Forest Management

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Publications since 2013

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191, Rovira Roure Avenue

25198 (Lleida) – Spain

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34 973 702851

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jordi.voltas@udl.cat

Goals

Understand threats to forest trees posed by climate change for anticipatory adaptation policies
Improve sustainable forest management within global change scenarios

Research Lines

Ecophysiology of forest trees in Mediterranean environments
Provision of forest goods and services
Forest modelling and spatial statistics

Main activities

Evaluation of carbon and water balances under drought
Analysis of evolutionary trade-offs and forecast of adaptive potential in forest tree species
Dynamics of forest productivity (including non-timber forest products) as related to global change
Characterization of inter-specific competition between forest trees in drought-prone areas
Palaeoenvironmental inference based on isotopic analysis of living and fossil material

International Impact

Europe leading position on the use of stable isotopes to record agricultural and ecological changes in dry environments. Pioneered worldwide the interpretation of agricultural and climatic signals in the archaeobotanical record over the last 10,000 years.