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
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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 science, soil biology, ecotoxicology, soil quality indicators, soil ecosystem services and biochar.

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Ecometabolomics

Effects of nutrient imbalances at local and regional scales on the composition and phylogenetic structure of soil mesofaunal communities.

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I am a plant ecologist and my current work is investigating the effect of drought on plant-soil interactions in the Mediterranean-climate region. I am particularly interested in learning more about how plant root exudates mediate soil microbial diversity and function under water stress, and the feedbacks the microbial community have on plants. An increase in extreme drought events could negatively impact biodiversity and soil quality in both natural and agricultural habitats. Attempts to mitigate drought effects will benefit from a thorough understanding of water stress on plants and soils and also the complex interactions between the two.

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My main research topic is the application of proximal and remote sensing techniques to explore the terrestrial ecosystem biochemical responses to climate change and drought. I’m currently working on modelling ecosystem phenology, productivity, carbon and water fluxes and by using satellite observations from different sensors.

Research project: INDRO - Remote sensing INdicators for DROught monitoring

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I’m interested in soil microbial mediation of ecosystem response to global changes in land use, nitrogen deposition, carbon, nitrogen and phosphorus cycling, with a particular focus on tropical forests. Besides, my work also included soil functional microorganisms such as mycorrhizal fungi which involved in P cycle response to global climate change.

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Ecometabolomics

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The effect of nutrient availability on forest features, productivity and carbon balance from a macroecological perspective.

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I am an environmental scientist currently working on the representation of plants in global terrestrial biosphere models.

I'm particularly interested in the interactions between the vegetation and their environment, but also their ability to face environmental changes.

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Temperature-driven effects on the ecosystem C:N stoichiometry, soil N losses and N transformation rates assessed with isotope dilution and ¹⁵N tracing techniques, as well as on the changes of N transfer to plants through the symbiotic association with mycorrhiza.

Research project: Resilience of Soil Stoichiometry in subartic soils under Temperature- Induced Soil Carbon Losses: Where does the N go? (StoiCa)

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Web of knowledge

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@SMaranonJimenez

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.

Research project: M-TRAIT

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I focus on global change effects on forest ecosystem structure and function, especially on ecophysiological and demographical changes. I will study climate change and nutrient availability on forest growth, tree mortality and species recruitment, richness and vegetation productivity.

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I am an ecologist broadly interested in the effects of multiple stressors –natural or human related− on the functioning of ecosystems. I earned my degree in Environmental Sciences, and then moved to the Marine Ecology for my PhD. Much of my research interests lie at the intersection of environmental processes and human activities, and I am particularly enthusiastic about those projects that try to bridge science and resource management. I have worked in research institutions of Spain, the UK, and France, and in projects concerning terrestrial, marine and freshwater issues. My work so far has been focused on two major axes: (1) The functioning of coastal marine ecosystems, and specifically the response of plankton to changes in nutrients and turbulence; (2) The land-ocean interface, in particular the links existing between water resources, the agro−food system, and the flows of N and P to the environment. I am currently focused on characterising the N and P biogeochemical cycles in Mediterranean river basins.

Research project: Imbalance-P

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Agronomist/environmentalist specialized in plant ecophysiological responses to abiotic stresses in the frame of Climate Change, and in nutrient cycling in agricultural and forest ecosystems

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“What makes leaves fall in autumn? A new process description for the timing of leaf senescence in temperate and boreal trees”. (Ref.: ERC Starting Grant 714916)

“Imbalance-P: Effects of phosphorus limitations on Life, Earth system and Society”. (Ref.: Synergy Grant 610028)

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I am a post doctoral researcher with a Juan de la Cierva funding. I did my undergraduate in Environmental Science at the University of Nottingham. Then I did my master in Biogeochemical cycles and Atmospheric Sciences in Lund University, Sweden. After I did my PhD in climate and the environment at the Brazilian National Institute of Amazonian Research (INPA) in co-supervision with the Max Planck Institute of Chemistry. Afterwards I continued as a post doctorate researcher for MPIC in the Amazon. My research was based on the interactions of volatile organic compounds (VOCs) within and above a central Amazonian tropical rainforest. My latest position as a Post doctoranl researcher was at Freiburg University (Germany), working in a ERC grant trying to find out how much carbon is emitted by plants through secondary plant metabolism from tropical plants.

I am interested in the interaction between forest ecosystems and the atmospheric chemistry. Forest can react very quickly to changes in environmental factors, and up to date, not all processes have been described or elucidated. As global temperatures increase and climate change exacerbates it is important to understand how forested areas will react to such changes, as the impact in atmosphere can be very large, from direct global warming via aerosol and carbon dioxide production, increase the atmospheric lifetime of pollutants, or even alter rain distribution locally. We need to provide better information for modellers, so they can constrain the processes governing the forest atmosphere interactions so better guidelines on mitigation and adaptation strategies can be suggested to policy-makers.
Research projects: VOCO and ATTO

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Microbial Ecology, Soil Biogeochemistry, and Phosphorus Cycles.

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Effects of emerging contaminants, including nanoparticles, in aquatic organisms.  Stress-immune responses in aquatic organisms. Endocrine disruption in fish. Non-invasive biomarkers in fish.

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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I am currently developing my PhD thesis titled " Forest and Human Health: a new approach for forest management?" in which we aim at unveiling the potential relations or not between forests and human health involving  Biogenic Volatile Organic Compounds.

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Algorithm development for the estimation of biophysical variables (LAI, FAPAR, and FCOVER) from Sentinel-3 observations, using existing satellite products and synthetic data sets as training data for machine learning models.

Research project: C-GLOPS1 project

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The relationship between soil fauna and humus accumulation along the altitudinal gradient were investigated. Exploring the functional groups of soil animals at different altitudes, and soil community and diversity at different soil layers. Moreover, the contribution of soil animals to litter humification on the elevation gradient and the accumulation of humus in different soil layers on the elevation gradient were studied. Furthermore, the effects of refractory substances, easily decomposable substances and elemental components on the accumulation of litter humus sustained by soil fauna were explored.

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• Effects of soil fauna on litter humification under different elevation gradients along the Minjiang River Basin (No.31670526), 2017-2020.
• Source / sink pattern of heavy metal elements in several typical forest ecosystems in the Minjiang River Basin (No.2017TD0022), 2017-2020.
• Forest soil science (No.31622018), 2017-2019.

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Interested in the responses of litter decomposition, soil stoichiometry, and forest ecosystem biogeochemistry to global change (nitrogen deposition, sulfur deposition, and phosphorus limitation), especially in subtropical forests.

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National Science and technology support program; ‘12th Five-year plan’ of Sichuan Province and the Sci-tech Project of the ‘12th Five-year plan’ of China

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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.

Research projects:

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

Ecology of atmospheric deposition

Linking aquatic and terrestrial ecosystems, nutrient cycling in freswhater and riparian forest ecosystems.

I am broadly interested in plant reproductive behaviours, recently focused on mast seeding (large and
synchronized fluctuations in seed production), the impact of animal populations on plant recruitment and
population dynamics, and vice‐versa, effects of fluctuations in seed production on animal populations.

Research projects:

1. Experimental tests of mechanisms driving variability in reproduction of trees
2. Phenology synchrony or pollen coupling? Experimental evaluation of the role of pollen limitation and plant’ resource state in driving seed production in masting plants

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