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  • Biodiversity of freshwater plankton. Spatial and temporal variation of planktonic communities: Long temporary series of plankton and metacommunities spatial heterogeneity. Variation of planktonic communities as a result of global changes.
  • Community assembly and invasion order effects on the stability, diversity and complexity of the community. Communities disassembly or species loss effect.
  • Mechanisms of interaction between species in the context of the dynamic self-organizing system. Competition, predation, omnivory and allelopathy between co-occurring species in aquatic systems.
  • Study of food webs from the dynamics of its topology to the function model.
  • Plankton and benthos role (submerged macrophytes) in the biogeochemical cycles of aquatic systems, with special attention to the nitrogen cycle. Retention and release of nutrients analyzed by stable isotope techniques.
  • Ecology of charophytes: diversity, fruition, control factors, cultivation and reintroduction.