I’m a senior researcher at the Biodiversity Research Institute (IMIB), University of Oviedo – CSIC – Principality of Asturias.

Our research group is interested in how seeds contribute to create and maintain plant diversity. We study seed ecology to understand community assembly and to support ecosystem restoration. We combine experimental, observational and meta-analytical approaches to characterize seed-environment relationships across species, habitats and biomes. We ask how seeds respond to microclimatic gradients in the soil, and how they adapt and acclimatize to global change.

In 2023, we launched SeedArc, a global seed germination database. SeedArc is a partnership of seed scientists dedicated to share primary data from germination experiments, collaborate in its analysis, make a seed germination database available to the research community, and advance open science in seed ecology.

In this website I collect and share the datasets and codes of my publications, plus some research tools, like the SylvanSeeds database and the seedr R package.