Research technician

My interest is focused on conservation biology and the study of interactions within trophic networks, whether at an intraspecific or interspecific level. After completing my master's thesis on changes in seed distribution and dispersal patterns by rodents due to human land use, I have continued in this anthropogenic line of research, working as a technician in an urban ecology project with the Common House Martin (Delichon urbicum) as the study model. In this project, we analyze the variations in population size and distribution that this species has undergone in the city of Madrid over the last 40 years, as well as the underlying factors (e.g., growth of built-up areas and subsequent changes in nesting substrates and distances to feeding areas). I am also involved in other tasks carried out by the research group I have joined, mainly related to interactions between trees of the Quercus genus and defoliating and seed-predating insects. I participate in both fieldwork design and execution, as well as laboratory tasks.

Supervisor: Raúl Bonal