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Alba Medrano is a postdoctoral researcher. Her main research interest is centered on the ecology and marine conservation of coastal benthic communities. Currently, her research focuses on understanding the consequences of marine heat waves on Mediterranean benthic species, mainly by combining long-term environmental and ecological datasets with biological monitoring. Alba has been involved in long-term biological monitoring of Medes Islands Protected Area, Cap de Creus Natural Park, and Port-Cros Natural Park since 2015.

My research fouses on species population dynamics, and their relation to the environmental changes.

The expected growth of urbanised areas will increase functional distances and decreased biological connectivity among species populations, thus reducing their survival. My current research focuses on these effects and how different degrees of green zones in metropolitan areas could enhance the persistence and viability of species populations, and how this effect depends on the species traits and their adaptive potential. I also work on the role of extreme climatic events on population dynamics and species adaptations with the University of Reading. Previously, I've been working on behavioural ecology and on population dynamics at low densities to test hypotheses about the roles of compensation and depensation (also known as Allee effects) based at the University of Aberdeen .

Fields of floristry and the study of vegetation. Preparation of critical catalogs and studies related to the conservation of vascular flora, both in the Pyrenean area and Central Catalonia. Phytosociological inventories, I analyze them through numerical classification methods. Currently, I actively participate in the field of vegetation mapping, both in field work and in editing through GIS.

My research is focused in the study of evolutionary mechanisms, which have a great effect on biodiversity. In particular, I have studied the American colonization by the invasive species Drosophila subobscura. I have also analyzed the biodiversity of drosophila fauna in Europe and America.

Systematics, taxonomy, fauna, ecology, biogeography, ultrastructure and ecotoxicology of helminths (trematodes, cestodes, nematodes, acanthocephala) parasites of vertebrates. Ultrastructure of reproduction and embryonic development in parasitic platihelmints.

Marine biology, phylogenetics, genomics, Mollusca, Antarctica

I have always been amazed of our world, especially the ocean. That's why I want to focus on improving its conditions. I'm a biologist specialized in Ecology, Management and Restoration of the Natural Environment. Currently working on my PhD studying marine debris of Antarctica.

Her resarch line focusses on conservation an ecological restoration of mesophotic and deep marine ecosystems, mainly dominated by corals and gorgonians species.

Our research is split in two areas: plant ecophysiology and agri-food biotechnology. Studies on plant ecophysiology focus on mechanisms of abiotic stress tolerance, the ecophysiology of invasive plants, proxies of mortality at the ecosystem level, seed banks, sexual dimorphism in plants, and hormonal profiling.

Study of flora and vegetation, primarily a functional ecology of communities in constraint environment, high mountain Mediterranean meadows, coastal vegetation ... Interdependence between specific composition and functioning of vegetation.

Ecologist specialized in carbon cycle in aquatic systems. My research uses carbon biogeochemistry as a proxy to understand how aquatic ecosystems work. I work in rivers, lakes, reservoirs and lagoons, addressing various aspects of the carbon cycle such as: ecosystem metabolism, carbon dioxide and methane fluxes into the atmosphere, carbon sinking in lacustrine sediments, or biogeochemistry of the organic and inorganic carbon dissolved in river networks.

My work is on the ecology and conservation of avian scavengers in a humanized landscape in the NE of the Iberian Peninsula. I am interested in the role that different food resources play in shaping the movement and space use of vultures.