GIUV2026-029

The BIORESP research group focuses on understanding how wildlife responds to the main drivers of global change, including climate change, land-use transformation, pollution, and other anthropogenic pressures. Using an integrative framework, the group combines ecophysiology with spatial, population, and community ecology, in order to study organismal responses from the physiological and individual level to their ecological consequences at higher organizational scales. Research aims to identify the physiological, behavioural, and functional mechanisms underlying responses to environmental stress and to evaluate how these responses impact biological fitness, population dynamics, and ecological interactions. The group works primarily, though not exclusively, on vertebrate wildlife and integrates observational studies, experimental approaches and modelling tools to develop a mechanistic understanding of biodiversity responses to global change, with direct potential applications in conservation, ecosystem management, and One Health.

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• Analizar las respuestas biológicas de las especies frente a los principales factores de cambio global y las presiones antropogénicas.
• Identificar los mecanismos fisiológicos, comportamentales y funcionales que subyacen a las respuestas de los organismos al estrés ambiental.
• Evaluar las consecuencias de las respuestas al cambio global sobre el fitness individual, los procesos demográficos y las interacciones ecológicas.
• Desarrollar modelos mecanísticos y cuantitativos que permitan predecir los efectos del cambio global sobre la biodiversidad.
• Generar conocimiento científico directamente aplicable a la conservación de la fauna, la gestión de ecosistemas y los enfoques One Health.

• Ecophysiology in global change scenarios.Study of physiological responses to environmental and anthropogenic stress and their relationship with survival, reproduction, and individual condition in wild species.
• Ecological interactions under environmental stress.Study of how environmental stress and resource availability affect intra- and interspecific interactions and their consequences for the viability and conservation of wild species.
• Modelling and predictive tools for conservation.Development of mechanistic, integrative, and quantitative models to predict biodiversity responses to global change, providing scientific support for conservation, ecological connectivity, and sustainable ecosystem management.
• Population dynamics and demographic processes.Assessment of the impact of environmental and anthropogenic factors on survival, recruitment, mortality, and population growth.
• Behavioral responses and movement ecology.Analysis of changes in behavior, space use, and movement patterns as mechanisms of adaptation or avoidance in response to environmental variability and human disturbances.

• Cellular Biology and Functional Biology