ESTÉVEZ CANO Edurne Dr.

 

I’m interested in fluvial ecosystem ecology, especially in understanding how food webs and ecosystem functioning are altered by climate change and human pressures such as land use change or hydrological alteration. During my phD at the University of Cantabria, I addressed the effects of land cover change on mountain stream energy flow pathways, food web size structure and composition and ecosystem multifunctionality. Currently, I investigate how land cover shapes (bio)diversity of both particulate organic matter (POM) and its consumers to understand ensuing implications for carbon cycling at the regional scale of river networks. I combine novel molecular methodologies to characterize (bio)diversity, field experimentation to measure POM degradation and river network-scale spatial modelling.