Development of remote sensing techniques to assess plant and ecosystem functioning, global and climate change effects on the structure and functioning of Mediterranean ecosystems, mechanisms and functions of plant-emitted volatile organic compounds.

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Ecology of VOCs

Global change effects in plant ecophysiology. Climate change and nitrification effects in plant photosynthetic activity, chlorophyll fluorescence, water relations, and ecosystem productivity.

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Remote sensing, vegetation-climate dynamics, global change

http://www.creaf.cat/en/personal/aleixandre-verger-ten
https://www.researchgate.net/profile/A_Verger

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Global change and ecological stoichiometry, wetland biogeochemistry, industrial and agricultural wastes reuse in agriculture, greenhouse gases mitigation, Globally Important Agricultural Heritage Systems

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Soil enzyme activity, microbial biomass, microbial stoichiometry, soil VOCs.

I am currently working as a postdoctoral researcher at the Global Ecology Unit (CREAF-CSIC-UAB, Catalonia). My research combines several disciplines in Ecology: plant biology, fungal biology, community structure, functional ecology, ecosystem dynamics, plant-soil interactions and diversity patterns. I have been doing research on contrasting ecosystems across the world: in alpine (Pyrenees, Himalaya), subarctic (Scandes), arctic (Greenland), tropical (French Guiana), and in mediterranean regions (Catalonia). I have conducted observational and experimental studies in most of these regions to analyse the effects of environmental variability on ecosystem functioning.

For more information you can e-mail me (grau.oriol@gmail.com) or check the website: https://www.researchgate.net/profile/Oriol_Grau

Biogeochemical aspects of phosphorus cycle.

I am a climate and environmental scientist with a special interest in interactions between climate change and terrestrial ecology and biogeochemistry. My work is dedicated to providing data-informed predictions of how land ecosystems respond to a changing climate, increasing CO2 and changes in nutrient cycles. I'm developing numerical models, as simple as possible and as complex as necessary to learn the most.

http://www.imperial.ac.uk/people/b.stocker

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My research activities have aimed to gain a deep understanding of the coupled C-N-H₂O cycling in forests, by linking different scales of investigations, i.e., from the tree to the ecosystem, and methodological approaches (e.g., stable C and O isotopes in leaves and tree rings, eddy covariance data). During my Marie Curie fellowship at the CRAEF I will focus on tree canopies and their role in altering the chemical composition of precipitation and, consequently, the nutrient cycling within forests. I will explore the biological diversity hidden in the canopies, particularly bacteria, and its role in processing the atmospheric N.

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Abstract_NITRIPHYLL project

I am focused on the development of tree-ring chronologies within gradients of nutrient availability in French Guiana and in fertilization experiments, using classical dendrochronological approaches plus tree-ring isotopes techniques.

I am also interested in the effects of experimental fertilization and nutrient availability on the linkage between belowground water movement mediated by roots (hydraulic lift and downward siphoning) and root nutrient uptake. More generally, I would like to explore the effect of nitrogen addition and/or phosporus limitation on plant water relations of tropical, mediterranean and temperate forests.

https://www.researchgate.net/profile/Adria_Barbeta

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My research has focused on the measure of VOC emissions from plants, especially focusing on floral scent. I am especially interested in understanding the factors that exert evolutionary pressures determining floral emissions at the species and population level, and also the environmental factors that affect these emissions at the organism and tissue level through their effects on plant physiology and VOC physicochemistry. I am also interested in exploring the effects of such changes in floral scents on the ecological interactions that these emissions mediate with diverse floral visitors (pollinators, larcenists, florivores).

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Modelling soil C dynamics

I study, by using rainfall manipulation experiments, the adaptation capacity of dryland grass species to changes in soil water availability. The transgenerational effects of the treatments will be evaluated through phenotypic and genomic approaches.

Project name: Differential adaptation capacity of dryland grasses to directional changes in water availability (DIAGRASS)

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The objective of my research is to advance the understanding of future impacts of droughts of European forest. For this, I am working on improving the representation of drought-related physiological processes in land system models using a traits approach.

Project name: M-TRAIT

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I focus on the response of ecosystem function and structure to climate change based on remote sensing technique. The objective is to assess the influence of climate change on carbon fixation at different temporal and spatial scales using photochemical reflectance index and fluorescence.

http://blogs.helsinki.fi/optics-of-photosynthesis/

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I am a biologist interested in how natural and human-driven impacts alter natural ecosystems and its biodiversity. My background is focused mainly on aquatic ecosystem functioning, biodiversity and management. I am currently doing my postdoc research in Patagonia, Argentina (INIBIOMA-CONICET and CENAC, Nahuel Huapi National Park), doing a collaboration with the Global Ecology Unit to study the impact of introduced ungulates in soils and water of Patagonian wetlands.

Project name: "Cross-ecosystem impacts of non-native ungulates in wetlands of Patagonia: synergy or antagonism?" ("Impacto de ungulados introducidos en mallines del noroeste de Patagonia: ¿sinergia o antagonismo?")

https://www.ecoinvasion.info/people

http://www.cenacbariloche.com/

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As an environmental chemist, I want to understand the sources, transport, fate and exposure of organic pollutants in the different environmental compartments. My interests include environmental monitoring using active and passive sampling methods, risk assessment, and remediation of contaminated sites.

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I´m studying the effects of climate change on plants phenology by using remote sensing. In addition, with this research we want to study the possible feedback between vegetation and climate.

The PhD project is conceived as an investigation on the climatology category, inside the area of Earth science. The thesis project is part of the Copernicus Global Land Project of the European Commission, where the investigation team of the Global Ecology Unit work on developing techniques of remote sensing to characterize the whole vegetation and phenology from satellite.

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Microbial Ecology, Soil Biogeochemistry, and Phosphorus Cycles.

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My main work is about searching relationships between biogeochemical cycles and elemental composition of plant-soil system with some of the main ecological and environmental traits (grow, diversity, climate, soil type, photosynthetic capacity, metabolic function…) at world scale. Furthermore I am interested in niche modeling, mediterranean ecosystem and tropical forests.

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Functioning and structure of terrestrial ecosystems, remote sensing, biodiversity, protected areas.

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Environmental Analytical Chemistry. Ecotoxicology. Investigation of emerging pollutants. Antibiotics as contaminants. Analysis of new pollutants. Determination of emerging contaminants in plants. Improvement of analytical methods. Determination of contaminants in soils.

Research project: Determination of emerging contaminants in plants and soils: antibiotics and pseudo hormonal compounds

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Currently I am a doctoral researcher at the Institute of Biosciences of Patagonia (INBIOP), conducting my thesis work called “Effects of the experimental increase of water and nutrients on ecological and physiological processes of the vegetation of the Patagonian steppe”. I study the physiological responses of native plants of this arid ecosystem to resource availability. My main interests are the study of gas exchanges, water relations, resistance to low temperatures, growth and productivity in shrub and grasses species of the Patagonian steppe.

Projects names:

1. CO₂ flows in Patagonian arid ecosystems.
2.  Impact of edaphic and atmospheric moisture sources on the water use efficiency of plants of the Patagonian steppe: determination from the use of stable isotopes of H and C and methods eco-hydrological and physiological.
3. A desert with water: Why vegetation in the Patagonian Steppe does not use the available water resources in depth?

Instituto de Biociencias de la Patagonia (INBIOP)

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My current field of research focuses on the effects of urbanization on key ecosystem properties across environmental gradients. During my undergraduate thesis I used remote sensors to study the spatial patterns of the Urban Heat Island in 30 cities of Argentina. On september 2018, I started the Off. Masters on Terrestrial Ecology and Biodiversity Management at CREAF and look forward to dabble in new and exciting fields of research.

Soil science

Technical administrative assistant

http://ambientalogica-english.blogspot.com.es/

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Terrestrial ecology

Ecofisiología Vegetal y Funcionamiento de Ecosistemas de Zonas Áridas.

Proyectos actuales:

• Cambios de la cubierta vegetal e impactos de la actividad ganadera. Estudio de las interacciones ecológicas y socio-económicas.
• Estequiometría ecológica y percepción remota para el análisis de la distribución espacial e invasibilidad de zacate Buffel (Cenchrus ciliaris), en zonas prioritarias del Noroeste de México.

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