Project on small Med islands
We are running an ambitious project to assess global change effects on plant biodiversity of small Mediterranean islands. Click on the "resurvey" section to know more about it!
Why small islands?
Islands are unique study systems for investigating ecological dynamics. We focus on small islands because their limited extension facilitates accurate plot relocation. In addition, the limited species pool on small islands facilitates testing the deviation from the equilibrium. Moreover, the Mediterranean is a perfect study area, given the large amount of vegetation data collected during the last decades, offering an opportunity also to combine the project findings with other well investigated patterns and processes.