Nerea Montes Pérez

I am a PhD student at the Bartomeus Lab. In my thesis we study how mutualistic interaction networks are adapting to climate change and land use change. We incorporate concepts such as rewiring of interactions or open communities to assess the impacts of temperature change and droughts on plant and pollinator phenologies and interactions, how natural habitat availability changes species' floral preferences or our ability to capture interactions and their heterogeneous distribution in space. Finally, we are also working on a European-wide probabilistic metaweb that will allow us to predict how interactions and interaction networks might change in the future depending on different climate scenarios. In parallel, I also dedicate my free time to scientific illustration and outreach, as I like to participate in science communication events in order to convey the importance of our work to as many people as possible.