La Universitat de Girona i el Centre de Ciència i Tecnologia Forestal de Catalunya, dins els marc del projecte ALERTA VELUTINA, han desenvolupat una aplicació mòbil per a fer un seguiment de l’abundància de vespa asiàtica arreu del territori català. L’aplicació és presentarà al sector el proper 26 de maig a Santa Coloma de Farners.…
The future of biological invasions is not only driven by global trade and climate and human land use change, but also by socioeconomic developments and technological innovations. This is the results of a recently published paper led by Núria Roura-Pascual (Universitat de Girona) within the project AlienScenarios and published in the scientific journal Sustainability Science.…
A postdoc position is available as part of the project AlienScenarios (“Developing and applying scenarios of biological invasions for the 21st century”), financed by the joint Belmont Forum-BiodivERsA framework on biodiversity scenarios and supervised by Dr. Núria Roura-Pascual in collaboration with national and international teams. The candidate will be employed at the University of Girona…
Second joint AlienScenarios & InvasiBES workshop on management alien species The first online workshop co-organised between AlienScenarios and InvasiBES (1-2 April, 2020) concluded with the development of four scenarios for biological invasions at European scale according to potential socio-environmental changes and the creation of an overall management strategy of invasive alien species. The second part…
Alien species dramatically contribute to future biodiversity loss Already an increase of 20 to 30 percent of invasive alien species will lead to dramatic future biodiversity loss worldwide. This is the conclusion of a new study led by Franz Essl and Bernd Lenzner (University of Vienna) within the project AlienScenarios and published in the scientific…
A postdoc position is available as part of the project AlienScenarios (“Developing and applying scenarios of biological invasions for the 21st century”), financed by the joint Belmont Forum-BiodivERsA framework on biodiversity scenarios and supervised by Dr. Núria Roura-Pascual in collaboration with national and international teams. The candidate will be employed at the University of Girona…