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The behavior is one of the mechanisms that allow organisms to adapt to environmental changes or new environments. This situation can lead to new selective pressures to which organisms can evolve. This interaction ecology, behavior and selection form the guideline of the group. The study methodology comes from different disciplines such as behavior, ecology, morphology, phylogeny and genetics. Some of the studies have an impact on current problems of biodiversity conservation, such as those caused by invasive species by habitat fragmentation by urban environments, or by ecotourism and hunting activity.

Agroecology, plant biodiversity, organic farming plant invasions. Agricultural intensification negatively affects the conservation of natural resources and maintain functions ecosistèmiques (eg soil fertility, pollination and crop protection) of agricultural systems. For this reason, it is essential to develop sustainable management methods that reduce environmental stress associated with agricultural activities and promote the proper functioning of agricultural systems. The team working on the analysis of the functioning of agricultural systems and the design of sustainable management models in order to provide scientific and technical knowledge that allows farmers to better manage and evaluate these improvements by using of sustainability indicators easy to understand and use.

My field of study is palaeoentomology. I am working on fossilized hematophagous arthropods, especially in Cretaceous Amber. I also like to make cgi reconstructions of the extinct arthropods I study."

My research is focused in the study of the conservation status of the white gorgonian, Eunicella singularis, the only mixotroph gorgonian in the Mediterranean Sea. The main objective is to understand how the species responds to global change and to evaluate if any advantages exist in symbiotic species under global change in temperate seas using ecological, population, genetic, reproductive and ecophysiological approaches.

He work in eco-epidemiological research that allow knowing which are the reservoirs, the vector species and the key factors driving the spread of viruses. These factors are very important in order to find preventive measures that reduce the risk of transmission to the human population, livestock and pets. The emergence of a viral epidemic depends on the dynamics of the virus, which in turn will be influenced by reservoir dynamic and external environmental factors such as temperature, rainfall, degree of habitat conservation, the situation of stress affecting the reservoir species

My research focuses on biological and behavioral studies on freshwater fish.

Floristic, taxonomy, corology and conservation of vascular plants, especially in the field of the Iberian Peninsula and the Mediterranean region. Taxonomic-nomenclatural studies and historical herbaris documentation.

Conservation of biodiversity - Ecology of communities - Limnology / Biology of continental water organisms Taxonomy and distribution of fish fauna. Biology of fish: age, growth and reproductive biology of freshwater fish. Fish Ecology: communities, trophic ecology, production, selection and microhabitat use, migration and activity, intra-and interspecific relationships, invasive species.bManagement and conservation of inland aquatic fauna: diagnosis and environmental assessment, biotic indicators, fish management, environmental flows, environmental restoration, management of biological invasions, sustainable fisheries management.

Planarian Diversity and Evolution lab
Currently studying the effect of asexual reproduction in the evolutionary history of freshwater planarians and the genetic consequences of asexuality.

Systematics, taxonomy, fauna, ecology, biogeography, ultrastructure and ecotoxicology of helminths (trematodes, cestodes, nematodes, Acanthocephala) parasites of vertebrates. Vertebrate parasites as bioindicators of heavy metal pollution. Ultrastructure of reproduction and embryonic development in parasitic flatworms

"Specialist in terrestrial African mammals, with extensive professional experience in various countries in Africa. Professor and coordinator of the Postgraduate Program in Study and Conservation of Big African Mammals at the University of Barcelona. Study and Conservation of Terrestrial Mammals. Integrated Management of Terrestrial Vertebrate Fauna."

Microbial ecophysiology of carpets, floor ecosystems, microbial diversity and lipid biomarkers. Accumulation and degradation of poly-B-hidroxialcanoates, microorganisms-insect symbiosis, spirochetes in natural environments, magnetotactic bacteria.

Biosystematics and evolution of plants (molecular palynology, cytogenetics and phylogeny, phylogeography, population genetics). Ethnobotany of the Països Catalans (etnoflora, quantitative ethnobotany, study of agroecosystems). History of catalan botany XIXth and XXth centuries. Botanical terminology.

Tracking historical changes in the trophic ecology of green turtles Chelonia mydas in the Hawaiian islands

She is a geologist and paleontologist from Barcelona who has been working on stratigraphy, sedimentology, and micropaleontology of non-marine basins since end-2008. Her research is mainly focused on fossil charophytes from the Cretaceous and Paleogene under a pluridisciplinary viewpoint, including taxonomy, evolution, ecology and biostratigraphy. She is a dedicated researcher who enjoys fieldwork, conservation, and divulgation of paleontology, paleobotany and geoscience in general.