Last spring, Enrique Doblas Miranda, consultant of our project Sistemas Efímeros, published an article entitled The Mediterranean forest in the face of global change in the scientific magazine Investigación y Ciencia. His text contains valuable information concerning our transdisciplinary project Sistemas Efímeros as it focuses on how mediterranean ecosystems react to climate change. Enrique explains that these ecosystems are able to slightly mitigate some of the changes, such as the rise in temperature, the biological invasions and the atmospheric pollution, and he points out that in some cases they are able to alter some of the effects of climate change affecting, among others, the availibility of water for vegetation and for human supply. The full article is available in Spanish here.

Water catchment area where the project Sistemas Efímeros focuses on. 

Enrique Doblas Miranda (PhD in Biological Sciences, University of Granada) works in Barcelona at the CREAF (Centre for Ecological Research and Forestry Applications), where he is the coordinator of the MONTES-Consolider project concerning the interactions between Spanish woodlands and global change and soon he will be the director of the MENFRI project, looking for the creation of a Mediterranean network of forest research and innovation.