Project on small Med islands
We aim at resurveying vegetation plots on a subset of small Mediterranean islands, to check for climate change effects on plant biodiversity, after a time span of at least 30 years
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.