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 dynamics.

A research team in the IRNAS, CSIC has studied the potential long term […]

Las micorrizas en plántulas de Quercus están afectadas por el decaimiento del alcornocal

In forests affected by problems of tree dieback, tree health status could be an additional factor shaping mycorrhizal abundance in soils, which in turn could affect the probability of seedling establishment in a feed-back process.

A research team in the IRNAS has studied how cork oak (Quercus suber) decline can impact […]

¿Por qué la producción de semillas es tan variable en las especies mediterráneas de Quercus?

Understanding the proximate factors that govern the widespread mast-seeding process (i.e., the large interannual variability in seed production) is a question of considerable ecological and evolutionary interest that remains poorly understood. The identity and effect of these factors may vary among coexisting species that differ in leaf habit, potentially resulting in temporally asynchronous patterns of […]

El decaimiento del alcornoque y sus consecuencias sobre la regeneración del bosque

The predicted increase of tree decline episodes as a consequence of temperature rise could have an important impact in forest regeneration dynamics, and therefore in the future composition of forests.

A research team in the IRNAS, with the collaboration of the University of Basel (Switzerland), has studied how cork oak (Q. […]