department of Environmental Biology

Objectives:
teaching for the entire area of Experimental and Health Sciences, research, consultancy service and Museum of Natural Sciences.

Research groups:

• Plant biodiversity and applications
  Ecosystem monitoring and restoration. Forest ectomycorrhizae, truffle growing and forest mycology. Bryology: biodiversity and ecology of mosses. Computerisation of herbarium collections
  - contact: Ana Mª de Miguel Velasco, Alicia Ederra Indurain, Ricardo Ibáñez Gastón
   
• Ethnobotany
  Ethnobotany: medicinal plants, research and application of bioactive plant compounds. knowledge traditional and Biodiversity Conservation
  - contact: Rita Cavero Remón
   
• Stress physiology in plants
  Stress physiology in plants. Biology of vines. Arbuscular mycorrhizae in natural and agricultural ecosystems. management of organic waste. Agricultural application of sewage sludge. Remote sensing of stress factors in plants using fluorescence and reflectance remote sensors.
  - contact: Mª Carmen Antolín Bellver
   
• management of biodiversity
  Limnology and water quality indicators. Bioinformatics and mass processing of data biodiversity. Biodiversity conservation. Vertebrate morphometry and biogeography.
  - contact: Arturo Ariño Plana
   
• Faunistics and terrestrial ecology
  Taxonomy and systematics. Biogeography, distribution and ecology of indicator species. Biology of pests and useful species.
  - contact: Enrique Baquero Martín
   
• Environment and society
  assessment and restoration of environmental impacts and management . Landscape ecology and land use. Education environmental.
  - contact: Jordi Puig i Baguer