Study of amphibian and reptile parasites from different aspects: taxonomy, morphology, ecology, phylogeography, evolution.
A research focused on the studies of biodiversity, ecology and evolution of hydroids (Hydrozoa Class, Phylum Cnidaria), mainly with the fauna of Antarctic benthic hydroids, but also from other regions such as the Mediterranean or the Pacific.
Conservation biology research focuses on biological studies of cetaceans, pinnipeds and sea turtles in European waters or anywhere else, with the objective of trying to improve the conservation status of species and habitats.
Processes of coevolution, cospeciation and codiversification in symbionts. Development of methods of cophylogenetic analysis. Ecology of symbiont communities. Use of bipartite networks and functional diversity indices for their characterisation. Study of the impact of invasive hosts on native parasite communities.
Study of predatory and parasitoid insects as natural enemies of pests caused by other insects from different aspects: systematics, morphology, anatomy, ecology and conservation. Methodologies for biological and integrated control of insect pests in agricultural, forestry and urban environments. Faunistics and conservation of diplurans, odonates and hymenopterans.
Analysis of life history traits. Adaptive trade-offs and biological efficiency. Sex ecology and modes of reproduction. Sexual inversion in parthenogenetics. Dormancy states and adaptation to temporally variable environments. Multiple bet-hedging strategies and environmental unpredictability.
Study of amphibians and reptiles, their chorology, their parasites, the conservation state of their populations, their threats and the introduction of invasive species.
Study of soil- and arthropod-associated nematodes taking into account their taxonomy, the trophic groups to which they belong to and the community indices derived from these.
