Cel The focus of RECONDES is to address the mitigation of desertification processes by the means of innovative techniques using vegetation in specific landscape configurations prone to severe degradation processes. Its major objective is to produce practical guidelines on the conditions for use of vegetation in areas vulnerable to desertification, taking into account spatial variability ingeomorphological and human-driven processes related to degradation and desertification. RECONDES will combine the understanding of the mechanisms of land degradation and of the critical soil conditions necessary for maintaining and restoring soil and land quality and ecosystem health to identify how and where vegetation could be used to mitigate desertification. It will identify the conditions or thresholds, which have to be attained or retained for vegetation growth and survival andexamine where those conditions are found. It will match those conditions against the processes of degradation to identify where treatments or restoration will be most effective. It will identify innovative measures, which might be taken to create or maintain conditions. Crucially, it will examine linkages within the landscape at different scales to determine the key points for intervention. The effects of vegetation treatments will be modelled and optimal strategies produced at scales from plot tocatchment. The practical guidelines produced will be disseminated to end-users. RECONDES is being applied in relation to the marginal lands of the north Mediterranean, the areas of southern Europe which are vulnerable to or have suffered desertification. The research is divided into six major work packages based on a hierarchy of land /use units found in these areas: Reforested land, Rainfedcropland, Semi-natural and abandoned land, Hill slopes, River valleys, Catchments. Dziedzina nauki engineering and technologymechanical engineeringvehicle engineeringaerospace engineeringsatellite technologynatural sciencesbiological sciencesecologyecosystems Słowa kluczowe Soil erosion geomorphology vegetation Program(-y) FP6-SUSTDEV - Sustainable Development, Global Change and Ecosystems: thematic priority 6 under the Focusing and Integrating Community Research programme 2002-2006. Temat(-y) SUSTDEV-2002-3.IV.1.a - Research on mechanisms of desertification and soil quality. Zaproszenie do składania wniosków FP6-2002-GLOBAL-1 Zobacz inne projekty w ramach tego zaproszenia System finansowania STREP - Specific Targeted Research Project Koordynator UNIVERSITY OF PORTSMOUTH HIGHER EDUCATION CORPORATION Wkład UE Brak danych Adres University House, Winston Churchill Avenue PORTSMOUTH Zjednoczone Królestwo Zobacz na mapie Linki Strona internetowa Opens in new window Koszt całkowity Brak danych Uczestnicy (5) Sortuj alfabetycznie Sortuj według wkładu UE Rozwiń wszystko Zwiń wszystko CONSEJO SUPERIOR DE INVESTIGACIONES CIENTIFICAS Hiszpania Wkład UE Brak danych Adres Serrano, 117 MADRID Zobacz na mapie Linki Strona internetowa Opens in new window Koszt całkowity Brak danych CONSIGLIO NAZIONALE DELLE RICERCHE Włochy Wkład UE Brak danych Adres Piazzale Aldo Moro 7 ROMA Zobacz na mapie Linki Strona internetowa Opens in new window Koszt całkowity Brak danych KATHOLIEKE UNIVERSITEIT LEUVEN Belgia Wkład UE Brak danych Adres Oude markt 13 LEUVEN Zobacz na mapie Linki Strona internetowa Opens in new window Koszt całkowity Brak danych UNIVERSITEIT VAN AMSTERDAM Niderlandy Wkład UE Brak danych Adres Spui 21 AMSTERDAM Zobacz na mapie Linki Strona internetowa Opens in new window Koszt całkowity Brak danych UNIVERSITÉ CATHOLIQUE DE LOUVAIN Belgia Wkład UE Brak danych Adres Place de l'Université 1 LOUVAIN-LA-NEUVE Zobacz na mapie Linki Strona internetowa Opens in new window Koszt całkowity Brak danych
