Pilar Hurtado has just joined us through a 2-yr Juan de la Cierva-Formación postdoctoral contract. Pilar is a community ecologist specialised in lychens. She has worked on assessing the response of epiphytic communities to climate change and habitat fragmentation along large geographical gradients, on citizen science applications to assess the geographic distribution of biological soil crusts, and on evaluating the impact of global change on biodiversity and forest functioning. She uses experimental, field and data-based approaches in community ecology and biogeography to identify conservation priorities and design evidence-based conservation strategies that secure the persistence of key ecosystem services.
You can follow Pilar’s research at her ORCID, ResearchGate, and Google Scholar pages.