Current or recently completed competitive projects are:

Functioning of terrestrial ecosystems
• DRIM: understanding the mechanism of drought-induced mortality in trees
• Mixed forests and plantations as carbon sinks
• Ecological plasticity of Scots pine
• The xylem as a complex network and plant water transport

Plant populations and communities
• Study of Tyrrenic plant endemisms (Balearic Islands, Corsica and Sardinia)
• Developmental biology of Mediterranean plants [SGR]

Animal populations and communities
• Pollination networks in a Mediterranean shrub community
• Behavioural flexibility and adaptive diversification in birds
• Behavioural flexibility and response to environmental changes
• Impact of Alpine marmot on Ptarmigan populations

Biodiversity
• Response of birds to environmental changes: Many losers and a few winners?
• Risk assessment of biological invasions in aquatic ecosistems
• Changes in land use and the loss of biodiversity
• ALARM: Methods and protocols for the evaluation of environmental risks

Forest dynamics
• Regeneration of holm oaks and oaks in different ecological scenarios
• Effects of disturbances on terrestrial ecosystems [SGR]

Global change
• Biogenic volatile organic compounds (BVOCs) and global change ecology
• CONSOLIDER-INGENIO MONTES. Spanish mountains and global change: threats and opportunities
• Ecophysiology and ecological effects of global environmental changes
• NitroEuropeIP: Nitrogen cycles and the greenhouse gas balance
• Climate change and vulnerability of woody species
• GLOBIMED: Network for the monitoring of global change in Mediterranean forest ecosystems
• GREENCYCLES: Research and training network in biogeochemical and climate change
• Response of mixed holm oak and oak forests to climate change
• Vulnerability of dry forests to climate change and to human activities
• Ecophysiology and ecological effects of global environmental changes [SGR]
• Mediterranean and mountain ecosystems in a changing world [GDRE]

Fires
• REMEDE: Measures to quantify environmental catastrophes in the EU
• Dynamics of forest ecosystems and fire ecology [SGR]

Atmospheric pollution
• Aerobiological and chemical characterization of African atmospheric aerosol

Soil protection and restoration
• The use of biochar in soil as a strategy for climate change mitigation and its ecotoxicological impacts
• ECOQUARRY: Ecotechnology for the environmental restoration of calcareous quarries
• Ecotoxicity in treatment-plant sludge and treated soils
• Characterization of Mediterranean soils

Forest inventories
• FECYT-ONCE: Walking through the International Year of Forests
• Harmonization of forest inventories in Europe

Environmental information systems and ICT
• GENAMAD (GENeración Automática de Mapas de Abundancia y Distribución)

 

[SGR]: Grants for research
[GDRE]: European research group