Italian partner available for proposal

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Dear colleagues,
This is to offer the participation of our research team as a partner under the following call for applications (2nd call for proposals- from 30th Jan to 30 March).

The DiBT forestry lab is a research group at the Department of bioscience and Territory of the University of Molise- UNIMOL (central Italy). The research group has more than 15 years of experience in research and applicative projects founded by the EU commission other than national founds for research. We have experiences on FP7, LIFE, LIFE-plus, INTERREG, MED and ADRION, mostly focused on forest and natural resources management, green growth and biodiversity conservation.

In relation to our research topics we are then particularly interested in proposals focused on priority axes 2 (Fostering low-carbon strategies and energy efficiency in specific MED territories) and priority axes 3 (Protecting and promoting Mediterranean natural and cultural resources)

The team is composed by 3 full professors, 2 research scientists, 12 post-doc fellows and technicians and about 20 PhD students. The group leader (prof. Marco Marchetti) is also vice-rector of the University of Molise and president of the Research Center for Inner Areas and Apennines (ArIA) hosted by UNIMOL.
The research activity is mainly focused on:
– Monitoring and management of forest ecosystems and natural resources, mainly in the fields of silviculture, forest management, forest inventory, protected areas management (e.g. National Parks, N2000 sites), biodiversity conservation, wildfire risk management, geomatics and remote sensing.
– Assessment and evaluation of ecosystem services both in biophysical and monetary terms, through combining agent- and process-based approaches.
– Land use change monitoring and evaluation of their effects on ecosystem services provisioning and local sustainable development, with particular regard to processes affecting the rural (i.e. land abandonment), forest (i.e. rewilding and reforestation) and urban (land consumption) contexts.
– Biomonitoring of air quality and pollution (particularly in urban and industrial contexts) using innovative techniques (dendrochronology, dendrochemistry, use of lichens as bioindicators).
– Development of inner areas promoting the sustainable use and management of natural resources through implementing bottom-up approaches.

The research mission is to support the future-oriented policy trajectories, through assessing and monitoring the ecosystems’ response to natural and human-induced changes such as climate, wildfires and land management practices. The scale of application is variable and ranges from tree to landscape level. The combination of ecosystem-level research, remote sensing and forest inventory, is used to develop and implement decision support systems, in order to model the influence of climate, developmental stage, disturbance, and management on processes controlling carbon, water and nutrient cycling of terrestrial ecosystems. During the last years, we have also been actively involved in national projects which allowed us to expand our research and applications to the entire national territory with particular regard to the land use change monitoring and ecosystem services assessment, as support tool for the EU climate change mitigation and adaptation strategies as well as the EU strategy for biodiversity conservation (i.e. MAES- Mapping and Assessment of Ecosystems and their Services).

The multidisciplinary organisation of the team is aimed to address global change issues through integrated research strategies even thanks to the several well-established international collaborations.

For further information, please visit our website http://www.ecogeofor.unimol.it/index.php?option=com_content&view=article&id=94&Itemid=101&lang=it

Or contact us via email at lasserre@unimol.it

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