This group is made up of lecturers from the Departments of Microbiology and Ecology and Analytical Chemistry at the Universitat de València. Its research activity is of a multidisciplinary nature and has been developed in applied areas in the fields of health, science and environmental quality control.
Study of the presence, transport, fate and bioavailability of emerging and priority pollutants in environmental compartments. Environmental risk assessment. Development of methods for environmental forensics and sewage epidemiology.
Fundamental and applied limnology: Dynamics and functioning of epicontinental aquatic ecosystems. Community structure and functional diversity. Assessment of environmental and conservation status. Microbial ecology in lentic ecosystems: Study of the composition and functionality of the microbial community by molecular techniques. Metagenomics. Metabarcoding and e-DNA Biogeochemistry and carbon balances in Mediterranean wetlands, fluxes of carbonate greenhouse gases. Effects of environmental properties and conservation status on the climate change mitigation capacity of lentic ecosystems. Ecotoxicology. Geographic information systems (GIS). Remote-sensing. Polar limnology.
