During 2017, the European project LIFE Trivers, coordinated by the University of Barcelona, will set up several workshops on citizen participation in order to gather priority measures for the conservation and restoration of the ecological status of the studied water bodies, in the internal basins of Catalonia,...
F.E.M. (Freshwater Ecology and Management) research group seeks a Part-time Technical assistant for his immediate incorporation to the project TRIVERS (LIFE13 ENVES000341) from February 2017. Job functions: His/her functions will be the following ones: Assistance in the design and implementation of a mobile App for temporary rivers, and its use...
The LIFE + TRivers project aims to create new tools to improve the management of temporary rivers based on the objectives of the Water Framework Directive (WFD). The third stakeholders meeting of TRivers will be held in Zaragoza from January 25 to 26and is addressed to stakeholders and...
Collaboration between managers and researchers is a key element for improving the understanding and management of ecosystems, and especially in temporary rivers due to their lack of recognition by society. The relationship between the TRiversproject and Els Ports Natural Park is an example of this interaction, as shown...
Gemma Burgazzi is PhD researcher at the Aquatic Ecology Lab of the University of Parma. Her research is focused on freshwater macroinvertebrate communities and their responses to flow modifications. In particular she studies the diversity and distribution of taxa in different types of ecosystems across environmental gradients. The...
Después de muchos meses de trabajo, dos alumnos de la Universidad de Barcelona y un estudiante de la escuela superior ENGEES de Estrasburgo han completado diferentes proyectos de investigación sobre ríos temporales en el marco de TRivers. La estudiante de Ciencias Ambientales de la UB Carla Van Esso, dedicó...
Researchers of the LIFE Trivers project joined the first meeting of the action COST SMIRES (Science and Management of Intermittent Rivers and Ephemeral Streams) on On September 12 and 13. Trivers is also one of the members of the COST SMIRES, financially supported by the European Union, to widen and...
El proyecto LIFE+ TRivers ha celebrado una mesa de trabajo sobre ríos efímeros, aquellos ríos que fluyen solo de forma episódica, con lo que solo se observa agua en superficie unos pocos días al año. La jornada tuvo lugar el pasado 14 de julio en la sede...
The Life + TRIVERS team just published a paper in Science of the Total Environment that tries to use two alternative methods for gathering information on the regime of temporary streams: interviews made to the neighbors of the river reach, and the inspection of aerial photographs. The combination of the...
On 27 and 28 January, the second stakeholder meeting of the LIFE+ TRivers project took place at the headquarters of the Segura Water Agency, in Murcia. During the first day, a field trip to the Chícamo temporary river was organized. During the second day, the latest TRivers results,...