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Our latest newsletter is out!
Have a look to discover the latest updates to our software!

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The first edition was held in Brest-Iroise (Plouzané, France, 15 May 2025) and was conducted by Miquel de Cáceres from the EMF and Anthony Sturbois and Nicolas Djeghri from LEMAR.

The training provides an introduction to the concepts, geometric elements and statistics of the Ecological Trajectory Analysis (ETA) framework, including its extension to cyclical dynamics (CETA).

Materials of the first edition of the course Ecological Trajectory Analysis using the ecotraj R package can be found here. emf.creaf.cat/training/eco...

El pasado 8 de mayo estuvimos en el ciclo de seminarios del ICIFOR!!

Looking for ecological data for your research? 🌿🔍 Explore our online database, where you'll find a collection of valuable information for modeling and analysis.

emf.creaf.cat/external_data/

Discover the software tools developed by the Ecosystem Modelling Facility (EMF) at CREAF. These resources are designed to support research in ecology, hydrology, and environmental science. Explore them here: emf.creaf.cat/software/ 🌱

Have you ever encountered slow operations in your R code? 🕒💻
Explore parallel computing to speed up processing time! Learn how to implement it efficiently here:
emf.creaf.cat/workflows/r_...
#ParallelComputing #DataScience #Programming

You can find the material here: emf.creaf.cat/training/med...

Cambium organizes a course on forest functioning and dynamics simulation - Cambium Research Group Cambium Research Group has organized the course entitled “Process-based forest modelling using the medfate and medfateland R packages”, that is held in Soria (19-21 Nov, 2024). This three-day course, ...

More details here: www.cambiumresearch.eu/news/cambium...

🌲Two weeks ago , we had the pleasure of visiting Soria to deliver a hands-on course on MEDFATE and MEDFATELAND .
A huge thanks to Cambium researchers Francisco Mauro and David Candel-Pérez for organizing and hosting this enriching experience! 🙌
👉 Read the news:
emf.creaf.cat/news/medfate...

Also, meteospain reachs version 0.2.0.
MeteoClimatic API access has been fixed. MeteoCat instant and hourly time scales now return more variables. AEMET daily data now returns the relative humidity . Sadly, AEMET has updated the limits to 15 days more at: emf-creaf.github.io/meteospain/

Landscape Meteorology Tools Functions to estimate weather variables at any position of a landscape [De Caceres et al. (2018) <doi:10.1016/j.envsoft.2018.08.003>].

meteoland R package has been updated to version 2.0.0.
Now building big meteo interpolators (20 years, 100 stations) takes seconds instead of minutes. This just makes it easier and faster to use meteoland in real-time modelling applications.
emf-creaf.github.io/meteoland/in...

🛰️LIDAR: Accedeix, visualitza i calcula variables forestals a partir de dades LiDAR a Catalunya
📔 IFN: Accedeix, visualitza i descàrrega les dades de l’Inventari Forestal Nacional a Catalunya

🌄FES: Visualitza y descarrega les dades dels serveis ecosistemics de los boscos de Catalunya
🌦️METEOLAND: Estimacions de meteorologia diària per a tot Catalunya
🌳ALLOMETR app: Calcula noves variables a partir d’equacions dissenyades per espècies, àmbits geogràfics i nivells

🔥SITEDROUGHT: Estimacions diàries del balanç hídric i risc de incendi en parcel·les de boscos y matollars
📉DEBOSCAT: informació sobre els episodis de decaïment forestal a Catalunya en relació a la sequera
💧CATDROUGHT Estimacions diàries del balanç hídric i la humitat del sòl

El Laboratori Forestal Català és una iniciativa del CREAF i CTFC per posar a disposició del públic, expert o principiant, la informació i les dades relacionades amb els boscos generats en els dos centres de recerca.
laboratoriforestal.creaf.cat

We are interested in joining too!

Here it is an example of model applications: De Cáceres M, et al. (2021) Unravelling the effect of species mixing on water use and drought stress in holm oak forests: a modelling approach. Agricultural and Forest Meteorology 296 (doi.org/10.1016/j.ag...).

This book will help you to understand and make use of the model:
emf-creaf.github.io/medfatebook/...

It provides functions to simulate:

💧Soil water balance
☀️Plant hydraulics, transpiration and photosynthesis
🌱Carbon balance, plant growth, senescence and mortality
📈Forest dynamics, including recruitment and management

Mediterranean Forest Simulation Simulate Mediterranean forest functioning and dynamics using cohort-based description of vegetation [De Caceres et al. (2015) <doi:10.1016/j.agrformet.2015.06.012>; De Caceres et al. (2021) <doi:10.10...

Package MEDFATE is designed to assist forest scientists to simulate forest functioning and dynamics, using cohort-based description of forest stands.
You can find it on CRAN ( current version: 4.7.0, published 2024-10-18)
(emf-creaf.github.io/medfate/)

What do we do?

🔵MODELS
Related to forest dynamics and processes

🟣SOFTWARE
To obtain meteorological data and forest data

🟢WORKFLOWS
Learn to access datasets , use R packages…

🟠DATA
Interesting datasets for ecology within easy reach

You can visit our web to see our work : emf.creaf.cat