The main guiding theme of my career has been the investigation of trophic relationships in coastal aquatic ecosystems, with particular emphasis on the role of herbivore impacts and the factors controlling their populations, food preferences, and spatial distributions. Littoral ecosystems such as seagrass meadows and coastal lagoons are specially are vulnerable to a great range of anthropic impacts –including global change and the spread of alien species- that may alter the abundance and diversity of individuals, and the trophic functioning of the system. The identification of these impacts, the mechanisms driving functional alterations, and the potential restoration of habitats and species are also some of the main goals pursued.

In my current possition as a INIA-doc Researcher at IRTA I have focussed my research in the conservation of endangered species such as Pinna nobilis, currently in risk of extinction due to the spread of a protozoan disease (Haplosporidium pinnae), and in the ecology and impacts caused by aquatic invasive species, with particular emphasis on the blue crab and the apple snail.