| INtegrated research
on Forest Resilience and Management in the mEDiterranean (INFORMED)
Support:
FP7-ERANET-2013-RTD (Coordination and Support Action), within FP7project - FORESTERRA
(Enhancing FOrest RESearch in the MediTERRAnean through improved coordination
and integration)
Period:
2015-2018
Financial value:
IAC budget is 30.000 EUR, total value is 2.310.079,00 EUR
Coordinator:
Institut National de la Recherche Agronomique, INRA, Ecologie des Forêts
Méditerranéennes, URFM, Avignon, France
Abstract:
Mediterranean forests
are complex social-ecological systems that provide multiple goods and services.
Mediterranean forests are complex social-ecological systems that provide multiple
goods and services. Thinking adaptive management options to increase their resilience
in the context of global change and related uncertainties requires a new paradigm,
focusing on trajectories rather than states of the forest. Our metadisciplinary
research on the basic mechanisms and their interactions that drive the trajectory
of the social-ecological system aims to :
- produce global
change scenarios specifically dedicated to the Mediterranean forests;
- develop process-based
approach of biodiversity and functional response of Mediterranean forests
to disturbance;
- develop integrated
assessment of ecosystem services and their dynamics based on ecosystem functions
and their economic evaluation;
- assess adaptive
forest management strategies, policy and governance options for their expected
impact on resilience.
This project contributes
to the Mediterranean Forest Research Agenda 2010-2020.
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