Position
- Senior Researcher of the Spanish National Research Council (CSIC), working at the Botanic Institute of Barcelona (IBB)
- Listed in the World’s Top 2% Scientists
Current research interests
- Biotic responses to climate change
- Climate-vegetation-human feedbacks and synergies
- Quaternary ecology, evolution and biogeography
- The origin of Neotropical biodiversity and endemism
- Human settlement of remote islands
- Anthropization of mountain landscapes
- Cannabis in the paleoecological record
- The “Anthropocene” epoch
- Science and society
Study areas
- Orinoco lowlands and delta
- Guiana region: the Pantepui lost world and the Gran Sabana
- High mountains: Tropical Andes, Trans-Mexican volcanic belt, Pyrenees
- Oceanic Islands: Azores (Atlantic), Easter Island (Pacific)
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