Has been part of 4 CREAF projects Projects involved in FORESTCAST Assessment and forecasting of ecosystem services in forests: impacts and adaptation to extreme climate events SIMwood Regional forest governance dialogues fostering conscious forest ownership and sustainable wood mobilisation in Europe Research groups this member belongs to Forest dynamics and wildfires a.alvarez@creaf.uab.es935813353Office: C5b/050I am a Forest Engineer, MsC in Wildfires and PhD in Diversity and Function in Mediterranean Ecosystems in the Autonomous University of Barcelona. My research is focused on large wildfires, crown fires and the effects of forest structure on fire behavior and fire severity.During my PhD I explained the causes that initiated crown fires with high intensity out of extinction capacity and I identified forest structures with higher potential to spread these fires. I studied the fires when they were burning when I went with firefighters from Catalonia and post-wilfire reconstructing the fire behavior and wildfire severity.Currently I’m studying extreme events as droughts and wildfires in the global change scenario and their relations with ecosystems services and the carbon emissions. INTERESTSThe causes and consequences of the large wildfires and crown fires and the carbon emissions associated. The fire severity and fire behavior from the different forest structure in Mediterranean forests. The relation between ecosystems services and extreme events caused by climate change. Recent publications under CREAF affiliation The positive carbon stocks–biodiversity relationship in forests: co-occurrence and drivers across five subclimatesLecina-Diaz J., Alvarez A., Regos A., Drapeau P., Paquette A., Messier C., Retana J.2018Ecological Applications28: 1481-1493Doi: 10.1002/eap.1749 Extreme fire severity patterns in topographic, convective and wind-driven historical wildfires of mediterranean pine forestsLecina-Diaz J., Alvarez A., Retana J.2014PLoS ONE900Doi: 10.1371/journal.pone.0085127 Patterns of fuel types and crown fire potential in Pinus halepensis forests in the Western Mediterranean BasinAlvarez A., Gracia M., Vayreda J., Retana J.2012Forest Ecology and Management270: 282-290Doi: 10.1016/j.foreco.2011.01.039 View more publications