatches of last February issue a review (Volcanic caves contain mineral-munching microbes) on...
New framework for soil-related ecosystem services
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...
A young researcher from IRNAS is awarded with best scientific contribution presented during the XXI International Symposium on Analytical and Applied Pyrolysis (Pyro 2016)
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...
JOSE JULIO ORTEGA, APPOINTED AS SETAC EUROPE PRESIDENT
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...
Researchers from IRNAS analyses the importance of genetic variability on the response of Pyrenean fir forests to climate change
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...
Research at Matacabras rock art shelter
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...