About me

I am particularly interested in the behavioural, demographic and functional responses of wildlife along anthropogenic gradients. My main scientific achievements include incorporating complex meta-analytical and predictive models to study the effect of global change drivers on species abundance patterns across large scales. This approach involves using mining techniques to compile large datasets from the literature, and the coupling of georeferenced data with spatial information on anthropogenic drivers and species traits.

I strive for employing the best ecological information to date retrieved from historical sources, camera trap data, acoustic monitoring and/or long term monitoring schemes, and combining it with spatially-explicit environmental and anthropogenic factors derived from remote sensing in order to tackle long-standing questions in Ecology and Conservation. I work at the interface between local-scale ecology studies, macroecology and (large-scale) conservation, by swiftly transferring data and tools from one discipline to the other in order to better understand the mechanisms, interactions and impact of global change drivers on ecological communities and ecosystem functioning. These questions are extremely relevant for advancing ecological knowledge, informing policymakers, and addressing societal challenges.