Spatio-temporal land use / land cover changes and their driving forces
- Land abandonment in Mediterranean mountains: implications for habitat conservation
- Landscape pattern and plant biodiversity in Mediterranean coastal dune ecosystems. The importance of habitat loss and fragmentation
- European agricultural landscape and its changes
- Socio-economic drivers of European landscape pattern
Scaling and data quality in ecology and landscape ecology
- Landscape metrics behaviour across scales
- Sensibility of landscape metrics to landscape changes
- Spatial data quality in species distribution modelling
Distribution and spatial spread of plant and animal species
- Species spatio-temporal distribution and community composition
- Invasive species and human related structures: roads and railways as dispersal corridors
- Spatial spread in river networks
- The association between the spatial heterogeneity, landscape metrics and bio-diversity metrics
- Drivers of plant diversity (Taxonomic, Functional and Phylogenetic Diversity) in coastal dune ecosystems
Relief dependent patterns and processes
- Analysis of gully erosion patterns
- Derivation of volumetric change patterns by DEM differencing (glaciers, landslides)
- Detection of spatial patterns by satellite altimetry (lake levels, glacier mass balance, landslides)