Drought effects in Mediterranean plant communities

We are working on several projects to forecast responses of Mediterranean plant communities to drought. We want to understand how including demographic rates and population dynamics can improve such forecasts. For more info, contact Maria Paniw or Teresa Sanchez.

Maria is participating in this SNF-funded project, where the aim is to develop a metapopulation model that incorporates four demographic aspects (density, environmental autocorrelation, and vital-rate reaction norms and covariation). This work is the focus of the PhD theses of Louis Bliard and Eva Conquet.

This H2020 Consortium project aims to design a resilient and coherent Trans-European Network for Nature and People. Maria is collaborating on several working packages with researchers and practitioners to effectively add demographic parameters and species' population ecology to the network design. We are currently looking for postdocs to join out team.