Members
Project Leader
Lluís Brotons
Background: Ph.D in Biology
Position: Principal Investigator of the Biodiversity and Landscape Ecology Laboratory at the Centre Tecnològic Forestal de Catalunya.
Model developers
Andrew Fall
Núria Aquilué
Miquel De Cáceres
Andrea Duane
Background: Ph.D in Computer science.
Position: Collaborator from the Resource and Environmental Management at the Simon Fraser University (Canada) and Gowlland Technologies Ltd. (Canada).
Tasks: Development of the MEDFIRE model.
Background: B.Sc. in Mathematics and M.Sc. in Remote Sensing and GIS.
Position: Ph.D candidate at Université du Québec à Montréal (UQAM) in Landscape modelling.
Project title: Forest land management for complex socio-ecological systems facing shifts in disturbance regimes: An assessment of alternative future conditions
Tasks: Development, calibration, and testing of the MEDFIRE model. Development of the MEDLUCC model.
Personal web: http://www.cef-cfr.ca/index.php?n=Membres.NuriaAquilueJunyent
Background: Ph.D in Biology.
Position: Postdoctoral researcher at the Biodiversity and Landscape Ecology Laboratory.
Tasks: Development of dynamic species distribution models from MEDFIRE outputs. Development of the MEDFATE model.
Personal web: https://sites.google.com/site/miqueldecaceres/
Background: B.Sc. in Environmental Sciences, M.Sc. in Remote Sensing and GIS and M.Sc. in Ecology
Position: Ph.D candidate
Project title: Assessment of global change impacts on fire regimes in Mediterranean ecosystems.
Tasks: Development of the fire module within the MedFire project. Development of the MedSpread model.
Model users
Assu Gil-Tena
Adrián Regos
Background: Ph.D in Forestry.
Position: Postdoctoral researcher at the Biodiversity and Landscape Ecology Laboratory.
Tasks: Mediterranean forest landscape composition modelling through MEDFIRE.
Personal web: https://sites.google.com/site/assugiltena/
Background: Ph.D. in Biology.
Position: Postdoctoral researcher at the Biodiversity and Landscape Ecology Laboratory.
Tasks: Application of the MEDFIRE model to investigate the effects of management strategies and fire suppression policies on the fire regime and biodiversity.
Personal web: https://adrianregosresearch.wordpress.com/
Conceptual advice
Marie-Josée Fortin
Jordi Martínez-Vilalta
Juli G. Pausas
Affiliation: University of Toronto (Canada)
Affiliation: CREAF, Autonomous University of Barcelona (Spain).
Affiliation: Centro de Investigaciones sobre Desertificación (CIDE-CSIC, Spain)