GeoRange Consortium

The Department

The Estación Experimental de Zonas Aridas (EEZA) is a centre of the Consejo Superior de Investigaciones Científicas (CSIC) (Spanish Council for Scientific Research), the largest public organisation dealing with pure and applied research in Spain. EEZA aims to the ecology of arid zones, with a total staff of 41 people. The research team involved in GeoRange began its activities back in 1990. Its research interests include the assessment of landscape responses to human and climatic driving forces in extreme environments and the development of indicators of land condition and land degradation. The research is carried out at several scales ranging from the plot to the landscape level, and the group operates the Rambla Honda - El Cautivo experimental field sites, that have been running during the last ten years. Currently the team is concerned with understanding the sources and processes of spatial heterogeneity in drylands, the search of scale links between field and remotely sensed data, and the role of rangelands as a resource for the primary uses of landscape.

In the GeoRange project, EEZA will work specifically on range-specific biodiversity issues and quantitative spatial modelling approaches. Some of the conceptual work will be performed in relation to its existing field sites, with the aim of applying these concepts to the GeoRange test sites in cooperation with the local partners. Strong links will also be established with FEUT and LUC, since some of the approaches of EEZA will be based on satellite imagery and allow for an integration of satellite data processing and interpretation techniques with geostatistical analyses. EEZA will also be responsible for the analysis and geo-statistical evaluation of spatial structures related to rangeland biodiversity, which will form one source of input data to the retrospective analysis of range development and the impact assessment of past management efforts.


	Georange Consortium - EEZA-CSIC
	Estacion Experimental de Zonas Aridas, Consejo Superior de Investigaciones Cientificas (EEZA/CSIC), Almeria, Spain	click to access web page
	The Department The Estación Experimental de Zonas Aridas (EEZA) is a centre of the Consejo Superior de Investigaciones Científicas (CSIC) (Spanish Council for Scientific Research), the largest public organisation dealing with pure and applied research in Spain. EEZA aims to the ecology of arid zones, with a total staff of 41 people. The research team involved in GeoRange began its activities back in 1990. Its research interests include the assessment of landscape responses to human and climatic driving forces in extreme environments and the development of indicators of land condition and land degradation. The research is carried out at several scales ranging from the plot to the landscape level, and the group operates the Rambla Honda - El Cautivo experimental field sites, that have been running during the last ten years. Currently the team is concerned with understanding the sources and processes of spatial heterogeneity in drylands, the search of scale links between field and remotely sensed data, and the role of rangelands as a resource for the primary uses of landscape. GeoRange In the GeoRange project, EEZA will work specifically on range-specific biodiversity issues and quantitative spatial modelling approaches. Some of the conceptual work will be performed in relation to its existing field sites, with the aim of applying these concepts to the GeoRange test sites in cooperation with the local partners. Strong links will also be established with FEUT and LUC, since some of the approaches of EEZA will be based on satellite imagery and allow for an integration of satellite data processing and interpretation techniques with geostatistical analyses. EEZA will also be responsible for the analysis and geo-statistical evaluation of spatial structures related to rangeland biodiversity, which will form one source of input data to the retrospective analysis of range development and the impact assessment of past management efforts.


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