Hydro-climatic interactions & fluvial ecology in Mediterranean environments

There are concerns that streams on Mediterranean environments are threatened by a combination of global (climate-driven) and local (land cover changes and increased water demand) factors which alter hydrological conditions. We assess long term flow change in streams across Mediterranean environments and use a simple transferable metric of water permanence to illustrate how aquatic invertebrate diversity may be affected by streamflow reductions.

Featured publications of this research line:

Garcia, C., Gibbins, C. N., Pardo, I., & Batalla, R. J. (2017). Long term flow change threatens invertebrate diversity in temporary streams: Evidence from an island. Science of The Total Environment, 580, 1453-1459.

Garcia, C., Amengual, A., Homar, V., Zamora, A. (2017). Losing water in temporary streams on a Mediterranean island: effects of climate and land-cover changes. Global and Planetary Change 148, 139–152.