Imbalance-P

Study the impacts of N loadings on soil-plant-atmosphere system shifts and their relationships with P concentration N:P ratio and general elemental composition and stoichiometric shifts. Study the impacts of nutrient imbalances in human ecology and nutrition.

Plant-herbivore  interactions, arthropod biodiversity responses, wood growth and dendroecology.

Global change effects in plant ecophysiology. Climate change and nitrification effects in plant photosynthetic activity, chlorophyll fluorescence, water relations, and ecosystem productivity.

Soil science, soil biology, ecotoxicology, soil quality indicators, soil ecosystem services and biochar.

Climate change effects on ecosystem productivity, plant phenology and soil gas exchange. Climate change experiments on natural ecosystems.

My research activities have aimed to gain a deep understanding of the coupled C-N-H₂O cycling in forests, by linking different scales of investigations, i.e., from the tree to the ecosystem, and methodological approaches (e.g., stable C and O isotopes in leaves and tree rings, eddy covariance data). During my Marie Curie fellowship at the CREAF I will focus on tree canopies and their role in altering the chemical composition of precipitation and, consequently, the nutrient cycling within forests. I will explore the biological diversity hidden in the canopies, particularly bacteria, and its role in processing the atmospheric N.

I am a climate and environmental scientist with a special interest in interactions between climate change and terrestrial ecology and biogeochemistry. My work is dedicated to providing data-informed predictions of how land ecosystems respond to a changing climate, increasing CO2 and changes in nutrient cycles. I'm developing numerical models, as simple as possible and as complex as necessary to learn the most.

My work focuses on improving the representation of soil C dynamics in the soil module of the land surface model ORCHIDEE. More specifically, I am implementing and validating a new representation of the leaching of dissolved organic carbon (DOC) from soil into rivers and of  ¹³C in soil.

Former collaborator at the University of Antwerp

In Imbalance-P, my research will focus on floral volatile emissions, studying how dependent they are on nutrient availability. I will also investigate if these possible changes have effects on pollinator attraction and pollination success.

VOCs.

I am currently working as a postdoctoral researcher at the Global Ecology Unit (CREAF-CSIC-UAB, Catalonia). My research combines several disciplines in Ecology: plant biology, fungal biology, community structure, functional ecology, ecosystem dynamics, plant-soil interactions and diversity patterns. I have been doing research on contrasting ecosystems across the world: in alpine (Pyrenees, Himalaya), subarctic (Scandes), arctic (Greenland), tropical (French Guiana), and in mediterranean regions (Catalonia). I have conducted observational and experimental studies in most of these regions to analyse the effects of environmental variability on ecosystem functioning.

For more information you can e-mail me (grau.oriol@gmail.com) or check the website: https://www.researchgate.net/profile/Oriol_Grau

Algorithm development for the estimation of biophysical variables (LAI, FAPAR, and FCOVER) from Sentinel-3 observations, using existing satellite products and synthetic data sets as training data for machine learning models.

Project: C-GLOPS1 project

Remote Sensing & GIS technician.

I focus on global change effects on forest ecosystem structure and function, especially on ecophysiological and demographical changes. I will study climate change and nutrient availability on forest growth, tree mortality and species recruitment, richness and vegetation productivity.

The Mayer Lab Group focuses on the design and assessment of more sustainable water and wastewater treatment technologies that are able to simultaneously mitigate the risks posed by microbial and chemical contaminants.

My expertise is in the field of Ecometabolomics to understand how metabolomes of organisms shift under environmental changes. In IMBALANCE-P I will apply ecometabolomics techniques to systems such as atmosphere (atmo-ecometabolomics) and soils (community ecometabolomics).

Research experience in Plant Molecular Biology applied to Molecular Ecology, Plant Genetics, Plant Biology and Genetic resources.

Abiotic and biotic factors determinants of elemental stoichiometry in terrestrials ecosystems.

Remote sensing, vegetation-climate dynamics.