It is dedicated to the study of the interactions of drivers and pressures of change on processes, functions, and services provided by forests, shrubland, landscapes, rivers, lakes, and other mountain systems. It covers diverse scientific fields such as forest ecology, forest modelling, silviculture, fire behaviour, beekeeping management, plant and vegetation conservation, freshwater ecology, conservation and restauration, genetic diversity conservation, soil management and conservation, among others.
- Improvement of the level of knowledge and understanding of systems such as forests, shrublands, pasturelands, landscapes, rivers, and others, in particular within a global change framework;
- Understanding and forecasting the effects of changes in drivers and pressures such as climate change, land abandonment or intensification, and other, on these systems and on the ecosystem services they provide;
- Understanding the interactions between biodiverstity, ecosystem function management, and resilience in mountain systems;
- Supporting resilience, adaptation and other responses of mountain socio-ecological systems to drivers of global change;
- Definition of measures for resource use efficienty in forestry, soil, water management and other fields;
- Promoting multifunctionality of mountain systems and provision of highly valuable ecosystem services.
Topic Coordinator: Maria Alice Pinto