Biociencias

Flash floods occur as a result of heavy and short-lived rainfall, which appears suddenly at a local level, and is difficult to predict. These floods mainly affect small basins with steep gradients, which are characteristics that apply to 70% of Catalonia's river networks and 100% of those in the Balearic Islands. These are also very destructive phenomena which have become increasingly common in recent decades as a result of climate change.

Marine protected areas will be used as a starting point for the management and monitoring of sea turtle nests in the western Mediterranean. That is the basis of the COMING project, the latest initiative led by the BETA Technology Center of the University of Vic - Central University of Catalonia, which has just been launched with financial support from the MAVA Foundation.

This week saw the publication of issue 2 of UCampus, the institutional magazine of UVic-UCC, which is available in three languages: Catalan, Spanish and English.

Cities in the Mediterranean region have been facing a gradual increase and concentration in their population and an increase in construction and tourism for decades. The limits on growth that these urban environments have to cope with means that appropriate waste management is crucial in guaranteeing a healthy living environment. Almost 4 million tonnes of waste are generated in Catalonia alone, of which more than a third is organic waste.

Maximising the success of nesting episodes by the loggerhead sea turtle (Caretta caretta) on Spanish coast is the main goal of a new project involving the BETA Technology Center of the University of Vic - Central University of Catalonia (UVic-UCC), which is co-financed by the

The current European food system has complex social, economic and ecological components, and needs a radical transformation in order to make them sustainable in the long term.

The Chair in Palliative Care at the University of Vic - Central University of Catalonia (UVic-UCC) and the Catalan Oncology Institute (ICO) has produced a directory containing important documentation and resources on the COVID-19 pandemic.

Palliative care is the legally stipulated care for people suffering from the advanced stages of a chronic disease or who are in a situation where their life is coming to an end. This type of care involves optimising the quality of life of the patient and their families, while seeking to reduce the physical, psycho-emotional and spiritual suffering associated with the process of dying.

Two weeks after moving to online teaching as a result of the suspension of face-to-face academic activities due to the coronavirus outbreak, classes on all bachelor's degree courses at the University of Vic - Central University of Catalonia (UVic-UCC) are continuing through a variety of digital resources and platforms, with the Virtual Campus at the core of relationships and contact between teachers and students.

All ecosystems, and aquatic ecosystems are no exception, are made up of different trophic levels, or in other words, several rings that make up a food chain. The predator-prey relationships between more than two of these levels are known as trophic cascades, and can significantly affect how ecosystems function.