Brief summary:
We evaluate different management alternatives to promote forest adaptation to climate change. Through various reserach and demonstration projects we have established a network of forest plots to monitor their reponses to different silvicultural treatments, including diversification cuttings, enrichment plantations or gap creation. We are also testing the survival and growth of plantations along environemnetal gradients using different species and plant provenances. Finally we use forest models to assess the consequences of different management and climate change scenarios on the ecosystem services provision. Our final aim is to provide forest managers with science-based information to help define appropriate management strategies to ensure the persistence of forests and associated goods and services to societies.
Selected publications:
Collado E., Piqué M., Coello J., de Dios García J., Fuentes C., Coll L. 2023. Close-to-nature management effects on tree growth and soil moisture in Mediterranean mixed forests. Forest Ecology and Management 549: 121457.
Coll L. 2023. Retos selvícolas para afrontar la adaptación de los bosques al cambio climático. Cuad. Soc. Esp. Cienc. For 49(2): 77-100. PDF
Morán-Ordóñez A., Ameztegui A., De Cáceres M., de Miguel S., Lefèvre F., Brotons L., Coll L. 2020. Future trade-offs and synergies among ecosystem services in Mediterranean forests under global change scenarios. Ecosystem Services, 45: 101174.
Coll L., Ameztegui A., Collet C., Löf M., Mason B., Pach M., Verheyen K., Abrudan I., Barbati A., Barreiro S., Bielak K., Bravo-Oviedo A., Ferrari B., Govedar Z., Kulhavy J., Lazdina D., Metslaid M., Mohren F., Pereira M., Peric S., Rasztovits E., Short I., Spathelf P., Sterba H., Stojanovic D., Valsta L., Zlatanov T., Ponette Q. 2018. Knowledge gaps about mixed forests: what do European forest managers want to know and what answers can science provide? Forest Ecology and Management 407: 106-115. PDF