Leader
- Academic title:
- dr. habil.
- Position:
- Professor MRI PAS
- Scientific groups:
- Trophic Ecology Group (Leader)
Group members
External collaborators
Walter di Nicola (external PhD, University of Freiburg, Germany, Dries Kuijper 2nd promotor)
Gabriela Lo Bue (external PhD, University of Montpellier, Marcin Churski 2nd promotor)
Weronika Baranowska (external PhD, Univ. Warsaw. Poland, Dries Kuijper 2nd promotor)
Nicolas de Pelsmaeker, PhD (post-doc position finished Oct. 2025)
Elise Say-Sallaz, PhD (post-doc position finished July 2025)
Research themes & focus:
We focus on interactions between species across different trophic levels including herbivore-plant interactions, predator-prey interactions, and how disease dynamics and parasites modify these interactions. There is no focus on specific species but the processes behind the interactions is what binds us. As these trophic interactions take place in an increasingly human-dominated environment, how human activities affect or modify these trophic interactions is an important over-arching theme in all our studies. To study these interactions on a landscape-scale or fine-scale we use a variety of techniques including observational studies (especially camera trap studies) and a strong emphasis on experimental studies.
