DELTAPULSE - Using the past to build sustainable deltas: paleoecological insights into ecosystem responses to pulsing dynamics in a global change context

The overarching objective of DELTAPULSE is ambitious but pragmatic: to develop the methodological and paleoecological basis of deltaic ecosystem development. Building on classical ecological approaches (“pulse dynamics”) supported by recent multidisciplinary works (i.e., quantitative paleoecology, carbon sequestration, and Earth system modeling), DELTAPULSE aims at determining which proxies for past deltaic pulse events are critical for modern and future Ebro Delta sustainability, validating them with basin and coastal environmental forcings driven by paleoclimate and historical human effects.