Research lines

• Regime shifts in lakes: Types of shifts (linear, threshold response in the state variable, multiple stable states), dynamics, and early warning indicators of regime shifts (multimodality, variance anomalies, hysteresis, autocorrelation, among others), and the role of natural (climatic) and anthropogenic forcings in the occurrence of these shifts.

• Effect of global change on the functioning and dynamics of lacustrine systems.

• Paleolimnology: Identification of the main changes in the functional responses of lakes (carbon pathways, herbivory and planktivory regimes, functional and taxonomic diversity) during the Anthropocene and their associated forcings.

• Role of Carbon (C) in lacustrine ecosystems: Carbon transfer in lake food webs, interaction between littoral and pelagic food webs, subsidiary carbon sources in shallow lacustrine ecosystems, and the role of carbon as a limiting nutrient for phytoplankton in eutrophic/hypertrophic systems.

• Role of wetlands as carbon sinks: Storage capacity of different types of wetlands and identification of the characteristics that determine this capacity.