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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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.

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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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@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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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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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 am an Ecoclimatologist who researches the interactions between climate change and natural and human ecosystems. My expertise includes dendrochronology, plant ecophysiology, remote sensing, and climate science.

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1. Temporal dynamics of tree-growth and photosynthesis and their environmental drivers in the Lamont Sanctuary Forest Preserve
2. Climate, human and ecosystem interactions in the face of a rapidly changing North Asian biome
3. The fate of terrestrial forest carbon from photosynthesis to biomass under drought and climate change (TERRACARB)

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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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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.

Research project:

• 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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Responses of mediterranean forest ecosystems to extreme drought conditions.

Research project: REGIME-SHIFTS

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My main research topic is the ecology of VOCs emissions in the soil, biological and environmental effects. I will concentrate on the effect of biotic and abiotic factors on VOCs emissions in the soil and the interactions of biology and environment delivered by BVOCs, emphasizing the ecological significance.

Research project: Ecology of VOCs in soils: biological and environmental effects

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My research focuses on the structuring effect of dispersal and selective processes across community assemblages of bacteria, fungi, trees and arthropods at local scales

Project name: Decay of similarity across diverse tropical rainforest communities: integrating spatial and nutrient distances with scales of analysis.

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I study the effect that a long-term experimental drought on a Mediterranean forest and scrub. I analyse adaptations at the ecophysiological, phenological and demographic level of model species in a scenario of extreme drought.

Project: Analysis of the regional-scale ecosystem network.

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Use of the geographic information system (GIS) and remote sensing in the assessment of crops evolution, in face of climatic events.

Project name: Núcleo de estudio de Agricultura, Clima y Tecnología, teniendo como área de interés el Paraguay.

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I am currently a predoctoral student at the Ph.D. in Terrestrial Ecology at the UAB and CREAF. My research aims to improve the understanding of the functioning and dynamics of tropical forests through the application of the functional approach, and focuses on the study of; 1) the intraspecific variability of the functional traits of plants and their relationship with the ecosystem service of carbon sequestration; 2) the morphological and functional responses of seedlings to disturbances (drought, fire, and herbivory) and their potential use as predictors of changes in the growth of species during seedling establishment. Recently, I have studied the restoration processes, the production, and decomposition of litter, and the dynamics of nutrients in tropical forests.

Skills and expertise: Biodiversity, Forest Ecology, Applied Ecology, Litter Decomposition

Project name: CarbonTROFONIC: Assessment of the actual and potential Carbon stock of tropical forest fragments in the protected landscape of Miraflor-Moropotente in northwest Nicaragua.

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Research work: Nitrogen deposition, Warming, land use type, Grazing.

The project working on Responds of soil and plant respiration to warming and Nitrogen addition on semi-arid grasslandon the Loess Plateau of China.

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Project name: Disentangling the effect of Temperature, Photoperiod and light intensity on leaf unfolding of deciduous species.

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Foliar water uptake, plant physiology, water stress, plant metabolism, leaf anatomical traits, ecohydrology, Climate change.

Research project: Leaf traits linked ti foliar water uptake

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Technical administrative assistant

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Currently working as a technician, but also strongly interested in the study and conservation of biodiversity. My previous work experience mainly focuses on soil analysis and edaphic fauna, especially arthropods.

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Terrestrial ecology

Ecofisiología Vegetal y Funcionamiento de Ecosistemas de Zonas Áridas.

Research projects:

• 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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