I am an Associate Professor of Botany at the University of Oviedo and a researcher at the Biodiversity Research Institute (IMIB). My research focuses on seed ecology, particularly on seed regeneration as a key process for biodiversity and habitat restoration. I study how germination traits and the regeneration niche shape plant communities and respond to climate and human land transformation, working across scales from communities in the Cantabrian Mountains to global syntheses.

Research

🌱 Seed regeneration ecology

I study the regeneration niche, germination, establishment and regeneration strategies across environmental and disturbance gradients, and how they determine which species make up each plant community. I coordinate SeedArc, a global archive of primary seed germination data built with researchers from around the world, to address macroecological and evolutionary questions and to provide reusable data for evidence-based restoration.

🌍 Anthropogenic and novel ecosystems

I investigate how plant biodiversity is structured and regenerates in landscapes transformed by human activity, including urban, industrial and other novel ecosystems. I analyse novel species pools, donor natural habitats and the processes that constrain or facilitate plant colonisation, with direct applications to renaturalisation and habitat restoration. This line is developed through the SeedAnthropic project, which I co-lead.

🔓 Open science

I publish my data and code openly and use citizen science in research and teaching, to make research reproducible and to share knowledge beyond academia.

Projects and resources

Publications

My publications are listed in ORCID, Google Scholar and ResearchGate.

Citizen science

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