My research is focused on understanding how land use, management and climate variability affect the functioning of natural and managed ecosystems, concretely their capability to exchange mass and energy with the atmosphere. I investigate ecosystem-atmosphere greenhouse gas exchange, including soil and vegetation subsystems by using the eddy covariance technique, soil and vegetation chambers and remotely sensed data. With my research, I try to identify potential mitigation and adaptation strategies based on scientific evidence.
During my scientific career, I have studied the carbon and water cycles of a variety of ecosystems (drylands, olive orchards, wetlands). Additionally, I have contributed to design the research infrastructures needed to quantify main climate forcing components in globally understudied regions. More recently, I have started to investigate how effective management practices can enhance carbon sequestration and climate change adaptation of Spanish Quercus forests.
Currently, I work in the Dpt. Agricultural and Forest Systems and the Environment at the Centre for Agri-Food Research and Technology of Aragon (CITA, Zaragoza, Spain) as a postdoc researcher (Ramón y Cajal competitive program).