Vega Lab

Complutense University of Madrid

Comunidad de Madrid (ES3) · Spain

ERC-funded
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ERC Starting Grant · 2024

Integrating ecosystem resilience around thresholds in aridity: unveiling nature-based mechanisms to endure abrupt desertification

Resilience (the ability of ecosystems to withstand disturbances without losing its structural or functional properties) is crucial to confront changes imposed by climate change such as ongoing increases in aridity. This is especially relevant for drylands, which have been shown to exhibit abrupt changes in their structure and functioning once that certain aridity thresholds are crossed. However, we have very little understanding on the drivers and patterns of resilience around aridity thresholds, which hinders our ability to monitor, preserve and restore degraded ecosystems under climate change. Existing uncertainties arise from the complexity of studying resilience (which is multifaceted…

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