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Alinyà, campaign in the valley of

Name Alinyà, campaign in the valley of
Description Interdisciplinary campaign coordinated by the Institució Catalana d'Història Natural, and funded by the Fundació Territori i Paisatge (Caixa de Catalunya). The aim was to increase the knowledge about the natural values of the valley of Alinyà (Catalonia, north-east of Spain) in order to apply this information to design a plan of management of the area. The FtiP recently became the owner of a vast part of the surface of the valley so that they are interested in a tool for monitoring changes.
The results will be published as a volume of the journal Treballs de la ICHN.
The malacological section of the museum was in charge of studying the mollusc fauna of the valley.
Provenance Accession of samples to the museum by the collaborators: Vicenç Bros, Jordi Cadevall, Elisabeth Hernández, Jordi Nebot i Albert Orozco. Francesc Uribe, curator of the department, coordinated the project.