Category: News
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ALFAwetlands Living Lab in Spain
ALFAwetlands contains 9 Living Labs in 10 European countries. One of them, comprising 4 sites, is located in Spain and is managed by the University of Barcelona. Tordera: relict flooded forests in the Mediterranean Basin Roureda de Tordera is a forested area (35 ha) located in the lowlands of the La Tordera River. The uniqueness…
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Meet CREAF: ALFAwetlands partner from Catalonia
CREAF provides expertise in ecology and remote sensing for important tasks in the ALFAwetlands project. About CREAF CREAF (Ecological and Forestry Applications Research Centre) is a public research center based in Catalonia. CREAF is dedicated to terrestrial ecology, territorial analysis and global change. CREAF’s mission is to generate knowledge to understand nature, identify potential threats,…
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Meet the University of Barcelona team
The University of Barcelona, a public institution, is renowned for its commitment to quality education, groundbreaking research, and active engagement with society. Founded in 1450, it now fosters a vibrant community of nearly 100,000 members. Researchers participating in the ALFAwetlands project, belong to the Department of Evolutionary Biology, Ecology, and Environmental Sciences. And they bring…
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New European Wetland Map: a milestone in wetland conservation
On time for the World Wetlands Day, the European Wetland Map (‘EWM’) is launched. This map significantly enhances the state-of-knowledge on wetlands across Europe by locating, assessing and merging the latest geospatial data. It combines various data from Geographic Information Systems (GIS) on wetland types and their distribution on mineral soil in coastal environments and…
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ALFAwetlands joins iNaturalist
iNaturalist is a powerful online platform and mobile app that connects people who share an interest in biodiversity. It serves as a social network for scientists, naturalists, and enthusiasts, enabling users to identify and learn about the plants and animals around them while contributing to global conservation efforts. By simply recording and sharing your observations,…
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Modelling land use: peatland rewetting in the European climate mitigation targets
ALFAwetlands applies different models and one of them is GLOBIOM, the Global Biosphere Management Model. The European Commission’s impact assessments of the Fit for 55 reform and the 2040 climate target outline clear pathways to achieve climate neutrality in the EU27 by 2050, a goal adopted by the European Union. These assessments emphasize that contributions…
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Modelling toolbox in ALFAwetlands (Part 2)
The EU modelling toolbox integrates models used in living lab experimental plots with large-scale input data gridded over Europe. The biophysical and land use models are already trained for a long list of mitigation options in agriculture, grasslands, and forests, while the wetland options have been built based on the ALFAwetlands site modelling. In each…
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Modelling toolbox in ALFAwetlands (Part 1)
ALFAwetlands extrapolates the knowledge about restoration effects on ecosystem services (ES) from living labs to similar conditions across larger regions and Europe. With this, project is aiming to quantify the potential contribution of wetland restoration and rehabilitation to the EU climate mitigation efforts. To do so, ALFAwetlands employs: EU-scale models In our setup, site modelling…
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Modelling and scenarios in the ALFAwetlands project
Building on the inventory of European wetlands and the measurement of restoration impacts on biodiversity and ecosystem services in living labs, work carried out in other ALFAwetlands work packages, Work Package 4 pursues an ambitious objective to use models to upscale the knowledge from living labs to the EU-level and quantify how wetland restoration can contribute to achieving the EU…
