The threat of climate change requires combined management and research measures to propose solutions that guarantee the sustainability and conservation of ecosystems. To this end, it is essential to develop long-term climate change experiments organized in systematic monitoring networks that include complete environmental gradients.
The existence of these infrastructures is critical for generating knowledge and mitigating the negative effects of climate change on ecosystems, maximizing their biodiversity and preserving their uses and services. These initiatives must be continuously improved and analyzed, and integrated into national and supranational networks.
This project is included in the actions aimed at integrating the Spanish scientific community into the European research infrastructure AnaEE-ERIC(Analysis and Experimentation on Ecosystems – European Research) through the creation of a national node.
The general objective is to inventory, characterize and homogenize the infrastructures that manipulate climate change agents in order to study their effects and analyze their threats on agricultural and forest ecosystems in Spain.
Specifically, it has these specific goals:
Building the AnaEE-Spain Network: Experimental plots to understand the effects of climate change on terrestrial ecosystems (AnaEE-Sp)