He studied Biology at the University of the Basque Country, MRes at the University of St Andrews and PhD at the University of Aberdeen (both in Scotland, UK), and was a FAPESP Postdoctoral Fellow in Brazil (UNESP) and The Netherlands (NIOO-KNAW). In his work, he tries to understand how the Anthropocene affects ecosystems by messing around with large wildlife, trophic interactions and coexistence, and other fundamental ecological processes at different levels of complexity. He has worked with large mammals in tropical forests and temperate grasslands, investigating the cascading effects of these large ecosystem engineers on the population dynamics of small mammals and their mesopredators, plant community dynamics and biogeochemical cycles. He is founding member of the first international network on Zoogeochemistry and integrates the leading core group of experts behind several long-term defaunation experiments in Brazil.
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