Ana María Sánchez Álvarez

Researcher at the IICG-URJC and Professor of Ecology in the Area of Biodiversity and Conservation at the URJC. PhD in Science from the UAM (2001).

In my scientific career as a plant ecologist, I have studied the effect of changes in use, fragmentation and climate change on different aspects of vegetation in Mediterranean ecosystems, mountain ecosystems and semi-arid ecosystems, especially ecosystems on gypsum soils.

Currently, my research focuses on three lines:

• Study of the effects of climate change, especially the increase in drought, on gypsum vegetation in the Iberian Peninsula
• Identification of management systems compatible with the conservation of biodiversity in Mediterranean cereal rainfed areas, with special emphasis on crop diversification.
• Analysis of intraspecific variability as a key ecological mechanism in the formation of forests of species of the genera Quercus and Pinus.