My research is mainly focused on the study of direct and indirect effects of agricultural landscape features and elements on arthropod communities that inhabit in these areas.
On the one hand, I am interested in evaluating the extent of the relationships between landscape and local variables of the agricultural areas and different parameters of the trap-nesting communities and populations, such as abundance, richness and diversity, offspring production, parasitism, mortality or parental investment. On the other hand, I’m currently analysing how different factors and processes associated with traditional agricultural systems like crop management regime (conventional vs. organic), crop abandonment and ecological infrastructures impact on beneficial arthropod communities from both, taxonomic and functional perspective. Additionally, from the beginning of my career, I have been also involved in research related to biological control of pest and to the study, by different approaches, of the behavioural ecology of solitary wasps.
