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Evaluation of forest ecosystem services in Andalusia (S Spain)
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....
Mycorrhization patterns along an environmental gradient
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...
IRNAS researchers receive the Cueva de Nerja Award
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...
The role of soil in the facilitation effect by the retama shrub
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...
The value of the forests
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...
First Project of the H2020 European Programme in IRNAS-CSIC
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 2016
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...
Natural regeneration in cork oak forests affected by decline
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...
First Seminar on Biotechnology Applied to Cultural Heritage, with the participation of IRNAS
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...
IRNAS experts show their works at the University of Bologna
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...
Vegetation stability and functional diversity in a changing climate
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...
European meeting about prevention and remediation of degraded soils
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...