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Dryland Ecology
and Global Change Lab
Led by Dr. Fernando T. Maestre,
the Dryland Ecology and Global Change Lab at the University of Alicante brings together graduate students, undergraduate students, technicians and post-docs aiming to understand how dryland ecosystems function and respond to the ongoing global change.
The lab has recently (February 2024) moved to King Abdullah University of Science and Technology, in
Saudi Arabia. This webpage will no longer be updated but will maintained as a legacy repository of the
research, training, and outreaching activity carried out in the lab since October 2005 until February
2024. A new webpage will be released soon, stay tuned!
Understanding how dryland ecosystems function and are responding to ongoing global change
Research in the lab is driven by four unifying questions
I
What attributes of biotic communities control ecosystem functioning in dryland ecosystems?
II
How ongoing global change is impacting biotic communities in dryland ecosystems and the ecosystem processes depending on them?
III
Can biotic attributes modulate ecosystem responses to global change?
IV
Can we use biotic attributes to establish effective actions to mitigate global change impacts?
