CREAF

  • Center
    • About CREAF
      • Mission, Objectives and Vision
      • Governing organizations
      • International Scientific Committee
      • Annual reports
      • History of CREAF
      • Logo and corporate image
    • Transparency
      • CREAF organisation
      • Annual Accounts
      • Public Procurement
      • Strategic Plans and Annual Reports
      • Access to public information
    • Staff
      • People's directory
      • International Collaborations
    • Facilities
      • Laboratories
      • Collections
      • Experimental sites and stations
  • Research
    • Research fields
      • Biodiversity
      • Ecosystem Functioning
      • Global Change
      • Earth Observation
    • Transversal Topics
      • Forests
      • Mediterranean Basin
      • Ecosystem services
      • Sustainability
      • Citizen science
      • Big data
    • Don't miss it
      • Publications
      • Projects directory
      • Research groups
      • Facilities
      • Open Acces
      • International Collaborations
  • Training
    • Training programs
      • PhD in Terrestrial Ecology
      • Fellowships and Summer Program
      • Master's programs
    • We recommend
      • CREAF Talks
      • Agenda
      • Citizen science
  • Products and services
    • Environmental management solutions
      • Biodiversity and ecosystem services
      • Forest management
      • Land-use planning
      • Sustainable water management
      • Soil protection and rehabilitation services
      • Earth observation services
  • Join us
    • Work with us
      • Job board
      • Fellowships and Summer Program
    • Why to work at CREAF
      • A great place to work
      • HRS4R: Good recruitment practices
    • External funding opportunities
      • MSCA Postdoctoral Fellowship at CREAF
      • ERC grant at CREAF
  • Science in Society
    • Citizen Science
    • Agenda
    • Press office
    • The CREAF blog
  • CREAF Intranet
  • OUR NEWS
  • Press office
  • Català
  • English
  • Español
Search

Research

Through excellence in science, CREAF pushes the frontiers of knowledge of some of the biggest and more complex challenges currently faced by society.

CREAF Expertise

 

Research done in our center is now classified into six cross-cutting topics and four research areas.

  • Forests
  • Mediterranean Basin
  • Ecosystem services
  • Sustainability
  • Citizen science
  • Big data and data quality

Global Change

  • Climate change
  • Land use change and landscape dynamics
  • Fires
  • Biological invasions
  • Integrative and adaptive management of water and the territory
  • Urbanization and biodiversity

Biodiversity

  • Species distribution and phenology
  • Behavior, ecology and evolution
  • Population and community dynamics
  • Ecological networks and species interactions
  • Evolutionary ecology

Earth Observation

  • Long term ecosystem monitoring
  • GIS and remote sensing methodologies and applications
  • Regional and global environmental information services
  • Geospatial products and international standards

Ecosystem functioning

  • Stores and flows of water, carbon, and nutrients
  • Atmosphere-biosphere interactions
  • Soil function and restoration
  • Functional biogeography
  • Chemical ecology, ecotoxicology, metagenomics, and metabolomics
ALBERAPASTUR

Valorization of bovine and silvopastoral resources of the trans-Pyrenean Mediterranean massif

Interregs projects
UFOREST

European Alliance on Interdisciplinary Learning and Business Innovation for Urban Forests

European Union ProjectsActive Project
Water-ForCE

Hidro-escenaris per l'explotació de Copernicus

European Union ProjectsActive Project
All projects
  • GECA Environmental Change Ecology Group

    Consolidated Research Group supported by Generalitat de Catalunya that studies of the interdependence between the biogeodynamics of the biogeosphere (transport, storage and reactivity of materials and energy...

    View group
All Research Groups

Newsletter

Subscribe to our Newsletter to get the lastest CREAF news.

BOARD OF TRUSTEES

DISTINCTIONS

MEMBERS OF

WITH SUPPORT FROM

Home  /  Research

Campus de Bellaterra (UAB) Edifici C
08193 Cerdanyola del Vallès
View map

Tel.: +34 93 5811312
Fax: +34 93 5814151
contacte@creaf.uab.cat

 

  • The CREAF
    • Center
    • Staff
    • Products and services
    • Transparency
    • Job board
    • Privacy Policy
  • Training
    • PhD in Terrestrial Ecology
    • Master's programs
    • Fellowships
  • Updates
    • Agenda
    • The CREAF blog
    • Newsletter subscription
    • Citizen science

Follow CREAF on:

Twitter
Facebook
Instagram
YouTube
LinkedIn
Flickr
This site (RSS)

© 2016 CREAF | Legal notice