Ainhoa Magrach

I am a community ecologist and my research places a special emphasis on the nexus between biodiversity and global change, mainly land-use change related to agricultural expansion. I use rigorous field assessments to understand how different aspects of global change affect ecosystem functioning and the delivery of ecosystem services, and how best to manage landscapes to minimize conservation losses. As such, my research has a focus on applied ecology questions but with a solid theoretical and basic research background. My ultimate goal is to understand the effects of ecosystem degradation on ecosystem functioning and integrity while finding ways to align economic development with biodiversity conservation within human-dominated landscapes.