CIBIO-InBIO at ISA develops research in the following core areas:

Biodiversity in Agricultural and Forest Ecosystems

Analysis of the impacts of management and policies (the Common Agricultural Policy in particular) on biodiversity and ecosystem services of agricultural and forest systems; Impacts of global change on farmland biodiversity; Forest restoration; Fire ecology

Applied Ecology

Conservation biology; impact assessment and mitigation; sustainable use of biological resources; developing cost-effective tools for monitoring biodiversity.

Theoretical Ecology and Biodiversity Modelling

Dynamics of biodiversity change and its consequences for ecosystem services using a combination of theoretical and empirical approaches; Environmental assessments of the condition of biodiversity and ecosystem services from the local to the global scale.
 

Research Applications

With research applications mostly in:

• Restoration of ecosystems
• Cost-effective biodiversity monitoring
• Conceptual framework to solve practical problems in ecosystem management, conservation biology, impact assessment and mitigation, and the sustainable use of biological resources
• Impacts of powerlines and roads on biodiversity
• Development of spatially-explicit models for population viability analysis in fragmented landscapes
• Development of global and regional monitoring schemes to improve our understanding of biodiversity and ecosystem services change
• Environmental assessments of the condition of biodiversity and ecosystem services from the local to the global scale
• Ecology of bats and their response to environmental change, management of the interaction between bat populations and human activities, and evaluation and promotion of bat ecosystem services
• Knowledge improvement on the ecology of managed agricultural and forest ecosystems: farming systems and policy impacts, global change and farmland biodiversity, forest ecology and management impacts