Objective
The project is aimed to the better understanding of the dynamics and degradation
processes of Mediterranean ecosystems, based on the premise that the prevention and reversal of desertification depends on the processes which determine vegetation structure as it is the plant cover which protects the soil from erosion and determines ecosystem function.
The project will provide a completed version of a model of
vegetation dynamics at a range of different spatial and temporal scales. A modular modelling approach has been used to scale up from a dynamic, time-dependent simulation of plant species behaviour to the level of the landscape thus bridging the gap between species-level and GIS-orientated models. To this aim, the ecophysiological behaviour of several dominant species of Mediterranean vegetation is under characterisation to parameterise an Individual Based Plant Community Level Model. Another version of the model will be based on a Transition Matrix approach with reference to major vegetation types.
A simplified version of the simulation model will be associated with a multimedia hypertext for educational applications. This will provide information on a selected number of reference study cases of changing land use scenarios in different Mediterranean countries.
Fields of science (EuroSciVoc)
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CORDIS classifies projects with EuroSciVoc, a multilingual taxonomy of fields of science, through a semi-automatic process based on NLP techniques. See: The European Science Vocabulary.
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Coordinator
86100 Campobasso
Italy
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