Medhycon-2 (2017-2021)

The Medhycon-2 project moves beyond the current knowledge on ecogeomorphic response of Mediterranean landscapes to global change. An effective management and intervention in catchments, it is required a process-based understanding of connectivity (i.e., as a synthetic approach between ecology, hydrology and geomorphology) and catchment sensitivity (i.e., the severity of a reaction to a disturbance, relative to the magnitude of the disturbance force). Medhycon-2 aims to:
  1. define new methods to accurately assess catchment transmission sensitivity and how the catchment scale sediment cascade operates and the extent to which any compartment is connected (coupled) or disconnected (decoupled) for deriving quantitative information on the temporal change of surface conditions (functional connectivity) at a range of spatial scales
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  2. to evaluate the feedbacks between biological and geomorphological processes in Mediterranean catchments by modelling global change scenarios under non-stationarity conditions to define the best strategies (i.e., indicators) to recover degraded ecosystems. Research will be focused in a representative Mediterranean cultural landscape, the Sa Font de la Vila catchment (5 km2, Mallorca)