The aim of the Department of Conservation Biology and Global Change is to carry out multidisciplinary research oriented towards the conservation of biodiversity.
Our research is mainly oriented towards threatened ecosystems, communities, species and populations. We use long time series data to assess changes in composition, processes and dynamics in ecosystems, communities, populations and individuals. We also analyse their relationship with human activities at local and regional scales and with drivers of global change. We intend our research to respond to the social demand for solving or mitigating environmental problems.
We have no taxonomic or area of study preferences, but for historical and practical reasons an important part of our work involves vertebrates. We answer questions related to environmental management from the perspective of several scientific disciplines (evolutionary ecology, behavioural ecology, spatial ecology, population ecology and demography, conservation genetics, etc.).
