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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My main work is in the context of the relationships between terrestrial ecosystems structure and function with biogeochemical cycles (P, C, N, K,..), and coupling ecological stoichiometry and ecometabolomics approaches with ecosystems composition and function. I apply these studies to experimental and observational field data and to metadata analyses

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Plant-herbivore  interactions, arthropod biodiversity responses, wood growth and dendroecology.

Atmospheric ecology

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: ResearchGate profile

Biogeochemical aspects of phosphorus cycle.

Ecometabolomics

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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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Soil science

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.

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

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Remote sensing (canopy reflectance modeling, biophysical parameter retrieval), vegetation responses and feedbacks to climate change.

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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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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

Research projects:

“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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Global and Regional P Cycle and Budget, Land Use and Climate Change, Ecological Economics and Sustainable Development.

Research project: Effects of phosphorus limitations on Life, Earth system and Society

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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 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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Climate and forest ecosystems interactions at different spacio-temporal scales: from the leaf to the ecosystem, and from diel to multi-decadal time scales. I use tree rings and remote sensing tools to reconstruct the climate of the past, and to assess the impacts of climate change on ecophysiology, forest productivity and forest mortality. I work in a variety of forests from wet tropical to arid mountainous. My current study site is located in La Selva Biological Station in Costa Rica.

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I am particularly interested in the study of climate change and soil processes in forest ecosystems. Current research focus on climate change (i.e., warming, drought) impacts on soil C or N cycling and the potential mechanism in subtropical forests.

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1. Effects of plant root inputs on soil organic nitrogen depolymerization in the Cunninghamia lanceolata plantation under warming and microbial regulation mechanism, supported by the National Natural Science Foundation of China (grant number 32271717).

 2. Characteristics and regulation mechanism of soil CH₄ flux in Chinese fir plantation under the interaction of precipitation change and nitrogen deposition, supported by the Foreign cooperation Project of Science and Technology Department of Fujian Province (grant number 2022I0012).

I focus on mechanisms underlying the response of soil nitrogen transformations and fates to phosphorus addition in forests.

Research project:  Mechanisms underlying the response of soil nitrogen fates to phosphorus addition in low-subtropical plantations.

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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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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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Dr. Zhenhong Hu is a Beatriu de Pinós researcher at the EDM team. His research is focused on plant debris (e.g., deadwood, leaf litter and fine root) decomposition in forest ecosystems, and how the dynamics of these processes will be influenced by global change (e.g., warming, drought and nitrogen and phosphorus deposition), tree species and soil microbial communities. Recently, he explored the diverse wood traits regulating microbial metabolism and nutrient availability in deadwood with the consequences of these trait effects on wood decomposition, carbon fluxes and soil carbon inputs. In the future, he will explore how tree biodiversity controls the elemental composition of organisms (e.g., plant and decomposer), and how elemental diversity drives decomposition rate.

Research interest: wood decomposition, soil microbial ecology, soil carbon and nutrient cycles, forest management

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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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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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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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The inexorable change in the stoichiometry of carbon and nitrogen relative to phosphorus and potassium, but also among other bioelements as calcium, magnesium of sulphur has no equivalent in Erath story; and yet it remains as a virtually unexplored research field with huge implications to ecosystem functioning, agriculture, food security and human health. I am joining the ELEMENTALSHIFT project to analyse the past trends in the changes of the bioelemental composition of organisms and soil.  Moreover, our objective is to assess the current scenario of elementome shifting and the possible implications it may have for the present and future food security

Research project: ELEMENTALSHIFT

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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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Root-Exudate-Mediated Phosphorus Acquisition by Aluminium-Accumulating Plants),  he will do some work about long-term experiment under global change.

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Remote sensing of protected areas

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Work interest: Carbon and water cycle coupling through vegetation, biosphere-atmosphere feedbacks, climate extremes, remote sensing, surface hydrology, vegetation biogeochemistry, modeling, machine learning, and statistical methods of data analysis

Detail description: I am a doctoral researcher at Institute of Geographic Sciences and Natural Resources Research, Chinese Academy of Sciences, and a visiting student at the Autonomous University of Barcelona working with Prof. Peñuelas. My research is related to the coupling between global carbon and water cycle through photosynthesis. I work with data from models, remote sensing, and flux towers using machine learning and statistical methods of modeling to gain new insight on the impacts of water stress on vegetation under climate change.

Passionate about climate change and the potential impacts on Earth's ecosystems based on multi-source data and remote sensing, particular focus on extreme events, drought, and terrestrial carbon cycle. The interaction of water and elevated CO2 (eCO2) effect on terrestrial carbon cycle remains unclear. The indirect effect of eCO2 on plant water use was hypothesized that impacts of water limitations on vegetation growth is potentially mitigated by eCO2 effect, however, this hypothesis is under controversial due to the relationship with other nutrients like N and P. I hope to focus on the interactions of water, nutrients, and eCO2 effect on biomass.

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The experiment of ecosystem carbon cycle was carried out under two interference backgrounds. Three processes of carbon cycle are studied: carbon fixation, carbon decomposition and carbon storage. To explore the mechanism and influencing factors of plant biomass productivity and ecosystem decomposition function (woody decomposition) on three carbon cycle processes in fragmented plots in TIL(Ten Thousand Lands) and pine wood nematode infection plots in Suichang.

Research project: Effects of forest ecosystem functions on environmental change in fragmented landscapes and Changes of ecosystem service function in Masson pine forest after invasion of pine wood nematode.

Response of inter-root microorganisms to pathogen infestation and their mechanism of action in ecological regulation of root rot disease.

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My research interests are focused on the effects of plant-soil interactions on soil carbon stability and storage. I am particularly interested in understanding how climate, vegetation and microbial activities drive the geographic patterns of Al-/Fe-(hydr)oxides–organic carbon associations. In addition, I am interested in exploring how mycorrhizal association mediates particulate organic matter (POM) and mineral associated organic matter (MAOM) formation and turnover.

Project name: Dynamics  of soil organic matter fractions with different stability along an elevation gradient.

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Biodiversity and ecosystem functioning relationship; the response of photosynthesis to global environmental change; remote sensing.

Research project: Satellite-based monitoring of global plant photosynthesis.

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Elementomes, elemental diversity and soil carbon, as well as the relationship between elementomes and soil carbon.

Research project: STOIKOS: Elemental Ecology: towards an element-based functional ecology

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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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Environmental economy of global environmental change, specially focused on the socioeconomic changes associated to the changes in the biolementome, food security and rewildering of nature.

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Ecology of atmospheric deposition

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