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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.

I 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.

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.

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.