My research aims to evaluate cumulative effects of multiple stressors acting at different biological, spatial and temporal scales.
Specifically, I investigate how freshwater and terrestrial biodiversity and functions respond to different combinations of natural (salinity, drying) and anthropogenic stressors (land use intensification, climate change, salinization, invasive species). |
Biodiversity - Ecosystem Functioning relationships under global change
I explore which biodiversity aspects sustain multiple ecosystem functions and how stressors alter these relationships. Specifically, I investigate how increasing abiotic stress and biodiversity change influence ecosystem functioning. To do so, I characterize different biodiversity facets (taxonomy, traits) and groups (microbes, invertebrates, vertebrates). |
Estimating functional diversity across biological and spatial scales
I develop conceptual frameworks and novel methodologies to estimate functional trait-based metrics in freshwater and terrestrial ecosystems. Particularly, my works provide new functions to calculate functional diversity metrics from intra-specific functional trait information (e.g., fuzzy-coding traits), including community-wide (functional richness, dispersion, evenness) and others calculated at the taxon level (functional niche breadth and overlapping). |