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I am researcher in the fields of animal ecology and conservation biology. My research seeks to understand the patterns and processes behind species' abundance and spatial distributions, with the ultimate aim to better predict species responses to global change. Part of my research takes a macroecological perspective, analysing patterns and mechanisms of species distributions across large spatial, taxonomic and temporal scales. A relevant part of my research has for instance used biological invasions as an unplanned quasi-experiment to understand ecological and evolutionary mechanisms affecting species distributions. To further understand the processes underlying spatial range dynamics, I use an integrative approach, where I combine the macroecological perspective with autoecological studies of single species where the unit of analysis are individuals and populations (e.g. demography, dispersal, habitat selection). I work on a range of organism groups but I have a particular focus on birds.

Currently at Universitat de Barcelona (UB)

Email: lcardador@ub.edu / lcardador81@gmail.com

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