The National Institute for Agricultural and Food Research and Technology (INIA, Madrid, Spain) is an autonomous Public Research Organization ascribed to the Ministry of Science and Innovation. The Center for Forestry Research (CIFOR) belongs to INIA. The CIFOR-INIA is conceived as a specialized forest research centre, whose objective is to enhance the knowledge base on the forest environment, management models capable of successfully integrating the requirements of sustainable management with that of forest multifunctionality, inventory, analysis and conservation of the genetic diversity present in forests and the selection, characterisation and propagation of genetic material, damage caused by biotic agents or environmental disturbances and finally, the raw materials and products derived from them, optimizing the technology employed in the processing and adaptation of these materials for different uses. CIFOR-INIA works in close collaboration with public research organisations, universities and technological centres through mixed R&D projects. INIA is also involved in four projects of FP7: “Novel breeding strategies” (NOVELTREE), CARBO-EXTREME and “Forest and land management options to prevent unwanted forest fires” (FIRESMART). In ARANGE INIA will be responsible for the Iberian case study and Tasks T1.3.3 and T2.3. Active participation is further foreseen in Tasks T4.2 and T5.2.
Persons involved:
Dr Marta Pardos
PhD in echophysiology and forest seedling quality; she is project leader on natural regeneration of pine and oak species. Her research topics include seedling quality assessment through physiological parameters, spatial and temporal dynamics and ecophysiology of natural regeneration in response to climate change.
Dr Luis Diaz-Balteiro
BS and MSc in Forestry, MBA and Ph.D. in Forest Economics and Management. Recent research has focused in Forest Management and Multicriteria Dec. Making.
Dr Isabel Cañellas
Dr. in forestry, she is project leader on different subjects: forest dynamics, natural regeneration, stand structure and growth. Deputy coordinator of Division 1 Silviculture in IUFRO since 2006. Coordinator of Silviculture and Sustainable Forest Management Department of the Centre for Forest Research (CIFOR-INIA).
Dr María Martínez-Jauregui
PhD in population dynamics and evolutionary ecology for wild ungulate management. Her research topics include Wildlife Economics: Accounting for income of exploited species and bioeconomic models in Andalucía Region (Spain).
Dr Gregorio Montero
PhD in Forestry. President of the Spanish Society of Forest Sciences, Chief Editor of SCI journal Forest Systems, Deputy Director of INIA from 2004 to 2008. His research topics include Silviculture and Mediterranean forest management, biometry and forest modelling, CO2 fixation in Spanish forests.
Dr Antonio Vázquez
PhD in ecology from the UCM (1996) and research member of the Department of Ecology and Genetics of CIFOR. His interests are forest structure characterization based on spatial images and the study of interactions between fire regime and forest landscapes, especially in the climate change context.
