Adrià Masip

• MSc Mathematical Modelling, Computation and Statistics
• CEO at NaturNum

Riparian forests nestled in agricultural landscapes represent a small proportion in crop-intensive areas, while contributing remarkably to their biodiversity. This biodiversity supports several ecological processes crucially involved in the supply of ecosystem services (ES) complementary to that provided by agricultural lands and also relevant for...

Restoring the flooding-related disturbance regime by removing and setting back flood defenses (channel widening) is the most efficient strategy for recovering riparian plant communities in floodplains formerly impacted by human activities such as agriculture, mining, and forestry. Removing flood defenses is generally not socially accepted, and alte...

Abandoning hybrid poplar plantations may be an alternative strategy for enlarging natural riparian corridors along regulated rivers where forest regeneration no longer takes place. Despite the generally high local diversity of plants in poplar plantations, their capacity to converge towards riparian forests following abandonment remains largely unt...

Eleven in-stream and five off-stream wetlands were restored in the southern portion of the Flumen River basin, an intensively irrigated agricultural area located in NE Spain, to evaluate their efficiency for nitrate removal and to assess the factors affecting their performance. Samples were taken during different periods of the year during 2011-201...

Experiences of a multidisciplinar project of ecological restoration. Overview of 4 years of the project Life+ CREAMAgua. Creation and restoration of aquatic ecosystems for the improvement of water quality and biodiversity in mediterranean watersheeds.

One of the largest efforts on riparian restoration is reforestation. Nevertheless, knowledge on the species response to varying hydrological conditions is needed to ensure successful establishment (Francis et al. 2005). Based on survival data of a riparian reforestation one year after plantation, an algorithm based on Markov chains has been develop...

Riparian Salicaceae are prolific producers of short-lived seeds that require very restrictive hydro-geomorphic conditions for establishment. It is generally assumed that if floods are able to create nursery sites timed with seed dispersal, recruitment will occur. Other spatial and temporal seed dispersal patterns besides the dispersal period have h...

Nowadays riparian forests are one of the most threatened habitats in Europe, mainly because of the use of the area by traditional agriculture due to the high value of the riverbanks for crop growing. This let the present riparian areas to be unable to achieve most of the ecological functions expected as flood control, energy dissipation, carbon seq...

Eleven in-stream and five off-stream wetlands were constructed in the southern part of Flumen River basin, an irrigated agriculture area located in NE Spain. Samplings were conducted during different agricultural activities in order to demonstrate their influence on water quality. Water discharge and nitrate concentration (NO3-) were determined at...

With adequate planning, wetland restoration and creation can be useful tools for improving the water quality of natural ecosystems in agricultural territories. Here, a protocol for selecting wetland-restoration sites at the watershed scale is proposed as part of a demonstration project (EU Life CREAMAgua) for improving wastewater from irrigated agr...