Jordi Vayreda

Jordi Vayreda received the M.S. degree in biology from the Universitat de Barcelona, Barcelona, Spain, in 1990, and the M.S. degree in terrestrial ecology and biodiversity management and the Ph.D. degree in terrestrial ecology from the Universitat Autònoma de Barcelona, Barcelona, in 2010 and 2012, respectively. Since 1995, he has been a Researcher with the Centre for Ecological Research and Forestry Applications, Barcelona. He has been in charge of the calculation and analysis of information from national forest inventories and the management of these large databases. He has developed software applications to help users to make queries about this information through Internet. He has been responsible for several reports commissioned by the Government on the use of forest biomass for energy and the calculation of carbon stocks and carbon balance of Spanish and Catalan forests. His research interests include macroecology on the impacts of disturbances and global change in forests (die-off, vulnerability, resilience, and biodiversity): demography, carbon balance, growth, mortality, and regeneration at large scale. Among his research experience, there are vulnerability and resilience of forests at large scale to global change, forest information obtained from the LiDAR technology, structure and dynamics of forest communities, forest die-off and regeneration, forest databases, design and management of large databases, and development of query tools of forest information.