Position – senior researcher
- Spanish National Research Council (CSIC) – Botanic Institute of Barcelona (IBB)
- Editorial Board of Plants and Frontiers in Plant Science, among others. Founding Editor-in-Chief of Quaternary
- Listed in the Stanford ranking of World’s top-cited scientists
Research topics – ecology, evolution, biogeography
- True long-term ecology
- Quaternary as the ecology-evolution interface
- Biotic responses to environmental change
- Climate-vegetation-human feedbacks and synergies
- High-resolution paleoecological records of the last millennia
- Human settlement of remote islands
- Anthropization of mountain landscapes
- Integrative paleoecological/archaeological/historical studies
- The “Anthropocene” as a geological epoch
- Macrorefugia and microrefugia
- Origin of tropical biodiversity and endemism patterns
- Evolution of Neotropical mangroves
- Cannabis evolution and domestication
- Biostratigraphy/ecostratigraphy
- Paleoecological applications to conservation/restoration
- Mass extinctions and the present biodiversity crisis
- Biological evolution and physical reductionism
- Inductive prediction in biology
- Epistemology
- Science and society
Study areas – tropical/subtropical/temperate coastal to highland ecosystems
- Orinoco-Amazon basins (northern Andes, Orinoco delta, Pantepui lost world, Gran Sabana)
- Caribbean region (coastal ecosystems)
- Western Mediterranean (Iberian Peninsula, Pyrenees)
- Oceanic islands (Azores, Easter Island)
- Supraregional/worldwide: Global (Anthropocene, Cannabis, oceanic islands, mass extinctions, long-term ecology), Tropical (biodiversity/endemism origins, mangrove evolution), Mediterranean (high-resolution records)
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