Sexual conflict and sexual selection. Kin selection and sexual conflict. Ecology of sexual selection. Ecology of sexual conflict. Evolution of ageing and life histories in sexes. Drosophila melanogaster.
Behavioural ecology in birds.
Time series analysis of planktonic populations. Non-linear modelling of population dynamics. Population growth equations for complex life cycles. Life table analysis. Age-structured population dynamics. Population viability analysis.
Epidemiological (life cycle, transmission, population dynamic) and ecological (influence of biotic and abiotic factors) analysis of human and animal parasites (especially rodents). Analysis of behaviour and response of parasites after natural disasters.
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.
Ecology of cave-dwelling bats.
Ecology of micromammals in crop fields, orange groves.
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.
Genetic structure and population differentiation in continental zooplankton. Local adaptation. Genetic and genomic diversity. Genetic markers associated with adaptive traits. Gene dispersal and flow.
Creation of Geographic Information Systems with the use of satellite images and thematic maps (climate, surface, parasitological parameters, etc.) for the modelling of epidemiology and the transmission of human / animal parasites, as well as the influence of climate change on them.
Ecology of aquatic interactions and their applications.
Taxonomy, phylogeny and ecology studies in Lepidoptera (butterflies and moths), especially in the Tortricidae family. This includes aspects of its morphology, sexual selection and population dynamics, as well as studies in protected species.
Plant ecology (dune vegetation, nitrophilous vegetation, scrubland, forest fires, bioclimatology and biogeography); plant taxonomy (cariology, phenology, phylogeography, nomenclature); conservation biology.
Population ecology of amphibians, reptiles, birds and mammals.
Orange grove bird community, breeding ecology of great tit, breeding ecology of marsh passerines.
Cryptic rotifer species. Distribution and sympatry. Ecological differentiation of species. Competitive relationships and coexistence mediation. Environmental fluctuations and maintenance of diversity. Density-dependent reversal of diapause and competition.
Ecology of wetland birds.
